Please do not Take these Organs

Please do not [T]ake these Organs by JamesLeng
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An old school dice-based dungeon crawl, where individual suggesters control their own hapless adventurers.

This article contains spoilers! You were warned.

Player Characters

For long form character sheets, see here.

Listed in order of introduction, sorted by act.

Act 2

The currently active session.

Character	Class	Specialization	Summary	Player
Maru Red	Tiefling Townie	Skald	A boisterous and bawdy musical brawler hungry for fame and afraid of being forgotten, with a spectral axe earned in an act of bloody vengeance at her beck and call.	Santova
Hore Wutashi	Gnoll-Human Hybrid Hedge Witch	Outsider Shaman	An erratic, bloodthirsty, and shameless cybernetically-enhanced murder-gnoll, complete with variable arm cannon.	Kome
Decaro Vos	Eel-man Soldier	Grappling	The friendly and good hearted paladin of a benign tentacle goddess, blessed with the power of holy mutation. Currently sporting a third eye, a crab claw, and naga tail.	strngy
Davina / Viste	Human Rich Bastard	Fencer	A noble swordswoman capable of cutting portals in air, prone to hologram flickering, and host to an extraplaner horror. Moonlights as a magical girl and seeks to restore her fallen house.	mageykun
Eric Grimwald	Human Rich Bastard	Commanding Others	A lonely soul, possessing a disquieting appetite and difficulties with conventional healing. He seeks the immortality of undeath and a bride with which to share eternity.	GB
Yisheng Ji	Half-Avian Hedge Witch	Healing / Medicine	A dour and serious medical professional in the style of an eastern cultivator. Capable of moving weightlessly, possesses perfect balance, and seeks true immortality.	Tunic
Maria Agate	Human Hedge Witch	Purifying Light	A fighting nun of a family order who wields a searing, purging light to combat evil and the undead. Skilled with knots and more abstract wards and bindings.	The Archivist
Daniel Agate	Human Hedge Witch	Purification	Maria's brother, and the black sheep of the family due to his homosexuality and a non-combative manifestation of the familial gift: an aura capable of repelling or purging poisons, curses and disease.	The Archivist
Djan Seriv	Elf (Orc) Soldier	Slinger	A soldier-turned-deserter who has the ability to manipulate most metals like putty, with the exception of a painful allergy to gold. He hopes to find both peace and revenge.	DanZapman
Rhea	Half-goblinoid Hedge Witch	Empathic Fire	A cheerful and somewhat guileless half-goblin fire priestess, from the deep underground. On a pilgrimage to the surface in service of her real passion as a dessert chef (and an unhealthy fascination with the sun).	mageykun
Geoffrey Vargas	Human Rich Bastard	Escapology and Evasion	A former Royal Guardsman, professional coward and most recently (and mostly accidentally) an ancestral sorcerer. A sigil burned into his flesh warns him of danger, but also attracts it to him.	Riotmode
Helen Nabot	Human Townie	Deception / Gall	An older intellectual and scholar, bearing a curse on her back (literally and figuratively) which she believes is slowly consuming her past. She's turned to dangerous adventuring in search of ancient secrets and a possible cure.	strngy
Azure Youngmason	Phoenix Blooded Harpy Rich Bastard	Entrancing Song	A self absorbed and flighty avian who expects to breeze through trouble with some combination of fast talking, sex appeal, her brutish slave, Pog, and conditional combustible immortality.	Kome
Isaiah, son of Elohim	Necrolithograph Hedge Witch	Death Domain	An ambulatory suit of armor with the mind of a twelve year old boy who ineptly attempts to conceal his unnatural condition. Prophet of Hanspur, blessed with the power to divine the wisdom of roads.	Santova
Pog Roastchester	Orc Soldier	Tank	Azure's slave and a being of astonishingly limited intellect and prodigious strength and resilience. Possesses porcine features and appearance.	Kome
Malkov	Human Hedge Witch	Lightning/Undead-Bane Chi Powers	A clawed and scarred martial artist and former victim of necromatic experiments who now seeks to destroy both the undead and their masters.	The Archivist
Wendy	Human Hedge Witch	“Miracles”	An ambitious tinker and gadgeteer with a holy touch, persecuted and driven from her home. Venom drips in both her words and teeth.	The Archivist

Group I, The (New) Fire Hawks

Maru, Hore, Vos, Davina, Ji, Maria, Daniel

Group II, The Jailbirds

Rhea, Azure

Group III, The Dungeoneers

(a) Geoffrey, Helen, Isaiha, Pog
(b) Malkov
(c) Wendy

Demoted to NPC

Eric, Djan

Act 1

The original session, which died after we spent an entire thread faffing around setting up a pirate ship.

