Saturday, October 29, 2022

D6x6 Toddling Tortles

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Special thanks to Spwack for his generator generator here: http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2018/10/automatic-list-to-html-translator-v2.html

D6 This tortle looks
1 smooth and damp, like a softshell turtle.
2 snake-like because of their elongated neck.
3 adorned with a fleshy crest and beard, like a mata mata turtle.
4 spiny and craggly, like an alligator snapping turtle.
5 rubbery and ridged like a leatherback turtle.
6 colourfully striped and spotted like a painted turtle.
D6 This tortle has
1 a cosmological diagram carved into their shell. The diagram depicts a disk-shaped world held on the back of a turtle.
2 a dangling coat of algae clinging to them.
3 rings made from coins lost in shipwrecks pierced through their nose and neck-flaps.
4 little wooden hatches bolted to its shell that close up when it retracts its head or limbs.
5 an amulet crafted from broken eggshell. The memento of a child of theirs.
6 a set of dentures modelled on human teeth, with which they love to smile. They think humans find this comforting.
D6 This tortle is currently
1 meditating on a barren shore.
2 helping a village make the best fortifications possible for it given its manpower and budget.
3 building a perfectly-customized mansion for themself alone, stone by stone.
4 guiding co-religionists on a pilgrimage with all the zeal of a recent convert.
5 attempting to breed the cutest lapdog for the royal court.
6 fishing and sipping beer by a creek.
D6 This tortle is old enough
1 to have collected knickknacks and doodads from several cultures now lost to time, which they keep tucked away in their shell and would be willing to trade.
2 to remember when all noble families were mere upstarts, and so treats everyone the same regardless of social rank.
3 to have started to fossilize while they're still alive. Micro-gems sparkle in their blood and the wetness of their eyes.
4 to have learned the slow language of rivers and stones, and thereby learn many of their secrets.
5 to recall when the shorelines were different, and where to find sunken ruins nobody else has been able to locate.
6 to have mastered a fighting style that lets it outmaneuver even much faster opponents.
D6 Time has made this tortle
1 bowed with grief, too sad to do much of anything most days.
2 a snooty aesthete with incomparable knowledge of artistic traditions.
3 addicted to nostalgia, willing to pay through the nose for artifacts that remind them of their past.
4 resentful, full of grudges they were never able to fulfill before entropy took its toll.
5 cautious and gentle, aware of how the smallest actions can ripple out over eons.
6 aloof, unwilling to become emotionally entangled with the mayfly lives of others.
D6 This tortle is acquainted with
1 the ghosts of emperors, and consults with them on dire occasions.
2 a demon whose corruptive ambitions operate on such a long timescale that scholars believe it's just another tutelary spirit.
3 leviathans of the deepest ocean, their patterns of hunting and hibernation.
4 a few liches, having been consulted by them for arcane endeavours.
5 many up-and-coming princelings, having been hired to tutour them.
6 a pirate-queen whose fleet preys on many seas.

 

2 comments:

  1. I am disappointed that I can't recreate the TMNT with this, try again sir! Lol but no like always this is great, I'm just a sucker for TMNT. I don't know much about Tortles, were you leaning into certain attributes from canon/lore, or just making stuff that seems cool for a tortoise/turtle-person?

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    1. There wasn't much existing lore on them, so I just thought I'd lean into the "tortoises/turtles live a really long time" thing and build off it

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