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Llug is big. He weighed thirteen pounds at birth, 130 at age ten, and may reach 1,300 if he lives long enough. In his teens he grew as big as any man reasonably needs to be, and then he kept going. Now when he holds a beer mug, his thumb and fingers meet around the far side. He goes through doors sideways. Horses dread him. Llug is strong. He got drafted into the Nockmaar city guard when a guard captain saw him twist an opponent's head off. He got discharged shortly thereafter for the same reason. Llug likes women. (Flowers like sunshine, people like food and air, salmon like to swim upstream and spawn, and Llug likes women.) He's not good at subtle seduction - his standard gambit is "Wanna breeeeed?" But he enjoys success with his direct approach: If a woman rejects him, he sits on her until she doesn't. Llug is married. He had to sit on his fiancée for three hours before she accepted his proposal. Married or not, though, he sees nothing wrong if he sits on someone else now and then. But he doesn't allow his wife the same privilege. "Wife oughter sit home with the young'uns an' cook," he once said, in a moment of eloquence. When Llug discovered Madmartigan (disguised as a woman) in a liaison with Llug's wife in the tavern, Madmartigan chose a wild-horse chase, pursued by Sorsha and the war chariots of Nockmaar, over a session with the vengeful husband. He made the right choice. Llug works in a stable, where he grooms the horses. It's fair to say that there he dwells among his intellectual peers. Though Llug isn't much brighter than two rocks banged together, his real weakness is his eyes. Due to extreme nearsightedness, he makes advances on women whom (if he had better eyesight) he would consider plain-looking. He can hardly see their faces, and tends to choose new conquests according to a slightly lower portion of their bodies. Thus his attentions to Madmartigan, whom he viewed (in his blurry way) as a buxom and presumably pretty wench. His weak eyes put him at a disadvantage in a fistfight. His usual tactic is to bear his opponent to the ground, sit on him, root around until he finds the victim's head, and twist it off. So far this has worked fine. GAMING NOTES 5th skill-level fighter SKILLS Stable-keeping, brawling, womanizing, twisting off heads. EQUIPMENT None needed. |
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