Purple Planet

Kith Blue Kith Ythoth Raiders Xrif Underkith Warbands Howling Stones Warband

I Drank The Worm

Purple Planet Random Encounters

Underplateau Junkyard

Ideas:

Azi Dahaka ? Body-Swappers: Looking for the machine. "Have you seen the machine?" - a greeting to be answered with "it is to be found" Mushroom Lords -> Myconids Stone Lords -> Turned themselves to living stone

The characters encounter a wandering (and talking) mushroom. It is an ascended master, and is accompanied by 3d20+10 mushroom/kith hybrids

Hates Trillimites - calls them "Eaters of the Land"

Mushroom power: This plant feeds off the dead, spreading its roots through a corpse as if it were soil. Once it has spread through the entire body, the plant can control the corpse like a giant puppet. Leafy branches poke at random angles from the corpse as the plant slowly consumes it. Once ambulatory, the plant searches for other dead bodies to seed.

Favored Flora: Necromancer: In the social hierarchy of the plant kingdom, the plant-necromancer is a holy figure second only to the plant-cleric. The necromancer’s function is to return dead plants to the soil by burning to ash, the traditional funerary rite of all flora. The necromancer commands the dead to uproot and gather into a pyre on the soil to be enriched. The plant can also use this ability to marshal 1d10 dead trees, shrubs, or vines as guardians. The sight of wooden weapons, construction, and paper infuriates the necromancer. On its turn, the necromancer can make a DC 10 check to command a wood item to shatter or a paper scroll to cast its spell at a target of the plant’s choosing.

The “World-Shroom” is said to be the oldest living being on the Purple Planet. Perhaps it will grant the PCs a boon for a favor…

Living Fungus-Cacti The PCs encounter a group of walking cactus-like succulents. The creatures have low intelligence, but are capable of communication through changes in color. They are protected by sharp spines (as javelins).

Injured Death Orm The PCs find an injured (but seemingly dead) death orm

Demarax Demarax bewildered about greenstone shards; wants to eat them, and they're addictive to him like sugar. Gets cranky after they wear off.

AC 19; Atk tail +5 (1d8+2); Mv 15'; SA: Magic Missle 3x3/day, Crystal Storm; SD: Magic absorption (MR 90%); ML: Medium; Fort: +3; Ref: 0; Will: -2

Crystal Storm: save or 1d6: 1-2: Confused by questions for 1d4 rounds; 3-4: blinded by images of another world for 2d4 rounds; 5: blinks for 2d4 rounds; 6: summoned to prime material plane

Encounters:

• Underkith scout party (2d16 under kith, 1 champion, see 30', hear 100') ○ Searching for the House of the Houseless, where lost ascended masters await them to give their life meaning ○ Would ask of the party where they have been and what they have seen ○ Do not understand the Green Flow. Don't interact with it. To them it is like the rocks. ○ Underkith: Between kith and humans, pale flesh, hairless, blind bulging eyes, pinkish-white thin moist skin. ○ Speak a dialect of kith, kith lord can communicate telepathically in any language ○ May see party as source of food ○ Under-kith lord - Beautiful, violet eyes. True form: Wormlike, hairless, skulls covered in thin flesh, black eye sockets, sucker-like mouth ○ Unimpressed by party's sonic ship weapon, will kill on sight. • Escaping youthful descended master ○ Escaping from the Crystal Creche ○ Does not want to be assimilated, fears the Green Flow ○ Nameless, does not understand names ○ Curious about charged greenstone shards, recognises them as brethren, doesn't understand how they become charged. Knows only about uncharged ones ○ After absorbing 5 spell levels, he can recharge a relic like a greenstone shard ○ He is being hunted by 1-3 other Mature Descended Masters • Xrif (p 35) - attempts to burrow into a PC, will drive the PCs to not consume shards, and to find a whole greenstone ○ May leave after 8 points of stamina damage (or 4 HD of lay on hands) ○ Once party has 13+1d24 greenstone shards, urges them to move to the Pyramid of the Ancients ○ Pinch: 1d4 damage, -2 to all rolls for one turn ○ Worm -like creature covered in barbs, hooks and claws • Greenflow minion ○ Clone of Rolley before body swap

Crystal Crèche • Vast complex of birthing chambers, humming machinery, protoplasmic vats, birthing pods • Descended masters are nurtured from base genetic materials to new-birthed adults • Green Flow is pervasive here • Unguarded, and descended masters don't understand threats • One large building. Long tunnel down to the Cavern of the Under-Sun

Sotark the Destroyer • Biological weapon of long lost House Memniscene

• Howling Stones: Where do the tunnels in the mouth lead? • Green gelatinous river underground • Reconcile with the underkith and help them find their ascended master • Acquire a greenstone gem for Zhirh: Heads of Cotcyst and Reagan'Tor each have one • Donate more DNA to Zhirh and her tribe • Pit of Worms • Cotcyst headquarters: Somewhere in the western wastes • Reagan'Tor headquarters: Mobile, smoking; seen last in eastern wastes • Assault the raider fortress in weirdspace (astral plane)

