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Pustule

Hobgobs and Boom Sticks

A cheerfully unhinged level-30 hobgoblin explosives merchant destined to become Carl's regular bomb supplier.

Story so far

Pustule is a level-30 hobgoblin who runs the 'Hobgobs and Boom Sticks' booth in the Desperado Club's Silk Road market — the first living hobgoblin Carl has met, and, per Mordecai, someone they'll be seeing a lot of. Six feet of muscle 'clobbered by the ugly stick,' with a bubbling black-green facial sore, a unicorn graphic tee, and a rot-and-sickness smell, she has surprisingly keen hearing (catching Donut's insults from 50 paces) and an unsettling, non-sequitur streak of crazy (she references her mother biting the head off a 'vorpal muskrat'). She sells goblin and hobgoblin dynamite, claymore-like mines, and round Hob-Lobber bombs; she licked Carl's Boom-Jug to appraise it at ~7,500 gold and coached him on cheaper accelerants.

Princess Donut haggled her down to 1,000 gold for a lot of bombs and promised return business — and smoke curtains next time.

Appearance

A six-foot muscular hobgoblin, exceptionally ugly, with a bubbling black-and-green open sore on her cheek oozing onto a threadbare pink unicorn tee; smells of rot and sickness; a surprisingly feminine voice.

Role

Carl's go-to explosives merchant — crude, crazy, and shrewd.

Relationships

Carl — His new explosives supplier, who appraised his boom jugs and advised on cheaper builds.
Princess Donut — Haggled her prices down and courted her as a long-term friend and vendor.
Hob-Lobber — Among the round bombs she sells to Carl.
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Chapter 16
  • A cheerfully unhinged level-30 hobgoblin explosives merchant destined to become Carl's regular bomb supplier.
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LVL 30
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