Creatures of Orrosh 2
Part 2 – Pelemafait to Whisperer
Below is a list of creatures that were converted from Torg to Dark Conspiracy. These are from the Creatures of Orrosh Sourcebook. I only picked the creatures that were either not already in Dark Conspiracy or that I thought would fit.Included with each creature is a Dark Conspiracy Tie-In section, which are suggested ways to work the creature into the Dark Conspiracy Mythos. The GM can choose to use these creatures anyway he or she sees fit. This is why not a lot of background and “fleshing out” is written here – primarily to leave the GM with maximum flexibility without loosing the feel of the original creature design. Sections like The Mythology , The Reality , The Behavior and Reproduction are left open for the GM to interpret.
Pelemafait
| Strength | 15 | Empathy | 6 |
| Constitution | 15 | Initiative | 5 |
| Agility | 5 | Move | 5/14/24/40 |
| Intelligence | 5 | Skill/Dam | 5/4D6 |
| Education | 3 | Hits | 75/150 |
| Charisma | 3 | Appear | 1D3 |
Notes
Legends of swamps creatures are all over. Tall humanoid creature, seemingly made up of swamp fauna. Particular vulnerable to a very rare flower and a very rare wood from the swamps of their origin.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Crushing Grapple, moss-enshrouded body adds armor
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
None
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Swamp-thing or swamp bigfoot legends.
Pop Weasel
Pop Weasel gets into a whole new class of creatures: Demonic Toys. Yet another project for another time.
Possessed Marsupial
Yet another subject that would need larger expansion than just a simple conversion: Possessed Animals and Beasties.
Puppeteer
| Strength | 11 | Empathy | 4 |
| Constitution | 10 | Initiative | 3 |
| Agility | 9 | Move | 8/20/35/60 |
| Intelligence | 8 | Skill/Dam | 5/4D6 |
| Education | 7 | Hits | 80/160 |
| Charisma | 6 | Appear | 1 |
Notes
4-meter tall humanoid that appear as giant carnival puppeteers, complete with the X-shaped puppeteers frame with strings. Only the puppet is missing. Using arcane magics of its protodimension and an item that is close to the victim, the puppeteer can eventually gain full in control of the victim. It’s a slow process starting with bruises on the victims hands and feet, and eventually ending in a viscous dance that kills the victim. During this process, the puppeteer is always close by to the victim somewhere in the shadows.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Claws
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
Human Empathy
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Not really sure how to use this one, but I thought I would include it anyway. Can be linked to the same cursed Carnival Killjoys are found.
Quatulpi
| Strength | 8 | Empathy | 2 |
| Constitution | 7 | Initiative | 5 |
| Agility | 6 | Move | 3/9/18/25 |
| Intelligence | 2 | Skill/Dam | 6/1D6 |
| Education | 2 | Hits | 10/12 |
| Charisma | 2 | Appear | 3D6 |
Notes
Originally deterrents against rival tribes, like scarecrows or wards, they are made up of human flesh (usually the head) strapped to a wooden frame about 4 ft high. The quickest way of destroying the Quatulpi is to destroy the head.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Wooden hands, teeth
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
None
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
This is a form of an animated object, but just creepy enough to be given some attention.
Rashnaya
| Strength | 10 | Empathy | 7 |
| Constitution | 8 | Initiative | 6 |
| Agility | 9 | Move | 5/10/15 |
| Intelligence | 11 | Skill/Dam | 3/1D10 |
| Education | 10 | Hits | 110/200 |
| Charisma | 14 | Appear | 1 |
Notes
In it’s natural state, it’s upper body is of a stunningly beautiful human woman, and the lower half of a giant red worm. She exists to exploit the fantasies of Prole and Mike men. Using her shapechanging ability, she can appear to be their victim’s perfect woman. Like a incubi or a succubi, the seduce their victim to drain the life force from them. This process is slow, and in the meantime, the victim is a slave to the Rashnaya. The victim’s willpower is drained, and hypnotized to do her bidding. Once she is done with the victim, she wraps her tail around him, and feeds on him.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Tail attack, scale Armor
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
Empathic Hypnosis, Will Power Drain, Life Drain, Shapechange
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Succubi or inccbi storyline.
Reaper’s Blossom
(Stats for Host Body)
| Strength | 8 | Empathy | 1 |
| Constitution | 7 | Initiative | 3 |
| Agility | 8 | Move | 2/7/13/25 |
| Intelligence | 8 | Skill/Dam | 6/2D6-1 |
| Education | 7 | Hits | 20/40 |
| Charisma | 1 | Appear | 3D6 |
Notes
A Dark Lord named Ramulus, hailing from a protodimension that is dominated by planet life, experimented with some the local plant life to create this nightmare. It is believed that he himself had fallen prey to one of his creations. Physically, it’s an attractive flowered plant, with a sweet fragrance. It attacks an unsuspecting victim when he attempts to smell or otherwise admire the plant up close. It sprays toxic spores into the victims face. The victim is overtaken by allergic reactions (coughing, etc). The Victim must make a successful Difficult: Strength to expel the spores. If not, the spores will grow to take over the victim. The plant painfully over takes the body until the body dies then it is in complete control. If the host body or the plant is immersed in empathic-enhanced water (holy water), the plant is destroyed.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Normal human attacks. Spore Attacks
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
None
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Twisted Zombie plot-line
Rotary Mower of Doom
These appear to be just another version of Animated objects. I left them to that class of creature.