Notes from ZIM:

Created þriðjudagur 24 nóvember 2020

Purple Planet / D&D: How can one seek immortality? Reagan Tor: carbon nanites Cotcyst: Brains perserved on robotic androids

Ideas:

• necromancy (lich, undead)
• Azi Dahaka (or other patrons/gods)
• body rots - spirit doesn't - become incorporeal
• continual replacement of bodies - ie. body swapping machine
• commune with the green flow
• weird experiments to avoid purple sun: mushrooms?
• become stone - long living - mountain kith?
• seek it in objects: stone, carbon/smoke, water, air, fire, etc
• hair doesn't decay as fast: become hair
• time: dramatically slow down time locally somehow? (things from outside would look like a still picture)
• in writing - ascended masters committed themselves to writing, kith carry it on

Forched march: -2 Exploring hex (1/2 speed): +2 Flying: +1

3d5

3 - Storm (dust) 4 - Ambush! 5 - Scouts 6 - Raiders (near) 7 - Death Orm 8 - Gribb 9 - No encounter 10 - No encounter 11 - No encounter 12 - Raiders (distant) 13 - Battle! 14 - Roll on Relics table

• Cotcyst Warband
• 1000 kith strong, but rarely together
• Banner: skinned hide of an albino death orm, held by 17 eye-less standard bearers
  • they gave their eyes willingly as a sign of absolute loyalty
• Ruled by Nam-knir, the Black Queen
  • Description
  • tall
  • long limbs
  • scarred with battle
  • liquid green eyes that flare with emotion
  • Great Helm
  • skull of strekleon, plates of iron
  • Dual Torches
  • combine to make a single 7' beam of crackling plasma
  • keen sense of tactics
  • uncanny ability to anticipate her foes
  • relied upon greatly by Cotcyst
  • Champion Eunuch bodyguards around at all times, shield her in battle
  • Ignorant of the threat posted by the Riders of the Wastes

• Roleplaying:
  • Black Queen mistakes PCs for ascended masters
  • but they must act like centuries-old kith nobility
  • would mate with strongest PCs, this would cause her to betray Cotcyst

Nam-knir, the Black Queen: Init +3; Atk paired plasma torches +6 melee (1d16+4) or death ray +2 ranged (1d5 + DC 10 Fort save to avoid disintegration); AC 15; HD 6d12+10; hp 46; MV 30’; Act 2d20; SV Fort +3, Ref +0, Will +3; AL L.

Champion Eunuchs: Init +2; Atk spiked club +4 melee (1d6+4) or spear +0 ranged (1d8+4); AC 13; HD 3d12+6; hp 40; MV 30’; Act 1d20; SP DC 10 Ref save to take attack on Queen; SV Fort +3, Ref +2, Will +0; AL L.

• Cotcyst Warband
• Subordinate to Company of the Black Queen
• ride great stekleons into battle
• only dozens (~60)
• ride with banners in sattle of greatest kill
• House Cotcyst's deadliest warriors
• wear bone armour and scavenged plates - best kith quality
• wield lances, scavenged blades, and strekleon-quill javelins
• harry foes from afar
• consider themselves above house law
• maintain camps outside the castellum, where they fashion arms, armour, train strekleons
  • camp has 5-15 raiders at a time
  • ready to ride at a moments notice
• Led by Pol-el The Old
  • surly master-at-arms
  • grotesque and hideous
  • once loved the Black Queen until he was spurned
  • seeks to destroy her
  • avoids battle if he can
  • wields great spiked club
  • rides giant albino strekleon
  • quick to retreat
• Roleplaying:
  • loathe to welcome PCs into their ranks
  • only by capturing the Black Queen

Pol-el the Old: Init +0; Atk spiked club +4 melee (1d10+4 dmg) or death ray +2 ranged (1d5 dmg + DC 10 Fort save to avoid disintegration); AC 17; HD 5d12+10; hp 52; MV 30’; Act 2d20; SV Fort +2, Ref +2, Will +3; AL C.

Typical Rider: Init +2; Atk lance +3 melee (1d12+3) or jav- elin +0 ranged (1d6+3); AC 15; HD 3d12+6; hp 35; MV 30’; Act 1d20; SV Fort +3, Ref +2, Will +0; AL L.

