MD 403 – BeakMaster w/ Rhodrick Magsino (ARKYVR, OMENDROME, Alewood Games)

MD 403 – BeakMaster w/ Rhodrick Magsino

BeakMaster (they/them): This large bird creature has an excessive amount of beaks in their odd physiology that speak simultaneously. This hip hop bard shows up in markets and bazaars to sell you music albums in compact disc (CD) form. They have 1d6 albums for sale every time you meet. They’ll provide a CD player boombox with speakers or a personal unit with headphones with each purchase. Once you meet BeakMaster, they will always be around: at parties, on the street, in front of stores, at the bottom of dungeons, even in other dimensions. BeakMaster concerts have been world-changing events.

Rap Cacophony: By beatboxing and rapping with all their beaks, the BeakMaster may attack with a mindbending cypher of rhyme-schemes that discombobulates a weak mind. All within 20 feet who can hear must save or roll a d8. On a 1 to 4, the target does nothing. On a 5 or 6, the target does nothing but join the cypher with their own beatboxing or lyrics. On a 7 or 8, the target attacks a randomly determined creature, including themself.

D6 Payments: The payment will change each time you meet BeakMaster.

1. A baked good: It must be made with love, delicious, and have taken time and effort.
2. Your immortal soul: You sign a record deal to be part of BeakMaster’s posse. BeakMaster can always communicate with you telepathically, and you’ll be a part of their crew in the afterlife. You no longer have a soul and all that entails.
3. A gallon of your tears: It will take 12 + 1d12 days to produce a gallon of tears without magical help.
4. All of your blood: They’ll also accept the equivalent volume from another source as long as it’s mostly your blood.
5. Half of your liquid assets: This includes money, jewels, stocks, bonds, equipment and all of your holdings.
6. A pack of crayons: They’ll recommend a demon to summon that’ll trade you a pack of crayons.

D6 Albums: Each album is an hour long. When you listen to a full album with intention, you’re imbued with its special ability for 24 hours. 

1. Self-titled: Get a mirror reflection of yourself. This incorporeal illusory duplicate has the polar opposite of your personality and cannot interact with the material world, or leave your side. When you’re targeted with an attack, there’s a 50% chance they’ll target your duplicate. 
2. Squawk Lobster: Gain a weirdly fashionable, feathery yet hard, carapace across your back, giving you an additional armor bonus. 
3. Birds of a Feather Fight Together: Anyone who can hear the album within a 300-foot radius gains a 30-foot area of effect fighting bonus while in a phalanx-esque formation.
4. Various Artists: Anyone who can hear the album within a 300-foot radius forgets their name, identity and past. Targets don’t need to listen with intention, but must hear the entire album.
5. Counting Crows’ Feet: Grow razor-sharp talons on your hands and feet that act as weapons and double your run speed.
6. BeakBoxer Remix: Anyone who can hear the album within a 300-foot radius swaps bodies with a random participant in a brain remix.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Rhodrick Magsino

Appendix N: Wu Tang Clan, GZA, Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, and fast rappers like Eminem and Twista. Chicago cultural phenomena, rapper Sharkula and others who sell physical rap CDs on the street. The B52’s “Rock Lobster,” The MET Gala, Roadrunner (cartoon).