Meringue

Meringue is a little egg, aware and friendly inside her shell. One day she'll hatch into something, but until then she needs to be kept warm and protected from getting squished.

"She's wiggling again."
Meringue can sense when invisible, magical, and concealed things are near and wiggles in response. She doesn't need eyes to help her friends.

"Hey, is that a crack?"
Meringue starts with a d30 usage die. Roll every time she detects something. When the die is depleted she hatches into a…

1 Duck
2 Goose
3 Swallow
4 Kestrel
5 Falcon
6 Owl
7 Hummingbird
8 Heron
9 Cormorant
10 Kingfisher
11 Sandpiper
12 Kiwi
13 Cassowary
14 Velociraptor
15 Ankylosaurus
16 Caiman
17 Iguana
18 Gecko
19 Tortoise
20 Rat snake
21 Python
22 Stick bug
23 Stag beetle
24 Preying mantis
25 Jumping spider
26 Fly
27 Dragonfly
28 Moth
29 Bumblebee
30 Wasp

If you roll an insect, roll a d8 to see if she's:
1-3 Normal-sized
4-5 Cat-sized
6 Dog-sized
7 Human-sized
8 Horse-sized

Tiny Coffins Challenge: July

 Welcome back! This month's prompt is:

"disguises, sacrifice, and a snare drawing closed"

I have a lot of memories of my dad getting bit by snakes. When I was little we'd go on family hikes in the woods and I'd catch animals along the way. Mostly toads, turtles, and bugs. The only snakes I was allowed to catch were garter snakes, because they're not likely to bite and are easy for a kid to identify. Dad would catch all the rest. He'd scramble down a river bank and come back up with a water snake wrapped around his arm and its teeth sunk into his finger, then tell me how its anticoagulant saliva worked. There are lots of local species I've only been able to see up close because he was willing to get bit, scratched, or stung in order to catch and bring them to me. Thanks dad.