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The Housemaster and SniperBearWizard

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In Which the Housemaster and SniperBearWizard Vanquish a Hoard of Ghouls

A NEWCOMER APPEARS!

A new addition to the CheddarVerse is the Housemaster. A Professor Xavier of sorts, he is the headmaster of a school for talented wizards. He's an experienced spellcaster, who has gone on many adventures, and discovered several nifty treasures, like his wheeled Roller Greaves. He commonly also wields enchanted weaponry like a magic flintlock pistol that casts fireballs when charged.
In addition to being a practitioner of magic, he has a natural gift in the ability to turn sonic energy into hardlight constructs. A power similar to that of the X-Men's Dazzler. This makes him a walking rave machine, a master of light and sound. This ability is hard for him to control in loud environments, like a battlefield, so he customarily wears his own patented sound dampeners over his ears to limit the overwhelming sound.

The SniperBearWizard is an ageless ursan spellcaster. One whose specialty is in long range, very accurate, elemental spells. The one he is displaying here is called "Rifled Chain Lightning". You can see that the bolt is given spin to keep from branching out like most chain lightning spells. This concentrates the bolt and allows for greater accuracy at longer distances. He is aided by a standard spyglass attached to his arm.

Ghouls in the CheddarVerse are as you'd expect them to be. They are cannibals mutated by their consumption of vast quantities of human flesh. Somewhere between a zombie, a vampire, and a werewolf, the ghoul isn't undead, rather a human too fargone to be restored to humanity. Their animal lust for the taste of human flesh is insatiable. As soon as they are done feasting, they move on to the next target. They move in hoards, like zombies, but unlike zombies they retain all the weaknesses of a living creature, but they have the animal instincts and reflexes of a more primitive ancestor.
One scratch or bite from this creature, and if you're somehow lucky enough to survive, normal food will slowly begin to taste of rot to you. The only thing able to satisfy your new cravings is raw, living, human flesh. The sun will begin to burn on your exposed skin. The light will become blinding. Night will be your only balm. And eventually, you'll find a new family amongst other night-dwelling flesh eaters.
Think 28 Days Later rage virus zombies. Sprinters. Runners. Not shambling, rotting corpses ala Romero.

Some fun mass monster slaying with a bear that shoots lightning.
For my friend, Dan for his birthday.

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