Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Grick Crocarillo

Grick Crocadillo has an unusual but extremely reliable way of catching the Blood Bowl ball. When a pass is thrown his way, this tiny skink simply opens his over-sized maw and swallows the ball.

"They want take ball from me, they got to tear open me belly," he says, his yellow reptilian eyes narrowing. "Me no drop no ball. Never."

The sure-mouthed technique was born during that legendary and embarrassing match when all of the Crocfins, save one, were murdered in a single game. When the team's starting thrower, Croco Lemon was decapitated by a dwarven forearm to end the match, Crocarillo--a spectator at the time--caught the severed head in his mouth on the sidelines, and ran away from the the entire Dwarven team. Once he reached safety, he regurgitated the head at the feet of then Crocfin coach, Sham Shameron, and Lemon's skull remains on display today as a reminder that Crocfin pride survived even in the face of overwhelming adversity.

Though Shameron was spit-barecued and eaten alive by the Crocfin fans later that day, Crocarillo's feat impressed new GM Belly Parkles enough to win the skink a place on the new Crocfin squad.

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