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Most people don't realize this creature's secret nature at first, because its surface qualities are so positive. Trucklers are amazingly polite and attentive entities with blue skin and eyes as pale as the faded sky. They are pleasing to the human eye, both in form and in dress. A truckler is also exceptionally helpful, free with compliments, and apparently happy to aid those who need a hand in small, short-term tasks. For instance, upon seeing someone having trouble moving a large object in the street, a truckler will immediately put a shoulder to it and provide aid.
Trucklers have their own language and culture, but among humans they adopt human speech and human nicknames, the better to integrate into human society. If they can manage it, they seek to gain the trust of humans in order to be asked to stay around and help in the long term or even become a human's follower. This happy occurrence lasts for no more than a few months, at which time the truckler runs away with all the valuables it can carry and returns to a truckler hive hidden in a nearby ruin. Most manage to do so without being caught, leaving those who thought of the truckler as a friend or companion confused, hurt, and probably angry at the betrayal.
A PC who loses a truckler follower can gain another follower if they used a class or focus special ability to cement the relationship.
Motive: Misdirection, theft
Environment: Anywhere
Health: 9
Armor: 1
Damage Inflicted: Moderate wound (4 points)
Movement: Short
Modifications: Tasks related to deception as level 7
Combat: A truckler uses any weapons and other equipmentt hat are readily available in combat, though at minimum they likely have one or two light or medium weapons close at hand and perhaps a cypher or two.
Trucklers have one other ability that they are loath to reveal to other creatures. With a touch, they can secrete a level 5 mind-affecting substance that can put another creature into a light sleep for about a minute or until the creature is disturbed by loud noises or jostling. However long the sleep lasts, victims must fight to remember the preceding couple of hours before they fell into the doze.
Interaction: A truckler is eager to talk, compromise, negotiate, and help those who even hint that they might need assistance.
Use: When the PC drops something, is stolen from, or otherwise runs into minor difficulty in a community, a truckler sees and immediately jumps in with assistance.
Loot: If the PCs find a truckler hive while exploring a ruin, they find several cyphers, 2d20 units of io, and one or two artifacts.
GM Intrusion: The character, against all reason and actual evidence, gets the strange feeling that he friendly truckler is trying to cheat them.