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Fastpaw – 11th level bard praka male, Neutral (Formerly Neutral Evil)

Str: 12 (+1) Masterwork Lute

Con:12 (+1) +2 Rapier

Dex: 15 (+2) Ring of Silence (see below)

Int: 12 (+1) Ring of Invisibility

Wis: 10 Amulet of Hiding Alignment

Cha: 18 (+4) (made him register as N when was NE)

Fine clothes, coins, etc.

Hit points: 42

Armor Class: 12 (+2 dex.) 10 flat footed, touch 12.

Speed: 30 ft

Base attack/grapple: +8/+13 (includes +4 from Improved Grapple)

Initiative +4

Attack: Rapier +10/+5 melee 1d6+3 (18-20)

Full attack: Rapier +9/+4 melee 1d6+3 and bite +2 melee 1d4

Height: 4’8”, but see below

Weight: 99 lbs

Eyes: Brown


Feats (5 plus 1 bonus feat): Alertness, Skill Focus (Perform: Stringed Instruments). Skill focus (Perform: Singing), Improved Unarmed Strike, Improved Grapple. Bonus: Gape of the Serpent


Skills: Perform (Stringed instruments) (18) (20 with Masterwork Lute), Perform (Singing)(18), Bluff (16), Sleight of Hand (16), Use Rope (16), Spot (15), Appraise (11), Concentration (7), Gather Information (5), Move Silently (5), Listen (5)


Languages: Praka, common, halfling, gnome, sign language, goblin. Fastpaw was the first praka to figure out how to “sing” Common (see below). By the time he began running the orphanage for the Maker he could speak Common without singing it. When singing Common he had to pass a DC 15 check to be intelligible (automatic barring a roll of 1) or a DC 25 check to not obviously be singing.

Notable bardic singing/playing abilities (up to 7 uses per day total): Inspire Courage +2, Fascinate, Suggestion, Inspire Greatness


Ring of Silence: Silence spell centered on him up to twice a day lasting up to 12 minutes. It will not spill out of a room through closed doors.


Spells: Fastpaw can cast any known spell from his list without preparing them ahead of time. He can, for example, cast three 0th level spells a day, choosing any of the six he knows. He can cast the same spell more than once a day if desired.

0th level (3 per day, 6 known): Detect Magic, Message, Lullaby, Summon Instrument, Mending, Read Magic

1st level (4 per day, 4 known): Charm Person, Expeditious Retreat, Disguise Self, Sleep

2nd level (4 per day, 4 known): Alter Self (see below), Hold Person, Summon Monster II, Misdirection

3rd level (4 per day, 4 known): Glibness, Charm Monster, Major Image, Summon Monster III

4th level (2 per day, 3 known): Dimension Door, Hold Monster, Modify Memory

History


Fastpaw is a famous praka bard and one of the best known members of his race. It was not always this way. He began his career as a wandering adventurer and minstrel and gradually realized that all he really wanted to do was travel and sing. Abandoning the dangers and easy money of adventuring, he focused on his interests.


Through the course of much practice he worked out that though he could not speak Common due to the shape of his muzzle and vocal chords – an oversight of the Lord Maker when he created praka – he could in fact sing common. He was the very first to master the skill and the “singing raccoon” became something of a local legend. He made the best of his natural cuteness and well practiced persuasiveness to do what a lot of bards stereotypically do. He liked having company in his bed and he used his skills to get it.


Through unknown means (the story changes every time you ask him - sometimes it was a dalliance with a were-raccoon, sometimes a Wish he found on a ring and so on) Fastpaw has acquired minor shape changing skills. He can appear as a feral-form, semi-feral or anthropomorphic raccoon (which is to say, he can appear as any of the known praka morphologies) and stay that way as long as he likes. He can also alter his size from that of a normal raccoon (20-40 pounds) all the way to that of a large human (200+ pounds). This flexibility allows him to entice ladies with unusual interests into his bed.


The problem is that Fastpaw was not, at heart, a nice person. Each village in the Maker's lands tend to have at least one “gulper” - one of the Maker's people magically altered to be able to swallow and digest whole prey. This is used to neatly dispose of criminals and problem animals and Fastpaw, having grown up seeing it happen, had a secret fetish. He approached the mage on one of his visits to the Maker's lands and it amused the mage to give him the ability. The wizard either didn't guess or didn't care what would happen next.


Over the next few years Fastpaw became a secretive serial killer, seducing and devouring one person after the other. Most races can't tell one praka from the next one and as long as he wasn't singing he blended right in. When disappearances in an area began to attract attention he moved on, and over the course of several years over fifty woman and a few men of various smaller races (and a few human-sized ones) disappeared down his gullet, never to be seen again. Between surprise, magic, his skill at tying people up and his well practiced skill at overpowering people, plus the fact that he never picked a fair fight, not one of them was able to escape a slimy digestive fate.


