[Day 07] Scap & Stern, The Ossuary Boys

Scap & Stern, The Ossuary Boys

Tweedle-Dee Dum and Tweedle-Dee Dee
They're throwing knives into the tree
Two big bags of dead man's bones
Got their noses to the grindstone.

Bob Dylan - Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

From a distance and at first glance they’re a couple of obese men with round oafish faces. Upon closer examination the illusion breaks. Their skin is sewn together and whatever stuffing is inside seems to shift like sand. At times the grey bone-meal leaks from the seams. If you let on that you have seen through the ruse, expect to be smothered or sliced up.

Scap and Stern are essentially great skin-sacks of a roughly human shapes, filled with bone and gravedust. Created by some Galgenbeck necromancer whom they simply call the master, their goal seems to be to collect items needed in his dark experiments, involving the mutable border between life and death.

Interestingly, the boys seem to be in a deep state of denial about their own unliving nature. Stern might distractedly draw patterns in leaked bone-meal, and Scap might sew himself up with needle and thread, yet they react with digust and violence to anyone who treats them as anything other than human. Sometimes they react this way to each other, if one makes a mistake too glaring to ignore.

Despite their size the boys make no sound when walking. They might bicker and ruin it for themselves though.

Hp 15, tanned hide -d2, knife (melee or thrown) 1d4, grab and smother.

Special: if a grab attack hits they start smothering their victim. This does 1d6 damage per round. It takes are DR14 Strength check to get free.

In order to be permanently rid of the boys their hides must be destroyed utterly or they will slowly reanimate and re-fill themselves.