Norker Vagabond

Norker Vagabond (CR 2)

Chaotic Evil - Small - Humanoid (Norker)

Lore:	Know (Local)
5		20
Basic DC		Full DC

Initiative

4

Perception:
14	+4
Passive	Active

Ambush:

10+

on a d20

Senses:

• Standard Senses
• Low-Light Vision

Movement Types:

Defense

AC

16

Man Def

17

Monster Health
43	21	3
Hit Points	Bloodied	Hit Dice

Saving Throws
Fort:	+5
Refl:	+2
Will:	+0

Strong Against:

Weak Against:

Offense

Size:	Small
5 ft.		5 ft.
Space		Reach

To-Hit

+4

Man Off

+5

Action

0

Points

Standard Attack (Melee):

• 1x Knotty Club +4 (1d8/19-20 x2)
  as bludgeoning (physical, common)

Full Attack (Melee):

• 3x Knotty Club +4 (1d8/19-20 x2)
  as bludgeoning (physical, common)

Standard Attack (Ranged):

• 1x Thrown Rock +4 (1d8/19-20 x2)
  as bludgeoning (physical, common)
  (Increment: 20 ft.; Max Range: 100 ft.)

Full Attack (Ranged):

• 3x Thrown Rock +4 (1d8/19-20 x2)
  as bludgeoning (physical, common)
  (Increment: 20 ft.; Max Range: 100 ft.)

Siege Damage: Not siege capable

Statistics

14

STR

12

DEX

13

CON

6

INT

11

WIS

7

CHA

Skills:

• Movement: 4
• Perception: 4
• All other skills: 0 (no ranks)

Languages: Orcish

Feats:

Special Abilities

Snapping Riposte (Ex) Immediate Action After Being Attacked

Once per round, after being attacked (hit or miss) by a melee attack, the norker may make an immediate bite attack against the foe which attacked them as an immediate action. The foe must be within reach to use this ability. Bite ++4 (1d8/x2) as crushing (physical, common) damage

Norker Vagabond

Norkers are a degenerative subspecies of orc, sometimes known as orklings. They are fierce and cruel, but not as organized as orcs. They generally travel in packs, dominated by a single strong leader. The packs are rife with internal power struggles and petty bickering, but when confronted with a common foe, they all fall into enough order to make a reasonable nuisance of themselves.

They frequently travel with any orcs willing to take them in, and will eagerly follow orcs around like mean, feral puppies. Orcs tolerate norkers because they're so easily dominated, useful in a fight, and are easily overruled when it comes time to divvy up loot.

Norker Vagabonds are norkers who have managed, generally through stupidity and greed, to get themselves driven out of orc society. Even for norkers, vagabonds are not impressive specimens, and they frequently wind up wandering in feral packs alone, getting into deadly mischief, or take up with tribes of the lesser races, such as kobolds or goblins. The lesser races don't exactly welcome norker vagabonds, but at the least they are fairly obedient if beaten enough, and willing to fight. A home is a home, after all.

Combat Tactics

Norkers are feral and heedless of danger, but norker vagabonds, as a result of being driven out by orcs, pathetically seek to imitate how orcs fight. As a result, vagabonds will throw rocks at ranged foes before they rush into melee with typical norker savagery. In melee, they are not as skilled as better quality norkers and are not able to maneuver on the battlefield, lacking the mobility feat. They still have snapping riposte though, and will eagerly bite at anyone and anything that attacks them.

Vagabonds are driven in combat by fear that they will be rejected again if they perform badly, and so they are utterly fearless and will fight to the death without pause.

Out of Combat

Norkers are miserable, low, and vile creatures, even for monsters. They have degenerated in intelligence, but far more critically, they have degenerated in their moral and societal character, to the point that they are in danger of slipping into the satus of mindless beasts, or even vermin. Some sages are studying this decline with keen interest, as a means of determining how this process proceeds, or perhaps, how it could be induced, or reversed, or even, inculcated in reverse among the beasts to raise them up. This study is of no matter to the norkers, who cannot even begin to understand what it means, but this area of study is viewed with suspicion among most 'reputable' sages, mages, and cyphers, as meddling in this process seems uncomfortably hubristic...which often leads to deific interference.

Nobody wants deific interference.

Rewards

XP: 600

Treasure: Sellable Goods worth 500 gp.

Weight: 20 lbs.     Volume: 0.8 cu. ft.

Optional Treasure Rules: Roll a d20 on Table 1 below once per encounter (NOT per creature). Any items discovered are in addition to the normal treasure for the encounter.

Table 1: Remnant(s) Found
1 - 10	Nothing Found
11 - 14	1 Languid Remnant (tier 1)
15 - 17	1 Pale Remnant (tier 2)
18 - 19	1 Bright Remnant (tier 3)
20	Roll on Table 2
###	Nothing to see here!
###	Or here. Move along.

Table 2: Remnant(s) Found
1 - 5	3 Languid Remnants (tier 1)
6 - 10	3 Pale Remnants (tier 2)
11 - 14	1 Intense Remnant (tier 4)
15 - 17	1 Blazing Remnant (tier 5)
18 - 19	1 Vital Remnant (tier 6)
20	Roll on Table 3
###	Or here. Move along.

Table 3: Remnant(s) Found
1 - 5	3 Bright Remnants (tier 3)
6 - 8	3 Intense Remnants (tier 4)
9 - 11	3 Blazing Remnants (tier 5)
12 - 14	3 Vital Remnants (tier 6)
15 - 17	1 Prime Remnant (tier 7)
18 - 19	1 Mythic Remnant (tier 8)
20	1 Empyrean Remnant (tier 9)