Vanessa Mackelroy

Ring of Airwalking

Sickening Slime (Ex) All creatures within 5 feet of Dorn must succeed on a DC 23 Fortitude save or take a –1 circumstance penalty on attack rolls and skill checks for as long as they remain within range. Light Sensitivity (Ex) Dorn is dazzled in bright sunlight or within the radius of a daylight spell. Contagion (Su) As the contagion spell; 1/day; caster level 10th. Corrosive Touch (Ex) Three times per day, Dorn can secrete a slime. The next time he makes an unarmed attack, that attack does not provoke attacks of opportunity and deals an extra 2d6 points of acid damage.

Corrosive Spew (Ex)

Once per day as a standard action, Dorn can spew a 30-foot line of corrosive goo dealing 8d6 points of acid damage to any creature in the area (Refl ex DC 22 half).

Summon Demon (Sp)

Automatically summon one demon that has 5 HD or fewer; 1/day; caster level 15th. This ability is the equivalent of a 5th-level spell. Summon Ooze (Sp) Automatically summon a gray ooze (MM 202), ochre jelly (MM 202), gelatinous cube (MM 201), or patch of green slime (DMG 76); 1/day; caster level 7th. This ability is the equivalent of a 4th-level spell. Summon Pudding (Sp) Automatically summon one black pudding (MM 201); 1/day; caster level 7th. This ability is the equivalent of a 4th-level spell. GOALS

Vanessa’s time with the cult altered her personality. Instead of the detached archeologist she once was, she is a wanton hedonist, obsessed with pleasure and dulling her senses by sampling the bizarre drugs used by the Cynidiceans. She craves the oblivion that intoxication brings and fears she has reached the limits of what these strange people can offer her. USING THIS MINION Like Dorn, Vanessa transforms over the course of the campaign. When the PCs first meet her, she should be detached and businesslike. She’s friendly enough, but has trouble connecting with others. After she falls in with the Cynidiceans, she abandons her pursuit of knowledge, looking into herself for the answers she seeks. What she fi nds is emptiness— perfect, endless emptiness. At fi rst, Vanessa relies on her archivist abilities, but later she focuses on entropomancer powers. DESCRIPTION Vanessa spent her entire life hiding her tiefl ing heritage, wearing heavy clothing to conceal the dark markings speckling the skin of her arms and chest. With her descent into profligacy, she now exults in the strangeness her fiendish blood grants her. She has long black hair and dark circles under her eyes. The black spots on her skin move, as though a creature were writhing beneath her flesh. Her ears are slightly pointed, upswept, and pierced a dozen times each. She cuts herself and packs the Dorn wounds with powders, oozes, and gels. She claims the pain is exquisite. The wreckage of her fl esh testifi es to how often she uses these strange drugs.

“When they took me, I wept for seven days. I tried to escape, tried to fl ee, but each time they pulled me back. I realized perhaps I was supposed to be here, supposed to learn from these people—and learn I did.” —Vanessa Mackelroy, High Priestess of Zargon

An expert on dead gods, Vanessa had traveled the world recovering samples from lost religions to understand the cultures behind them. Her career came to an abrupt end when she sought the Lost City. What she learned from the masked inhabitants of the madhouse destroyed her respect for the gods, setting a new course for her as a priestess of Zargon.