Bestiary

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Alligator

Found in: Sinking Marshes, Elsewhere: sewers, unattended pools and artificial lakes.
Top of the food chain in the Sinkling Marshes, and other sweet water environments..

Has a sweet spot for: mandoline music.

Moves

Gear: one random Weird Stuff in the belly.

Teddy bear

Found in: anywhere in kid’s bedrooms, toy stores, one dollar and pawn shops.
Living teddy bear, pretty much like a bear puppy, except it’s made of acrylic and cotton balls.

Has a sweet spot for cuddles

Moves

Gear: something from your childhood bedroom, in their belly..

Bug storm

Found in: Sinking Marshes, Waterfront
Like a snow storm but of bugs.

Has a sweet spot for bright lights and flowery scents.

Repelled by the smell of gasoline and burned plastic.

Moves

Buffalo Herd

Found in: Sinking Marshes
Peaceful and curious. Constantly hungry for grass.

Loose dogs, and loud bangs make it Charge.

Moves

Flamingo

Found in: Sinking Marshes, in flocks, Highways, lost individual
Majestic pink bird. Way larger than in the magazine pictures.

Likes to strut.

Has a sweet spot crayfish.

Moves

Make a Weird Save the first time a Flamingo makes a move.

Gear: Bracelet containing useful piece of into tied to leg

Dogpack

Found in: everywhere except Sinking Marshes

Half a dozen runaway dogs turned bullies.
The leader is always the smaller one.

Have a soft spot for catching balls.

Move

Lynnen Medusa

Found in: Sleep Country, Waterfront, Mall Nation
Tennis ball-sized floating Jellyfish
Emits low pulsating light in a variety of colors.
Filled with flammable gas.

Is always an Omen for something good.

Moves

Half Dead Teenager

Found anywhere, next to former cool places turned into gloomy spots, at night, or when nobody is around.
Like a bored teenager, except they’re a living dead, and can’t speak or think straight.
Has a sweet spot for casual chatting and fresh human meat.

Moves

Gear roll one of each Stuff, Tech Stuff, Weird

Fawn

Found in: Sleep Country, near woods, ,golf clubs and parks.
Gentle and cute like the ones in fairy tales.
Seeks refuge in back yards whenever Miracles roam nearby.

Has a soft spot for harp music.

Moves

Monster wave

Found in: Waterfront in Big Blue

Wandering solitary wave.
Feels so lonely, and longs for an embrace with other beings and things.
Appears usually at dusk, or at night. Can’t speak, but understands humans.

Has a soft spot for poetry.

Moves

Gear: a corpse covered in barnacles and algae

Quick Mud

Found in: Sinking Marshes, Waterfront
Voracious living mud. Acts like quicksand and loves to swallow people and small animals passing by.

Every time someone stuck in a Quick Mud fails at an action roll, they sink deeper.

Has a sweet spot for hushed voices.

Moves

Gear: human bones, one Stuff, one Weird Stuff

Rainbow parrots

Found anywhere in abandoned buildings, or lush woods and gardens
Small birds with a shimmering multicolored plumage
Comes only in large flocks.

Hates whatever causes loud sounds

Moves

Skull Moth

Found in: all the Districts
Hand sized moth, bears a terrifying skull drawing on the back.

Always an omen for something bad.
Has a soft spot for sugar and honey.

Moves

Spider Nest

Found anywhere in old houses and buildings.
Likes to hide in closets, or behind long closed doors.
Comes in a variety of sizes from cherry to orange.
Hundreds of spiders, one shared mind.

Attracted by fear

Moves

Tape Worm

Found anywhere in cheap street or college food.
A few meters long.
Disgusting.

Has a soft spot lipstick, whatever that means.

Moves

Trashman

Found in: Mall Nation, Highways

Was probably a human at some point. Now they’re just a vaguely anthropomorphic flesh-less figure, made of trash.
Endangered species.
Terrified of fire. Catching fire makes them Puke.

Has a sweet spot for garbage bags.

Moves

Waterdog

Found in: Sinking Marshes
As big as a hyena. Constantly wet.

As fast as a fish when underwater.

Has a sweet spot for canned food

Fears nothing but Alligators

Moves

Wild Horse

Found in: Arid plots of land, abandoned parking lots, dusty roads or near dumpsters of Sleep Country, Desert, Highways, Mall Nation
Once elegant, now scrubby and famished.

Has a sweet spot for kindness

Moves

Zombie cat

Found anywhere, at night
Like a normal street cat except they miss an eyeball, their ribcage partially pierces the skin, and they’re a living dead.

Has a sweet spot of warm blood.

Moves

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