A stone idol

The Angry Little God

Tags: crude, magical

Found at the back of some cave or grotto, obscured by roots and rubble, surrounded by desiccated, rotting offerings. A crude squat thing with a possum's sneering face, a thorny tail, and flowers for its ears.

The idol is, in fact, a narcissistic little Fae, stuck (hiding? stubbornly ensconced?) in the form of a stone idol.

To unlock its "mysteries" and benefit from its patronage, you must:

• restore the shrine, while suffering the abuse of its angry little god;
• extract the idol from the stone and rubble in which it's embedded, at the risk of damaging/insulting it;
• trick the idol into accepting an offering that puts it in your lasting debt. A Surplus worth of food and/or whisky ought to be enough.

The Angry Little God

When you put the idol in a prominent place and beseech it to attend its humble servant, it wakes (but is still inert). Treat it as a follower, though it hardly considers itself one.

All-mighty Thistlewisk — Fae, tiny, magical, devious, arrogant HP 15 · Armor 6 (stone, resilience), 2 vs. iron Special qualities inert; disembodied voice Instinct to heap abuse on its worshippers

• Make unreasonable demands
• Consume the essence of foodstuffs
• Sense one's idle thoughts/memories
• Weave powerful illusions and hallucinations (near, area)
• Grow bored/huffy and go to sleep

Cost obeisance and ever-larger offerings of food (Loyalty ☐ ☐ ☐)