Wednesday, May 7, 2025

D6x6 Subtle Svirfneblins

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D6These svirfneblins are
1pale and potbellied, with thin and rubbery-cartilaginous limbs - they move through the tight spaces of the underworld by wrapping themselves up and rolling.
2utterly veinous, with blood so darkly crimson it's nearly black, and are flattened front-to-back like a planarian.
3frightfully spindlesome, with many-jointed limbs and digits, and glassly translucent bodies.
4loosely- and wrinkly-skinned, with long buck teeth and vellum-thin skin stretched over milky eyes.
5porphyryan malproportioned forms of graven whimsy.
6vaguely molluscoid, with slimy purplish-green flesh and eyes and ears which protrude on stalks.
D6These svirfneblins are
1born from the cosmos attempting to fill in the person-shaped holes in reality left by the feeding of a beast of the deepest underworld which devours its prey utterly.
2a species descended from the same root as gas spores - though resembling murderably-annoying gnomes rather than beholders - but evolved to be able to reproduce without parasitism.
3descended from survivalists who ensconced themselves in vaults deep beneath the earth to escape a catastrophe that ravaged the surface.
4descendants of neanderthals who retreated deeper into their caves rather than accepting assimilation or extinction, and ended up in the underworld, and adapting to it.
5fairies from the New Moon who fell down to the world in a conjunction of the celestial spheres - the darkness beneath the earth is the closest place they can get to their old home.
6beings from across the stars, whose living ship crossed vast distances via the warping of space. An accident caught them in this world's gravity well and interposed them within its depths - they are bound to the deep by the dying cries of their ship.
D6These svirfneblins live
1at the cores of expansive, stone-boring hyphaeic networks, chemically-interfacing with the fungus to monitor their territorie and guide the protrusion of edible, pharmacological, and stipewood-producing varieties of mushroom.
2around chemo-volcanic pits, using their arts to merge stone and glass and bacteria into useful and beautiful forms.
3in the taproots of giant trees, which plunge thirstily into buried seas that the svirfneblin ply in canoes of worm-fought wood.
4in weir-villages along the banks of subterranean rivers, living off snared flotsam and the meat of alabaster oysters whose shells they wear as jewellery.
5in cavitous geodes, furnishing omni-directional spires of glittering gem-stone.
6in cathedrals of carved-out stone, painstakingly-shaped to focus the tectonic reverberations which feed their gardens of symmetrical cymatic lichens.
D6These svirfneblins tend
1to observe hospitality to a degree otherwise unheard of in the scarcity of the underworld - though they've got a voracity for stories & knowledge from guests.
2to deal honestly & fairly with outsiders, only very rarely murdering the weak and taking their stuff.
3to stymy and war against the worst of the monsters and polities in their region, out of a pared-down sense of chivalry.
4to hold love & friendship in high esteem.
5to practice customs which limit coercive hierarchies and encourage democratic decisioning.
6to worship a goddess of mercy, and so forgive debts and tend to the suffering.
D6These svirfneblins can
1sustain themselves by eating coal and drinking petroleum, but this gives them painful stomach-cramps and noxious flatulence.
2hock super-gluey loogies with enough accuracy to stick an enemy's eye or ear shut.
3emit the scent of anything they've smelled before from their "perfumer's gland" - a sort of camouflage against the sightless creatures of the underworld.
4speak with worms and other such things which wriggle beneath by drumming their tongues against earth and stone.
5shrug off magic and mortal injury by self-petrifying for a long while, eventually reverting to repaired flesh and flaking off their rocky carapace.
6see even in seeming-darkness by the light of stars refracted in a non-Euclidean fashion through macro-crystals.
D6A delicacy of these svirfneblins is
1their own dead - desiccated and ground up and pressed into wafers.
2morels that grow only in the darkest and quietest parts of the night below the world, the pores of their honeycomb drinking in sound and exploding if not harvested in total silence.
3a salt that's only found in the marrow of the titans whose corpses form the foundation of the world.
4a terribly chewy candy spun from the silk of moths that have never witnessed light.
5a sweet, tarry syrup like molasses "milked" from a sort of barnacle that clings to the sides of aeolian caves and filters the wind for edible particles.
6the hepatopancreas of the solifulgurae, lethally-toxic if not consumed sparingly, and in the thinnest slices.

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