Chip

At a glance

Carver’s catlike Eldritch Cannon, a spectral feline summoned from the Shroud and formed through a ritual involving remnants of the treant-like creature and the spirit of a lost friend.

Portrait

• Primary reference: Chip Portrait
• Canonical status: Visual baseline for Chip’s wholly spectral feline appearance.

Known facts

• Created at Richten House after Carver became an Artillerist.
• Incorporates a spirit associated with one of Carver’s lost friends.
• Appears as a translucent blue-white cat spirit whose body dissolves into curling Shroud mist.
• Moves in visibly unnatural ways.
• Answered “Chip” when asked its name.
• Carver experienced an unfamiliar sensation during its creation.
• Chased mice during the party’s last cold night in Rivalis.
• Helped destroy Castle Avernus’s crowned giant with fire.
• Brought down the flesh-built abomination in the slaughterhouse with fire and force.
• Blasted a construct from Castle Avernus’s battlement and helped defeat the four elemental trials below the treasury.
• Burned the skeletal guardians in Castle Avernus’s crypts and destroyed the final bone dog during the resumed battle below.
• Fired a force ballista into the bone golem and helped Carver destroy it with flamethrower fire.

Nature

Chip is the narrative form of Carver’s Eldritch Cannon. Its exact configuration, magical output, duration, and reconstruction follow Carver’s class abilities unless the campaign establishes otherwise.

Open questions

• What spirit answered Carver’s creation ritual?
• How much memory or personality does Chip possess?
• What caused Carver’s strange sensation during the ritual?

Related sessions

• Session 8
• Session 11
• Session 12
• Session 13
• Session 14
• Session 15
• Session 16
• Session 17

Gallery

• Carver Portrait — Chip perches weightlessly on Carver’s shoulder, establishing their relative scale.
• Chip, It Answered — Chip takes shape from the Shroud and speaks his name.
• The First Fruits of Advancement — Chip perches on Carver’s shoulder as the party displays its new abilities.
• The Pale Lantern Will Not Burn — Chip waits with Carver outside the lounge during Rage’s attempted arson.
• One Dead, One Taken — Chip attacks as Carver restores Ignatius in the alley.
• Hundreds of Talons — Chip watches from Carver’s shoulder during the Keepers’ initiation.
• The Heckler Takes Wing — Chip remains with Carver as the street heckler transforms.
• Ride Through the Dead — Chip projects force from the side of the fleeing coach.
• Mercy Born of Fear — Chip watches while Carver treats Buddy.
• Battle Within the Shroud — Chip’s Force Ballista brings down the horned skeleton.
• The Shroud Takes Rivalis — Chip accompanies Carver as the party finds Rivalis half-consumed.
• What Rose in the Slaughterhouse — Chip pours spectral flame across the flesh-built abomination.
• Rage Loots the Treasury — Chip glows against Carver while Rage empties the treasury into the Bag of Holding.
• Chip Brings Down the Bone Golem — Chip stands beside Carver and releases the decisive Flamethrower.
• Snowmane Approaches the River Dancer — Chip perches beside Carver during Snowmane’s entrance aboard the River Dancer.