Butcherbird

They laugh like children and arrive wherever something has just started to bleed.

Horde, tiny, organized. Butcherbirds are black and wine-red birds about the size of woodpeckers, traveling in flocks whose laughter chills the blood. They can smell fresh blood from miles away and descend on kills in a frenzy; butcherbird blood is one of the few reliable repellents.

HP 1 · Armor 1

Attack d6-2 (hand, messy, 2 piercing)

Instinct: To feast on bloody, bloody meat

Moves

Grab on and stab stab stab
Fend off any who would steal the flock’s meal
Scent blood from miles away

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Stonetop: The Wider World and Other Wonders (Lampblack & Brimstone)

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