The Beast Doesn't Fear Fire - No Bears

No Bears [Ignorance 3]
Impulse - Not to Stalk and Confound, Certainly. Why are We Even Having this Conversation?


While she controlled the region, the Queen of the Ugly Birds maintained a number of different kinds of servitor beings, thorn labyrinths, lonely shades, hungry dogs, the ugly birds from which she took her name, and no bears. The records are very specific that there were no bears active and serving the Queen during the time of the Autumn war. No bears from that time persist to this day in the islands of the Gulf of Catastrophe, still stalking and killing out of memory, boredom or habit. No bears are consumed by hatred for all that breathes and speaks. No bears have become expert swimmers since their habitat has fallen into the Gulf.

No bears look a lot like moon bears (U. thibetanus) with the aggressive temperament of that species, only sized up to about the height and mass of an U. arctos horribilis. No bears are second only to ugly birds in their intelligence and no bears are capable of learning and engaging in human speech, but no bears rarely have any desire to speak. It's very difficult to perceive or refer to no bears, even in written form. In order to perceive no bear, you need to be looking where no bears are, a task which is even harder than it sounds. No bears are excellent at using their sort of nonexistence to get where no bears can go, to wait where no bears are noticed, and strike, mauling folk who miss that there are no bears about.

Harm 3/Peril [Fear] No bears use fang and mass and claw to wreck a body the way any bear might. This can be quite upsetting to onlookers, as someone is clearly being mauled by no bear. No bears also carry the Fear that the Queen was known to wield and gift to her servitors, though this is hardly necessary, as becoming suddenly aware of no bears where no bears are active is usually terrifying enough.

Like Hunting Bears
When no bears are stalking you, face Ignorance.

On a Hit, you are aware of no bears. Nothing to worry about :D
On a Hard Hit, you become aware of no bears. No bears are intimidated by mindful awareness of their presence and will almost always back down.
On a Miss, you only become aware of no bears when no bears start to maul you. Suffer harm as stated and never know why.

"He's mine/ as soon as he's silly and steps on a line"
The existence of no bears is rather specialized and uncommon knowledge, very hard to teach, and usually regarded as a form of syntactic hazing by people who have never encountered no bears. Occasionally, when killed, no bears will leave no corpses, and no bear skins are perfect makings for powerful artifacts that confer magical benefits to stealth. Shadow and water witches, in particular, love them. No bear claws and fangs have been used to stud clubs, creating weapons that leave wounds difficult to notice and almost impossible to treat. No bear meat is widely regarded as a delicious but ultimately unsatisfying meal, which brings up all sorts of questions about what crazy motherfucker determined no bears were good to eat.
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