a rattling tail which vibrates in infrasonic frequencies, inducing artificial terror in those who hear it.
2
a fractally-branching tongue which allows it to manipulate matter on an incredibly-fine scale.
3
had its ribs surgically spread into wings and studded with anti-gravity nodules which allow it to fly through the air.
4
replaced its venom-sacs with nanomachine-factories
which kill those injected with them and reanimate their corpses as
cyber-zombies.
5
impossibly-deep abyssal crevices through which alien stars can be glimpsed instead of pupils in its eyes.
6
the haunting husks of the shed skins of its past selves orbiting around its head, dispensing bon mots.
D6
This serpentman was
1
a slave-handler, and its hypnotic indoctrinations still work across all mammals from remnant programming.
2
an everyman-type who lucked its way into the modern day.
3
a biomancer whose magic crafted new living tools and soldiers for the serpentmen's empire.
4
a priest of the serpentmen's coiling crypto-gods, and a bureaucrat within their religio-political deep state.
5
a warlord who learned the perfected stratagems & martial techniques of their time.
6
a ritual assassin that the serpentmen used to constrain their violence to regulated arenas and casualties.
D6
This serpentman survived the general extinction of its kind
1
by wandering for uncountable eons in the timeless astral plane, going mad and clawing its way back to sanity several times over.
2
by flinging its spirit forward in time and possessing a
snake mating-ball of sufficient biomass to reincarnate the serpentman -
driving one snake in the ball to devour the rest and metamorphose into
its new body.
3
by being ensconced in a cryogenic vault. The serpentman
re-routed much of the facility's power to its own hiberna-pod to
maximize its chance of survival, at the expense of its fellows.
4
by bargaining with an aristocratic house of medusas, to
be petrified in its time and returned to flesh when the world had
forgotten its kind.
5
by encoding itself in the genome of an upsurging
lineage of mammals, leaving epigenetic triggers in place so that when
conditions were right a descendant-individual would mutate into the
serpentman, complete with inborn memories.
6
by pretending to be stuck in hell for a while, in fact leaving itself a back door and an empty vessel of a body to reclaim.
D6
This serpentman schemes
1
to steal an artifact which can, with enough blood
sacrifice, tear a time-portal through back to the time of the
serpentmen's reign, through which they will lead a trans-temporal
invasion.
2
to insinuate itself into a clan of outlaw-cannibals as a fleshly deity, and through them sate its hunger for warm meat.
3
awaken a lost doomsday weapon of its people, then use
this weapon to cow the world into submission so it may rule as an
absolute tyrant.
4
to murder a team of archeologists who are close to
uncovering the history of the serpentmen, then frame some other group
for their murder.
5
to uncover a cache of skin-changing infiltrators, which
it will command to take over the followings of various sun-gods and
through them re-terraform the world into a more serpentman-friendly
climate.
6
to spread printings of tablets looted from serpentmen
ruins, which contain highly-contagious memes which will alter cultures
to be more amenable to the serpentman.
D6
This serpentman views the modern world
1
with fetishistic interest in all its idiosyncrasies.
2
with an aimless rage that could be re-directed to specific targets without much manipulative effort.
3
with a deep despair which could be exploited to drive it to total inaction.
4
with bewilderment - it desires interpreters to make sense of things.
5
as a garden that's been left untrimmed and has become overgrown - in need of their drastic tending.
6
as something like a dream, experienced whimsically, which they will wake up from shortly.
D6
You might loot off the body of this serpentman
1
a very stylish hat made of psionics-enhancing fibers.
2
a hologram-belt that can project illusions of things it's scanned.
3
a whistle which when blown rouses any sub-sapient reptiles that hear it into a slaughterous rage.
4
a spray-gun full of acid.
5
a pair of ulfire-tinted goggles which allow their wearer to perceive the invisible and ethereal.
6
a bottle of pills which maintain their consumer at a biologically-ideal temperature for 24 hours.
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