Crusty Bucket

[Phaeton]

Crusty Bucket

In the eastern rolling hills and sparse trees bordering Old Ashberg, the spring green grass is disrupted on the largest hill with the dead footprint of a rusted, filthy, old metal bucket. To the layman it's just abandoned trash. To those sensitive to the supernatural, the bucket radiates a thick and unsettling energy.

The natural green is otherwise disrupted by hundreds of round white puffy bipedal creatures referred to as "milde". They are sentient and a small number of them do communicate with visitors, the remainder speak a language unique to their species. Often times they can be seen wandering about Old Ashberg as workers and laborers.

Phaeton's note scraps:

On the bucket:
"Early observations:
1. The bucket loves puns. This is a warning. Avoid instances like "kicking the bucket." Too many have died doing this.
2. The bucket is content to watch senseless violence. So much that occasionally it will spawn hostile creatures or being, especially if no milde are present on the hill.
3. The bucket is PARANOID and ruthless, don't attack it needlessly. I think this ties into observation #1.
4. The bucket can be very vengeful. For having no obvious observational ability, it seems to be entirely capable of targeting and designating targets for things it creates.
5. The bucket is bottomless, you can drop anything into it and potentially lose it forever. It doesn't seem to resent being used as a waste disposal, but certain types of waste may trigger events from observations #3 and #4. Just, just don't use it as a toilet. You will put yourself and everyone around you in dire jeopardy.
6. The bucket is likely omnipotent. As much as it seems bottomless in consumption of lost or disposed of objects, it seems to have an infinite capacity to create objects and living things.

Before you ask, NO I am not going to attempt to remove it. This will tie into observation #3."


On the bucket #2:
"The bucket was once the spiritual prison of a supremely powerful elven wizard. Since his escape, the bucket retains much of its immeasurable power. Without the presence of the wizard, the bucket seems to lack any cognitive direction. It is hard to suggest that the bucket is dead or unaware of its surroundings however."

On the bucket #3:
"We used to empty this thing regularly. "We" being primarily me, my brother, and eventually my father. Something would come out of it when we did, "something" being really just about anything. Usually nothing immediately dangerous comes from emptying it as long as it isn't done too frequently. Still, if you attempt this be prepared to run."

On the Milde:
"Milde are on average 1.5 to 2 feet in diameter. They have stubby arms that they tuck in and enough working digits to almost anything human hands can. They are white, squishy, and have beady little eyes. A large enough group of them makes the hill look like it has snow cover from far away. I could swear I've seen these things elsewhere but I can't quite pinpoint it.

Either way, these ones are home grown, or uh... bucket grown. Some of them. I don't know if they reproduce on their own, but considering how quickly they multiplied in the early days, it seems likely. They are usually passive but they aren't docile. They can be very dangerous if threatened. Common defense mechanisms are them rolling at high speeds and "cannonball-ing" into enemies. They can also conduct electricity, with larger numbers putting out very high electrical charges."

On the Milde#2:
"Fluffy, the first milde to emerge from the bucket, seems to keep track of the rest of his kind and act as a social leader to them. According to him, they are 1600 strong. I'll take his word for it since they are far too sparse and many to do a running headcount."

On the Milde#3:
"There is a very large milde, giant even. The rest refer to it as the "Negamilde". Estimates put it at 40 to 45 feet in diameter. Unlike the regular milde who tend to have a high pitched soft voice, the negamilde has a very deep basal voice that shakes the ground within 5 feet of it."