Geck0's Menagerie

Name: Soda

Age: 2

Species: Kobold

Appearance: Soda's pretty small for a kobold, with a hunch that makes him seem even shorter, standing about 60cm. Little can be seen of his actual body because he always wears a heavy patchwork coat, and pants that cover his legs aside from his bandaged legs. The collar of the coat comes up high enough to conceal the lower half of his face, while a wide-brimmed wizard hat covers the top of his head, leaving only a very small opening through which only one glowing yellow eye can be seen.
A tail pokes out from the back of his coat, revealing his rough black scales. A karabiner has been surgically attached to the tip of his tail. Fastened to his back is a satchel, with a scroll wrapped on top of it, and a smaller-than-usual pavise covered in shrubbery and mushrooms, as well as a long pole that a simple lantern dangles from. Almost always, Soda also has a large, ornate, magic focus that greatly resembles a rifle but notably has no actual barrel.

Personality: Soda can be quite difficult to get a read on, as he rarely displays emotion in a way similar to a human. However, he's quite eccentric and somehow simultaneously cowardly and foolhardy, apparently at random. Though perhaps not a personality trait, Soda also has an unusual accent and speech pattern, and has been described "like a hybrid of frog, fox, and alligator, in an accent like nothing ever heard. Curiously incorrect pronunciations of words even that he'd just heard, following a pattern as if he even spelled the word out in his head and intentionally translated it into his own speech".

Personal Effects: As noted above, Soda has a satchel filled with rations and various general-use adventuring gear, such as a length of rope, a multitool, a dozen pitons, handcuffs, a tinderbox, and a waterskin; as well as a scroll on top filled with writing about things he has encountered. He also has a camouflaged pavise, a bullseye lantern, and a magic focus that heavily resembles a rifle. He also has a pair of heavily tinted goggles.
 
Name: Pango

Age: 3

Species: Giant Pangolin

Appearance:
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Further Information: Pango is Soda's pangolin mount. He isn't particularly loyal, but it is docile and obedient, and difficult to spook, and capable of defending himself if threatened by something smaller.
 
Name: Clay

Age: 603

Species: Human

Despite technically being a human on paper, Clay's body has been over time completely converted into plant matter. Though he retains a humanoid body shape, his face and features only vaguely resemble what they should. Huge almond shaped eyes made out of flowers, leaves and flowers covering his green and brown body that only barely cover toxic thorns and offshoots of carnivorous plants underneath. In human terms, he appears quite small and harmless and even maybe "cute" thanks to his meticulously designed appearance. Through various means including magic, Clay is quite skilled at changing his physiology, ranging from appearance to utility, defense, and offense.

Despite aligning himself with good people, he's a sociopath who struggles (or doesn't even attempt) to empathize with other people. However, he is very protective of most animals, and anthropomorphizes them within moments of meeting them. Whether or not he can actually communicate with animals isn't entirely clear.

A closely guarded secret about Clay, is that what can be seen is not his actual body. Hidden within a pocket dimension closely tied to the proximity of his visible part is his "roots": a labyrinthine structure of vegetative matter with a microcosm of predatory animals. He is able to "eat" things, which will deposit them within this structure, though they can escape by breaking through the woody walls. In a worst-case scenario, he's able to (with great strain) break the roots through out of the pocket dimension, fielding roughly one hundred metric tonnes of organic material to defend himself. He has done this once before, and it nearly cost him his life.
 
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