Leaking One

a cursed abomination, in perpetual agony. the leaking one was a human once, and part of a distinguished hellfire club in france. while he was a distinguished mage once, he was also a coward. when applied even the slightest pressure, leaking one immediately ratted out his fellow clubmembers to the church. of course, this did not go unpunished. when already arrested for his affiliation with witchcraft, the surviving men of the hellfire club kidnapped him from his prison, and bestowed upon him a curse most foul.

and that is the way the leaking one has lived since then: as a prisoner, and as a tool. the leaking one in this cursed state became a sort of biohazard; anything that comes in contact with his tears or slobber, will soon grow an excess of eyeballs and teeth much like his own, and become equally contagious. bound and chained, the leaking one was kept in the hellfire club’s basement from then on, as a way to get rid of traitors and intruders. it was a miserable existence, and one that would cost him his last shreds of sanity.

but the hellfire club in paris was not meant to last. when the club disbanded, the leaking one was cast to the haven plane, and set loose in the uncharted lands. by now a mindless beast, the leaking one simply followed its instincts, devouring and infecting whatever creature it could reach. it did not take long for the puzzling monstrosity to be captured, and kept in the world’s best-guarded curiosity cabinet and menagerie:

estu vuzhu’s vault.

wouldn’t you say he’s glad to see an old friend again?