Lute Bagpipe

Lute Bagpipe is a living gnome trapped and melted into an amalgamation of bagpipes and horns. His rancid and selfish attitude made him one of the least loved members of the B-Team.

Description
Lute Bagpipe's form disallowed him from normal movement, he was restricted to crawling after his accident. Despite all this, he served as an excellent tinkerer. His gun was a construction of his own design. Sadly, it broke near completion. But his skills also served in times where manipulation was necessary.

Kevin took a liking towards Lute Bagpipe during the B-Team, he was one of the few who respected him. Baseball Boye still maintained a connection to Lute Bagpipe after the events of the B-Team.

Appearance
After his accident, Lute Bagpipe had the appearance of an amalgamation of horns and bagpipes. One horn, jutting out from the "front" of the bagpipe, serves as Lute Bagpipe's eye hole, for seeing. Two flute-like tubes on the back seem to serve no mechanical purpose, but some sources suggest otherwise. A horn emitting from the top of the bagpipe functions as Lute Bagpipe's gun; however, before his gun, it was once straight and it served as a hole for his magical hand to emit from.

Damage done to Lute Bagpipe's bagpipe has revealed that a fleshy membrane rests under the thin cloth. The arrangement of organs and flesh within Lute Bagpipe is unknown.

Abilities
Lute Bagpipe utilized a deep, dark magic to immorally persuade others to do his bidding. And, despite his disabilities, he was able to throw daggers at enemies. His gun proves effective in combat due to its great ranged potential. His vast array of spells also assisted in his usefulness to the B-Team.

History
Lute Bagpipe, before his fateful accident, was called Crundlesongs. Crundlesongs was a famous performer to gnomekind, but after an assassination attempt, he was melted into an instrumental husk. After some time, he was then taken by Zencoria Verthisathurgiesh to serve as her instrument of choice.

During the B-Team, Lute Bagpipe helped the group defeat various enemies of questionable strength: like a Red Dragon and The Bone Devil. Much of the party disliked him throughout the campaign.

Between the B-Team and the C-Team, Lute Bagpipe amassed the fortune to purchase what is now Lute Bagpipe's Mansion, where he lives alone (except for the five years he was with Jee-Mee). During these 70 years, Lute Bagpipe took Kevin as an apprentice for magics. Later, however, Kevin betrayed Lute Bagpipe in the pursuit for dark, necromantic, lich-magics.

Since the start of C-Team, Lute Bagpipe waits in his mansion for Jee-Mee to return with a cure for his broken and disgusting body.

Trivia

 * Lute Bagpipe had a rat, named Nibbles, in his pipes for a good portion of the B-Team, which later came out as a skeleton.
 * Lute Bagpipe is a main factor for Kevin's ascent into lich-hood.
 * After the accident, Lute Bagpipe became unable to procreate (or have sex in general).
 * Lute Bagpipe abducted a human child, Jimmy. He accompanied the B-Team on many adventures until his death.