Otis Brunkel

Otis Brunkel was a halfling blood hunter affiliated with The Tombtakers.

Description
Otis is a female halfling, who goes by all pronouns, with wild hair, dressed in darker leather armor, with a crossbow at their side. Their expression is a bit gaunt and sallow.

Before Campaign 2
Otis Brunkel was originally from Trostenwald in the Dwendalian Empire, a place he felt was "a fucking dump". He became a blood hunter of the Claret Orders out of boredom. He ultimately left the organization for Shadycreek Run with Lucien and Cree Deeproots, who felt that the Orders were "clouded" in their path. There, in about 829 or 830 PD, they formed the Tombtakers and worked out of the city as mercenaries, performing work ranging from theft to bodyguarding.

The Tombtakers were also hired for a number of expeditions into the ruins of Molaesmyr and other locations; on at least one expedition, they encountered hags and made it to the tower of Caes Mosor. Vess DeRogna hired them to accompany her on expeditions, and the Tombtakers accompanied her to the ruins of Aeor in Eiselcross and to the exterior of Molaesmyr.

In 833 PD, two years before Campaign 2, Lucien sought to go Aeor's Cognouza Ward, now in the Astral Sea. He contacted Vess to perform a ritual, but she instead sabotaged it to kill him. Having been told by Vess that it would be difficult to tell if the ritual succeeded, the Tombtakers waited until dawn. With no change in Lucien's condition, they followed Lucien's instructions to get rid of any trace of the ritual should it go wrong and buried him near their hideout. The group then disbanded. Otis either remained in or subsequently returned to Shadycreek Run, and she was still there in 835 PD.

Campaign 2: The Mighty Nein
Otis is first mentioned in the campaign after Mollymauk Tealeaf, who came to inhabit Lucien's body, met Cree in Zadash in 835 PD. Cree said that Otis, like the others, had scattered. Several months later, in 836 PD, Otis and the other Tombtakers gathered at Mollymauk's grave on the Glory Run Road to resurrect Lucien into the body.

Otis followed Lucien to Eiselcross to collect threshold crests from various Aeorian ruins; Lucien hoped to use them to bring the Cognouza Ward from the Astral Sea into Exandria. She was present during the entire the expedition to Aeor proper. While the Mighty Nein were forced to travel with the Tombtakers, she initially bonded with Veth Brenatto, but the relationship quickly soured when Veth tried and failed to cast Phantasmal Force on Otis while the group crossed a river of lava. This developed into running hostility where Veth began actively trying to kill Otis whenever possible.

As the Tombtakers rappelled into the ruins of Aeor, Otis was incapacitated by a trap set by the Nein and fell around seventy feet into a second trap of three intuit charges. They were unconscious when the Nein found them, and they were killed by a crossbow bolt through the mouth by Veth. They were subsequently decapitated so that Caduceus Clay could have it as a possible target for Speak with Dead.

Notable items

 * Magical light crossbow, taken by the Mighty Nein

Lightfoot halfling abilities

 * Can hide behind a creature one size larger (i.e., medium and up)

Eldritch Invocations
It is possible to gain Eldritch Invocations either with Warlock levels or, in some cases, with the Eldritch Adept feat.
 * Grasp of Hadar

Blood hunter abilities

 * Blood Hunter Order: Order of the Profane Soul
 * At 3rd level Otis would have made a bargain with an otherworldly patron and was given access to Warlock spells.
 * Crimson Rite (1d6)
 * Primal Rite: Rite of the Storm
 * Mystic Frenzy

Cantrips

 * Eldritch Blast

3rd-level

 * Counterspell

Appearances and mentions

 * Campaign 2

Trivia

 * In, Cree says that Otis is among the Tombtakers who scattered across the Dwendalian Empire. However, Matt's notes say that Otis was in Shadycreek Run, which is in the Greying Wildlands.