Inkbound strigine guardian

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inkbound strigine guardian Creature Levels:     Overall ?     Level Variance -     Natural Attack ?     Weapon Attack ?     Defense ?     Player Estimated - Potential overall skill: ? Skill Cap Flexes Skinnable Unknown Has Coins Yes Has Gems Yes Has Boxes Yes Has Other Unknown Uses Weapons No Alignment Unknown Corporeal Yes Construct Yes Casts Spells Yes Attack Range Melee Stealthy Yes Special Attacks Yes Special Defenses Yes Body Type unknown Body Type (Alt) unknown Body Size unknown Located: Quest only Premium-Only No

Skinning Details Ranks Required ? Max Value ? Max Arranged ?

Locksmithing Details Skill Required Careful: ? Blind:? Teaching Cap ?

Manipulation Manipulatable ? Skill Required ? / ? Teaching Cap ?

Introduced with Fenvol's Folly 456. Appears as part of the Fenvol's Folly event.

Description

The inkbound strigine guardian is formed from hardbound covers, book spines, and lacquered scroll caps, all held together with precise, deliberate construction. Over this framework lies a dense covering of parchment-like feathers, arranged in overlapping tiers that mimic plumage. Its beak is sharply hooked, designed with brutal efficiency. Where claws would be, it bears elongated, bladed talons reminiscent of bookbinder's tools.

Broad wings extend from its frame as mantled structures rather than instruments of flight, composed of stiff layered song sheets and structural supports. Across its surface, faint shifting patterns of text ripple constantly, an illusion of flowing script that never resolves into readable form. Its eyes glow with a steady amber light, set deep within a gold-embossed head.

Recall

Strigine guardians are curious owl-like but flightless constructs born within Fenvol's Folly, animated experiments shaped from gathered library detritus and bound together through layered enchantment. Wrought as companions but altered by magical instability and a bond with their maker, they have become fiercely territorial sentinels, driven to protect every scrap of written knowledge in their domain. The endlessly shifting text that flows across their forms is not true script, but a persistent illusion, magic given motion, echoing the whirling thoughts of a distracted mind unable to focus.

The strigine guardian is known to cast the Refractive Field and Fluoresce spells.

They are known to carry loot in locked boxes.

In Depth

Special Attacks

Special attack that can stun you and knock you to your knees:

With the sudden crack of wooden feet against the floor and the whisper of parchment feathers, an inkbound strigine guardian leaps upward, wings flaring wide as it reaches the pinnacle of its leap and dives towards your face with shiny silver talons outstretched.

Followed by one of:

• The distinctive fragrance of old books fills your nose as the guardian crashes past you and lands with a solid thunk, like the sound of a heavy knife bouncing off hardwood.
• The scent of old books, accompanied by the creak of old leather, assaults your senses as the guardian crashes into you, knocking you part way to the ground in an ink-smudged heap.

Special Defenses

Immune to Piercing damage.

When they cast Refractive Field, you can disable it by PINCHing them while they are visible:

An inkbound strigine guardian goes unnaturally still, its amber eyes flaring bright as the indecipherable text on several of its feathers turns a smooth, mirrored silver.
The unusual plumage catches your eye, and you wonder what might happen if you manage to PINCH the GUARDIAN.

>pinch guardian
Throwing caution to the wind for a brief moment, you reach out and pluck a mirrored feather from the guardian!  The silver text on the owlish body reverts to its previous shadowy black haze.

Messaging

• Spawn: In a burst of rustling parchment, an inkbound strigine guardian vaults from its plinth with a dry, raspy shriek of warning, its wings flaring wide in a protective mantle as its amber eyes blaze.
• Death: Releasing a final ragged cry, an inkbound strigine guardian collapses with a violent clatter, its form bursting in a storm of shredded parchment and powdered ink that billows outward before settling in a dark, drifting haze.
• Decay: An inkbound strigine guardian quietly breaks apart into an unrecognizable scattering of paper scraps and wood splinters.
• Searching:
• Webbed: Bound fast, the inkbound strigine guardian thrashes in place, its viciously curved beak snapping in sharp, angry clacks as it fights the binding strands.
• Sleeping:
• Stunned: A sharp disruption ripples through the guardian's owl-like body assembled from library debris, and it falls into a sudden, vacant stillness, its amber eyes flickering sluggishly.
• Standing: With a stiff, deliberate motion, the inkbound strigine guardian rights itself, wings drawing in as it shuffles its parchment feathers back into place with a dry rustle.
• SpellPrep:
• SpellCast: An inkbound strigine guardian goes unnaturally still, its amber eyes flaring bright as the indecipherable text on several of its feathers turns a smooth, mirrored silver. (Refractive Field)
• SpellCast: With a fierce clack of its carnivore's beak the guardian flaps blade-feathered wings in a few powerful downstrokes, sending a cloud of dark ink dust flying. (Fluoresce)
• Random: An inkbound strigine guardian partially unfurls its carefully constructed wings, the bladed flight feathers flashing as the honed edges catch the light.
• Random: A breeze you cannot feel ruffles the parchment plumage of the inkbound strigine guardian, causing the burning amber eyes to flicker like candlelight against a storm-drenched window.
• Random: An inkbound strigine guardian hoots softly to itself as the shadowy text flowing over its fabricated body darkens for a moment into crisp black symbols before fading back into a ceaselessly shifting haze of esoteric markings.

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