Engorged One

Art by Burdrehnar

**Engorged One** is one of the bosses of the campaign *Pride of the Nightwolf*. It is one of the creatures that lurks in the Mists of Glies.

## Description

The Engorged One is a large mist creature first seen in the *Lost at Sea* campaign and later fought in the *Pride of the Nightwolf* campaign.

## History

### *Lost at Sea*

The Engorged One first appeared as a creature that dwells in the mist that Dirst the First, Coots, The Goker, Stinkler Smelgore, and Mori Suzuki encountered in the Brambled Hollow while traversing the temple to avoid mistwalkers. They only see it in passing, unnoticed by it because the shadow of the spell *Pass Without a Trace* enveloping them.

### Attack on Okogi

The Engorged One appears again in the village of Okogi as the mist continues its ways to the village while it was besieged by bandits working with the Eclipse. Hex, Haruko, Ryn Lostone, Sunder, and Tori Hayden are trapped in a building as it marches through the town. Ryn sees that the Engorged One strips off the roof of a building. Tentacles come out of its mouth and scoop up the screaming villagers.

Bandit horns in the distance signal a full retreat, but they are drowned out by the screaming. Richard’s voice bellows out, indicating he is engaging in combat. The Nightwolf is gathering the last of the villagers at the bridge to keep them safe. Tori tells Hiro he is a good boy and now he needs to be a loud boy, so he jumps out of the building and yelps to get the Mist creatures’ attention. While Hiro draws away the nearby enemies, the party gets out of the building, Haruko again bringing Kang with him. Hex casts Suggestion on the Engorged One to get it to move southward. However, the spell does not work and shifts the creature’s attention towards them. Although it cannot see the party, it heads in their direction. Hiro attempts to get its attention, but his bite is not enough to distract it, and the good boy eventually falls into the Mist.

Everyone tries their best to stealthily move towards the bridge. However, the Engorged One still sees the party, so they start running as fast as possible. As they get closer, they hear sounds of combat on the bridge. Sunder gets close to the river and casts Burning Hands on the water in order to make the Mist more dense, hoping to block the Engorged One’s view. The mist gets denser, but he doesn’t realize that the flames also signal his position to everything nearby, even the things in the water. Sunder’s instincts save him; he dives out of the way as a gargantuan maw emerges from the river. The Mistviathan, a Mist-lord, immediately dives back down, but Sunder sees a banner of one of the many ships that travel between Kalkatesh and Glies between its teeth. Even though the Engorged One is on their tail, the party reaches the bridge. The Nightwolf directs everyone to join the villagers who are performing a ritual. Richard, covered in blue blood, arrives from the north and proclaims his excitement about the new challengers to fight. The Samurai asks for assistance from the Lionfolk, and the two head out to buy time for the ritual.

In time the Mist parts and gives way to the rising dawn, but there is no time to celebrate; Richard Freeheart’s half-eaten body slides across the ground towards them, and the Nightwolf crashes into a nearby building and is impaled by a piece of wood. Ryn tries to help him, but the Samurai warns that the Engorged One is coming and urges him to protect the villagers. Ryn turns and sees it, its skin sizzling and popping in the sunlight. It stomps on the ground and summons mist from the water around its body to protect himself from the dawn. As the Mist is disappearing and it’s wounded from its fight with the fallen warriors, the party now has a slight chance to defeat this foe.

Haruko jumps on top of a nearby building to get some leverage, but the Engorged One destroys the structure with its first swing. The second swing misses its mark, cracking the earth beside Haruko. Sunder immediately engages in melee combat. Twilight Sanctuary emits from Ryn, protecting his teammates from damage, and he says while looking at Richard’s body: “We shall avenge you, my friend.” The Nightwolf attempts to join the fight, but he crumples to the ground. He calls out to Sunder and tosses him his katana, Wolf Fang. A blue flame dances along the blade. Haruko and Hex join the melee, and the two sides trade blows. The village protectors deal massive damage while the few landing blows from the Engorged One are offset by Twilight Sanctuary. The Nightwolf eventually falls unconscious as he watches the fight. At some point, the Engorged One bellows out a Challenging Roar. Sunder and Hex accept the challenge and attack. For the two attacks it receives, it makes two attacks of its own, striking Haruko twice. Seeing the Engorged One severely weakened, Ryn takes the opportunity to cast Sleep on it. The party prepares to finish the creature, allowing Sunder to make the first strike. However, Sunder hits a critical point in its chest, finishing off the enemy.

The victory is bittersweet; many villagers are lost in the siege, and one brave soul traveling the world may not walk its paths again. In the distance a rider appears, and Lemondrop goes to greet his brother on the bridge.

## Characteristics

* Martial to Identify : 12-15
* +5 Wisdom Save

## Traits

* **Ruthless**: This creature will target downed players and will attempt to finish them when given the chance.
* **Deadly**: This creature can inflict a large amount of damage in a single attack.
* **Mistborn**: This creature is surrounded by its own mist. If it should be removed, it will be greatly weakened.

## Abilities

* **Bash and Smash**: Engorged One attacks twice [d20+8] dealing [d12+10] damage. It may not attack a single creature twice with Bash and Smash, and will use other circumstances to get around this restriction. Other abilities bypass this restriction. If this attack critically hits, Engorged One gains 5 Fury.

* **Challenging Roar**: Engorged One provokes Attack of Opportunity from each adjacent enemies. For each Attack of Opportunity taken, Engorged One gets an extra attack to use this turn.

* **Rising Fury**: Every time Engorged One is attacked by an attack that has an attack roll, it gains 1 Fury. At 5 Fury, Engorged One gets to use the Action Surge ability.

* **Stunning Charge**: If there is no enemy currently engaging Engorged One in melee combat, it will choose the furthest enemy and make a charge attack against that enemy. All enemies that it passes through during this charge must make a DC 15 Constitution Saving throw or be stunned. If they were the one to be charged, they must also make the saving throw or be stunned.

## External Links

* Google Docs for Engorged One, created by Morgeta

## References

1. ↑ Lost at Sea: Episode 06
2. ↑ Pride of the Nightwolf: Episode 07