Sargasso Weed
| Strength | 18 | Empathy | 4 |
| Constitution | 20 | Initiative | 4 |
| Agility | 12 | Move | 13/25/50 |
| Intelligence | 4 | Skill/Dam | 9/2D10 |
| Education | 3 | Hits | 80/150 |
| Charisma | 1 | Appear | 1 |
Notes
Giant seaweed that covers areas larger than a football field. Ships have been known to get caught in it, the crew killed by mysterious “weed men”. It stays underneath the water during clear days, and surfaces during foggy or particular dark nights.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Entangle (either ship or person), Straggle. Weed-Men have normal human attacks and weed attacks, but remain attached to the main body my a weed “umbilical”.
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
None
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
A large enough amount can fool a captain that he sees an island. I saw a movie once where a hole society of people lived on a moving island of stuff like this, since the early 16th century and had a whole religion based around it. They lived in cities of the abandoned ships trapped in the weed. Something like that can be done. I don’t remember the movie’s name.
Scarecrow
Yet another version of Animated objects. I left them to that class of creature.
Screaming Blue Murder
| Strength | 2 | Empathy | 5 |
| Constitution | 3 | Initiative | 3 |
| Agility | 5 | Move | 2/4/8/15 |
| Intelligence | 10 | Skill/Dam | 3/1D6 |
| Education | 8 | Hits | 18/30 |
| Charisma | 12 | Appear | 1 |
Notes
Small creatures resembling human babies, except for their pale blue hue to their skin, and a knowing-look in their eyes that goes way beyond their apparent age. They appear as lost babies in the woods and remote area, luring their victims with whimpers and baby cries. These cries empathically play on a woman’s motherly instincts and she must make a Difficult Willpower to resist going in after the child. Every moment the victim holds the child, the difficulty raises one level. The person is compelled to care for it, and will neglect her own needs to try. Once the victim is near death with malnutrition and dehydration, the child lets loose a sonic cry, killing it’s victim when their ear drums and the blood vessels around the brain burst.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Sonic Scream
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
Human Empathy
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Strange day care deaths. Baby found in forest legend.
Sewer Tendrils
| Strength | 12 | Empathy | 6 |
| Constitution | 9 | Initiative | 6 |
| Agility | 9 | Move | 20 |
| Intelligence | 9 | Skill/Dam | 6/1D6 per Tendril |
| Education | 3 | Hits | 15/30 per Tendril |
| Charisma | 3 | Appear | 4D6 |
Notes
Haunting the sewer systems of major cities and suburbs, these creatures consist of sewer slime, and sum, with discernable blood-red eyeballs at the very end of the tentacles. No one has been able to determine what the tendrils lead to, or where they originate from. They attack unsuspecting victims through plumbing fixture drains, and the plumbing systems. Each tendrils gets an attack to strangle their victim.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Entangle, Strangle
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
None
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Sewer haunts
Shadow Steed
| Strength | 12 | Empathy | 6 |
| Constitution | 11 | Initiative | 5 |
| Agility | 8 | Move | 15/20/50 |
| Intelligence | 9 | Skill/Dam | 6/6D6 (Trample) |
| Education | 11 | Hits | 35/70 |
| Charisma | 5 | Appear | 3D6 |
Notes
Shadow steeds appear as black stallions with fiery eyes, and their lower-body is insubstantial like dark mist. They are very stealthy. It is able to pass through solid objects, and trample victims on the other side. It can switch from solid to ethereal at will, using dimensional walking ability. They like to charge their victim, and either trample or head butt it to death.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Extremely Stealthy. Head butt attack, Trample attack
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
Shapechange to Shadow Mist. Dimensional Walk
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Anything involving a horse or rider legend
Shambler
| Strength | 13 | Empathy | 6 |
| Constitution | 12 | Initiative | 5 |
| Agility | 7 | Move | 2/10/15/30 |
| Intelligence | 7 | Skill/Dam | 5/4D6 |
| Education | 4 | Hits | 60/120 |
| Charisma | 4 | Appear | 1 |
Notes
A writhing mass of decaying plant matter, it originates in deep woods or swamps. Some think it’s a resurrected Pelemafait, while others think it’s a necromantic arranged creature like a Chthon. It assumes humanoid form (roughly), and haunt regions it is summoned to kill passer-byers.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Normal Melee Unarmed attacks, Entangle attack with plant matter, Armor bonus. Vulnerability to fire
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
None
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Other swamp-thing legends, see Pelemafait
Skinwalker
| Strength | 9 | Empathy | 7 |
| Constitution | 8 | Initiative | 4 |
| Agility | 10 | Move | 2/8/14/20 |
| Intelligence | 8 | Skill/Dam | 6/2D6 |
| Education | 9 | Hits | 20/45 |
| Charisma | 7 | Appear | 5D6 |
Notes
