Grows what it is fed.
Sporeback Boar
The doorway out of the spore room, the only way through
What it is
Half boar, half the fungus growing through it: pale night eyes, a back of quills and grey caps, and small things living in the bristles.
Whatever it eats comes up on its back a few beats later. Everyone who goes further goes through it.
How it fights
The Charge. It spends a whole turn with its head down, showing you exactly which part it is coming for, and lands it the next turn: a blow that ends fights. Guard there, and all of it stops.
The rest is small: tusk rakes, the riders in its bristles going for your face, and quills that turn your hits aside for a turn.
What you were told
Abel's notes
Grows what it is fed.
A boar with a garden on its back. The caps grow from what it eats, and it eats anything. It charges: a slow wind-up you can see coming. Guard the charge, then hit it while it turns. The hide makes a good rug.
Henry says
Tastes good.
Tastes good. That's the whole of it. Don't eat the caps off its back, eat the back under the caps. Bring me the hide and I'll call it even on something.
Hollis says
A lovely bed.
Lovely beast. Whatever it eats comes up on its back a few beats later - I'd give a lot for that hide. When it puts its head down it's coming in a straight line. Be where the line isn't.
Named: Charge
Once you have met it
High Dangerous. Come rested, with something in the bag.
- Health
- 160
- Attack
- 45
- Defence
- 24
- Magic
- 10
- Magic defence
- 20
- Each turn
- 2 actions, 4 cards in hand
Make a card from its body
Tusk Hook45%
Spines Up30%
Riders25%
Watch its head. When that goes down, so do you - unless you are somewhere else.
What it carries
Charge
2Attack
- TARGETS: Body/Legs
- DAMAGE ~93 (30 + 140% ATK)
- CHARGE, 2 turns: does nothing the turn it is played, then lands next turn on the PART it named
The head goes down. Everything living on its back holds on.
×3 in its deck
Tusk Hook
1Attack
- TARGETS: Arm/Legs
- DAMAGE ~11 (25% ATK)
A sideways rake of yellow tusk, furred with mould.
×4 in its deck
Spines Up
1Buff
- This turn every ATTACK or SPELL on you lands 30% lighter
The quills along its back stand on end, and the hits slide off them.
×2 in its deck
Riders
1Attack
- TARGETS: Head/Arm
- DAMAGE ~10 (5 + 12% ATK)
What lives in its bristles does not like being shaken. It goes for your face.
×2 in its deck
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