IT = Insight Threshold. For Underneath.
If Below Insight Threshold, Then Monster Appears as Low Insight Appearance.
UNIVERSAL ENCOUNTERS
d10 | Monster | IT | Low Insight Appearance | Description | What It Does | Injuries |
1 | Suicide Ghost | 3* | Phantom Scream | Pale - Erratic - Splattered - Weeping - Glitching - Swallowing the Gun | Stalks Peripheral Vision - Always Behind You - Angry Scream - Possession, Swallow the Gun - Gunshot - Gore Pollock | Suicide by Gun - Blood Drenching |
2 | Bride of A’aqur | 6* | Twirling Gust | A Face In the Midst of the Gust - A Woman - Hair Whipping and Whirling | She Screams - And Is Gone | Despair |
3 | Hell Hound | 2 | Rapid Dog | Eyes Like Candles In The Dark - Teeth Too Long - It’s Fast | Tears Through Obstacles - Bounds and Leaps - Rips and Tears, and Laughs a Human Laugh - Tracks | Torn Muscles - Bleeding - Paranoia |
4 | Black Obelisk | 5* | Empty Space | Cold To Touch - Jagged - Sharp - Impossible Placed | Frantic Whispering - Grants Insight | Paranoia - Schizophrenia - Psychosis |
5 | A’aqur Cultist | 1* | Stranger | Hoodie - Mask - Strange Wind Chimes - Skin Burned by Nuclear Winds | Erratic Movements - Stalking - Spying | Wind Burns |
6 | A’aqur Cultist Hunter | 7 | Militia Member | Patterns in the Camo - Mask of Wooden Chimes - Hunting Rifle - No Body, Only Wind | Waits An Eternity - Zeros The Field - Takes A Shot - Gone With the Wind | Gunshot - Punctured Arterty - Wind Burns |
7 | Leviathan Agent | 8* | FBI Special Agent | A Man Made of Many Men - Serene Face - Golden Scepter - The All-Powerful State Personified | Photographs - Converses - Interrogates - Arrests - Wields Authority - Command Spells | Bullet Wounds - Legal Action - Forgetfulness |
8 | Hole | 6* | Nothing | Quiet - Deep - Conspicuous - Smooth Edged - Enticing | Pedestrians Crawl In - Nothing Comes Out | Gone - Obsession |
9 | Strange Mist | 2 | Fog | Effervescent - Pooling - Swirling - Strange Lights | Fogs the Windows - Crawls Along Ground - Stains - Lunges - Tendrils | Black Lungs - Noisy Coughing - Blindness |
10 | Vampire | 4 | Rich Old Man | Pale - Elderly - Track Marks - Covered in Red Tubes - Attached at Hip to Drained Youth - Needles in Hands | Lurks - Labored Breathing - Steals the Blood - Steals the Flesh - Attaches It To Itself - He Will Live Forever! - Living Ponzi Scheme | Blood Loss - Liver Disease - HUNGER - Needles In Skin - Stolen Organs |
BEACH ENCOUNTERS
d10 | Monster | IT | Low Insight Appearance | Description | What It Does | Injuries |
1 | Mermaid | 3* | Big Fish | Fish Head - Human Legs - It’s Upset - Very Upset | Lurks in the Tide - Watching - Baiting With Movement - Stalks From Water - Attacks and Drags Separated People | Fish Jaw - Bleeding - Drowning - Bisected |
2 | Siren | 3 | Pretty Women + Sinkhole | Three Beautiful Young Women - They Are The Fingers - The Hand Hides Under Sand | Shouts for Help - Asks for a Lift - Things Go Wrong - Check Out the Water - Eyes - Maw - Hand - Ambush | Eaten - Entranced |
3 | Shambling Flotsam | 2 | Sea Anemone | Smells Like Trash - Shuffles Blindly - Green Seaweeds and Porous Wood - Underneath, Spines Like Anemones | Slowly Moves Around - If Touched, Springs - Floats On Waves | Pain Poison - Rending Bleed - Infection |
4 | Bloated Corpse | 1 | Beached Whale | Ebbs with the Waves - Face In Water - Raisen Skin and Swollen - Smells Like Sewage | Stands Up - It Has No Mouth - It Tries to Scream - Then Explodes | Bone Shrapnel - Infection - Vomiting |
5 | Drowned Ghost | 3* | Trick of the Light | A Dangling Thing - Floating Mid Air - Like Bait on the Line - It Soundlessly Gasps Like a Fish Out of Water | It Floats Serenely - It Twitches This Way Quickly - It Notices - Lungs Fill With Fluid | Drowning - Coughing |
