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Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/Factions/Acquisitions Inc.md

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+![[Acquisitions Inc Logo.png]]
+Mega corp founded by Omin Dran with various franchises and subsidiaries, including [[Nihilus Creatatus]], operating under them.
+
+[Acquisitions Incorporated | Acquisitions Incorporated Wiki | Fandom](https://acquisitionsincorporated.fandom.com/wiki/Acquisitions_Incorporated)

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/Factions/Grippli.md

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 ![[Grippli Meeting.png]]
-The grippli are a diminutive race of humanoid frog natives that live in the enchanted forest near [[New New New Jerusalem]]; they are a peaceful people that live in harmony with nature and have no concept of material wealth.
+The grippli are a diminutive race of humanoid frog natives that live in the [[Shadowed Tangle]] enchanted forest near [[New New New Jerusalem]]; they are a peaceful people that live in harmony with nature and have no concept of material wealth.
 
 Pictured is the party visiting their village in [[Entry 1]].
 

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/Franchises/Crimson Carrion.md

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-Local franchise of the [[Verdant Expansion Co]] operating in the area of [[New New New Jerusalem]] that the party defeated early in the campaign; they were investigating the site of a long lost franchise that were last working in the local forest. They rediscovered research that led to the reverse engineering of a crystal drill, that was capable of tapping the arcane wellspring under the forest, threatening the Messianic Marches.
+Local franchise of the [[Verdant Expansion Co]] operating in the area of [[New New New Jerusalem]] that the party defeated early in the campaign; they were investigating the site of a long lost franchise that were last working in the local forest. They rediscovered research that led to the reverse engineering of a crystal drill, that was capable of tapping the arcane wellspring under the Shadowed Tangle forest, threatening the [[Messianic Marches]].
 
 #### Members:
 - [[Alistair Venn]] (Surveyor)

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/Franchises/The Band of the Badgers.md

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+The first failed franchise that was founded by [[Gnomeo]], [[Spastica Autistica]], [[Kremit Croakbane]] and [[Coinclinkz]].
+
+Gnomeo tricked them in to forming the franchise, under him as the CEO, as a means to steal their savings and flee the country; the franchise fell behind on fees and was promptly put up for fast resale by [[Acquisitions Inc]] head office. It was purchased by [[Grunt Roarson]] and rebranded as [[Nihilus Creatatus]].

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/NPCs/Bartemius Fowl.md

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+---
+tags:
+  - NPC
+  - Gnome
+  - Administrator
+---
 ![[Bartemius Fowl.png]]
-Bartemius Fowl is an administrator for the [[Crimson Carrion]], the local franchise of [[Verdant Expansion Co]] working in the [[New New New Jerusalem]] area. He works out of their local field office in a rented room in [[The Chalice]].
+Bartemius Fowl is the gnome administrator for the [[Crimson Carrion]], the local franchise of [[Verdant Expansion Co]] working in the [[New New New Jerusalem]] area. He works out of their local field office in a rented room in [[The Chalice]].

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/NPCs/Elder Thrum-Of-Reeds.md

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+---
+tags:
+  - NPC
+  - Grippli
+---
 ![[Elder Thrum of Reeds.png]]
 The wizened old leader of the enchanted forest [[Grippli]], he has seen many seasons and favours methodical thought and gentle reasoning over brash actions and violence. He ensures his tribe maintains a harmony with nature and strives to ensure none come to harm.

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/NPCs/Garrick Stonehand.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+tags:
+  - NPC
+  - Dwarf
+---
 ![[Garrick Stonehand.png]]
 Garrick Stonehand was a mighty dwarven warrior and member of the [[Crimson Carrion]] franchise of [[Verdant Expansion Co]]; he served as their foreman in their logging camp, in the enchanted forest near [[New New New Jerusalem]].
 