A form of zombie that appears as a walking skinless corpse, with decaying body fluids oozing out all pours. It hunts human victims to gain a means to disguise itself. Once the prey is found, the skinwalker will bite and inject a paralyzing poison into the victim. Once the victim is paralyzed (after necessary STR rolls – GM discretion) while the person can still see, hear, smell, and feel, the skinwalker in a safe lace, will proceed to remove the skin of the victim in one piece. The skinwalker is very methodical in it’s process. Once the skin is removed, the skinwalker cracks open the skull and eats the brains of the victim, this allowing the skinwalker to absorb the victims memories. The skinwalker will then proceed to reshape it’s own body to fit the skin-body glove.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Normal Melee Unarmed attacks, Claws
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
Shapechange to any normal human body type
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Any zombie plot
Skull Worms
| Strength | 1 | Empathy | 1 |
| Constitution | 1 | Initiative | 2 |
| Agility | 7 | Move | 1 |
| Intelligence | 8 | Skill/Dam | 6/2D6 |
| Education | 1 | Hits | 15/25 |
| Charisma | 1 | Appear | 4D6 |
Notes
Dull red worms no more than an inch long, the are always on the move, seeking animal brain material to feed on and lay their eggs in. They secrete an acid that allows them to burrow though an animal’s skull. After laying it’s eggs, the worm dies. When the eggs hatch, the person dies. They typically reside in dark areas underground, or in caves.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Acid attack to burrow into skull
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
None
Spawn of Sabathina
Because Dark Conspiracy doesn’t have real “vampyres”, so to speak, the Spawn of Sabathina really didn’t fit in the game world.
Spulg
This is just another version of a Mimic, so just use those stats.
Sword Soul
Possessed objects and semi-intelligent objects are another subject on it’s own.
Tauntors
| Strength | 4 | Empathy | 5 |
| Constitution | 6 | Initiative | 7 |
| Agility | 9 | Move | 35/70 |
| Intelligence | 5 | Skill/Dam | 6/3D6 |
| Education | 5 | Hits | 20/40 |
| Charisma | 5 | Appear | 1D6 |
Notes
Tauntors are a form of gremlin that like to torture humans through their use of tricks, mimicry, and ventriloquism. They like to drive their victims insane by making them think they are hearing things, and haunting them endlessly with taunts and tricks, disrupting the victims day-to-day lives. Then, once he thinks he has his victim on the edge of a break down, he lures them into a secluded area and tortures them to death. They at times, appear in groups, and are usually cowardly when alone. All tauntors like blades of any kind, especially if they are particularly painful.
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Normal unarmed melee attacks. Blades of any kind.
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
Human Empathy
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
These creatures can be behind disgruntled employees going crazy, or a mother killing her family in a fit of insane rage.
Teddy Bear of Doom
Animated objects, again.
The Blood
| Strength | 7 | Empathy | 7 |
| Constitution | 8 | Initiative | 3 |
| Agility | 9 | Move | 1/4/8 |
| Intelligence | 6 | Skill/Dam | 6/2D6 |
| Education | 9 | Hits | 50/60 |
| Charisma | 5 | Appear |
1D6 |
Notes
The blood has two forms – one is it’s liquid form, the other is the host form. In its liquid native form, it is like a blood red amoebae, moving about searching for a host. It invades a live or recently dead body (and re-animating the dead body), and proceeds to devour the solid organic matter in the body (bones, organs). The body slowly becomes a bloated bag of gelatinous Blood, only remotely preserving it’s humanoid form. The new Blood-creature develops circular mouths on what once was the hands of the victim. It feeds and occasionally tries to spread and create new Blood-hosts though the mouths
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Normal unarmed melee attack. Bite from mouths in hands, while a Blood-host creature. Bite can infect victim.
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
None
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Mysterious virus creature.
Throaths
| Strength | Empathy | ||
| Constitution | Initiative | ||
| Agility | Move | ||
| Intelligence | Skill/Dam | ||
| Education | Hits | ||
| Charisma | Appear |
Notes
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Tidal Tanglers
| Strength | Empathy | ||
| Constitution | Initiative | ||
| Agility | Move | ||
| Intelligence | Skill/Dam | ||
| Education | Hits | ||
| Charisma | Appear |
Notes
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
True Rakashasa
Ungren
| Strength | Empathy | ||
| Constitution | Initiative | ||
| Agility | Move | ||
| Intelligence | Skill/Dam | ||
| Education | Hits | ||
| Charisma | Appear |
Notes
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Unliving Occultist
Vaskk
| Strength | Empathy | ||
| Constitution | Initiative | ||
| Agility | Move | ||
| Intelligence | Skill/Dam | ||
| Education | Hits | ||
| Charisma | Appear |
Notes
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In
Whisperers
| Strength | Empathy | ||
| Constitution | Initiative | ||
| Agility | Move | ||
| Intelligence | Skill/Dam | ||
| Education | Hits | ||
| Charisma | Appear |
Notes
Natural Weapons/Abilities
Supernatural Weapons/Abilities
Dark Conspiracy Tie-In