Big Tina

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Big Tina is a level 80 allosaurus city boss. She was born an ursine, but was transformed into an allosaurus after Scolopendra's Nine-Tier Attack. She contracted Vampirism from Miriam Dom, but was cured of the curse after Miriam died.

AI Description

Big Tina – Allosaurus.

Level 80 City Boss.

This mob is Immortalized.

The nine-tier attack shattered the realm. The Over City was devastated. The residents of the Hunting Grounds were transmuted. (All except the High Elves. You should probably ask them about that.) The Semeru Dwarves of the city of Larracos lost everything they’d been working for. Even the celestials and their downstairs neighbors in Sheol found their destinies forever altered that horrible day.

When Big Things happen on such a large scale, it’s easy to forget sometimes that these Big Things are also happening to the little things in the world, too.

Tina was always a meek child, at least in appearance. Her father was a cleric who only saw young Tina for what she was supposed to be, and her mother, while fiercely protective of the child, only saw herself in those big, brown eyes that were always tearing up, or staring out the window, or just watching, watching, watching.

The day Kiwi the ursine discovered her child’s affinity for dance, however, she finally understood what she’d been doing wrong. She saw something too many parents miss. This petite, timid child wasn’t a reflection of herself. She was something much more wondrous. She was an unwritten story, one that could end up anywhere. A story where neither of the parents were the main character.

Kiwi pledged to help Tina realize her dream.

The story of what happened to little Tina the day of the recital has already been told and doesn’t need to be repeated here.

Tina’s time as an allosaurus—and briefly—as an undead-in-training vampiric monstrosity has been an education that not many receive. She barely remembers who she used to be. She barely understands that the persistent group of dinosaurs who follow her around are all the mothers from her village.

She does, however, remember the horror and loss she felt when she realized everything she’d been working for wasn’t going to happen. She also remembers that first spark of rage she felt when she watched her father beat her mother. That spark of helpless, impotent rage has done nothing but grow over the past few centuries.

That rage ain’t so impotent anymore.

Tina’s story is not yet done. Or maybe it is, if you have the balls to try to fight a murderous allosaurus protected by thirty-plus raptors. Or perhaps you might try to reawaken the child within her, and give her what she wants.^[1]

Description

Big Tina is the subject of the quest The Recital on the Sixth Floor concerning frequent and violent attacks by dinosaurs on the local inhabitants of the Hunting Grounds. She is an allosaurus, a large theropod dinosaur from the Earth's Jurassic Period, with a crown, a feather boa, and a wand magically grafted to her body.

Tina is violent with most creatures she encounters, especially ursine.

Her mother Kiwi taught her to dance.

Appearance

She has a wand that casts The Recital, a minor charm that makes people happy and want to take part in her performance.

Gallery

Story

Book 5

Tina was born as an ursine, whose pious and puritanical culture forbade all dancing. A group of mothers secretly taught their children ballet and planned a secret recital for the families of the girls. Tina was the best dancer, though only eight years old, and was going to have a solo performance at the end of the recital. However, her father learned of the recital and interrupted the performance with a group of clerics. Tina's mother, Kiwi, slapped her husband, and he whipped her to the brink of death as punishment. He also pushed Tina aside, hurting her and breaking her magic wand. Before he could proceed to punish all of the parents and children who participated in the recital, Scolopendra's Nine-Tier Attack struck, transforming most of the ursine women into Mongoliensis. Tina was the only child transformed into a dinosaur. Following the transformation, the formerly ursine dinosaurs stayed with Tina, trying to prevent her from wreaking too much havoc.

After Tina contracts Vampirism from Miriam Dom, she goes on a rampage, hunting down every ursine she can find.^[2] The Royal Court of Princess Donut are instructed to either "Kill her or give her what she wants." They initially believe this means they need to help her finish her recital.

Tina's vampirism is cured when Miriam Dom dies, and the Royal Court of Princess Donut manage to recruit Tina and the other Mongoliensis to participate in the talent show at the Butcher's Masquerade. During the performance, Carl realizes that what she really wants is to have her mother back, so they transform Kiwi back into her ursine form, thus completing the quest. Big Tina is transported to the Ninth Floor along with the High Elves' Castle at the end of book 5.