Mycomorph background for Cairn
Mycomorph
Formed of an amalgamation of cadaverous flesh and voracious fungus you are one of the 'twice born'. As an ambulatory fungus built on a corpse, whose fleeting memories you may sometimes glimpse, you lead a dual life in which the past and the future, life and death, coexist in something like harmony. You require water, but not rations, though your fungal body must feed on dead or decaying organic matter.
Names
Mockbridge, Ashwine, Kirth, Purplebeck, Rendmoor, Headhill, Pearthika
Starting Gear
- Water (3 uses)
- Torch (3 uses)
- Rubbery flesh-armor (1)
- Roll on Vaarn Weapon and Armor tables once each
- Roll twice on Vaarn Gear table
What characteristic resides in your fungal flesh? Roll 1d6:
- Your outer skin is bioluminescent.
- Your fungal 'head' is covered by an eye garden. You cannot be surprised.
- Your flesh is poisonous to most organic life.
- Your body is ridiculously flexible.
- Your flesh exudes a pheromone that can either lure or repel creatures.
- Your body is not only light enough to float in water, but is also covered in bladders that can be filled with air or other substances to provide additional buoyancy.
What gift has your second life granted? Roll 1d6:
- Radiotrophic: You are not harmed by radiation that would kill most other creatures. In fact you are able to feed on it.
- Omnivorous: You can feed on any substance, not merely the decaying flesh most of your kin consume, whether it be plastic, metal, or stone.
- Psychedelic spores: You are able to expel a cloud of spores in a 360 degree radius which will induce a hallucinogenic episode in any organic creatures nearby (blast, once/day).
- Self-replication: You are able to create a short-lived clone of yourself that shares your stats and can follow simple commands. After d6 hours the clone will whither and die (once/day).
- Acidic touch: You can secrete an acid that is able to eat through organic matter that you touch (d6 damage/round).
- Telepathic: You have no mouth and cannot speak or make sounds in the normal way, but you are able to communicate telepathically (and perceive telepathic communications nearby).