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Madame Araby Tuvache, Araby Dunsany by birth, owns the tiny walled [[estate]] of [[Jerretiere]] in [[Pont-a-Museau]]. She | Madame Araby Tuvache, Araby Dunsany by birth, owns the tiny walled [[estate]] of [[Jerretiere]] in [[Pont-a-Museau]]. She and the remaining family servant, [[Mr Graves]], reside in [[Tuvache House | Tuvache house]], the ancestral home of the Tuvache family. She has had added to the [[structure]] a [[clock tower]]. Her husband, [[Renault Tuvache]], turned out to be a [[wererat]], and the young wife traded her wedding ring to the local [[alchemist]] for the vial of [[silver-mercurium]] with which she [[poisoned]] him to death. She managed, remarkably enough, to rebuild the depleted fortunes of the estate by luring [[adventurers]] into the basement of Tuvache house where an end would be put to them using [[poison]] gas. She would subsequently strip the remains of their wealth. She soon had enough money, even more remarkably, to add the clock tower and create the [[Puppetworks]], one of the greatest feats in [[clockmaking | clockwork making]] and [[Mechanical Engineering | mechanical engineering]] in the known world. For during her brief marriage she had acquired a passion for [[clockmaking]] and indeed possesses an extraordinary apptitude for it. Her madness runs in the direction of the macabre. The [[puppets]] are made of the preserved [[corpses]] of her poisoned victims. She also has a fondness for collecting individual [[body parts]] in jars. Upon her death she is fated to become a [[Greater Animator | greater animator]] possessing the [[Puppetworks]]. | ||
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Madame Araby Tuvache, Araby Dunsany by birth, owns the tiny walled estate of Jerretiere in Pont-a-Museau. She and the remaining family servant, Mr Graves, reside in Tuvache house, the ancestral home of the Tuvache family. She has had added to the structure a clock tower. Her husband, Renault Tuvache, turned out to be a wererat, and the young wife traded her wedding ring to the local alchemist for the vial of silver-mercurium with which she poisoned him to death. She managed, remarkably enough, to rebuild the depleted fortunes of the estate by luring adventurers into the basement of Tuvache house where an end would be put to them using poison gas. She would subsequently strip the remains of their wealth. She soon had enough money, even more remarkably, to add the clock tower and create the Puppetworks, one of the greatest feats in clockwork making and mechanical engineering in the known world. For during her brief marriage she had acquired a passion for clockmaking and indeed possesses an extraordinary apptitude for it. Her madness runs in the direction of the macabre. The puppets are made of the preserved corpses of her poisoned victims. She also has a fondness for collecting individual body parts in jars. Upon her death she is fated to become a greater animator possessing the Puppetworks.
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Given the cost of constructing a clock tower and the Puppetworks, given the cost of the poisons that Madame Araby Tuvache deploys, and given the relatively inexperienced adventurers that she targets as being readily killable, the economics of her venture simply don't add up. She needs to have inherited a very large fortune or to have an extremely deep-pocketed benefactor. Alternatively, the lethality of the adventure needs to be substantially increased so that fairly wealthy adventurers can be targetted and successfully killed on a consistent basis.
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Female human, Lawful Evil
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Female human, Expert, Lawful Evil
Feats: Skill Focus (Craft (clockmaking) and/or Knowledge (architecture & engineering))
Skills: Craft (clockmaking), Knowledge (architecture & engineering)
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