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D6x6 Obnoxious Oases

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D6	This oasis's sand
1	is piezoluminescent crystal - whitish, with footprints left in it glowing.
2	is green, olivine, comprised of lava flows which eroded nearby.
3	is a brilliant pink, formed from an ancient coral reef which thrived in a prior eon when the region was a sea.
4	is a vivid orange, worn out from similarly-orange limestone deposits in the area.
5	is a deep red thanks to its iron content.
6	is a shimmering black due to its mafic origin.

D6	This oasis's water
1	is muddy, home to mites, worms, and brine shrimp - it needs to be filtered before it can be comfortably consumed by humans.
2	is clear as fine glass - sometimes appearing to not really be there at all.
3	is chartreuse and lively, full of flitting fishlets and wavering seagrass.
4	is dark as night, and goes way, way down.
5	is tinged scarlet with algae, and bitter on the tongue.
6	is turbulent, constantly spritzing from pores in the earth - toothsome bivalves clamp away at the nutritious detritus thus stirred up, and are pried in turn by strong-beaked ibises.

D6	This oasis has
1	a ring of stelae carved by inhuman hands - even through the wearing of time, their claw-marks are still visible.
2	a grove of fig trees growing on its shore - some of the fruit hosting deadly fig-wasps.
3	the ruins of a caravanaserai eroding beside it - the walls still good for shelter against the wind, but who knows what else might be sharing them.
4	the fossilized hulk of an ancient war-ship lying just beneath its surface.
5	a pair of hump-like hills marking its northern end.
6	a little island in the middle of it, with a giant palm tree on it - & that palm tree has a tower carved up in a spiral through its bark, up to its canopy, where a reclusive wizard dwells in a hut made from a giant coconut.

D6	This oasis is known
1	to be haunted by the ghosts of a pair of runaway lovers who committed a lovers' suicide in its waters.
2	from a popular folk-song which uses it as an erotic symbol.
3	as a sanctuary where enemies must not spill each other's blood.
4	as the site of the last stand of a group of pagans.
5	as a remnant of a once-larger and more hospitable body of water.
6	as a key point along a once-prosperous trade route - shifting political and environmental factors made another way more lucrative.

D6	A hazard of this oasis
1	is a canny old crocodile who extorts passers-by in exchange for not eating them.
2	is a pack of jackalweres that use the place as a hideout when the heat gets to be too much elsewhere.
3	is a huge enemy crab hibernating beneath its waters - sufficient agitation will wake it to a rage.
4	is a clutch of sea-urchins, but they're more like oasis-urchins, and also they can fly around and shoot their envenomed spines like arrows.
5	is a half-buried brazen lamp, the vacation home of a very lazy and nearly-senile genie - he will fulfill anything vaguely worded like a wish spoken within earshot in a half-assed, possibly hazardous, manner.
6	is the idol of a thankfully-destroyed cult half-buried nearby - its malign power infects the dreams of those who sleep nearby.

D6	This oasis is frequented
1	by a clan of giant snail-riding slowmads, whose passage through time is as slow as the pace of their mounts, making them long-lived and tougher than stone.
2	by strands of pilgrims on their way to a holy site.
3	by a circle of politically-problematic poets and philosophers who use it as an inspirational retreat.
4	by warrior-renunciates who gather here to test their martial and theological attainments against each other.
5	by a wealthy and eccentric camel merchant who comes here to get away from his nagging wife.
6	only by those who bear a special sort of compass which holds water drawn from the oasis - it is enchanted such that no one else can find it.

D6x6 Grimy Grimlocks

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D6	These grimlocks are
1	religious ascetics, who retreat into the dark and imbibe entheogenic concoctions to transcend the world of appearances.
2	the fallen survivors of an apocalyptic future wherein the surface of the world became uninhabitable, flung to the past in a desperate escape from extinction.
3	an ancient hominid offshoot evolved for a subterranean existence.
4	the escaped slaves of a dwarven civilization.
5	the children of a defeated aristocracy who were fed mutagenic herbs and sealed into caves.
6	the descendants of a party of adventurers and their hirelings who became lost in the underworld.

D6	These grimlocks have
1	milk-white skin that bruises when exposed to the light of the sun, even faint reflected moonlight, to a plum-dark purple.
2	huge, cloudy-grey eyes, which have the unpleasant tendency to pop out of their skulls when they get old.
3	had their pinkie fingers and toes develop into hooked claws to assist with climbing and clambering.
4	creepily-elongating limbs and nails, telescoping out of their joints and beds.
5	profuse cutaneous horns.
6	cartilaginous ridges like the inside of an ear all over their bodies.

D6	These grimlocks compensate for their blindness
1	with clicking echolocation, tongues snapping like little whips.
2	with long, aye-aye-like fingers they tap rapidly against the ground to produce and pick up vibrations.
3	with metallic whiskers that detect electromagnetic fields from the earth and other living things.
4	with a psychic pirate-proprioception, picking up the position and orientation of nearby life-forms in relation to their own body.
5	with snuffling stereoscopic nostrils that can pick up bloodhound-subtle scent-signals in the air.
6	with pinpoint hearing.

