Takos are D&D's octopus-people, except they've only got one eye for whatever reason, and they're not humanoid, they're just octopoid.
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D6 | These takos have |
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1 | vibrant blue rings scattered across their body. |
2 | fleshy "wings" on the sides of their head, like elephant ears. |
3 | a "skirt" of translucent webbing between their tentacles. |
4 | red flesh covered in menacing spikes. |
5 | a cyanotic, pale purple, veiny colouration. |
6 | knobbly, sandy-coloured skin. |
D6 | These takos fight with |
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1 | envenomated blowguns they fire with water-jets on the sides of their heads. |
2 | metal beak-attachments bartered for with deep-sea smiths who forge in the heat of black smokers, grappling with tentacular martial arts to get in range. |
3 | gauntlets they stick on the ends of their tentacles, some equipped with blades, others with piercing spikes, and still others heavy enough to bludgeon through shell and armour. |
4 | slow flails of woven kelp or some other marine fiber, set with sharp teeth and stone shards and suchlike, swung into a simultaneously defending and attacking wreath around their wielder. |
5 | long spears they wrap up in and shove with all their tentacles at once. |
6 | paired glass or shell knives of surpassing sharpness, which they wield in scraping or scissoring maneuvers. |
D6 | These takos can |
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1 | detach a tentacle as a pre-programmed servitor. |
2 | regrow their heads if enough of the rest of their body survives - their minds distributed among their ganglion-nodes. |
3 | see into spectra beyond the human eye's capability to perceive, picking up ultraviolet, infrared, and auras of magic. |
4 | produce from their skin spirals with a hypnotic bioluminescent glow. |
5 | build up tension in their tentacles, and after building enough release a super-heavy, cavitating strike. |
6 | speak with each other over great distances, in a seeming hive-mind, by strumming the ground. |
D6 | These takos are rumoured to |
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1 | be planning to flood the surface world. |
2 | serve gods drowned in primordial times for their inhuman evil. |
3 | create false harbours and lights to mislead sailors. |
4 | shapeshift into humans and seduce people into awfully slimy relations. |
5 | kidnap children who wander too close to the sea, to turn into more of their kind. |
6 | trap the souls of the dead in coconut shells to keep them as ghostly servants. |
D6 | These takos are sought by humans |
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1 | because their beaks are thought to make the best scrapers for shaving and bathhouses. |
2 | because their lush blue ink is treasured for dye and calligraphy. |
3 | because their skins can be worked into armour that provides the ultimate camouflage. |
4 | to receive oracles related to fortunes at sea. |
5 | because poking their eyeball is supposed to grant good luck. |
6 | as mercenaries in naval warfare. |
D6 | These takos live |
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1 | in settlements suspended from the underside of woven kelp-rafts, drifting on ocean gyres and grown over with permacultural microbiomes. |
2 | in silvery mounds of foam blown from the mouthparts of domesticated giant crabs. |
3 | in submarine canyons they roof over and carve habitations into the walls of. |
4 | in warrens dug beneath the biggest and most ancient reefs, selectively bleaching the coral in communicative patterns. |
5 | in a submerged system of caverns and grottoes they've carved over generations with sinuous, interlocked art. |
6 | in scuttle-towns built in the sunken hulks of the ships of their enemies. |
Calling the octopus people Takos was an inspired choice.
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