Bat Powers - Batty is indeed a straight up bat. He's larger than typical for a little black or brown bat, of course but that's also partly due to the fact that he's a plush bat. Not an animated toy oh heavens no, he's a bat that is also plush. Right? So his physical abilities still tend to be in line with what most bats can do.
-- Flight, he can fly superbly well, for very long distances, and in virtually any weather or climate conditions, including full darkness, broad daylight, blizzard-level winds, hard rain, thick fog, sweltering heat haze, dust storms, magical storms, firefights, volcanic gasses, Blaseball games, Portal Storms, asteroid storms, cosmic ray events, and light breezes
-- Ultrasonic Communication, bats can use their voice to bounce sound waves off their surroundings and hear the results in perfect clarity, and Batty takes that to a new level of refinement. He can hear both ultra- and sub-sonic wavelengths, though he produces only the highest end. He can make himself understood in class even if a person is hard of hearing, can't hear, or is out of sync with the dimensional vibrations, and delivers speeches in the Speaker's Square that can be heard up into the dragonry tower as clearly as sitting in the front row. While he can and has weaponized this voice of his, he knows better than to use it for anything other than good causes, but he can shatter glass, vibrate loose bolts into falling out of place, disrupt other sonic abilities including magical ones, and talk in different ultrasonic/subsonic languages (whalesong, hummingbird, bat, dolphin) and using his vibratory refinement is able to jostle the molecules around humanoid-level ears to speak in English
-- Potentially Immortal, no one's ever really needed to raise a weapon around him, first because he's 'just a bat', but second because he can give reason not to. However, he hasn't aged in quite some time, shows no signs of slowing down, after all the normal lifespan of these bat breeds is around 30 years. (that said, bats live a ridiculously long time compared to other similar mammals...) Batty seems to have been through virtually every modern war, cataclysmic event, and dimensional contact

Interesting Bat Powers - He's also a gifted performer, chef, inventor, diplomat, historian, and more. How does he do it? That's a secret. It's also a 10 point Cluster of skills...

Cooking +10 This is and has always been his forte. He loves collecting ingredients from wildly different cultures and parts of the world - or other worlds - to put them together in fascinating and tasty ways. He taught a thing or two to Julia Childs, he's shown Guichon how to perfectly balance a chocolate skyscraper model, and he's taking hot sauces and curries to the next level well beyond anything that Hot Wings might endure

Exploring +7 In flight, diving into the sea, scouring the land, he's remarkably adept. He has a flawless memory for locations, and can spot differences from one night to the next which definitely aids his detective skills. He'll find the right landing place, knows how weather conditions affect the flight path, basically any way that flight might be changed or enhanced, he knows how to use it to get wherever he's needed

Teaching +5 When you get into a class with Batty it's going to be both a roller coaster of learning and a memorable cornerstone of your student life. He can easily convey things, even though most normal humanoids cannot even hear his voice

Singing +3 Though all of his communication skills are amazing, he can also sing and compose beautiful ballads and tunes. His specialty obviously is with ultrasonic composition, and with an influx of non-human students who have both the capacity and the desire to sing in such a register, he's been tapped for it. Early morning voices that aren't interrupting the bulk of the local listeners? Excellent!

Amenable To Let Others Do Their Thing +5 he won't just come up and hog the spotlight, rather he enjoys watching those who've learned something interesting and new show off their stuff!

Plush Whisperer +5 You might think that he's a little sus when he starts cozying up to your backpack danglies and plush toys, but he can in fact communicate with them. Lending a little more credence to him being slightly different in biology than most, but still he doesn't seem to have seams...

Got A Story For That +5 He tends to tell very specific stories where needed, to illustrate a point or capture attention just long enough to start a lesson that not everyone is on board with. Knowing how to engage students is something that he can and has taught to other instructors who face problem students or have trouble formulating the right methods to get everyone on the same page

This pair of 'Black' and 'Midnight' Batty-Squirrels are right around the same size as their companion Batty himself, though their tails do make them much longer nose-to-tail. While smart enough to help out in the Tincture Kitchen, they do need to be trained and reinforced to not just deposit bunches of mouth-wet items onto a customer's table... Wash them first!

Charcoal (left) is male, and tends to bring fresh sprouted herbs directly to the kitchen from the garden, while Aroma (right) is female, and will eagerly pick flowers and sprigs for table garnish.

Name: Peppercorn
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: small, 6'6" shoulder, 12' nose to tail tip, 20' wingspan
Colors: white with heavy grains of black shaken all over!
Features: Moth Dragon as shown, four legs (hard to see among the floof and markings) with delicate claws, moth-like wings with hands at wrist area; very large antennae, very much floof, and a broad bird-like tail; does not require bond, prefers to flock
Powers: Winged Flight, almost always in the air, but more confident in dim lighting or moonlit areas; while she isn't going to be lifting and carrying very heavy weights, she can still hold Batty as well as all the other small woodland-Kind types around for short distances. She can balance stacks of plates and dishes with foods to their intended diners, though usually someone else will offload them unless she's headed up into the canopy and hanging garden platforms, people can take their plates off her lush back in that case! Don't her wings get in the way? Well, no,
Communication, speaks in squeaks and purrs, but is sapient with a primarily scent-based communication system relying on pheromones, both picked up by her delicate antannae. She and Batty can have some very animated discussions, which are only audible for those who have ultrasonic hearing, but he will also leave 'post-it notes' in the form of drops of specially-created scents that somehow he's learned how to create
Edible Wing Scales, The powder that lines the scales of its wings can be harvested. This one's powder tastes strikingly like pepper. somehow Peppercorn manages to actually fly overhead in the outdoor dining areas and precisely use her wingbeats to provide just the perfect amount of 'fresh pepper' for your plate
Parentage: unknown, unrelated to others
Origin: Dray's Adoptions, art by Dray for Autumn 2024 giveaway
Other Info: A bit shy and what might be called 'flighty', Peppercorn prefers to remain in the shadows or behind the scenes rather than being a presenter of dishes. Her skills are in accenting flavor, and her pheromone detection is bar-none.