Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Killer Copper Pieces: Enfolders

(Killer Copper Pieces = the ones that don't make the cut for the Hoard of a Hundred Horrors)
((The idea for enfolders came to me in a dream)) 

The stuff of the underworld, like radiation, can contaminate the bodies of those who eat of its creatures and breathe its fetid air. This contamination tends to concentrate in the skin, and so those who delve into the underworld tend to collect tattoos, scars, and piercings like iodine tablets - as much superstition as true abjuration.

Those unlucky ones in whom the contamination reaches a critical point will find their skins slacken and fuse to the surfaces of the underworld, taking on the properties of its stone and wood and suchlike, their shrivelled bodies beneath their stony yet disturbingly-pliable hides sustained in a miserable half-life by their root.

This transformation has a distinctive feeling, so enfolders tend to be found in two sorts of places - near entrances to the dungeon, the results of desperate, failed escapes, and near treasures worth risking a fate worse than death to acquire.

Sometimes referred to as Stuck Willies (and brickjackets and stonemoaners and etc.) - every dead and near-enough-to-dead adventurer in the world below is a Willy - regular corpses are Stiff Willies, sheet ghouls are Slick Willies, and so on and so forth.

They are

Enfolders

HD: 2 AC: 10, plus Brickjacketed ATK: Enfolding, Stonemoaning SAV: 12  MOV: As walking person - can't go beyond 30 feet of their root INT: As person after decades of solitary confinement ML: 10
No. Appearing: 1d6

Brickjacketed: Enfolders have 5 damage reduction against everything but picks, explosives, and whatever else could crack solid rock - unless the attack is targeting an opening in their skin. 

Enfolding: An enfolder will always grapple on a successful hit. Initially this grapple has a strength of 12 - this strength increases by 4 every round you remain grappled by the enfolder, as it envelopes you in its skin. After the grapple reaches 20 strength you begin suffocating.

Stonemoaning: Enfolders that spot a person will begin to moan hoarsely. Every round an enfolder is moaning there is a 2-in-6 chance of a wandering monster showing up to investigate. Enfolders cease moaning the moment they cannot see any people.