like a ruddy, corpulent fellow in a black funeral suit with stinking old wads of gristle stuck between their teeth.
3
like a mummy with wet red eyes and cheeks peeled away to reveal sharpened molars.
4
resplendent in decaying grave-good finery.
5
swaddled in sagging flesh, like a bloated corpse that’s been pressed for its juices.
6
like they did in life, only paler and with a wild, wolffish yearning about their eyes.
D6
This ghoul’s personality
1
is vivacious, irreverent, and self-indulgent.
2
is subsumed beneath a bleak hunger, emerging into remorseful awareness only shortly after gorging.
3
is darkly humorous and bitterly self-effacing.
4
is splintered between that of a childlike innocent and a sociopathic predator.
5
simmers resentfully towards the living.
6
is that of a sin-eater, believing they take the evils of the world into themself to save those they consume.
D6
This ghoul can
1
assume the appearance of anyone whose flesh they’ve tasted.
2
command carrion-eating animals with the promise of a shared meal.
3
dig swiftly through the earth, and drag their prey beneath.
4
launch their sticky guts out their mouth like a chameleon’s tongue to reel in prey.
5
exude a cloud of mold that rots organic matter exposed to it.
6
inflict compulsive autophagia on their enemies.
D6
This ghoul became a cannibal
1
out of desperation in a skeletally lean year.
2
as part of the rites of a transgressively hedonistic mystery cult.
3
to spite a murdered foe and rob them of a peaceful repose.
4
without their knowing after buying meat from a disreputable butcher.
5
when they were forced to by a pack of ghouls seeking to bolster their numbers.
6
so that they might transform into a ghoul and escape the sickness that was consuming their body.
D6
This ghoul prefers to get their meat
1
through traps, trickery, and proxies, still unable to look their prey in the eye.
2
fresh, to appreciate the way a cracked open skull steams.
3
seasoned to perfection, a little luxury to obscure the beastliness of their unlife.
4
from prey who’ve just been read their last rites, in the hope that this will win them a lesser damnation.
5
through proxies like resurrection men, to throw off potential ghoul-hunters.
6
after it’s been left to decompose for a while.
D6
This ghoul
1
won’t eat a child, at least not fully. If it’s been too long since they’ve last eaten they might not be able to stop from gnawing off some little fingers.
2
wears a brass locket inscribed with prayers, a relic of their living days.
3
can be bribed with alcohol, which takes the edge off their hunger.
4
has become the servant of a necromancer, who will investigate and avenge their demise.
5
has a jangling belly full of swallowed valuables.
6
is an elder among their ageless kind, and remembers many secrets.
the prosperity and entitlement of themself and their destitute family.
2
the beauty, charisma, and love they’d been denied by fortune.
3
the strength to rid their home of bandits and mercenaries.
4
tutelage in the arts both mundane and magical.
5
long life, lasting youth, and perfect health.
6
the utter ruination of an enemy.
D6
This Faust made a bargain with
1
a minor yet ambitious courtier in a hellish duke’s court.
2
a thing of mud and mold they found bound in the cellar of an abandoned church.
3
a demonic merchant they commissioned a middleman diabolist to summon.
4
a fiend named in a grimoire they stole out of desperation.
5
the familiar demon of a wizard that snuck away from its master to cause mischief.
6
a charming sort they didn’t realize was a demon until too late.
D6
This Faust seeks to get out of their bargain
1
because they’ve had a spiritual awakening and now despise their affront against their god.
2
because an ancestor of theirs long ago damned contacted them in a dream to warn of the torment that awaits them if they don’t.
3
because inquisitors have caught wind of it and are now hunting them down.
4
because they’ve grown to hate the demon they bargained with and wish to spite it.
5
because another demon’s made them a better offer, but they can’t take it up until they remove the other claim on their soul.
6
because it hasn’t satisfied them like they thought it would.
D6
This Faust’s bargain might be escaped
1
if the demon they bargained with is destroyed.
2
if the demon they bargained with is tricked into reneging on its end.
3
if they can make a successful plea before a synod.
4
if they can find someone willing to take their place without enchantment or coercion.
5
if they can evade death for long enough that the demon becomes too frustrated to collect.
6
if they forsake the boons they got from it and hold to vows of absolute charity and pacifism for the rest of their life.
D6
The demon this Faust made a bargain with seeks to seal their deal
1
by bribing another mortal to murder them.
2
by sending an infernal bounty hunter after them.
3
by unleashing suggestive disasters and plagues until an angry mob kills them as a witch.
4
by disguising itself as a person and deceiving them into confirming their debt.
5
by hollowing out their body and taking it as their vessel.
6
by poisoning the boons it granted against them, while keeping to the letter of the bargain.
D6
Should their soul be taken, this Faust
1
will be crushed into a cobblestone to pave the roads of hell, and forever be trampled by red-hot iron wheels.
2
will be interrogated and vivisected, dismantled and reassembled, so that demonkind might glean superior methods to corrupt humanity.
3
will have their eyeballs torn out and pressed like grapes for their juices, then regrown to repeat the process ad infinitum.
4
will be made an incubator for newborn demons, their spirit gnawed away from within, always edging closer to but never fully reaching oblivion.
5
will be flayed and sent in ghostly form to haunt their living friends and family and tempt them into making a bargain of their own to lessen this Faust’s suffering.
