What is the deal with this monster? Why does everyone fear the Stained Glass Crab? What strange truths lie behind its making?
What is the deal with this monster?
What is the deal with this monster?
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Every blow you land ends in you getting cut. Also, the broken glass you keep finding in your clothes…
I just keep thinking like, who would make a crab out of glass? Is it an assassin? It can’t be a guardian creature, can it? What ill fortunes does it reflect in it’s many colorful panels?
Folk aren’t quite so scared of the crab, really. Its the cult that formed around the crab. Legend says the facets of the crab, when reassembled in the proper order, reveal the key to the prison of the Thrice-Damned. The guardians of the crab, well, some say they’re studying it to find the key for themselves, others say they protect it so none can find the key. One thing’s for sure, anyone who gets to close to that crab is marked for death. Now, ask me again why I sleep in a chair with a loaded crossbow.
If you stare through the crab into the sun, what do you see?
A piece of art, crafted by the Insatiable Aesthetician on one of his binges while escaped from the Pyramidal Manse beyond the White Gates of Madness.
Each pane of glass holds a single soul. The act of art required the depopulation of the fishing community of Gremby’s Shore. If you get close enough, you can hear them screaming.
Most find it too terrifying to face. Those who don’t, find it too beautiful to destroy.
To the Aesthetician, the work shall only be finished once it has been smashed.
Makes me finally realize why Grembian Glass is so expensive.
The worst part is when it gets real close and you can see that it’s full of water and all the little crabs inside are eyeing you and opening and closing their claws in unison. That’s when you realize that you’re 5 leagues inland – how long has it been following you?
What if it were an emerald crab?
Some say they’re artifacts of the Prismatic Wars, when the ancient order of Heliomancers reigned supreme with their spells of light, and it was only natural to engineer constructs in mind with defenses that could refract and distort such energies to their own purposes. These days, of course, such once-common spells as Brilliant Rebuke and Dire Flare have been lost to time, and the Refractors scuttle in dark places where the last of the Heliomancers’ great works, the humble Light cantrip, is most likely to be employed.
Also, it’s a female crab (it really is, look at the picture).
Prismatic Wars…that is delicious.
Scholars, mages and historians argue whether the prismatic wars were started by dragons or wizards.
Ben Wray Could I use Prismatic Wars for something else?
Yeah, def! Slap me in your gamer circle if you’ve got one so I can see the end result!
It’s actually a grotesque yet decadent chariot.
Imagine the Sultana, reclining across its back as it scuttles monstrously down the avenue, lurching this way and that — but the sultana is unmoved, for no creature would dare unseat her.
Glass Crab
solitary, large, construct
16 hp, 0 armor
Claws (d10+1 dam, +1piercing) Close, reach, messy
Special Qualities: fragile
Enchanted for display by a long forgotten dead mage, this construct is made of heavily enchanted glass
Instinct: to show off how clever it’s maker was
• run from danger
• preen
• display wealth
That’s just the first of them, wait till their hordes cover all the land.
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The reason you make a construct out of glass is simple…because you filled it with poisonous gas. Roll Defy Danger if you are near or close when it gets shattered.
Your father’s crab. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.