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/NPCs/Gertrude Blythe.md

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-![[Gertrude Blythe.png]]Gertrude Blythe is old spinster that lives in the town of [[New New New Jerusalem]], she is known for posting the missing pet fliers for [[Speckled Jim]], offering a reward of a modest amount of silver.
+---
+tags:
+  - NPC
+  - Human
+---
+![[Gertrude Blythe.png]]
+
+Gertrude Blythe is old spinster that lives in the town of [[New New New Jerusalem]], she is known for posting the missing pet fliers for [[Speckled Jim]], offering a reward of a modest amount of silver.

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/NPCs/Gnomeo.md

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+---
+tags:
+  - NPC
+  - Gnome
+---
 ![[Gnomeo.png]]
 Gnomeo is a gnome con man that famously started the original Acq Inc franchise "[[The Band of the Badgers]]" with [[Kremit Croakbane]], [[Spastica Autistica]] and [[Coinclinkz]], using it as a premise to steal their money and flee the country.
 

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/NPCs/Leap-Over-Stone.md

@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
+---
+tags:
+  - NPC
+  - Grippli
+---
 ![[Leap Over Stone.png]]
 Leap over stone is younger member of the enchanted forest [[Grippli]] that encountered the party when they were travelling along the road through the forest. He and his two compatriots, Mud-Singer and Thorn-In-Reeds, stopped the party and pleaded with them to reconsider helping the "Dry Skins", referring to the members of the [[Verdant Expansion Co]] logging camp, after a few failed attempts to non-violently get the party to leave the area.

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/NPCs/Pebble-On-Shore.md

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+---
+tags:
+  - NPC
+  - Grippli
+---
 ![[Pebble on Shore.png]]
 A curious child of the enchanted forest [[Grippli]], who was very inquisitive about the party when they visited their village. [[Grunt Roarson]] attempted to barter for this child with the elders of the tribe, to have as his ward, for unknown reasons.

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/NPCs/Red Heron.md

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+---
+tags:
+  - NPC
+  - Animal
+---
 ![[Red Heron.png|971]]
 The Red Heron is a curious and confusing creature that inhabits the enchanted forest near [[New New New Jerusalem]], it is always on for a chat and enjoys rambling to anyone that will listen, while hunting [[Grippli]] tadpoles in their pools.
 

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/NPCs/Ripple-Skip.md

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+---
+tags:
+  - NPC
+  - Grippli
+---
 ![[Ripple Skip.png]]
 Ripple-Skip is a fierce and hot-headed grippli who leads the warriors of the [[Grippli]] tribe in the enchanted forest. He is often at odds with [[Elder Thrum-Of-Reeds]] and is unusually aggressive for a grippli, favouring violence and quicker results over reason.

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/NPCs/Roz Grakshnir.md

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 tags:
   - NPC
   - Goblin
+  - Administrator
 aliases:
   - Roz
 ---
-![[Clerk Roz Grakshnir.png|883]]
+![[Clerk Roz Grakshnir.png|883]]
+
+Roz Grakshnir is the ancient goblin secretary and administrator of [[Nihilus Creatatus]]; provided by head office, she runs the day to day of the franchise, oversees the minor employees and serves as a liaison with corporate.
+
+She takes no nonsense, is exceptionally blunt, very difficult to please and does not tolerate people putting on airs around her.

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/NPCs/Speckled Jim.md

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+---
+tags:
+  - NPC
+  - Animal
+---
 ![[Speckled Jim.png]]
 Speckled Jim is a uniquely magnificent example of a common pigeon, that was imprisoned as a pet by [[Gertrude Blythe]]; he is a friend of [[Thaddeus Bramble]], who reports him to be a dashing rogue of a creature, brimming with character and majesty.

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/NPCs/Thaddeus Bramble.md

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 ---
 tags:
   - NPC
+  - Human
   - Druid
 aliases:
   - Ted
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 ---
 ![[Thaddeus Bramble.png]]
 
-Thaddeus "Ted" Bramble is an ancient human druid, that is permanently merged with a tree, in the enchanted forest near [[New New New Jerusalem]]. He came to be this way after a deadly wild magic eruption occurred, during an altercation with a franchise of [[Verdant Expansion Co]] a few hundred years in the past, when he destroyed their original crystal drill, that was used to break the seal on the arcane wellspring under the forest.
+Thaddeus "Ted" Bramble is an ancient human druid, that is permanently merged with a tree, in the [[Shadowed Tangle]] enchanted forest near [[New New New Jerusalem]]. He came to be this way after a deadly wild magic eruption occurred, during an altercation with a franchise of [[Verdant Expansion Co]] a few hundred years in the past, when he destroyed their original crystal drill, that was used to break the seal on the arcane wellspring under the forest.
 
