Thecreepfromsixfeetdeep

thecreepfromsixfeetdeep

Art trade for @iguanodont featuring a collection of their beasts!

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Thrash as the human he used to be, sketched by the wonderful @plebies! As a human his name was Emmett, but he chose a fake name after being turned into a monster in an attempt to save his reputation. What would his friends say? What if his father found out!? He'd be ruined! The fact that this was such a high priority should tell you something about the kinda guy he used to be. The amulet around his neck said 'We without as you are within', so naturally he assumed someone was trying to frame him and ruin his good name!

But if he pretended to be someone else... it would avoid any embarrassment while he figured out how to get this pesky curse removed. He's still working on that part.

However, he was never that creative, so when the owner of the tavern asked his name all he could think of was the main character of a pulpy adventure novel 'Thrash the Barbarian!'. Sometimes he regrets his choice (it doesn't exactly help with people assuming he's some kind of wild beast), but he's pretty much stuck with it now!

Mystery: Oh, How the Iron Coffin Hungers!

There’s been a rash of graverobberies across the kingdom that have the authorities suspecting necromancy. For their part, the necromancer’s guild has nothing to do with these crimes and is willing to hire your party to help clear their name. The investigation will lead you to through tombs, black markets, and haunted crossroads of the realm, as it becomes clear the culprits are seeking far more than coin or corpses at the bottom of those defiled graves.

Clues & Complications:

A missing body is usually a dead giveaway that a necromancer has been involved in a grave robbery, as most criminals only care about grabbing what valuables they can and wouldn’t result to bodysnatching unless someone was going to pay them for it. How unusual then when a few of the bodies begin turning up days after they were exhumed, one in an abandoned cellar, one on the side of the road, and one in a completely different town, which may give a hint as to the culprit’s movements.

Working for necromancers has its benefits, the guild is aware of the habits of the corpse trade (only in a theoretical sense, you understand, yes?) and can use their magic to extract information from the cadavers. Strangely enough it appears all the corpses bear the marks of previous magical questioning, hinting that it might be information the robbers were after, not flesh or treasure.

The bodies all belong to minor gentry or well-to-do merchants, the ideal targets for graverobbers who don’t mind breaking into a tomb or fussing with a trap (both of which the party might have to do during their investigation) if it means access to better plunder. If the party press deeper however they’ll notice a recurring symbol, on a ring or a tattoo or etched into the gravemarker, resembling the crudest sketch of a jawbone.

Just like it seems the party is getting answers, the corpses they’ve been trailing sit up and lunge for the nearest individual’s throat, transformed by dark power into a rampaging ghoul. Chaos ensues as this awakening occurs not just with those corpses that have already been found, but also with those that were previously undiscovered as well as a half dozen or more random bodies scattered across the countryside. Though they seem too possessed with hunger to be capable of speech, if the party manage to restrain one of the ghouls and sate its unholy hunger, they may just get the last few clues they’re looking for.

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The adopted father of Barden, scholar of the Sang’s and Librarian of the Tomeloft, the firbolg Mountain Sang has much on his shoulders and so much love in his heart.     And he is trying his best. Meet him in Strange Hungers, A DND livestream I’m part of, link below to the twitch!