D20x5 Grotesque Gorgons

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D20	This gorgon’s hair
1	is a mullet of mamushis.
2	is a mohawk of moccasins.
3	is cascabels in cornrows.
4	is boas tied in a bun.
5	is yet more, smaller gorgons, with even more gorgons growing on their heads, and so on and so on in a fractal hairstyle.
6	is an upcut of copperheads.
7	has bangs of curling boomslangs.
8	is threadsnakes stubby enough to make a buzzcut.
9	is pulled back in a ponytail of spitting cobras rearing over their head.
10	is a waving curtain of sidewinders.
11	is an up-do of urutus.
12	is a beehive of bushmasters.
13	is a khokhol of bundled keelbacks.
14	is an unruly mess of black mambas.
15	is a pixie cut of patchnoses.
16	is death adders that hang like dreadlocks.
17	is a pompadour of parrot snakes that hiss approvingly when their gorgon does something cool.
18	is a tonsure of taipans, pious and quick to censure even their gorgon should they blaspheme.
19	is a harmless perpetual mating ball/afro of garden snakes.
20	is a pair of pythons braided down their back. Their coils are all but impossible to escape once you’re caught in them.

D20	This gorgon has
1	sickle-like bronze talons on their hands and feet.
2	armour of osteoderms like a crocodile’s.
3	a third eye glaring lidlessly from their forehead.
4	cloven hooves for feet.
5	a forked tongue as long as their arm.
6	bonsai olive trees growing from their shoulders.
7	a dress made of their own shed skins.
8	the lower body of a snake.
9	pharyngeal jaws that can snap out well past their lips.
10	one forearm missing, replaced by a trident.
11	scales all the colours of the rainbow.
12	innumerable bones in their limbs, making them very flexible.
13	a concave torso, with glittering organs and bones visible within it like a geode.
14	a second head on their chest, that one grotesque and bestial, capable of uttering only guttural growls. It’s got a nasty bite.
15	long, curling tusks.
16	bony wings.
17	a scarlet scarf wound around their neck.
18	embedded bits of coloured stone in their flesh to make mosaics.
19	a mirrored, grimacing mask.
20	jaws that can unhinge and spilt open all the way down to their hips.

D20	This gorgon’s gaze
1	shoots lasers. The lasers disintegrate anything in their path to grit and grains.
2	carries a weaker form of its effect through images of the gorgon’s eyes. The trick is finding a painter who can survive looking at them.
3	refleshes fossils, turning them back into the creatures they once were with an unwavering obedience towards the gorgon. The gorgon is an amateur palaeontologist.
4	turns one part of the person who meets it to salt for each sin they’ve committed that day.
5	crystallizes liquids, turning water to ice and tearing apart eyes with the vitreous fluid within.
6	compresses the carbon in living things into diamonds.
7	causes rigour mortis-like paralysis.
8	melts victims into magma.
9	turns victims into stony eggs that will eventually hatch into another gorgon.
10	petrifies with supernatural fear.
11	locks people who meet it into temporal stasis, unable to affect or be affected by the world.
12	makes those who meet it as brittle as glass.
13	only petrifies the skin of those who meet it, flaying them if they break out.
14	petrifies those who meet it into two-dimensional images on slats of slate.
15	petrifies those who meet it into aquiferous stone. People so petrified immediately begin gouting water.
16	animates statues instead of petrifying living things.
17	leaves people as statues with nuggets of precious metal inside them. Do you save your stony friend, or crack them open for sweet, sweet profit?
18	can be refracted by a prism into several different shades that petrify things into different forms of stone, some quite valuable.
19	can be resisted for as long as you don’t blink or look away.
20	carries a contagious petrification that risks spreading to anyone who touches a petrified creature with bare skin.

D20	This gorgon’s lair
1	is a shallow cavity carved from loose rocks.
2	is an abandoned temple.
3	is a grotto where mosquitos swarm and reptiles laze.
4	is a rotten hollow in the trunk of a tree.
5	a glade lit up by glow-worms.
6	is a quarry that has been carved into a semblance of luxury by workers the gorgon’s enslaved.
7	is an old and defunct fish sauce factory, fallen to ruin with the death of its owner, who died suddenly without passing on the secret sauce recipe.
8	is a sculpture garden built in the gorgon’s honour by a sect that worshiped the gorgon as a vengeful deity.
9	is a cistern refurbished with frog-leather furniture resistant to the persistent damp.
10	is a hollow bronze colossus, built in ancient times as a lighthouse and show of imperial mastery.
11	can only be accessed from the bottom of a pond festooned with votive sacrifices.
12	is a fortified menagerie where an eccentric noble (now murdered by the gorgon) put monsters for private display.
13	is a mostly-dismantled arsenal where scuttled ships collect mud.
14	is a city block lost in space and perception, unable to be entered or even seen unless you know the secret ways.
15	is an expansive nest made by communal weaver birds, whose corpses are now pinned on thorns all over it.
16	is a monastery where the monks are made to wear all-concealing robes. The gorgon has hidden among their number.
17	is a greenhouse where deceptively dangerous tropical flowers bloom.
18	is a hut built on a high foundation of bones.
19	is a forlorn watchtower on the border of a beastly fen.
20	is a summer palace long vacated by the royals who built it.

D20	This gorgon was born
1	from a meteor that fell from somewhere in the Serpens constellation.
2	from a curse placed on a vindictive person who killed a thousand snakes that were minding their own business.
3	from a person transformed by the gift of a serpent-cult’s necklace.
4	from a shaman who seduced a snake-spirit.
5	from the chaotic exudate of the underworld.
6	from a priestess wrongly cursed by her god.
7	as an evolutionary leap to otherwise normal parents.
8	from an egg incubated by a lonely crone.
9	from a statue sculpted so realistically that the universe forgot it was not alive.
10	from the union of the primordial deities Night and Fear, as many monsters were.
11	from a meritorious snake who lived over a thousand years.
12	in a wizard’s laboratory, as a counter to the scrying of their rivals.
13	from someone maimed in body and spirit by a magic weapon. Strange spirits (mostly reptilian in nature) slithered into them to fill the gaps.
14	from the hatred of someone falsely accused of a terrible crime, and tossed into a pit of venomous snakes as punishment. Their hatred flowed into and mutated the snakes together just as the snakes’ venom flowed into them.
15	from someone psychically contaminated by the Dragon archetype upwelling from the collective unconsciousness.
16	from a tainted gemstone given to a banking family to punish them for their greed.
17	from the death-rage of dinosaurs facing their extinction in the distant past.
18	to a barren couple who prayed for a child. The wrong party answered their prayer.
19	from an alchemist who mistakenly transformed themself after imbibing improperly neutralized venoms.
20	from reptilian aliens’ interference in the human genome.