 He has unfettered control over the entire forest, being able to tap into the wellspring through the roots of the trees, and controls their growth to maintain a magical seal so that deadly eruptions and instability no longer threaten the region.
 

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/PCs/Coinclinkz.md

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+---
+tags:
+  - PC
+  - Kenku
+  - Warlock
+---
 ![[Coinclinkz.png|611]]
 
-Coinclinkz is an aarakocra warlock, head of archeology and master of corporate espionage of [[Nihilus Creatatus]].
+Coinclinkz is a Kenku warlock, head of archeology and master of corporate espionage of [[Nihilus Creatatus]].
 
-He was abandoned by his birth parents, then discovered and raised by human farmers, who trained him to act as a living scarecrow for their fields. One day, while roaming the wilderness near their farm, he came across a mysterious book that whispered to him and, over time, taught him the dark arts of a warlock.
+He was abandoned by his birth parents, then discovered and raised by human farmers, who trained him to act as a living scarecrow for their fields. One day, while roaming the wilderness near their farm, he came across a mysterious book that whispered to him and, over time, taught him the dark arts of a warlock. 
+
+He has a mysterious cat familiar called "Cheetos" with two different colored eyes, that accompanies him on his travels.
 
 He now seeks his fortune on his own, having a lust of artefacts and shiny things, one day hoping to rediscover his birth parents along the way.

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/PCs/Grunt Roarson.md

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+---
+tags:
+  - PC
+  - Dragonborn
+  - Paladin
+---
 ![[Grunt Roarson.png|649]]
 
 Grunt Roarson is a blue dragonborn paladin, CEO, Decisionist and Chief Vision Officer of [[Nihilus Creatatus]].

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/PCs/Kremit Croakbane.md

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+---
+tags:
+  - PC
+  - Frogfolk
+  - Bard
+---
 ![[Kremit Croakbane.png]]
 
 Kremit Croakbane is a frogfolk bard, Sergeant at Arms and "Stratestician" of [[Nihilus Creatatus]].
 
-He hails from a region known as the Schwachkopfmensch Marshes, which he dreams of one day uniting and ending the internecine internal conflict that ravages his people. He possesses and plays a "Frogtar", an instrument of his own invention, and is a self taught bard, who learned by watching the performances of other bards while travelling.
+He hails from a region known as the Schwachkopfmensch Marshes, which he dreams of one day uniting and ending the internecine conflict that ravages his people. 
+
+He possesses and plays a "Frogtar", an instrument of his own invention; he is a self taught bard, having learned by watching the performances of other bards while travelling.

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Characters/PCs/Spastica Autistica.md

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+---
+tags:
+  - PC
+  - Human
+  - Ranger
+---
 ![[Spastica Autistica.png]]
 
 Spastica Autistica is a human ranger and CFO of [[Nihilus Creatatus]].

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Grunt's Quarterly Reports/Entry 1.md

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Grunt and Spastica ask what the Grippli can offer them as compensation and end u
 
 The party travels through the woods back to their cart, curiously the path through the undergrowth now seems obvious and easy to follow, whereas before it seemed impenetrable. They take their cart to the logging camp and have no further setbacks on the way.
 
