Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Search the Body? No, Search IN the Body




d12 What's in the Body?
1 Growing on the left lung is a hard, mutated lump of flesh that is actually a tumor key grown in the corpse by priests of Zzorch. The tumor key can open any tumor lock crafted by Zzorch's clergy.
2 In life the person prepared for a sneak attack by secreting an enchanted razor blade underneath their tongue. Obviously, something else got them before the ambush ever came. If wielded in combat, the razor blade does 1d4+1 damage and gives a bonus of +1 to attack rolls.
3 Iron spikes have been pounded into the soles of the feet. These spikes are rusty, but otherwise nondescript and non-magical.
4 Slivers of holy wood from a cross used in the martyrdom of a saint belonging to the church of the Lady of the White Way have been driven under the corpse's fingernails. If immersed in a vessel of water for a week, these slivers will transform it into holy water.
5 Stuffed down the corpse's throat is a wad of paper. If removed and smoothed flat, the paper will be revealed to be a random magic-user or illusionist (50% of either) scroll penned by a wizard from the Orxham School of Ulverland.
6 The brain is encrusted with a thing layer of gem-like crystals that can be pried off and sold for 20-40 gold pieces; if the brain is presented whole to the right collector in Mord-Stavian, it will be worth 100-800 gold pieces.
7 The corpse's heart has been replaced by a mechanical construction that also functions as a locked and trapped jewelry box. It contains a ring of random value that had been crafted as a gift for a noblewoman attached to the court of Scarabrae.
8 The gut contains a stoppered vial of an incredibly pure narcotic. The vial also contains a miniscule scrap of paper on which there is writing—presumably the address for the vial's buyer—that will require the use of a magnifying glass to decipher.
9 The nasal cavities have been stuffed with the kind of marbles used as bowling balls by the pixies of the Shae Isles. If given to a fey creature, that creature will owe you a boon.
10 There are 1d6 poisoned needles embedded in the right thigh. An experienced assassin, or perhaps a thief or fighter, will know these needles to be the preferred method of execution by the Kung-Loon clan of the Island of Jade Mysteries. The poison on the needles is particularly long lasting; they may be re-used if handled carefully.
11 Tucked into the right eyelid is a coin that can be used to pay one of the ferrymen who shuttle the living across the Grottheim River in the Wailing Labyrinth.
12 You don't even want to know how that wand got where it is.

2 comments:

  1. Vivisectionist becomes a viable character class...

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