Character	Class	Specialization	Summary	Player
Marijke	Hedge Witch	Suggestion / Mental influences		mageykun
Sgt. Nick	Soldier	Intuition
"Sir" Garaile	Soldier	Single combat		Tunic
Nico Nashville	Townie	Bluff / Acting		CalimariGod
Yeven Surgis	Rich Bastard	Demons		Bad transetor
Than	Soldier	Sharpshooter
Dimitry "the White Snake" Nicola	Townie	Stealth, assassination, thievery
Letkra	Rich Bastard	Spear-dancing		Mitsukara
Riv	Hedge Witch	Alchemy / Artificing		Santova
Ravenous Llyr	Soldier	Tracking / Hunting		Tunic
Stone	Hedge Witch	Spirits		Santova

Races / Species

Known sapient mortal creatures (as opposed to animals and vermin on the one hand, or ageless spirits on the other) fall into five broad categories. Generally, any two members of the same category can produce fertile offspring, and parents of two different races will produce a child of neither parent's race, but within the same category. Mating across categories doesn't usually yield children at all, unless powerful sorcery is used to force the issue or one of the parents is a disguised dragon, in which case the resultant hybrid is usually sterile.

Even in-universe, these categories are incomplete, and do not account for everything.

• Elvenoids

  Would probably be called "humanoids" if elves weren't so stuck-up and insistent on defining the language around themselves. Not a lot of natural variation beyond the cosmetic, although (as cases like White Snake demonstrate) they're the most vulnerable to magical mutation.

  • Elves

    Mature an order of magnitude slower than orcs and humans, and have not been conclusively proven to die of old age.

  • Humans
  • Orcs
  • Eel-men

    Traditionally lives in or near Freshwater along the estuaries and large bodies of water that pepper the area near the coast. Reproductive R-strategists, they travel to the sea to lay many eggs. No bloodline inheritance, hatchlings that survive the trip back to an eelfolk settlement are adopted and communally raised. Tittivila worship is common. Ritualistic and/or pragmatic cannibalism is practiced as a form of respect for the dead.

  • Fishlike sapient amphibians (and non-amphibians)
• Eohippoids

  Can mostly be described in terms of combinations of human, equine, and avian traits.

  • Dwarves
    • Green Dwarves
  • Harpies
  • Centaurs
  • Minotaurs
  • Mound-Builders
  • Satyrs
  • Sphinxes
• Goblinoids
  • Goblins
    • Forest Goblins
    • Tidepool Goblins
  • Hobgoblins
  • Man-wise Wolves
  • Blink Dogs
  • Squidlike Sapient Amphibians
• Dragons
  • Blue

    Breathes lightning

  • Bronze

    Breathes lightning

  • Various other colors / types
• Troll-kin

  Unusual in that many of them aren't generally known to reproduce at all by conventional means.

  • Trolls

    True Trolls have a two-stage life cycle: a sapient bipedal hermaphrodite with hands suited for tool use, and a tangled serpent which grows additional heads when wounded. Sloughed or severed heads develop arms, legs, viscera, and self-awareness in no particular order.

    • Mountain Trolls
  • Hags
  • Huldra

    Make no damn sense physiologically: they could be mistaken for elvenoids, apart from the fox tails, but instead of a spinal column they've got a gaping hole, and instead of a normal array of vital organs, the inside of a huldra's torso looks like a hollow rotten log.

  • Lamias
  • Medusas
• Other

  Various creatures that don't fit neatly within the dracocracy's scholarly taxonomy. (As well as those that perhaps do, but have not been properly categorized due to player ignorance).

  • Neogi / Eel-ticks
  • Umber Hulks
  • Ghouls
  • Gug

Languages

Characters can have fluency on a scale of 0-3, where 2 is enough to avoid "my hovercraft is full of eels"-level errors. Spoken and written tracked separately.

This list merely covers those languages we have personally encountered; it can be safely assumed there are many more.

• Humish / Low Draconic

  The presumed default for most adventurers, unless otherwise specified.

• High Draconic

  Scholarly research tends to be written in High Draconic, but it'd be unusual for any non-dragon to have fluency in spoken High Draconic above 1, due to a mix of deliberate secrecy and physiological limitations.

• Elvish

  Elven language has two spoken dialects (green and white), which are similar enough that it's impossible to achieve full fluency in one without at least minimal comprehension of the other, but only a single written form, consisting of densely-packed ideograms. Elves also have their own system of sign language.

• Elemental Languages
  • Elemental Fire / Flametongue
  • Elemental Water / Seatongue
  • Elemental Earth / Rocktonque
  • Elemental Air / Skytongue
  • Elemental Wood / Forest-tonque
• Orcish Intertribal Trade Pidgin
  • Specific Tribal / Familial Dialects (Various)
• Quenyl

  No spoken form, just ideograms and sign language best performed by pairs of three-fingered hands sharing an elbow.

• Ghoulish
• Dwarven / Harpese

  Thought to be a distant relative of rocktongue, though any lingering similarities are readily apparent only to the most cunning linguists.

• Goblinese
• Liturgical (Various)

Gallery

Official

Maps

Battle site, Greznek Fort

Seacoast

Eel-tick Base

Goyle Base

Fanart

Letkra By Mitsukara

Vos By strngy

Also Vos By mageykun

Geoffrey By Riotmode

Geoffrey By Riotmode

By GB

By strngy

Davina By mageykun

Rhea By Riotmode

Maps

Cubic Cart of Holding By mageykun

Bloodmist Labyrinth (Part II) By mageykun

Overworld (initial rough) By mageykun