• Reagen'Tor Warband
• Tower of billowing cobalt smoke
• stench of scorched flesh
• composed of devotees on holy pilgrimage of ruin
• no warbanners
• Cauldron
  • supported by long poles tied with sinew and fibers
  • blazes and smokes with fiery coals
  • dead members are thrown into the cauldron
  • 30' in the air
  • emits oily blue smoke
  • rays of light direct from cauldron melt flesh - 1d12 per round, DC 15 Fort save for half
  • seven skulls, jaws agape, emitting brilliant green flames
  • SKULLS
  • source of immense power
  • cleric/wiz/thief can master a single skull with a 6-hour ritual culminating in a DC 25 spell check
    • success: +5 bonus to all spell checks
    • each usage: 1% cumulative chance it slips eldritch bonds and melts the flesh from its master (DC 25 Ref save or death)
  • elves have no chance and are immediately destroyed (DC 20 Will save or death)
  • subsequent mastery attempts of other skulls +5 DC spell check
• kith are coated in oily soot and ash, stink of burnt offerings
• crude weapons
  • blunt mushroom stalks
  • rotting strekleon quills
  • bloody femurs
  • armour is rare (and scared to the captain)
  • go naked, believing faith will protect them (those who are killed lack faith)
• howl devotions until throats are raw and bloody
• every act is a ritual: lighting a fire, eating a bite of food
  • cry out curses with every blow
• Pontip
  • 8' gaunt kith, perpetually on the verge of death
  • wears skin robes
  • wields flame-spitted staff of iron
  • specialized plasma torch, spits continuous blue flame
  • consumes any material it touches
  • sign of Pontip's divine favour
  • is slowly going out
  • kept alive by hatred of the heretical
  • blinded by religious zeal
• non believers given one chance to recant their false ways and join the crusade
• Roleplaying:
  • unless PCs disguised, Pontip immediately recognizes them as heretics
  • given single chance to pledge fealty
  • slaying Pontip drives the group mad with fury

The Pontip: Init +0; Atk plasma-tipped staff +0 melee (1d14); AC 9; HD 6d12+10; hp 32; MV 25’; Act 1d20; SV Fort +2, Ref -1, Will +5; AL L.

Zealot: Init +2; Atk claw +2 melee (1d3+2) or flail +0 melee (1d8); AC 10; HD 2d12+6; hp 18; MV 30’; Act 1d20; SV Fort +2, Ref +1, Will +3; AL L.

• once mighty
• only 30 remain
• holy mistress, Prophetess of the Negnib is dead
• wander the wastes, bringing corpse with them
• former lover, a hulking kith champion, believes prophetess is reborn as an ascended master
  • prays twice daily at the corpse
  • casts runes to determine the direction to take
• searching for reborn prophetess
• not long for the world
• Roleplaying
  • mistakes a female PC as the incarnation of the prophetess (judges choice, or worst luck)
  • hurls himself at their feet, screaming chants of praise and relief
  • warband follows
  • party must maintain the illusion
  • Legend of the REborn Prophetess of Negnib will spread

• High, craggy citadel
• impossible to discern whether carved from black basalt spires or worn down by weather
• functions as a fortification
• atop a pass in the Ancestor Peaks
• whoever rules the Redoubt controls access to/from tombs of the ancients
• upon each new moon something emerges from underneath, leaving no one remaining in the morning

• site of a hundred battles
• littered with remains of the dead, bones, ruined reapons, half buried
• scavengers abound
• creatures passing into the hills become irritable and agitated: during argument, make DC 10 Will save or attack (only first attack)
• clans recognize the mysterious power of the hills
• boundaries marked with squat stone cairns
• radius is expanding
• once per year, weakest kith are sent to maintain the circle

• legend among the great houses
• appears only during torrential lightning storms, never in the same place
• coursing river, crashing with whitecaps, where there was none before
• rushing uphill from the wastes to the Ancestor Peaks
• races up the mountains and into hte sky
• Kith report seeing slain comrades in the current, calling for the living to join them
• if any have dared to enter the waters, none returned to tell the tale

• Series of towering stone monuments, carved like enormous heads
• worn and crack, but present noble, pre-kithian profiles
• heads are thrown back, mouths agape, as if to sing of scream
• howling sound that resonates deep within the stone
• only howls at dusk, when air is still
• those hoping to hear the stones lay waiting for weeks
• maws open to gaping throats that plunge down into darkness (maybe entrance to Underplanet)
• each clan claims the statues to be the depictions of their own masters
  • leave offerings of flesh, moonmilk, grisly trophies
    • this attracts scavengers (gribbs, strekleons)
    • it is strictly forbidden to attack the holy scavengers, even in self-defense
    • forbidden to steal the offerings

• eastern slopes of the Ancestor Peaks
• labyrinth of standing stones
• half buried in the sand
• scarred by blows of a thousand blades
• maze stands abandoned and largely forgotten
• when sun and planet's moons come into alignment, clans converge
  • houses cease warring, pilgrims to the maze
  • offer up living sacrifices, to pray for the return of the dying sun