6 | Water Vampire | 4 | Hull Hit Something | Mistaken For Flotsam - Darts Under The Boat With Uncanny Speed | Handle Appears On Bottom of Boat - A Knocking On The Hull - This Door Wasn’t Here - Open and It Floods - Blood in the Water | Drowning - Blood Loss - Vampirism |
7 | Sphere of Annihilation | 5 | Giant Bubble | Black as Pitch - Brownian Moving - Packs of Three | Magnetically Drawn to Things - Swallows Them Whole - Both Gone | Gone - Annihilated Limbs |
8 | Troll | 5 | Huge Black Bear | Too Tall - Cloaked - Strong Flashlight - Sniffs the Air - Quiet as a Mouse | Light Turns Red - It’s Seen You - The Light Freezes You, Like Deer | Broken Bones, Eaten |
9 | Angler | 6* | Dead Fish Pile | Corpses Piled Up - Mass Grave - One of Them’s Fresh - Hand Stuck in the Mass - Dead-Eyed Jaw Terror Just Off Shore | Waits for the Investigator - Springs Like a Snare - Into the Water - Long Teeth | Snared - Bleeding - Amputation - Eaten |
10 | The Elf | 5^ | Water Spirits? | Big Stocky Man - Long Beautiful Hair and Petite Beard - Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Wall | It Moves The Stones - It Moves the Bramble - It Breaks Down the Walls - It Shatters the Wards - Fight or Argue, And It’s Gone. | Increases Empathy - Increases Encounter Chance |
WOODS ENCOUNTERS
d10 | Monster | IT | Low Insight Appearance | Description | What It Does | Injuries |
1 | Unicorn | 3/6** | Unicorn / Cyclopism Deer | It Was a Deer - One Crackling Horn - One Too-Wide Central Eye - It Stares - Something Crawls Inside The Eye | Spells Have No Power Here - Crescendo Screams: “BwaaaaAAAAAAHHHH!!” - The Thing Comes Crawling Out Of The Eye - It Flees | Horn-Gored - Cyclopism, Then Death - Magical Feedback |
2 | Meat Grinder | 5 | Falling Tree | Something Feels Off - There’s Something Ahead - You See Nothing | Invisible Until Entered - Like a Mini Supernova - Spins Things Around Mid Air Until Thrown Apart | Gravitationally Annihilated - Motion Sickness |
3 | Webs | 3 | Spider Webs | Grey Fuzzy Material - Lattices - Perforates the Corners Like It’s Hiding - Drapes From Trees Like Old Curtains | On Contact, Hissing - On Contact, Burning | You’re Fine For Three Days, Then Sudden Death. |
4 | Vortex | 3 | Swamp Gas | Unnatural Swirling, Erratic Motions, Kidpix Alteration on Reality | Gravitates - Lunges - Shakes like a marble in a jar. | Lost in Time and Space - Shrapnel Wound - Swirling |
5 | Most Dangerous Game | 8 | Crazed Hunter Wearing Deerskin | The Deer Has a Gun - The Eyes Black Holes - Moves Like a Chinese Dragon - The Skin Bulges and Writhes - Smells Like Fresh Death | From One Eye a Rifle Slowly Emerges - CRACK - The Hunt Is On! | Gore - Gunshot Wound |
6 | Crawling Mold | 2 | Elder Muskrat | Veins in the Walls - Pounding Heartbeat - Flesh Moss | Swells - Ebs - Polyps - Crawls - Squirts Lymph | Arrhythmia - Polyping Flesh - Explosion |
7 | Moon Wasp | 4 | Knife Drone | Wasp-Buzzing - Mirror Laden - Dark Aperture, Uncanny Mathematical Movements - Glint on the Sun - Cackling Mandibles | Comes from over the treetops - Hovers, watching - Uncanny agility - Kamikazes-Dives | Lacerations - Infected Wounds - Bleeding - Social Media Exposure |
8 | Mad Horse | 1 | Panicking Horse | Whinnying - Kicking, Jumping - Twisted Face - Exposed Teeth and Tongue - Mad Eyes | It Knows Too Much - Evil Eye - Charges - Kicks and Bites - Swallows Whole | Swallowed - Broken Bones - Distended Jaw - Vore Obsession |
9 | Bog Mouths | 7* | Red Pitcher Plants | Whispering In The Air - Louder and Louder - From The Ground Red Lips - Teeth On The End of a Disgusting Tube | Bites If Tempted - Mimicries Helpless Human - Groups Lunge and Bite Like Lampreys - Spits Acid | Dissolved - Bleeding Bite |
