Sunday, October 25, 2020

Encounters of Summer's End


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

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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.

2 comments:

  1. This is glorious. I would be remiss if I didn’t appreciate the Black Obelisk.

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    1. One 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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