Friday, March 15, 2019

D12x(Lost track of this one) Onerous Oni

Oni-chan




D12 Skin colour
1 spilled blood
2 crude oil
3 old bones
4 hibiscus blossoms
5 the noontide sky
6 moth wings
7 sea foam
8 tea
9 bruised plums
10 bamboo shoots
11 a yuzu
12 jade
D6 Number of horns
1 one horn
2 two horns
3 three horns
4 four horns
5 five horns
6 six horns
D12 Type of horn (single)
1 that spirals like a ram’s
2 that stands straight out
3 that twists like a gazelle’s
4 that is thick and bent like an ox’s
5 that branches like an elk’s
6 that bulges out at its tip like a mushroom
7 that’s stubby and rounded
8 that’s jagged and splintered
9 that swirls and curls like brushstrokes
10 that’s hollow and full of holes like a fue
11 that’s crooked and knobbly like a branch
12 that resembles a tine of coral
D12 Type of horns (multiple)
1 that spiral like a ram’s
2 that stand straight out
3 that twist like a gazelle’s
4 that are thick and bent like an ox’s
5 that branch like an elk’s
6 that bulge out at their tips like a mushroom
7 that’re stubby and rounded
8 that’re jagged and splintered
9 that swirl and curl like brushstrokes
10 that’re hollow and full of holes like fues
11 that’re crooked and knobbly like branches
12 that resemble tines of coral
D12 Other feature
1 their teeth, claws, and horns are made of steel
2 they have extra fingers and toes
3 they have another eye in the middle of their forehead
4 smoke and fire spill from their mouth and nostrils
5 they can beat their taut paunch like a drum
6 four arms
7 shaggy hair covering everywhere on their body but their face
8 thumbed feet and a tail, like a monkey
9 another face on the back of their head
10 a long, beakish nose
11 batlike wings on their back
12 greasy hair that droops past their knees
D10 Clothing
1 a tiger-skin loincloth
2 oyster-shell armour
3 a sackcloth tunic
4 a spider-silk robe
5 a vulture-feather cape
6 a tanuki-fur hat
7 a human mask
8 an alligator-leather mawashi
9 the sclerites of a giant beetle
10 nothing but tattoos of ferocious creatures
11 a bear-hide cloak
12 a filthy kimono
D10 Tool
1 an iron kanabo
2 a clay sake jug
3 a shamisen
4 a war fan
5 a scroll as big as your thigh
6 a diamond thunderbolt
7 a rusty yari
8 an odachi that’s oversized even among its own kind
9 a woodcutter’s axe
10 a comically large mallet
11 a walking stick
12 a jinkai
D6 This oni is
1 a heavenly bureaucrat in disguise
2 the spirit of a wild place
3 a wrathful guardian divinity
4 a brutish ancestral ghost
5 a beast which attained humanoid form
6 a servant of hell
D6 (bureaucrat), and they are currently
1 neglecting their duties by getting very drunk
2 judging the compassion of passers-by
3 harassing a monk who prays too much
4 retrieving a holy treasure they lost through negligence
5 collecting supernatural census data
6 defacing the shrine of a rival god
D6 (spirit), and they are currently
1 setting an ambush to kidnap a spouse
2 leading some human bandits to plunder and rob
3 dancing to the beat of a sudden thunderstorm
4 making delicate aesthetic rearrangements of their garden
5 meditating beneath a waterfall
6 pranking a hermit
D6 (guardian), and they are currently
1 pretending to sleep, snoring loudly on the steps of a temple
2 watching priests perform a rite from the rafters
3 looking for a new place to guard after their old one was burned to the ground.
4 chasing a thief.
5 beating an intruder.
6 patrolling the boundary of their charge.
D6 (ancestor), and they are currently
1 on their way to punish their living family for neglecting their grave
2 gorging on wine and honey-cakes left as offerings for the dead
3 kicking their geriatric murderer to death
4 wrestling with a reaper come to take them.
5 lamenting how the world has changed since their passing.
6 seeking to reconcile with a child they were estranged from in life.
D6 (beast), and they are currently
1 stalking human prey
2 trying and failing to ride a deer
3 fishing barehanded in a river
4 engaged in a poetry contest with a talking fox
5 being bribed with sacred goods to protect (or at least not wreck) a village
6 caught in a hunter’s trap
D6 (servant), and they are currently
1 hunting some sinners who slipped away from their just torment
2 consulting with mortal torturers for new ideas
3 and futilely seeking luxurious accommodation for their vacation to the mortal world.
4 tempting mortals to sin to meet their boss’s quota
5 studying to become a judge of the dead
6 digging up a buried treasure one of their prisoners traded them the location of in return for lighter treatment

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