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D6 | This umber hulk is |
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1 | an earth elemental that was forced into biological form as part of a complex and lasting binding. |
2 | a natural species of the underdark, whose ancestors subsisted on radiotrophic fungi and the drifting dust of the world above. |
3 | a miner stuck inside their biotechnological exoskeleton. |
4 | an alien from a rocky, high-gravity world brought to serve as heavy labour by an interstellar civilization in a bygone age. |
5 | the handmaiden of an eldritch abyssal entity, transformed to befit their mistress’s glory. |
6 | a carcinoid descendant from the distant future, which burrowed so deep it was able to burrow back in time. |
D6 | This umber hulk has |
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1 | fern-like antennae that rhythmically fold up and unfold. |
2 | stalagmite-like spikes along its back, on which the desiccated corpses of vermin have been impaled. |
3 | diaphonously-thin eye-caps it periodically sheds instead of blinking. |
4 | twitching setae studding its shell. |
5 | golden tracery on the edges of all its carapace segments. |
6 | toothsome mouths in the creases of its claws, that lick the air with rasping radula. |
D6 | This umber hulk’s gaze causes confusion in the form of |
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1 | claustrophobic panic that makes you feel as though you're trapped in a tunnel that's closing in around you. |
2 | hallucinations of kaleidoscopic psychedlia, euphorically splintering the mind in a colourful vortex. |
3 | extreme paranoia, doubting the authourship of your own thoughts. |
4 | a sudden fever that boils the brain into delirium. |
5 | inciting aimless rage. |
6 | total dissociation between mind and body, one lost to impulse and the other to fancy. |
D6 | This umber hulk is in the employ |
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1 | of a small company of neogi loan sharks who enslave debtors in a uranium mine. |
2 | of a drow aristocrat attempting to undermine a surface city. |
3 | of a cave dragon that trusts it to collect hoardable trinkets. |
4 | of an abnormally-intelligent roper that charges it with carving out hunting grounds and smuggling tunnels. |
5 | of a chthonic aboleth, who gets it to kidnap experimental victims. |
6 | of a free company of svirfneblin mercenary sappers. |
D6 | This umber hulk wants |
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1 | to eat delicious burrowing grubs and shrew-flesh. |
2 | to see for itself the beauty of the sunrise it's been told of. |
3 | its carapace to be brushed and waxed. |
4 | to be supplied with weird underworld drugs. |
5 | leverage to renegotiate the brutal terms of its employment. |
6 | fancy spectacles that'll filter out the confusing aspect of its gaze. |
D6 | This umber hulk lairs |
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1 | in the underground hideaway of a dissident religious sect. |
2 | within a glittering amethyst geode. |
3 | on the bank of a bioluminescent subterranean river |
4 | within a muddy sinkhole. |
5 | within the husk of a dead dire mole cricket. |
6 | in a smoky, candle-lit alcove.
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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.
ReplyDelete"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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