Just a sketchy DTAE. happy Halloween! ----- Name: The strange hair-backed tortoise (Boris) Age: Obscure Species: No one knows Assumed abilities: Can shapeshift into a being whom his target feels cares about. Eventually morphs back into his regular form, paralyzing his victim in fear. He steals trinkets/items from the human. No harm actually comes to his targets. He just likes shiny things. "Sit down, child. Let me tell you about the strange creature known as the hair-backed tortoise." The fireplace crackled as the old storyteller shifted his weight. The gray-haired man looked toward the blaze with a sneer. "Snuff that thing out, will ya?! Firelight's not for October and it is not the time for Christmas tales yet! I don't care what the retail stores think!" The wrinkled fellow refocused himself and turned back to me as I fanned the flame. "The hair-backed tortoise isn't really a tortoise, you see. It's more of... a stocky dinosaur-type thing. It has no shell, but a coat of fur on its back." He paused and stroked his beard. "Truly, I don't see why they even call it a tortoise, with its orange ram horns and all. Well now, back to the story." He smiled, thinly. I squinted in the dying flame. "A boy walked through the woods one night," he continued. "He calmly strided through the leaves.
