The Blind Witch 5 (15)

We Are All Mad Here

The Blind Witch is skinny and always hungry. She lives deep in the forest in a house made of confectionery, which allows her to catch, fatten, and eventually eat any children unlucky enough to get caught in her trap.

Health: 21

Damage Inflicted: Moderate wound (5 points)

Movement: Short; long when flying (on a broomstick)

Environment: (Other)

Modifications: Cooking as level 6, deception and trickery as level 7, seeing through deception and trickery as level 4

Combat: She can use the following abilities: charm, protect, and vitality. She is immune to visual effects, including hallucinations.

• Charm: Victims within short range who fail an Intellect defense roll are enslaved. Victims turn on their allies or take some other action described by their new master. The curse lasts for one minute, or until the victims succeed on an Intellect defense roll; each time they fail a roll, the next roll is hindered by one additional step.
• Protect: Places a confinement spell to keep someone from going in or out of a location, building, or room. Those who attempt to pass through the spell but fail take 3 points of Intellect damage and are knocked back. Once the spell activates, it disappears.
• Vitality: The witch regains 11 points of health and gains +3 to Armor for one minute. Multiple uses don't further improve Armor. >

Interactions: The Blind Witch can appear sweet and charming, and might play up her blindness and apparent frailty for sympathy.

Uses: Characters wandering the woods might come upon a candy house, and woe to them should they take a bite. A rescue mission could lead here.

Loot: She usually has at least one magical animal in a cage, along with various children and even adults. Two or three cyphers can be found in her kitchen, along with her magic oven, which bakes children into gingerbread.