Friday, August 15, 2025

D6x6 Grimy Grimlocks

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D6These grimlocks are
1religious ascetics, who retreat into the dark and imbibe entheogenic concoctions to transcend the world of appearances.
2the fallen survivors of an apocalyptic future wherein the surface of the world became uninhabitable, flung to the past in a desperate escape from extinction.
3an ancient hominid offshoot evolved for a subterranean existence.
4the escaped slaves of a dwarven civilization.
5the children of a defeated aristocracy who were fed mutagenic herbs and sealed into caves.
6the descendants of a party of adventurers and their hirelings who became lost in the underworld.
D6These grimlocks have
1milk-white skin that bruises when exposed to the light of the sun, even faint reflected moonlight, to a plum-dark purple.
2huge, cloudy-grey eyes, which have the unpleasant tendency to pop out of their skulls when they get old.
3had their pinkie fingers and toes develop into hooked claws to assist with climbing and clambering.
4creepily-elongating limbs and nails, telescoping out of their joints and beds.
5profuse cutaneous horns.
6cartilaginous ridges like the inside of an ear all over their bodies.
D6These grimlocks compensate for their blindness
1with clicking echolocation, tongues snapping like little whips.
2with long, aye-aye-like fingers they tap rapidly against the ground to produce and pick up vibrations.
3with metallic whiskers that detect electromagnetic fields from the earth and other living things.
4with a psychic pirate-proprioception, picking up the position and orientation of nearby life-forms in relation to their own body.
5with snuffling stereoscopic nostrils that can pick up bloodhound-subtle scent-signals in the air.
6with pinpoint hearing.
D6These grimlocks' technology
1is eccentric, unintuitive in what it can and can't do - they claim to have been given it by people from "the undermost".
2is based on selectively-bred and -grafted organisms.
3is nearly entirely immaterial - they instead have techniques to train their minds and bodies to fill the niches physical technology otherwise would.
4would be considered cutting-edge on the surface - though lack of resources and personnel prevent mass production - each of their items is a unique and irreplaceable marvel.
5is generally primitive, though not for lack of technical knowledge - stone and fungi and so on are simply the best and cheapest fit for their day-to-day needs given common underground resources.
6is more advanced than the surface world's - looted from sunken ruins, or perhaps retained from some fallen history.
D6These grimlocks live
1in a hollow like the inside of a vase, clamber-holds and shelter-hooks cut into its sides, ranging out to hunt the rangy beasts of the outlying areas.
2on the shore of a cavernous slime-lake, the radiotrophic bacteria suffusing it glowing in the dark, zoogleal vermiforms drawn up and butchered painstakingly like pufferfish to remove their deadliest parts.
3semi-nomadically, herding sardinical, blind, amphibious, sucker-climbing fish from pool to dank cave pool.
4in a tectonically-active region, around a pillar of piezoluminescent crystal that emits blinding light due to tectonic pressure, growing black crops in its radiance.
5on a polyporous ziggurat of chronovorous fungus, their lost time deemed a good trade-off for their non-starving lives.
6inside the gargantuan, semi-fossilized carcass of a lobotomized demi-god sustained by their worship of it.
D6These grimlocks are threatened
1by a 4-dimensional geometroid which inflicts strange vivisections and mutations on them, and can skip across expanses of solid stone like a rock across a pond.
2by a being of living light, an elemental which they cannot perceive yet which feeds off their attention, their fear and their anger.
3by a The Little Mermaid-type situation, wherein one among their number has made a deal with a devil to pursue their love with a surface-dweller - and now it's developing in a Needful Things-esque scenario as the devil comes to others in their ranks to offer them deals too.
4by a drow who's seduced their leader, and aims to have the strongest among them taken as battle-thralls to the arena.
5by a dwarf-hold using their home as a dumping ground for industrial waste.
6by a sickness they contracted from a surface-dweller they found and nursed back to health.

3 comments:

  1. I especially like the idea of grimlock technology, but altogether these create cool quasi/sub/grotesque humanoids

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    1. Fundamentally I see them as decent sorts who happen to be blind and live underground

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