10 | The Elf | 5^ | Tree Spirits? | Big Stocky Man - Long Beautiful Hair and Petite Beard - Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Wall | It Moves The Stones - It Moves the Bramble - It Breaks Down the Walls - It Shatters the Wards - Fight or Argue, And It’s Gone. | Increases Empathy - Increases Encounter Chance |
TOWN ENCOUNTERS
d10 | Monster | IT | Low Insight Appearance | Description | What It Does | Injuries |
1 | Good Neighbor | 7^ | Friendly Neighbor | Voice From The Other Side of the Fence, The Door - A Man, Like Your Dad - It Cannot Be Seen | It Asks Questions - “How Was Your Day?” - “Fine Weather, Isn’t It?” - “Say, Do You Mind If I Borrow Your Hedge Trimmer?” | Reduces Empathy - Reduces Encounter Chance - Permanently Closes Shops |
2 | Unmarked Van | 3 | Child Kidnappers | White Exterior - No License Plate - Rooftop Spinning Camera - Unpiloted - Strong Sputtering. | Idles - Stops - Stalks - Idles Again - Van Doors Fly Open Into Vacuum Void. | Lost in Time and Space - Crushed Bones - Broken Ribs. |
3 | Anonymous Police | 5 | Federal Police | Riot Gear - Sunglasses - No ID - Incomprehensible Speech - Armored Vehicles With Strange Machines - Tear Gas Haze | Blocks Road - Clouds of Gas - Sonic Weapon - Loiterers Get Shot - Blockade Runners Get Lethal Force | Concussion - Abduction - Broken Bones - Blindness - Deafness - Mind Scrambling |
4 | Corona Extractor | 1 | Junkie | Pale Face - No Pupils - Long Needles and Tubes | Finds the Fresh Corpses - Finds the Incapacitated - Stoops Low - Needle in the Eye - Collect the Liquids | Blindness - Addiction - Stigmata |
5 | Stalker | 0 | - | Uncanny Mask - Phone Snapshots - Leaning on Corners - White Rag in Hand | Follows - Keeps Distance - Ambush Isolated Members - Chloroform from Behind - Frantic Apologies During Assault | Abduction - Unconsciousness - Broken Nose |
6 | Glitcher | 4 | Meth Head | Static Laden - Impossibly Fast - Twitchy Textures - Frictionless - Infinite Rotational Energy | Clips Through Walls - Teleports - Feedback Screech - Spreads the Glitch - It Tries to Speak, To Warn | Glitching - Broken Record - Fall Under The Kill Plane |
7 | Rocket Man | 7 | Suicidal Fresh Driver | Engine Screaming - 120 mph in 30 mph Zone - Full Throttle No Brakes - Being of Pure Light | Doppler Driveby - Rocket Sleds Into Tree/House/Crowd - Crash and Burn - Absolutely Nothing Left | Need For Speed - Shrapnel |
8 | Crawling Lightning | 5 | Downed Power Line | Thunder In the Distance - Lightning Crawls the Ground | Move Or Die - It Moves Randomly - Animals Scream As They Die In Its Path | Lightning Shock - Screaming - PTSD |
9 | Ghoul | 3 | Escaped Mental Patient | Lumbering Gait - Heavy Breathing - Flash of Teeth - Eyes Like Saucers - Blood, Blood. | Sniffs - Drools - Screams - Charges and Bites. | Paralysis - Bleeding - Blood Sepsis - Deep Hunger. |
10 | Specular | 6^ | Black Cat | Eyes Big As Saucers - Black Withered Flesh - Shivering - Squelching - Hungry | Sits In The Middle of the Path - Watches - Watches - Hisses and Shrieks - Cowers Off | Ocular Enlargement - Bad Luck |
*Will not interact or attack characters below its IT threshold.
**The Unicorn has multiple Insight Thresholds.
^Generally non-hostile.
This is glorious. I would be remiss if I didn’t appreciate the Black Obelisk.
ReplyDeleteOne of these days I really ought to read up on the source material for it. I think I've only encountered black obelisks in media as references to the original.
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