D6	These grimlocks' technology
1	is eccentric, unintuitive in what it can and can't do - they claim to have been given it by people from "the undermost".
2	is based on selectively-bred and -grafted organisms.
3	is nearly entirely immaterial - they instead have techniques to train their minds and bodies to fill the niches physical technology otherwise would.
4	would be considered cutting-edge on the surface - though lack of resources and personnel prevent mass production - each of their items is a unique and irreplaceable marvel.
5	is generally primitive, though not for lack of technical knowledge - stone and fungi and so on are simply the best and cheapest fit for their day-to-day needs given common underground resources.
6	is more advanced than the surface world's - looted from sunken ruins, or perhaps retained from some fallen history.

D6	These grimlocks live
1	in a hollow like the inside of a vase, clamber-holds and shelter-hooks cut into its sides, ranging out to hunt the rangy beasts of the outlying areas.
2	on the shore of a cavernous slime-lake, the radiotrophic bacteria suffusing it glowing in the dark, zoogleal vermiforms drawn up and butchered painstakingly like pufferfish to remove their deadliest parts.
3	semi-nomadically, herding sardinical, blind, amphibious, sucker-climbing fish from pool to dank cave pool.
4	in a tectonically-active region, around a pillar of piezoluminescent crystal that emits blinding light due to tectonic pressure, growing black crops in its radiance.
5	on a polyporous ziggurat of chronovorous fungus, their lost time deemed a good trade-off for their non-starving lives.
6	inside the gargantuan, semi-fossilized carcass of a lobotomized demi-god sustained by their worship of it.

D6	These grimlocks are threatened
1	by a 4-dimensional geometroid which inflicts strange vivisections and mutations on them, and can skip across expanses of solid stone like a rock across a pond.
2	by a being of living light, an elemental which they cannot perceive yet which feeds off their attention, their fear and their anger.
3	by a The Little Mermaid-type situation, wherein one among their number has made a deal with a devil to pursue their love with a surface-dweller - and now it's developing in a Needful Things-esque scenario as the devil comes to others in their ranks to offer them deals too.
4	by a drow who's seduced their leader, and aims to have the strongest among them taken as battle-thralls to the arena.
5	by a dwarf-hold using their home as a dumping ground for industrial waste.
6	by a sickness they contracted from a surface-dweller they found and nursed back to health.

D20x5 Arcane Apprentices

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D20	This apprentice has learned a cantrip
1	to shoot off their fingernails, dealing damage as throwing daggers. The nails take as long to regrow as they normally would.
2	to make fireflies burst in a flash of heat and light.
3	to store items beneath their belly-button, so long as they don't store so much that this crowds out their organs.
4	to see the sicknesses within people through their circled fingers.
5	to double the length of their legs.
6	to make a tree grow with fruit that have their seeds as a shell on the outside of them - thereby protecting them from many pests.
7	to move fat tissue around their body.
8	which makes veins in marble bleed.
9	to make precious metals mildly magnetic.
10	to make a sheep attempt to shear itself.
11	to make nearby locks jangle.
12	to make clocks run backwards.
13	to make paint dry instantly.
14	to tap someone on the shoulder from a distance.
15	to make rugs and carpets inch about like caterpillars.
16	to create an illusion of bird poop.
17	to animate dust bunnies as worthless servitors.
18	to prevent beer from going flat.
19	to manifest a spoon made of phantasmal force.
20	which cracks the lenses of spectacles.

D20	This apprentice’s personality
1	is that of a flexible striver, willing to adopt any view if it advances their position.
2	is that of an anxious people-pleaser.
3	is sort of a reptilian mirror of whatever attitudes others take towards them.
4	is impulsive and ambitious, leaping from one scheme to get big to the next.
5	is laid-back yet spiteful, a feather pillow with a poisoned needle hidden in it.
6	is studious and anti-social, seeing others as objects to be used or obstacles to be removed.
7	is that of a slimy schmoozer - though they do have an honest interest & talent in singing.
8	is stiffly formal and imposingly-hierarchical.
9	is quiet, intense, focused around their dream of becoming an arch-wizard.
10	is that of a hit dog, loyal to a select few and ready to snap in an instant.
11	is that of a sneering, tasteless elitist who is boundlessly generous to those they see as peers.
12	is that of an old soul, jaded well beyond their years.
13	is that of a clumsy, blabbering nerd.
14	is that of a joker and clown, prone to melancholy when not laughing or being laughed at.
15	is rotely virtuous, going through the motions while blank inside.
16	is acquisitive and inquisitive, greedy for all things material and immaterial.
17	is exceedingly normal, averaged-out and agreeable in about all ways.
18	is aloof and observant, sometimes compassionate.
19	has been deliberately based by them on a character from their favourite novel.
20	is that of a hysterical, compulsive liar with a persecution complex.

