Knights & Knaves Challenge

[calithena]

I would like a trio of villains statted out for these three. Any takers?

Send subs to [e-mail] or just post ideas/subs here.

[grodog]

And here I thought it was something about the K&K site

[calithena]

Heh. No, it's the Knights & Knaves column in Fight On! Which a non-interweb associate of ours suggested as a name for the column, and then I thought of the website and backed him, so that was how the column got its name.

[Haldo Bramwise]

I think I dated the gal on the left in college.

[calithena]

I would still love it if someone would take this up for issue 8.

[Garolek Dolgarukii]

Inspiration hit me a few minutes after looking at this picture. How could it sit for so long with no one to describe who was in it?

This is what I sent to your mailbox, Calithena:

LEYNAFLEMMA
Chaotic Elf Heroine / Theurgist
(4th level Fighting Woman / 4th level Magic-User)
Move 9 AC 2 Hp 16
St 11
In 13
Wi 9
De 13
Co 10
Ch 16
Spells Memorized (4/2): Charm Person x 3, Sleep; Invisibility, Phantasmal Forces
Magic Items: Plate mail +1, Wand of Fireballs, Potion of Undead Control


Native to the snowy pine forest on the inland side of Hell Fog Spine,
Leynaflemma was less reclusive than others of her Svartalf tribe and
grew up making mischief among the Northmen.
One spring night she happened across a pair of wounded dwarves, Stegga
and Sturla by name. Instead of slaying them outright,
she listened to their tale. Stegga and Sturla were survivors of the
massacre of their clan in Helthokahryggir (Hell Fog Spine).
They described the coming of the Sorceror Thas Esarduk with his
trolls, and Thas Esarduk's desire for the dwarf clan's vein
of platinum. Leynaflemma's avarice was aroused, and her cunning mind
concocted a plan. She allowed the dwarves to drink a
healing draught, and they led her to their clan-hall. There she
seduced Thas Esarduk and Charmed him, and forthwith led him
alone to a mountain grove where he was slain naked by dwarven ambush.
Leynaflemma made herself invisible, then coaxed the
trolls away from the hall and over the side of a crag by means of
illusion. Stegga and Sturla met her at the mouth of the
clan-hall and having retrieved Thas Esarduk's Wand of Fire the trolls
were quickly dispatched.
From their precious platinum the dwarves forged a suit of plate mail,
casting the helm from the skull of one of the slain
trolls. Sorcerors seldom remain dead, and Thas Esarduk returned as a
wraith with the winter. Leynaflemma fled south, taking
the remains of Thas Esarduk's magic.
Leynaflemma delights in betrayal and backstabbing, but she can easily
keep these evils in check if she senses profit. She
often recruits human henchmen to use as dungeon-fodder in her
never-ending quest for magical power.

HARGON
Chaotic Ex-Swordsman in a Mind Flayer's body
(as a human, Move 12, AC 9, Hp 12)
(29 Hp as a Mind Flayer)
St 13
In 8
Wi 9
De 10
Co 14
Ch 12

Once known as Hargon the Pig, he led brigands until he was captured by
adventurers and bribed into accompanying an expedition
to the Citadel of Shast-Tok-Sar. There he found Leynaflemma in a
Mirror of Life-Trapping and, entranced by her beauty,
smashed the mirror. Upon expressing his utmost ardour to Leynaflemma,
she Charmed him and promptly quit the dungeon in his
company.
Learning of Hargon's brigand band, Leynaflemma convinced him to bring
his followers on a return expedition to Shast-Tok-Sar.
An elevator passage separated Hargon and a pair of his stalwarts from
Leynaflemma and the rest of the brigands. Fiendish
traps took the lives of Hargon's companions, and now deep within the
catacombs he was surprised by a Mind Flayer. Luck was
with Hargon for once, perhaps, and he fled blindly with the hungry
Mind Flayer giving chase. Beneath a magic arch they ran,
and their minds were swapped. In his confusion and rage Hargon
devoured the brain of his former body. Stronger than before,
Hargon found his way up through the dungeon and back to his beloved
Leynaflemma.
Hargon desires to have a handsome human body again, and towards this
end he directed Leynaflemma to the Warlock Gomdaolos.

GOMDAOLOS
Chaotic Human Warlock (8th level Magic-User)
Move 12, AC 9, Hp 18
St 6
In 14
Wi 7
De 13
Co 9
Ch 11
Spells Memorized (4/3/3/2): Sleep, Charm Person, Protection from Good,
Detect Magic; ESP, Wizard Lock, Locate Object; Dispel
Magic, Lightning Bolt, Protection from Normal Missles; Massmorph, Dimension Door

Discovered by a Judge to have committed the crime of slaying a serpent
while pronouncing the name of a superior bureauocrat,
Gomdaolos was exiled from magocratic Sansuul. Gomdaolos flew his magic
carpet across the Serpent Sea and took up residence in a near ruined
tower on the border of Izalm and Shathpa. Using his spells, he has
consolidated several bands of hill-man
brigands into an alliance. Gomdaolos has hopes of carving a small
state wherein he is the supreme ruler, never again to be
trampled by an other's ego.
Now with Leynaflemma and Hargon to protect him, Gomdaolos has more
time to research and craft magic items. Everburning
braziers stationed at the base of his lair give the illusion of an
upright tower surrounded by a beautiful grove. If he expects trouble,
his brigand guards will be under the influence of a Massmorph spell,
appearing to be nothing more than trees in the garden.
He greatly desires Leynaflemma to be his consort, and she dallies with
him while Hargon hunts for brains. Gomdaolos believes
himself to be safe from Hargon, and at Leynaflemma's suggestion he has
repeatedly and purposely failed to Polymorph Hargon
back into human form.
From his own researches and from collaboration with Leynaflemma,
Gomdaolos is aware of several potent treasures within the
dungeon beneath nearby Shast-Tok-Sar.

[calithena]

Thanks Garolek! We can use this.

The Challenge is now ended!