Heather
also known as Heather the Roller-Skating Bear
Per her own Neighborhood Boss card: performing since she was a cub, one of the longest-running acts at Grimaldi's Traveling Circus and only weeks from retirement when the cataclysm hit. Now a hunter for the circus, dragging prey back for the clowns to feed on, with rare flashes of the old Heather surfacing to silently hate the crawlers she catches. Fought and killed solo by Carl, who frees her from the parasites controlling her moments before finishing her off at her own unspoken request.
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[ NOT YET ENCOUNTERED ]
You haven't met this one yet, crawler. Records unseal as you read. The dungeon appreciates your impatience but does not reward it.
Level
19B2C9
Physical
- Appearance:
- Freed Form:
Once a black bear, now faceless above the neck, showing nothing but exposed skull and a pair of round, red eyes. Wears a tattered pink clown hat and a pleated clown ruff, both fused to her body, plus a pink tutu. Her front paws have been replaced with white, worm-like growths that move and undulate even in sleep, different from the worms in a Mold Lion's mane; a pair of roller skates is attached to her back legsB2C8
Once the Custard splash kills the worms controlling her, her roller skates and clown hat dissolve into dust and her skin and fur reform over her body in odd, jerky clumps. She drops back onto all fours like a normal bear instead of standing on the skates, and her tattered black fur now shows a silver sheen, especially around the muzzleB2C9
Location
A street intersection near Tsarina Signet's home, fighting Carl alone under the darkening sky; dead by the fight's endB2C9
Lying asleep in the middle of a street near Tsarina Signet's home, held under the same Water Lily sleep spell as Donut, waiting to be woken for tonight's forced fightB2C8
System message
No data on this one yet. It either hasn't mattered, or it is about to.
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Stats unknown. Rest assured the dungeon has precise figures on exactly how underwhelming they are.
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No spells or skills on record. Punching things very hard is not a skill until the dungeon says it is.
History by chapter
Book 2
Chapter 8
- LOCATION Location: Lying asleep in the middle of a street near Tsarina Signet's home, held under the same Water Lily sleep spell as Donut, waiting to be woken for tonight's forced fight
- PHYSICAL Appearance: Once a black bear, now faceless above the neck, showing nothing but exposed skull and a pair of round, red eyes. Wears a tattered pink clown hat and a pleated clown ruff, both fused to her body, plus a pink tutu. Her front paws have been replaced with white, worm-like growths that move and undulate even in sleep, different from the worms in a Mold Lion's mane; a pair of roller skates is attached to her back legs
- TAG Mob: One of Grimaldi's Traveling Circus's transformed performers, a former black bear act; no level shown on the page (A system Admin Note right before the chapter ends warns that Boss Battles tangled up with a Quest can present differently; doesn't confirm outright that this fight is a boss fight)
Chapter 9
- TAG Boss: Her own card confirms it: "Level 19 Neighborhood Boss!" Even so, the fight starts without the usual over-the-loudspeaker announcement and without locking Carl into the area, both departures from a normal boss fight
- TAG Deceased: Killed by Carl once a stray splash of Custard heals off the worm parasites controlling her and her true self silently begs to be finished
- LOCATION Location: A street intersection near Tsarina Signet's home, fighting Carl alone under the darkening sky; dead by the fight's end
- LEVEL Level: 19
- PHYSICAL Freed Form: Once the Custard splash kills the worms controlling her, her roller skates and clown hat dissolve into dust and her skin and fur reform over her body in odd, jerky clumps. She drops back onto all fours like a normal bear instead of standing on the skates, and her tattered black fur now shows a silver sheen, especially around the muzzle
Relationships
- Carl:
- Tsarina Signet:
Fights her solo, burns her with an ignited jug of moonshine, then accidentally heals her with the Custard half of his scratch ticket, which kills the worms controlling her and lets her true self surface just long enough to silently ask for death. Carl obliges, finishing her with two punches and a foot to the skullB2C9
Examines her sleeping body up close and finds the sight sickening; ordered by Signet to kill her once she wakes and the summoning spell is cast, so Heather's blood can power tonight's Blood Magic squad. Outcome not shown as the chapter endsB2C8
Watches the fight from a building across the intersection, arms raised in the middle of her own summoning spell; Heather's blood rises toward her the moment Carl finishes the kill. Calls Heather family afterward and says she'd warned Grimaldi more than once that Heather needed retiring before she snapped and hurt a spectatorB2C9
Captured by her repeatedly and used, always as the killer rather than the sacrifice, in the paired fights her Blood Magic sacrifice ritual requires; Signet says she's never yet gotten to use Heather's own blood for a summon, until tonightB2C8
System message
No known associates. Loners have historically excellent odds. That was sarcasm.
History by chapter
Book 2
Chapter 8
- RELATIONSHIP Carl: Examines her sleeping body up close and finds the sight sickening; ordered by Signet to kill her once she wakes and the summoning spell is cast, so Heather's blood can power tonight's Blood Magic squad. Outcome not shown as the chapter ends
- RELATIONSHIP Tsarina Signet: Captured by her repeatedly and used, always as the killer rather than the sacrifice, in the paired fights her Blood Magic sacrifice ritual requires; Signet says she's never yet gotten to use Heather's own blood for a summon, until tonight
Chapter 9
- RELATIONSHIP Carl: Fights her solo, burns her with an ignited jug of moonshine, then accidentally heals her with the Custard half of his scratch ticket, which kills the worms controlling her and lets her true self surface just long enough to silently ask for death. Carl obliges, finishing her with two punches and a foot to the skull
- RELATIONSHIP Tsarina Signet: Watches the fight from a building across the intersection, arms raised in the middle of her own summoning spell; Heather's blood rises toward her the moment Carl finishes the kill. Calls Heather family afterward and says she'd warned Grimaldi more than once that Heather needed retiring before she snapped and hurt a spectator
Kills
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Notable quotes
“Good. I’ve always hated all you assholes, anyway.”
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