Saturday, January 28, 2012

'Pretty Boys' An Illicit Substance & Monster Encounter for Your Old School Space Opera

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'Pretty Boys' are a  fungus found on the temperate world of Donivons out on the galactic pan handle. This world is known for the exotic fungus it produces. This one grows on the dead brains of the animal life of the planet.
The cycle is short only 1 week of subject game time. The stuff sprouts from the head of the dead bringing with it bits of skull & decay. The structure of the fungus terribly resembles a humanoid brain as well. The stuff must be injected into the upper nostrils of the user where it seeps into the brain like a living thing.  Those who take the stuff are overwhelmed by memories of other races, places, & times. The physical appearance of the user changes slightly as skin pigmentation, eye coloring, & even vestal antenna are known to sprout from the user's forehead. Users are subject to berserk under its influence for 1d3 turns & then fall into a euphoric trance .
 Users increase Constitution, Stamina, & Strength by 1d3 points & for a time they are able to breath in toxic atmospheres. There are reports from those who use this substance that there is an increase in sexual prowess as well. Those offspring born of such unions resemble neither parent & are often sold to mining concerns as labors & slaves. They breath much easier within the toxic atmospheres of planets like Dephi 3, Alpha 6, etc.  Make a constitution check to breath within such places after 1d3 turns the body adapts! They make excellent  pit fighters
 Amazingly at the end of the lives of these offspring a colony of this fungus will sprout from the head & bloom again.
20 credits for 6 uses of the drug but this drug is only available out on the galactic pan handle.

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