{"id":859,"date":"2008-11-21T13:10:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T18:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/?p=859"},"modified":"2008-11-21T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T18:18:13","slug":"crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/crow","title":{"rendered":"Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/gallery\/halloween2008\/crow-the-brigand.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align='left' hspace='12' vspace='0' border='0' src=\"\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2008\/11\/crow-card.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Crow - Brigand of the Empire\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-860\" \/><\/a><br \/>Empty sockets stare out across the field as it smiles, madly gaping at anyone who&#8217;ll meet its gaze.  Its jaws chew the air and make a scraping sound like a carnival barker.<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #F7E4A1\">&#8220;Sstep right up, ladiess and gentlemen!  It&#8217;ss the ride of a lifetime!<\/p>\n<p>Terror, fire, extinction!<\/p>\n<p>Sso much fun, a feasst for you!  Who?  Who will ride?  You?  Yess?  Yessss!  The cosst is jusst one, thin sssssoul!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was exposed to my first &#8220;brigand&#8221; in 1982 while playing the best board game ever invented called <strong><em><a class=\"linkgold\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hotflashgames.com\/darktower.htm\">Dark Tower<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.  If your party is weak, count on a band of brigands to finish them off.  Nasty creatures.  Always trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Crow is a brigand.  We couldn&#8217;t really call him a scarecrow.  In fact, all the new monsters that stomped around Snug Harbor this year are in the same group.  I don&#8217;t really understand the urge to classify these oversized spit wads, and the distinction doesn&#8217;t really mean anything except in my mind, but it feels right.<\/p>\n<p>Brigand, thief, highwayman.  Get mixed up with one of them and it&#8217;ll burgle all your free time.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"linkgold\" href=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/gallery\/halloween2008\/crow-the-brigand.htm\">Crow&#8217;s Gallery<\/a> (Build instructions are on their way)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empty sockets stare out across the field as it smiles, madly gaping at anyone who&#8217;ll meet its gaze. Its jaws chew the air and make a scraping sound like a carnival barker. &#8220;Sstep right up, ladiess and gentlemen! It&#8217;ss the ride of a lifetime! Terror, fire, extinction! Sso much fun, a feasst for you! Who? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[86,89,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}