more from Starship A.R.C.: villains from the Lodge. Yeah, I guess having animals’ heads hanging from one guy’s belt is a little more intense than Skeletor or Mumm-Ra.
Encounter: a raiding-party of game hunters from another world, gleeful at the array of exotic creatures in their new plane, especially excited to learn about any “last of its kind” or “has not been seen in 1000 years”.
X-Tinctor: Chaotic-Evil Antipaladin, beholden to some infernal alien death-god
Chop-Top: Lawful-Evil Ranger that compulsively saves the heads of his kills
Snap-Jaw: Neutral-Evil Fighter that just really likes hurting people
Gutter-Snipe: True-Neutral Fighter (Archer subtype) and complete coward that is only part of the group because the others won’t let him leave, so he does his best to make his kills from as far away as possible
Encounter: Thelyphthoric, the Corrupter. Feeds off the emotions of women it makes uncomfortable. It is not clear if Thlyphthoric is the larger creature or its rider.
A small fat bird, like the above, is the hieroglyph used in Ancient Egyptian to mean “wicked” or evil”.
The phrase above him (the inscription should be read from the top down) is “Nb s3″ or “Lord of the son of”. Genitive is usually implied in this sort of phrase without a connecting word, meaning:
This birb has literally created the sentence and declared himself “ Lord of the Son of Evil”
God dammit, I realised I made a mistake doing this from memory- the first sign is “k” for “your”, not “nb” for “lord”. So this birb has declared himself “your evil son”, not “the lord of the son of evil”. Which is not quite as dramatic, but still very menacing. You go bird.