(God bless Uguisu Sachiko!!!)
They are the lowest rung of the world's creatures - pure evil in the flesh. They're vicious brutes, they smell, I'd bet they eat their young. And they hide among us! They could be your friend, your neighbour - your very family! Everybody who's walked in the woods knows this.
Actually, they're corpse-lickers, marrow-slurpers, feasters in the wake of witch-hunts, riots, and persecutions - stirrers-up of the same.
Cowardly lurkers who flit through the shadows at the edge of torch-light, between the boughs of trees, letting others butcher their prey for them.
They are
Jinjoris
HD: 2 AC: 14 ATK: 1d4 cast stone or 1d8 bite SAV: 8 MOV: as horse, climb as monkey INT: As person ML: 6
No. Appearing: 1d4
No. Appearing: 1d4
Surprise 3-in-6 unless lured out by a funeral
Song of the Jinjori: Jinjoris love to sing - and their singing festers paranoia and hatred in the hearts of those who hear it. Those who hear the singing of a jinjori must save or begin to believe that jinjoris are hiding among them, revealed by certain signs, and must be rooted out and killed. For every sign of the jinjori someone displays, they receive a -2 reaction roll modifier with people in the jinjori's feeding grounds. Those affected by the song will not recognize a true jinjori as a jinjori, alive or dead.
Roll on the table below to see which signs an affected community believes reveal someone as a jinjori (1d20x3):
1. Red blood
2. Unibrow
3. Stinking breath
4. Bald head
5. Sleeps lying down
6. Light hair
7. Vulnerable to iron
8. Long nails
9. Can't say their own name backwards
10. Narrow eyes
11. Green eyes
12. A mole
13. Stooped posture
14. Eats fish
15. Yelps if splashed with boiling water
16. Pointy ears
17. Can't hold their drink
18. A runny nose
19. Missing teeth
20. Stubby neck
Jinjoris' fondness for songs makes them hungry for new ones. For each song you can teach a jinjori (or group of jinjoris) its reaction roll improves by +2. A jinjori will already know all songs originating from its feeding grounds, but has a 3-in-6 chance of knowing a song from outside it - and no chance if the song's from exotic parts.
Execution of the Jinjori: Those under the spell of a jinjori's song come to believe that jinjoris must be killed in a particular manner - this tends to help the true jinjori feed on the corpses of those who are accused of being one.
Roll on the table below to see which execution method an affected community believes is necessary (1d6):
1. Being put in a bag and thrown into a river.
2. Roasting atop a pyre.
3. Live burial.
4. Throwing off a cliff.
5. Tied to a stake and exposed to the elements.
6. Pursuit and mauling by dogs.
On the other hand, jinjoris are attracted to actual, respectful funerals, and can be lured out of hiding with such - or a convincing imitation thereof. This is a fact that would be known to sages, and not to communities under the spell of a jinjori.
I really like the idea of a monster that's just stirring shit up lol. I'm also intrigued by their interest in funerals. Is it remorse? Perverse satisfaction? Is it where they scope out their next victims?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure - it's a detail in the manga I got the idea from, Jinjori Barai. Quick read, a oneshot... perhaps a gateway drug to the rest of Uguisu-sensei's ouevre. If I had to guess, it's something like resentment. A body burned or buried or whatever else, is that much harder for them to get at.
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