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Our Mother, the Sea: Bestiary (Humanity)

These are the human entries for the Our Mother, the Sea bestiary, which will use a modified version of Violence. All are assumed to be hit and harmed as normal. 

Afflictions

Many a sailor would welcome a quick and violent death. More often than not, the sea takes her time.

Economies & Trading

Originally, these rules were written for the upcoming seacrawl, Our Mother, the Sea, but they may be helpful for any game where trading is a focus of play.

Our Mother, the Sea: Captain's Log 02

Early that morning, the Grey Heron leaves port, heading back the same way it arrived two days prior. She is not alone, and the crew is glad of it – another trawler follows just within sight. The two ships keep one another company until 1600, when the other is swallowed...

Our Mother, the Sea: Captain's Log 01

Yesterday, the sea swallowed Abbott Cove. Out of the silence rode the Grey Heron, with four souls onboard.

Treasures of the Sea: Polyhedral Dice, Conch-gift of the Finfolk, & Stillborn

Still potent with the scent of dimly-lit rooms and fellowship and chance. Roll a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, and d20. Any die on which a 1 appears is found. If no 1s are rolled, reroll until one appears. With a Polyhedral Dice in your possession, you may attempt any roll...

Treasures of the Sea: Cisternhead, Figurehead, & Lightcaller

A pockmarked head of towering stone. Its eyes are closed. Within, a small chamber holds a naked body covered in pustules, contorted in an unnatural position, preserved in 4d6 hlbs of a pale liquid. 1-in-4 chance the figure awakens, speaking only the lost tongue of Olbassa. They will find the...

Our Mother, the Sea: Bestiary (Lover-o-ships, Debtor, and Otters)

The ink in the pen you use comes from the days we hunted this great silver squid to near extinction. In the spring, the males would rise to the surface of the water and paint patterns to attract a mate. You could spot them from a mile away.

Our Mother, the Sea: Bestiary (Selkies, Clams, and Finfolk)

Semen is a powerful seal-lure. Sometimes, a seal may eat it and become pregnant with a human child. The child outgrows its mother, crawling through her insides, killing her in the process; its mother’s skin becomes its own.

Our Mother, the Sea: Bestiary (Saltqueen, Radio Angler, & Barnacled)

Grandmothers tell stories of a land where eels were once woven in the hair of girls deemed too beautiful. Then, they were buried in salt. So none would love them, even in death, any who looked upon them were cursed to join them in their grave.

Our Mother, the Sea: Bestiary (Prodigal Afterbirth, Giant, & Falselight)

A firstborn child given freely to the sea is said to bring its father home. When its brothers and sisters have children of their own, the child is born a second time, tangled limbs hauling its pitiful form onto the beach, all milk-pale flesh, puffed and finned. A carpet of...