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Troika Background - Shapeshifting Chicken of the Night

So I made a collection of chicken-inspired backgrounds for the other world's favorite rpg. It is also my submission for Chicken Jam. I called it Life of the Poultry, because I don't want to stretch people's mind about what to expect in the pack.

One of the backgrounds in it, which I have been teasing in my twitter timeline, is based on Filipino monster lore* about black chicks (itom nga piso) that can be ingested, so a human becomes an aswang. This will cause them to crave for human flesh but to gain the ability of chimeric transformation. It is said that you can make an aswang regurgitate the black chick, potentially turning them back to human, by making it extremely dizzy so it starts vomiting. You then hang the individual by its feet and light a pile of rice straw beneath it. The smoke will make the aswang vomit more, flushing out the black chick. 

But this black chick says fuck it, I'm not gonna go another person's stomach. Here is a reveal of that background.

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A shadowy presence, its eye almost always looking at you at every moment.

SHAPESHIFTING CHICKEN OF THE NIGHT

Black chicks are said to be ingested to transform into aswangs, monstrous creatures of the night, but you have fought that fate. You grew and harnessed the malevolent abilities for yourself. Without the hunger for flesh, your powers are in check.

Possessions:
• Black claws (damage as small beast; in chimeric form, as modest beast. See Special)
• Void-like body (counts as modest armour )

Advanced Skills:
2 Tracking  
2 Sneak
1 Second Sight
1 Spell - Coal Resolve 
1 Spell - Exchange Shape
1 Spell - Fear 

Special:
As long as you're conscious, you can choose to appear like a normal chicken. At night, you can spend 1 Luck to transform into a chimeric beast. During this form your size doubles, you cannot use any spells, and you can use the following advanced skills:

4 Strength
3 Claw Fighting
2 Run 
2 Frightening Presence

You can revert from your beast form at will. You are also forcibly reverted at dawn, or when you have lost all Luck.

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Please consider buying the whole background pack to see more fowl backgrounds compatible for TROIKA! 



* from The Lost Journal of Alejandro Pardo: Creatures & Beasts of Philippine Folklore by Budjette Tan and David Hontiveros 
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