An enormous blueberry woman.Hilda is a German/English burglar who was hired by French chocolatiers to break into Lucia’s factory and steal her secrets. She was caught while exploring the pygmy village and dosed with Noxious Berry Poison. Rather than be sacrificed, Lucia claimed her as a test subject and has been ‘studying’ the effects of her condition. She has been kept here as a prisoner for months, dosed with more noxious berry poison every few days.Hilda explains how she swells bigger with juice every day. Hilda says the vice contraption she is stuck in is a juicing machine, designed to squeeze her and forcibly expel the juice from her body out of every orifice after she is dosed with Noxious Berry Poison. It is the only thing that has spared her from exploding from the pressure of the juice inside of her. She can tell the player characters how to use it (on her, and possibly themselves), if they agree to help her escape.Any form of magical healing will restore her. (From the LofFP Award-winning module "Blood in the Chocolate" by Kiel Chenier) Instinct: Crushes when rolled over target

• Swells
• Regenerates
• Crushes
• Explodes

El Grancudos are enormous mosquito-like insects.They pollinate the cocoa flowers that eventually become the cocoa pods. They have a horrid reproductive cycle that involves laying eggs inside the bodies of living creatures. The eggs hatch and the larvae writhe inside the host’s body;taking control of their mind.An El Grancudos can pick up and hold a character as an action. When the El Grancudos carries its prey to the upper boughs of the Old Growth Cocoa Tree to be impregnated, it flies at half speed. Any form of magical healing will kill the larvae. (From the LofFP Award-winning module "Blood in the Chocolate" by Kiel Chenier) Instinct: Impregnates with larva

• Suck Blood
• Grab Prey
• Impregnate with larvae that charm host

If a guard spots someone approaching the factory unaccompanied, they will offer the player character one loud warning of “Turn back!” before firing a warning shot at her. (From the LofFP Award-winning module "Blood in the Chocolate" by Kiel Chenier) Instinct: Panic

• Guard
• Take a bribe
• Fall Asleep on Duty.
• Surrender

The Aphayay Aliyu are led by a Pygmy Chieftess, who is the oldest of the tribe and who has consumed more of the Old Growth’s fruit and cocoa than any other pygmy. Over the years it has left her bloated, slow, and enormously fat. It has also granted her magical powers. She is always accompanied by four ordinary pygmies, who carry her around the pygmy village on a roofless wooden palanquin. The Chieftess rules the tribe with a rod of iron and answers only to Lucia.(From the LofFP Award-winning module "Blood in the Chocolate" by Kiel Chenier) Instinct: Kill for the Tree!

• Rule the tribe

The Aphayay Aliyu are an indigenous people of Darkest Peru, shrunken and made primitive by the magic of the Old Growth tree. They stand between 1 and 2 feet tall, have cocoa brown skin that they decorate with ash. Their heads are hard, swollen, and resemble cocoa pods. They keep what hair they have slicked back. They are superstitious, barbaric, and mean spirited; a far cry from the civilized Aphayay Aliyu tribe they once were. The force they fear and respect most in the world is Lucia de Castillo. If the Old Growth is the Pygmy’s god, then Lucia is akin to a prophet to them. It is her commandments that they obey and her wrath that they fear. It is only by her infinitesimal mercy that they are spared from the ‘cold outside world’, as Lucia often reminds them.(From the LofFP Award-winning module "Blood in the Chocolate" by Kiel Chenier) Instinct: Obey Lucia

• Often uses poisoned darts
• Ambush
• and then Flee

Lucia wears chain armor under her clothes, and carries 2 wheel lock pistols in holsters on her chest. She fires them one after another, dropping them when empty and switching to her rapier. Lucia is a villain. She is not being controlled by some eldritch force, she is not an agent of some more sinister power, she is not a wounded soul acting out of noble intent, nor is she twisted because she is ‘a product of her time’. She is an evil business woman. She enslaves those weaker than her because she truly believes she is better, and causes pain and torment because it delights her. She is sadistic, perverted, gluttonous, impossibly vain, and greedy. (From the LofFP Award-winning module "Blood in the Chocolate" by Kiel Chenier) Instinct: Be Ruthless

• Manipulates for profit
• That said, Lucia is also an intelligent, beautiful, and charming (after a fashion) woman.

A neon green lizard with sharp teeth and bright teal spots Instinct: to guard it's den

• Leaps forward to bite
• When it dies it releases it mercury attracting more of itself

An emissary from Gallid Keep. Ostensibly sent to broker a truce with the Goblins, but he has his own motives. He is a sorcerer, but relies on his cunning and deceit more than anything else. Instinct: to colonize

• Cast a spell
• Obfuscate the terms of an agreement
• Conceal with illusions and lies
• Call upon his cabal

Instinct:

A champion of legend, forgotten to time. Tha’rik Uhn. His name a prayer and a riddle. A remembrance of times that were better for Goblin-kin. Guards his own grave, a mausoleum he built with his son. Instinct: To protect

• Be still as stone.
• Step lightly, like falling leaves.
• Present a riddle.