Eventually he would have been caught, and he knew it. Sooner or later he'd eat the wrong person and he'd be tracked down by people too powerful to outwit or avoid. Maybe that was why one night, when in bed with a half-elf barmaid he'd dallied with many times over the years, he opened his maw to swallow her...and did not. He genuinely liked her and considered that maybe it was time to stop traveling and settle down. The half-elf, as much of a misfit in human lands as the traveling raccoon minstrel, returned his affection despite the fact she'd just nearly been eaten. It was just at this time that the messengers of the Lord Maker caught up with him.


The Maker had heard rumors of the praka who sang Common and Fastpaw was tracked down and summoned to the arch-mage's court. The wizard had long considered that not giving praka the ability to speak Common was a major error but there was no easy way to correct a species-wide problem among thousands of praka, many six generations from the ones he created. Maybe a magical solution could be arrived at, but in the meantime, the Maker had a use for the singing raccoon.


In the course of tracking him down the Maker's investigators also discovered the trail of disappearances he left in his wake and the Maker knew at once what had happened. There could be no doubt that Fastpaw was a genuinely evil person and yet he was too useful to simply execute. The Lord Maker made him an offer. Reform, train others to sing Common, and a full pardon would be his.


And so it was that the evil praka settled down to run a school and, once the Lord Maker and his helper mages finally made it so all praka could speak common without singing it, eventually an orphanage. Fastpaw has mellowed over the years and is a lot more trustworthy than he once was. Yet he still likes to eat people. He just has to have a good reason to do it. Fastpaw isn't evil any more, he's married to Myrtle the half-elf, he runs an orphanage. Every so often, though, someone still finds out what it's like to wear that raccoon-fur coat.


Fastpaw is a typical looking praka male, which is to say he's a little under five feet tall, very cute, and looks like an anthropomorphized raccoon. His head is completely feral looking and he has a tail, fur and claws, but in dim light and with a hood he could be mistaken for a small human, elf, etc. Change Self can allow him to masquerade as a human or other humanoid up to six feet tall and Alter Self can make him appear as a Small, Medium or Large humanoid or animal. This is in addition to his innate shapechanging power and these spells are very useful for covering up suspicious bulges while he's digesting someone, though he normally stayed well out of public view after a meal when he was doing it secretively. Those days are behind him and everyone in his village - except maybe his next meal - knows he eats people.


At the peak of his predatory prowess Fastpaw was still not much of a fighter. He was a town dweller, not an adventurer. Without an adventuring party to support - the strength of a combat bard - he could defend himself against commoners, but little more. His spell selection is chosen to let him avoid fights, secure meals,talk his way out of trouble, misdirect pursuit and if need be make it so someone who saw something incriminating doesn't remember it. It was by magic as much as skill that he was able to eat so many people, often right in towns, and not get caught. He would eat someone, alter his appearance so he didn't look like himself or sport a belly bulge, and make his way to a pre-selected safe place to sleep off his meal.


To avoid fights he stayed out of seedy bars and bad neighborhoods. His skills and the novelty of the singing raccoon got him into middle-class (and sometimes high-class) inns, where bar fights are less common. He also shameless played the “cute, harmless coonie being menaced by mean adventurers” card when needed, which has resulted in a few people being thrown in jail and incidentally gotten more than one helpful lady into his bed. More than one of those helpful souls soon wore a temporary raccoon-fur coat. There was time that trusting the cute raccoon bard led almost inevitably to a short trip through his digestive tract. If no one saw you go into his room at the inn, odds are no one would see you come out. Fastpaw invariably stayed in inns with indoor plumbing for obvious reasons.


These days he serves as the village “gulper” and arranges for various troublemakers and troublesome animals to no longer be a problem. He is also responsible for making the rarely seen kender race even more rare. The combination of a complete lack of fear and a trusting nature has led at least half a dozen of that race to peer into his wide-open maw looking for the thing stuck between his teeth that is causing him such obvious discomfort. Even in his normal praka form Fastpaw is bigger and stronger than any kender and soon after he'll burp and settle down to digest his meal. Fastpaw really likes kender...but as meals, not as friends.

Luckily for him that race is so innately irritating that he's allowed to get away with this remaining vestige of his predatory habits. In fact when a kender arrives in town and makes a nuisance of itself, as they inevitably do, some helpful individual is bound to point it in Fastpaw's direction, confident that the situation will sort itself out.


