The Infamous (In-Famous?) Ice Cube Monster.

There was a time where Peter and Grayson encountered the “Ice Cube Monster” back in Episode 07: Things That Make You Go… Boom?

Well, Karen, who voiced Lady Lorraine, was telling me how her son (now a young man!) named Pierce, who voiced Conner the Chef – both of them appearing in Episode 16: Dessert City – has recently joined his friend D&D Campaign.

Well, here’s what she wrote:

Pierce has joined his friend’s new campaign and is super excited. Lol he also wants me to share his backstory with you because you and NEN is his inspiration for how he ended up in Barovia 

She sent me the back story – and I immediately asked if it was OK if I posted it here… because it’s tied to the aforementioned Ice Cube Monster. Here’s Pierce’s character back story:

For Alain’s final, last-ditch effort to prove a theory of theirs, they hire a team of adventurers and capture a Gelatinous Cube and test if the environment would change the effects it had. Rumors of similar creatures that froze their prey in their acidic body before devouring them spurred the thought behind this experiment. If they were to be believed, then these were the same creatures, just in separate climates. The question became, “Did they evolve separately, or did they adapt to store their prey for longer due to the sparse landscape? Does the allergy to salt really manifest in such a violent manner?” Alain set off with the first team of adventurers who decided they were bored, interested, or desperate enough to transport a live hostile monster from a dungeon in the south to the wilderness of the far cold north.

After months of grueling travel and keeping the damn cube alive, they made it and began the experiment. Going to sleep on the second day, a strange mist rolled over the camp, and Alain awoke in somewhere much much warmer than before.

What I love is – this isn’t the first time Pierce has brought up the Ice Cube Monster. He mentioned it last year too in a post I shared here.

Stuff like this makes my heart so happy. <3

• Tawmis