The Devil's Spine

By Monte Cook

The Devil’s backbone wraps 3 distinctive adventures in an exciting, hard-driving body story—run them (in any order) as a mini-campaign, or forget about the body tale and use them as standalone adventures. they provide gaming teams a flavor of the glorious Numenera environment and show off the narrative constitution of the sport and its evocative world.

The terrifying Devil’s backbone graft will declare a existence, and the clock is ticking. elimination it's going to ship the characters to the depths of the Mechanized Tomb, right into a internet of Viral Transmissions, and eventually off the corebook map and into uncharted territory once they transcend the Maelstrom.

In addition to introducing new territories now not lined within the Numenera corebook, The Devil’s backbone additionally deals new creatures, characters, and goods so as to add to any crusade.

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Their major assault is a using head butt with their ceramic spur, which inflicts four issues of wear and has an opportunity to stun a aim for one around. in the event that they are in shut wrestle, they change to assault with their claws, causing three issues of wear and tear. Herders are tough to hurt with traditional guns because of their steel and ceramic construct, and they're proof against psychological results or mind harm. Their major goal is to protect the herd, yet when they start strive against, they don’t cease, whether the enyi now not appear to be at risk. To a herder, as soon as a chance, regularly a probability. interplay: verbal exchange isn't really attainable. Loot: avid gamers may well scavenge 1d6 shins and one random cypher from a herder’s physique. A family members Adrift: anyplace inside Navarene, the desktops might encounter a kin of 3 adults and little ones, in addition to huge seskii and 3 seskii doggies. The kinfolk says they have been farmers for a wealthy relations in Navarene yet sixty six have been do away with their land and despatched away. They’ve evidently been at the highway for a very long time, and even if they're too proud to invite, it’s transparent that they can use a few foodstuff and provides. they've got cyphers that they don’t be aware of what to do with and might exchange the units if the computers have additional nutrients, water, or provides. If any of the characters has a connection to animals, the youngest baby, a lady named Hasiday, most likely takes a liking to that individual. If she deems the computer really precious (for instance, she sees him engage certainly with animals, or they've got a talk concerning the seskii during which he turns out and kind), she deals him the seskii domestic dog of his picking as a spouse animal. THE odor OF PAPER turbines because the desktops close to the seashore city of Harmuth, they could start to be aware the scent of rainy pulp, electrical energy, and fermentation. this is often the odor of the paper generators which are positioned outdoors Harmuth’s borders. those generators are scattered in a haphazard semicircle round the city. Human staff known as ring riders use antigravity units to fell timber and delivery them to the generators. those units permit the employees to drift the bushes parallel to the floor, yet a foot (0. three m) or so above it, THE DEVIL’S backbone: past THE MAELSTROM basically “riding” on most sensible of the companies timber to lead them to the mill. even if this accelerates construction, it additionally raises the variety of injuries, because the bushes are heavy and difficult to regulate. just about all of the turbines have boarded-up, damaged locations the place a rider couldn’t cease a tree in time. Ring riders should not competitive so long as nobody interferes with them doing their activity. except the hoop riders, the generators seem to be totally computerized aside from one or those who stroll the location and fasten no matter what has damaged down so much lately (and there’s continuously at the least one little bit of equipment that has damaged down). in the event that they computers supply to assist fix a section of equipment and truly do repair it (a hassle four task), the individual in command of the mill invitations them to scavenge something beneficial from a pile of random computing device elements.

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