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D6 | This Frankenstein is |
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1 | a self-proclaimed medium and the head of a Spiritualist cult. |
2 | a retired colonial official. |
3 | a nouveau riche inventor who's patented several ingenious devices. |
4 | the batty heir to a whale oil fortune whose parents died mysteriously at sea. |
5 | the child of a high-ranking military officer, too frail for service themself, who sought refuge from their family's discipline and disappointment in intellectual pursuits. |
6 | old, old money, the scion of a noble line that can trace its ancestry and property back centuries. |
D6 | This Frankenstein's monster |
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1 | is tough as only the risen dead can be, requiring measures on the level of high explosives to put down for good. |
2 | has a pieced-together brain, and is troubled by several people's memories and personality-fragments. |
3 | can't sleep or forget anything it's experienced, making it a swift learner as well as prone to epsiodes of psychotic crankiness. |
4 | bears the marks and the scent of rot. It can't easily go about in polite company. |
5 | can consciously spread and control the disease that killed its body the first time around. |
6 | can reanimate corpses as short-lived zombies that follow its simpler commands by injecting them with its cerebrospinal fluid. |
D6 | This Frankenstein created their monster |
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1 | as an attempt to resurrect a loved one they parted with too soon. |
2 | as the prototype for their own eventual resurrection. |
3 | as an act of hubristic devotion - becoming closer to God by creating life like God. |
4 | to further the cause of eugenics, and replace flawed humanity with a superior, deathless race. |
5 | to deny a hated rival the peace of the grave. |
6 | out of mere boredom and curiousity. |
D6 | This Frankenstein created their monster with |
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1 | Islamic alchemy stolen by the Knights Templar and corrupted by their demon-god patron Baphomet. |
2 | cutting-edge machinery and computers stolen from the notes of Ada Lovelace, combined with a cybernetic-organic interface revealed to them by a blasphemous dream. |
3 | the meditative practices of a Tibetan heretic-monk who was able to control flesh both living and dead by infusing it with his thoughtforms, learned from a scroll looted by proto-Theosophists. |
4 | the nectar of a species of passiflora which grows only in a single valley in the depths of the Amazon carved out of the Earth by a falling star many millions of years ago - a species cultivated by gargantuan and immortal hives of bees. |
5 | the aid of mathematical equations which disprove linear time, found in the unpublished manuscript of a mistress and student of Alexis Clairaut. |
6 | a soul-net derived from the works of Descartes and Galvani, using an array of electrically-stimulated pickled pineal glands to pull a subtle animating force back into a preserved corpse. |
D6 | This Frankenstein's relationship with their monster |
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1 | ended terribly. Their monster murdered them and fled into the night. |
2 | is that of a desperate investor attempting to recoup lost and pricey property for the Frankenstein, and an escaped captive for the monster. |
3 | is outwardly cordial, but each intends to betray the other. |
4 | is that of an obsessive, sheltering parent and their rebellious teenager. |
5 | is one of sociopathic scientific detachment toward an experimental subject. |
6 | is that of an obsolete and self-loathing servant toward a transhuman master. |
D6 | This Frankenstein's laboratory |
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1 | has been smashed up by a gang they'd been working with to fund their activities by brewing up drugs the gang would sell. |
2 | is guarded by monstrous little goblins created by past, failed attempts to raise the dead. |
3 | is a stately coastal manor, the basement of which connects through a secret passage to an extensive grotto network below. |
4 | is hidden in the heart of a beached prison hulk. |
5 | is in an apartment beside a crematorium, rented under a false name. |
6 | is in the dungeon of a castle that was levelled during the War after enemy soldiers occupied it. |
Making it a Frankenstein + Monster generator was the right way to go with this, as opposed to just a generic abomination or mad scientist generator. Either of those independently is good too, but for it to be properly "Frankenstein" is to consider them together. This one definitely is up my alley, can see myself having fun with this for sure.
ReplyDeleteI love this list, especially the d6 reasons for creation.
ReplyDeleteI would also add "this moster killed its creator, then traded faces, resurrected them, and assumed their identity".
I almost think this post would work better as "6 Tales of Frankensteins" ratger than a random generator. Ik my mind random generators are useful for things you need to generate often, and don't need to be tailored much.