The traveller through the Forest of Abominations must endure many indignities, but none as frustrating as being burgled by a filcher. These creatures have tuber-shaped bodies, a single baffled eye, one stumpy leg and spindly arms. Their long fingers will pickpocket or grab a small item, and then the creature blinks out of existence.
Having made one theft, they can rarely resist another, allowing their victims to prepare a way of capturing or subduing the filcher.
Where they store these items is unknown, with one exception. One filcher is accumulating a hoard in an egg-shaped dome of compressed ash. However, none of the stolen goods seem to be of this world. There are flat metal squares with mirrors of black glass, small golems that chirp and roll, and a crossbow-like weapon that – when pointed at something – flings it in a random direction.
Hooks
- Are these alien technologies? Are the civilisations that created these extant?
- Where did the dome come from and how was it manufactured?