-They arrive at the logging camp, see magic blue tree stumps that seem to have had the roots withdraw from the soil and curl up like the legs of a dead spider, with holes bored on the tops of them. They meet with dwarven foreman [[Garrick Stonehand]], who addresses them sharply, thinking they are workers or soldiers standing around idle; they explain why they are there, delivering stuff, and are referred to the quartermaster. The party walks into the makeshift office and find the gnome quartermaster, [[Tamsin Greaves]], talking to the [[Verdant Expansion Co|VEC]] mage surveyor, [[Alistair Venn]], who is holding a strange crystalline hand drill.
+They arrive at the logging camp, see magic blue tree stumps that seem to have had the roots withdraw from the soil and curl up like the legs of a dead spider, with holes bored on the tops of them. They meet with dwarven foreman [[Garrick Stonehand]], who addresses them sharply, thinking they are workers or soldiers standing around idle; they explain why they are there, delivering stuff, and are referred to the quartermaster. The party walks into the makeshift office and find the gnome quartermaster, [[Tamsin Greaves]], talking to the [[Verdant Expansion Co|VEC]] mage surveyor, [[Alistair Venn]], who is holding a strange [[Crystal Drill|Crystalline Hand Drill]].
 
 The mage turns away and pockets the drill (that they notice has a glowing gem on top of it), while the quartermaster is talking to them, signs their paperwork to say they have completed the job and asks them to take the paperwork, and the empty cart, back with them to Bartemius. The group calls him out for trying to get them to take the cart back for free and, flustered, he quickly references a book from his shelf "the art of barter" and tells them that he will pay them 2000 coppers to take the cart back for him. Grunt is mesmerised by this large sounding offer and hurriedly agrees to it, having the papers signed by Spastica, not realising its only 20gp.
 

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Grunt's Quarterly Reports/Entry 2.md

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-- Ted tells them that they need to stop VEC, get the crystalline extraction drill, the research notes and reports and destroy them. He expands that no one with knowledge of these things can leave this forest, it’s too dangerous, someone could start this work all over again. He only grew over and hid the camp last time this happened and it wasn’t enough, as the research was re-discovered and the drill was reverse engineered, he’s adamant about being more thorough this time. The balance of nature must be preserved.
+- Ted tells them that they need to stop VEC, get the [[Crystal Drill|crystalline extraction drill]], the research notes and reports and destroy them. He expands that no one with knowledge of these things can leave this forest, it’s too dangerous, someone could start this work all over again. He only grew over and hid the camp last time this happened and it wasn’t enough, as the research was re-discovered and the drill was reverse engineered, he’s adamant about being more thorough this time. The balance of nature must be preserved.
 
   
 

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Locations/Messianic Marches.md

@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ The region that [[Nihilus Creatatus]] is currently based in.
 
 #### Notable Locations:
 - [[New New New Jerusalem]]
-- 
+- The [[Shadowed Tangle]]

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Locations/New New New Jerusalem.md

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+The town in which [[Nihilus Creatatus]] has based their franchise, located in the [[Messianic Marches]] on the continent of Mythrael; it is a relatively young, bustling frontier town in a developing region, ruled over by Baron Benjamin Eisenberg. The town has abundant farmlands to the south that take advantage of the unnaturally fertile lands surrounding the Shadowed Tangle forest.

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Locations/Rootbound Chorus.md

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+Home village of the [[Grippli]] of the [[Shadowed Tangle]], visited in [[Entry 1]] by [[Nihilus Creatatus]], known to possess healing waters that flow through it into various pools that help to sustain its people.

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Locations/Shadowed Tangle.md

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+Forest located in the [[Messianic Marches]], home to [[Thaddeus Bramble]], the [[Grippli]] of [[Rootbound Chorus]], and previous worksite of the [[Crimson Carrion]] franchise of [[Verdant Expansion Co]].
+
+The forest has an arcane wellspring under it that was previously tapped using the [[Crystal Drill]], destabilizing the region and destroying the previous incarnations of [[New New New Jerusalem]].

Seighell/Expanded Universe/Nihilus Creatatus/Misc Items/Crystal Drill.md

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+![[Crystal Drill.jpg]]
+The magical extraction apparatus reverse engineered by [[Alistair Venn]], that could potentially be used to re tap the arcane wellspring under the Shadowed Tangle Forest, in the [[Messianic Marches]]. The drill was seized by [[Nihilus Creatatus]] in [[Entry 2]] and destroyed by [[Thaddeus Bramble]] to ensure the safety of the region.