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She dwelt in a slow-moving stream, alone in the area except for animals. She lived quite peacefully, in tune with the animals around her, and she also developed a fledgling capability for divine magic, including an ability to heal creatures near her, though it required taking their wounds into her own body. The divine power also clouded her vision. Goldslip actually sees quite clearly, even in darkness, but only for a short distance. Beyond that is nothing but grey clouds.

One day, something came downstream to her home which she could not put off by trickery or by charm. A kind of monstrous aquatic vermin attacked and killed several fish nearby and then attacked Goldslip herself.

In the end, Goldslip survived the attack (largely thanks to the durability all fey enjoy against physical attacks not delivered by weapons fashioned from cold iron). Through the wounds it gave her, the vermin passed to her its own mutation, which resulted in an extremely quick rate of natural healing. The mutation didn't come without a downside, however--though she heals wounds quickly, her body seems now more fragile when it comes to other kinds of assaults on her health: poison, disease, and some magical effects.

Desiring to know from where this mutated vermin had come, Goldslip swam upstream, farther than she ever had reason to travel before (which was really not very large a distance). Eventually, her stream went underground, and then she found herself in a flooded chamber in the Dungeon of Last Hill, though Goldslip did not know the place was so named.

"What brings a little fey creature like you to my demesne?" a female voice rang out in the chamber. Goldslip turned this way and that but could not see the source of the voice. Perhaps it was past the edge of her clouded vision. And it was hard to know what direction to look because of the way sounds echoed about in here.

"My home is downstream of here...a strange kind of vermin attacked my home and me, and I came upstream looking for its source," Goldslip replied meekly.

"And if you have found its source," the female voice continued, "what now is your aim?"

The nixie stuttered a bit, not having really thought that far ahead. "W-w-well, um...I guess I want to make sure that more of them won't kill more of my fish or attack me again."

"Very well," replied the female voice. "I can satisfy your goals, but you will do something for me in return."

And she can't deny that it is entertaining to bewitch or otherwise trick the adventuring intruders in her master's dungeon. Goldslip really doesn't have the stomach for killing them herself (unless they attack her first), but she's had to learn to look the other way while the other denizens of the dungeon finish them off.

She might not have known it, but Goldslip was lonely in her original home in that stream. Fish in the water and rodents on the shore don't make for much in the way of real companionship. That's a big part of why she has been content to live in the dungeon as the wizard demanded of her--as she has come to know the sapient creatures that also live here, she has gained friends for the first time in her life.

Goldslip is a playful creature, as much as she can be (when she isn't engaged in fighting intruders). She loves to leap from the water and flip in the air before diving back down (think dolphins). She also collects disused shells which she keeps in a bag. This was mostly the shells of creatures like freshwater clams, mussels, and some snails. Since coming to the dungeon, her collection has grown most from the shed exoskeletons of various aquatic vermin.

If Goldslip comes to some kind of position of leadership or authority in the dungeon, she will likely push for more active management of the lower aquatic creatures--introducing more species, etc., becoming something of a shepherd of aquatic creatures.

We will have to see whether she leans toward more friendly/merciful dealings with outsiders or really dive into predatory activities; her direction on this will be very strongly influenced by the other characters.