The following is a little side action you may want to chuck in as a random encounter for your gaming pleasure. As you can probably tell from reading it, I like fairy tales and this is inspired by one of my favourites... Hope it's of use to you.
Little Red and Wolfgang Van De Berg
Little Red (Birth name Scarlet Van De Berg) and Wolfgang Van
De Berg are non identical twins approx 9 years old. Their Father viciously
stabbed their Mother to death for adultery then cut his own neck. The toddler twins
hid under a bed watching the bloodshed and were alone with their dead parents
for nearly 2 days until their Grandmother found the bodies and took the
children in. Being destitute they lived in a cave in the woods, setting traps
to catch rabbits etc for food. The children took on the job of skinning and
cooking the animals. They were shunned by the other villagers who said the
children were unnatural, perverted by their parent’s madness and bathed in
blood. When the children were 8 the Grandmother caught Pneumonia and died. The
children ate her as they were perpetually hungry and would not let meat go to
waste. The children then lived alone and sometime later when they came across a
man who had been attacked and killed by a wolf; they ate what was left of him
too. The children developed a taste for human flesh and set their tracking and
trapping skills to hunting the best game of all, man. They usually stay close
to home picking off travellers and the like who get lost in the woods,
sometimes using their innocence to lure people into traps claiming they need
help as their Grandmother is sick and dying. They are skilled at making traps,
good with a blade and sewing.
When they encounter potential prey alone they will try to
lure them into a trap or kill them when their backs are turned. When they
encounter groups they will if possible try to separate them and trap them
individually for an easier kill.
The woods near the caves where they live are interspersed
with various traps such as tripwires with projectile stakes, pits with spikes
covered by forest debris such as leaves and sticks, nets that will scoop you up
if you step in them and suspend you from the trees, etc.
In the caves themselves they have a very thin wire from
one side of the passage to the other at approximately adult neck height so they can
run right under it when leading people to grandmother and the adults will run
into it, slicing their necks.
The caves are sparsely decorated but contain various tools and weaponry as well as the personal effects of people they have killed, the odd wolf skin and a book named 'Grimm Fairy Tales'.
Special item: Grandmother's Basket of Plenty
This item can be found in the caves. The basket of plenty
each day mysteriously refills itself containing 4 small cakes.
However one of the cakes each day is cursed. When eating the cursed cake, each bite you
take of the cake transfers the bite to yourself and the cake turns into your
own flesh in your mouth. Each bite taken deals 1HP damage and leaves you with
chunks of flesh missing. If you eat this cake you develop a taste for human flesh and may require a willpower check when opportunity to eat human flesh without being caught arises. All other food now tastes bland to you. The other cakes are harmless, taste good and will satisfy your appetite (for a time).
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