Another time he gets to indulge in his predatory habit is when someone tries to rob the orphanage, which operates on a stipend from the Maker and so is known to be well funded. More than one rogue of a smaller race has arrived at the place as a “refugee orphan” only to discover that Fastpaw can easily sniff out an adult masquerading as a child. With the resources of the orphans (many of whom are already competent fighters) and a few militiamen, even dangerous rogues are soon run down and caught. After that it's all over but the belching.


How Fastpaw eats people


Fastpaw doesn't randomly grab people off the street to eat them. (Exception: kender. He's eaten kender in public in recent years.) To get in trouble with him several things have to happen. You have to be in private with him, and no one else can know you're together. Being alone in secret with him was a recipe for trouble in his predatory days, as many people found out too late.


Most often he ate people as he had sex with them. Other times his prey were magically subdued, asleep or tied up. In any event Fastpaw is not looking for a fight. He just wants you in his stomach in as low-effort a way as possible. Digesting you will be enough work without a potentially noisy fight before hand. His Ring of Silence is on his finger specifically so any noise involved in eating people doesn't draw attention.


Fastpaw always uses his Spot skill to search prospective meals and relieve them of any small weapons using Sleight Of Hand. Use his Slight of Hand skill vs. the target's Spot skill to see if they catch him at it. (He has plenty of well thought out excuses if they do. Worst case, they label him a pickpocket and leave, assuming they don't get eaten.) Valuables on his prey are lower priority as he can always recover them later, but removing weapons is a priority. As a result even prey who had a weapon hidden away for just such a situation would find themselves wearing a raccoon-fur coat and no way to cut their way out.


When he is in a position to eat someone who is capable of resisting, most often a lover, he will Grapple them attempting to disguise it as a lover's embrace. In the course of this he will “playfully” yawn over their face. Use his Bluff skill as an opposed check to his prospective meal's Sense Motive skill to see if he manages to surprise them. If he wins the check then to his lover's great surprise the “play” ends with their head is in his mouth. They work this out just about when he swallows. If he loses the Bluff attempt the grapple is conducted as normal.


If Fastpaw surprises his meal by winning the Bluff check he automatically wins the first grapple check, and has swallowed part of his meal before it can even struggle. It takes Fastpaw three Grapple checks to successfully swallow someone his own size, two to swallow someone who is at least one size class smaller and only one to swallow prey two size classes smaller. Tiny prey always get a chance to struggle even if he surprises them, but if they lose they are swallowed immediately. Each Grapple check is full round action and with same-size prey the first takes in their head and shoulders, the second takes them to the waist and the last heaving gulp sends them whole down his throat. Should he lose a Grapple check a corresponding amount of his prey is disgorged or they struggle free of his grip entirely if he hasn't started swallowing them yet. Assuming he wins all three Grapples or two plus a surprise, or that the struggle of swallow-versus-disgorge eventually goes his way, Fastpaw has swallowed his meal whole.


Once fully swallowed, prey take 1d4 points of crushing damage and 1d6 points of acid damage per round. Should he be incautious enough to swallow someone who is armed with a light slashing or piercing weapon, they can escape by cutting their way out (15 points of damage vs. AC 10.) Otherwise they get out the way food does; no amount of struggling will get Fastpaw to cough you up once he's swallowed you. He had his meal and he'll keep it.


Fastpaw can digest bones, but not clothing or jewelry. It takes him about 3 days to completely digest a creature his own size. Needless to say he doesn't take meals impulsively. He always has a plan for where he'll hide as he digests his victim.


Fastpaw is not particularly large or strong but he chooses his prey carefully and anyone who ends up with their face in his mouth is likely smaller or at least weaker than he is. He's also well-practiced at the art of wrestling people into his maw. It is a testament to his effectiveness that so many people ended up in his stomach before he retired.

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Well, the full series so far.  I have at least three more images planned in this series.  Nyoka lucks out and gets to be in my longer image series because she is so easy to draw.  83
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I am Strega from Eka's and Furaffinity.  I've had this account for a while but never posted anything after an early (and dirty) vore pic got ganked by the mods.  I couldn't wrap my head around  "Deviant"art not allowing porn.  Eventually I had a few snake pics that I couldn't post on FA, and that reminded me I had this account.  Afterwards I reasoned that there are probably people who don't go to FA, or Eka's or whevever, who might appreciate some of my pics.  None of my X-rated stuff will appear here.

I will probably make a vore warning thumbnail for DA soon.  I understand that not everyone wants to see vore pics, even in thumbnail form, and an unsuspecting soul might see one of my pics in the entry screen and have his eyes suck back into his head like that girl on the Blob.  No one wants that.
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