on ionizing radiation, bathing in the invsible light of
underground natural nuclear reactor zones or stockpiled radioactive
material.
2
as humans do, though slower - their feeding is based on
decomposition rather their digestion, and so their guts distend
grostesquely to hold all they've eaten over a long while.
3
by immersing themselves in piles of wet mulch.
4
via barbs that drain blood and sap.
5
on earth-power, channeled out of the soil by arrays of lichen-crusted menhirs.
6
by shunting together with other living organisms like the guys in the movie Society.
D6
These forcs reproduce
1
assimilatively, torturing and starving captives to weaken their immune systems and allow the fungus to take hold of them.
2
through ritualized ego-death, sacrificing their minds to become a tunicate-esque sedentary fruiting body.
3
by feasting and then budding off smaller clones.
4
by fusing en masse into the vital clag of spawning-pits.
5
by exploding into clouds of spores over piles of rotting meat.
6
in symbiotic pods buried among the roots of forests, emerging as sibling-swarms like cicadas.
D6
These forcs came from
1
across the ocean on a decaying raft-fleet, chasing armadas of other refugees.
2
the corpse of a dead god cast down from the heavens - that god's final vengeance on the world.
3
deep underground, forced upwards by chthonic ecological pressures.
4
the laboratories of a fallen civilization, as a weapon
meant to break down undesirable biomass - mostly the biomass of
undesirables.
5
nobody knows where yet, they just showed up one day in numbers, but there's some people willing to pay a lot to find out.
6
the vastness of space, arriving a generation back at some inauspicious alignment in a great stone egg.
D6
These forcs carry
1
shiny blades of compressed and treated chitin, crafted
from the bodies of their fallen - each bearing its fallen's fester and
guidance.
2
with them an olfactoscope, a siphonoid appartus which
draws in keening thin wind-streams from afar on which rich chemical
information is borne.
3
elegant parasols to keep the sun off their moistness.
4
discs embedded in their backs into which their fungal
flesh grows divots, which can be extracted and read to reveal their
memories of the time the discs were embedded.
5
bags of imitation-coins stamped with nonsense-images
yet made of precious metals - useless to them, but they've been found to
be acceptable bribes to meat-folk.
6
handfuls of slime that can be fed to any creature to temporarily turn it into a tractable mount or beast of burden.
D6
These forcs are associated with
1
warrior-assassins who hollow out the non-essential
parts of their bodies to fill them with weapons, and can lie in wait for
weeks before striking.
2
wizards who can combine fire and darkness into one substance.
3
the clouds of sickening miasma that presage their coming.
4
parasite-clerics who can drain holy sites and relics to fuel contraband miracles.
5
glutton-juggernauts who gorge themselves on the
battlefield to grow to terrifying size then burn through the mass for
feats of strength.
6
shambling war-dances performed atop the bodies of prisoners in sight of their comrades.
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