Zombeans
Phaseolus vulgaris lemurum
Appearance: essentially, it’s an Undead bush colored a particularly unpleasant shade of mottled white, brown, and purple. The bush is mildly mobile, but moves very slowly. Zombeans are digestable, vaguely nutritious, and (barely) edible.
Hell Aphids
Description: take an aphid, make it about ten inches long, and give it fangs that drip foul smelling sugar. Hell Aphids have working wings, a white carapace streaked with purple and green blotches, and typically make any number of unpleasant sounds. Hell Aphids do register as faintly magical, if such spells exist in the campaign.
Hurricane Ghosts – Google Docs
Hurricane Ghosts
Strictly speaking, they’re not exactly ghosts. Well, they’re not supernatural ghosts. Turns out that the fluid dynamics equations needed to model hurricanes are sufficiently complex that they can break the boundary line between ‘very baroque mathematics’ and ‘straight up magic.’ It all depends on whether there’s an esoterically inclined idiot of sufficient power in close enough proximity to the storm.
Epiphany Dryads
Description: Essentially, it’s a dryad zombie. Resembles a regular dryad, except that the bark/skin is visibly rotting off, the eyes are pure white, the hands are extended to nightmarish lengths, and what needles still remain attached are black and oozing. Epiphany Dryads never speak.
My wife summed this one up pretty neatly: “So, these are magic squirrels, then.” …Yeah, that’s fair.
Squirrelnet AIs
Somebody will pay for this, to be sure. Somebody will pay most grievously — assuming that they can be found. Whoever it was hid his, her, or its tracks very thoroughly. Note the ‘it,’ by the way: the authorities have still not definitively ruled out that Earth is undergoing a fairly bizarre alien invasion right now.
Glitch Parasites – Google Docs
Glitch Parasites
Demon possession is a dynamic field of study; there’s always something new coming down the pike. Possessed masks, rings, swords, mirrors, paintings, cars — every culture has an item that can be hijacked by Infernal interdimensional parasites, and it looks like our item will end up being ‘smartphones.’ Please don’t act surprised at that.
I apologize in advance.
Mecha Virus
Marrowslugs
Description: a foot-long slug with a circular mouth on one end, with the requisite sawtooth fangs. Marrowslugs smell hideous, are grey-yellow in color, and constantly exude a somewhat toxic mucus that acts as a powerful sedative and hallucinogen. Marrowslug attacks are downright disgusting, and easily fatal if the victim isn’t treated in time.
Mad Science never really goes away; it just finds new and exciting fields of study to batten off of. And it doesn’t matter if the new field seems fairly exotic already. Like, say, genetic engineering; your typical Mad Scientist will just simply go farther into the Febrile Lore for the necessary inspiration. Mad Science is not really a rigorous scientific discipline, in other words. It’s basically a state of mind.
Asakku
Asakku are ancient Mesopotamian fever demons. In appearance they are about three or so inches high, look like the usual mishmash of animal body parts (dog’s head, lion’s legs, bird’s claws and wings), and are generally accompanied by a hot, dry breeze. They attack humans by infecting them with serious fevers, headaches, and exhaustion. And they’ve always been around.
Vampbears
Description: imagine a koala with grey or white fur, red eyes, and delicate fangs. Increase its size to about two feet and have it walk upright. Vampbears can be trained to don and wear boots, hats, and coats (to protect them from harmful UV rays); their front paws are somewhat clumsy at tasks, but serviceable.
They’re small! They’re cute! They’re cuddly! They’re supernatural bloodsuckers! I guess that there’s always a catch, huh?
