Wednesday, February 22, 2023

D6x6 Unctuous Umber Hulks

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D6This umber hulk is
1an earth elemental that was forced into biological form as part of a complex and lasting binding.
2a natural species of the underdark, whose ancestors subsisted on radiotrophic fungi and the drifting dust of the world above.
3a miner stuck inside their biotechnological exoskeleton.
4an alien from a rocky, high-gravity world brought to serve as heavy labour by an interstellar civilization in a bygone age.
5the handmaiden of an eldritch abyssal entity, transformed to befit their mistress’s glory.
6a carcinoid descendant from the distant future, which burrowed so deep it was able to burrow back in time.
D6This umber hulk has
1fern-like antennae that rhythmically fold up and unfold.
2stalagmite-like spikes along its back, on which the desiccated corpses of vermin have been impaled.
3diaphonously-thin eye-caps it periodically sheds instead of blinking.
4twitching setae studding its shell.
5golden tracery on the edges of all its carapace segments.
6toothsome mouths in the creases of its claws, that lick the air with rasping radula.
D6This umber hulk’s gaze causes confusion in the form of
1claustrophobic panic that makes you feel as though you're trapped in a tunnel that's closing in around you.
2hallucinations of kaleidoscopic psychedlia, euphorically splintering the mind in a colourful vortex.
3extreme paranoia, doubting the authourship of your own thoughts.
4a sudden fever that boils the brain into delirium.
5inciting aimless rage.
6total dissociation between mind and body, one lost to impulse and the other to fancy.
D6This umber hulk is in the employ
1of a small company of neogi loan sharks who enslave debtors in a uranium mine.
2of a drow aristocrat attempting to undermine a surface city.
3of a cave dragon that trusts it to collect hoardable trinkets.
4of an abnormally-intelligent roper that charges it with carving out hunting grounds and smuggling tunnels.
5of a chthonic aboleth, who gets it to kidnap experimental victims.
6of a free company of svirfneblin mercenary sappers.
D6This umber hulk wants
1to eat delicious burrowing grubs and shrew-flesh.
2to see for itself the beauty of the sunrise it's been told of.
3its carapace to be brushed and waxed.
4to be supplied with weird underworld drugs.
5leverage to renegotiate the brutal terms of its employment.
6fancy spectacles that'll filter out the confusing aspect of its gaze.
D6This umber hulk lairs
1in the underground hideaway of a dissident religious sect.
2within a glittering amethyst geode.
3on the bank of a bioluminescent subterranean river
4within a muddy sinkhole.
5within the husk of a dead dire mole cricket.
6in a smoky, candle-lit alcove.

2 comments:

  1. I like the way you've really stretched the idea of what an Umber Hulk can be, but within a logical framework i.e. geological. These feel like they'd fit right in with Veins of the Earth.

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  2. "This umber hulk wants to see for itself the beauty of the sunrise it's been told of." Gonna make me cry

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