D20	This apprentice's master
1	is learned and powerful, widely respected in occult circles, yet increasingly senile - so far only the apprentice is really aware of this.
2	is a deadly fop whose single-minded pursuit of fashion and luxury shouldn't be confused for softness or incompetence.
3	is a despised plagiarist and fabulist.
4	is a hardened veteran war-wizard still bitter about being pushed out of the political sphere after retiring from the battlefield.
5	is a former adventurer, sagacious with forgotten lore and traumatized by their own maiming and the loss of their companions in the darkness below the world.
6	puts on the front of a kindly elder, but is in actuality a serial killer fascinated by the transformation of human flesh by lethal magic.
7	once aspired to be an evil overlord, leading an army of the undead to conquer the world, but gave up that dark dream after finding religion - following the merciful wolf-saint Amartza.
8	is the black sheep of an old and storied aristocratic family of wizards with a library that's accumulated centuries of spells and secrets.
9	is like a rotting peach - their ego bloated and easily injured, their retribution quick and nasty.
10	is a drunkard, living in reminiscence of past glories.
11	has been hollowed out into a meat-puppet by a tsochari - an extra-terrestrial invader conspiring to spread the worship of the Nine-Tongued Worm & open the way to more of their kind.
12	was once considered a prodigy, yet failed to live up to the expectations placed upon them, which they are in total denial of.
13	is a muscular and straightforward sort, bullrushing over any contestations.
14	is buoyantly youthful, never brought down for long by any set-back or tragedy.
15	is a suffocatingly-familiar, weepy softy.
16	suffered a sudden inversion of their personality - in fact they were murdered and replaced by their mirror-twin during an excursion through other planes.
17	is distractably obsessive, juggling several ground-breaking and extremely dangerous projects at once.
18	is whimsical & twee even in the face of atrocity - even when committing atrocities.
19	is a thug with the intelligence to sharply wield their brutality, with a big chip on their shoulder from climbing out of the gutter on a pile of betrayals and corpses.
20	is furiously bed-ridden - ailing due to inhaling the wrong spores.

D20	This apprentice's master has them
1	blundering into a dangerous dungeon as a form of hazing.
2	tracking down another of their apprentices, who absconded with a grimoire and some valuables.
3	overseeing a crew commissioned to excavate an ancient ruin.
4	acting in a deniable capacity to trade with some diabolical sorts.
5	spying on a wizardly rival.
6	ghost-writing and delivering romantic poetry to a distant paramour.
7	recruiting an adventuring party for a delve to find the truth behind some bit of apocrypha.
8	kidnapping a peasant whose peculiar circumstances of birth make them a potent living spell component.
9	researching local cultic lore in the belief that it encodes a magical ritual.
10	counterfeiting a rival's books while inserting subtle and hazardous errors.
11	quizzing local artisans to suss out which has the skill to craft a suitable item for enchantment.
12	in the field fact-checking a bestiary that's made its way into their master's possession.
13	renewing treaties with regional elementals.
14	taking measurements of the region from various positions to prove its space is warped.
15	seeking out an exorcist to cleanse a haunted trinket that's made its way into their collection.
16	on a snipe hunt as punishment for some disappointment.
17	tracking down and retrieving a monster their master created before it can be traced back to them.
18	terrorizing rustics to keep them away from their master's abode.
19	testing an experimental new spell.
20	out foraging for delicacies for a feast.

D20	This apprentice is considering quitting their apprenticeship
1	because their master has been regularly draining them of blood to use as a youth-regaining elixir.
2	because their older sibling has recently died, leaving them heir to their family's holdings.
3	because they've become infatuated with a local, and the terms of their service have them sworn to celibacy.
4	because they believe that their master plans to displace their soul and steal their body.
5	because they've found they prefer studying the history and theory of magic over learning how to actually work it.
6	because their master clearly favours another apprentice over them.
7	because a close encounter with a witch-hunting mob has put a great fear in them.
8	because they've heard rumours that a rival circle of wizards aims to take out their master to steal their books and artifacts.
9	because another wizard has given them a better offer.
10	because they stumbled across a golem in a storage closet with their exact likeness.
11	because they are now sure that their work has damned them to hell.
12	because they're burnt out and need a vacation.
13	because something they can never quite make out keeps whispering to them from the shadows.
14	because war has broken out and they wish to serve their country.
15	because the work and studying have proven too difficult for them.
16	because they've become possessed by wanderlust.
17	because their books were ruined by a sudden rainstorm and it would be very expensive to purchase replacements.
18	because a fortune teller suggested that if they don't it will lead to their doom.
19	because they've grown to hate their master due to personal differences.
20	because they've contracted a terminal illness and would prefer to spend the remainder of their days peacefully and among friends.