[Secret Jackalope!!] d10 special teas for Sticks!

A second round of Jackalopery over at the OSR discord. Sticks requested "1d10 (or some other number of) magical or otherwise "special" teas and the places their unique ingredients can be found"

Happy Jackalope day! Imbibe responsibly!

	Tea	Effect
1	“Gnome-bucha”. Fermented fungi-based brew. The mushrooms are gathered near underground thermal vents, so they have an increased sulfur content as well.	Causes sleepwalking.
2	Cloud Special. Harvested late in the season, in the hidden valley which is constantly covered by mist and fog: hence the name of the tea.	Imbiber sees through illusions with ease.
3	The One Tea. Every tea plantation has a special shrub, the very first one that was planted. However, its location is only known to the moles and worms.	Functions as a truth serum.
4	Pu’er of Foresight. Harvested in the forbidden zone. This tea must be buried and fermented underground for 1 to12 years.	Provides vision as far into the future as long as the tea was buried.
5	Sargassam. Actually seaweeds, not tea. Sailors cold-brew it, because sometimes you cannot light a fire on the ship.	Helps staying awake when on watch duty.
6	Emperor’s Secret. A blend containing a single tea leaf from each province of the Empire, no more, no less.	Imbiber learns a dark state secret.
7	Tea of Tranquility. Harvested at night, during the new moon.	Potent tranquilizer.
8	Earl Greyhawk. Leaves can only be harvested by travelling back in time to the 1970s and participating in Gary Gygax’s campaign.	Grants perfect sense of time and direction.
9	Hair of the Dog. The tea itself is nothing special, but it must be brewed with love and care.	Imbiber sobers up instantly.
10	Tea of Diplomacy. Harvested from the deadliest place, a jungle crawling with were-tigers or something similar. Brewed into a mellow, soothing drink.	Drinking from the same pot makes people more likely to agree with each other

[Secret Jackalope!!] d100 Skeletons for Betty Bacontime

We are doing Secret Jackalope again on the OSR discord server! I already got my gift, and it is a wonderful creepy set of cosmic horror Tarot Major Arcana, check it out.

My prompt was from Betty Bacontime, who runs the Paper Elemental blog. The request was elegant and simple, I quote: "Skeletons. Thank you."

Skeletons? With pleasure!

This skeleton... (d100)

(roll d100 and read below!)

[Secret Jackalope!!] Perils of the Bleak Forest, being a Survivor’s Guide for the Recently Exiled

After the Secret Santicorn, the OSR discord server is doing Secret Jackalope! I requested a random generator of pulpy lost races, and Stefan "The Moth" delivered a set of amazing sci-fi tables. My prompt was from Phlox (author of the blog Whose Measure God Could Not Take), who requested "an in-character description of a monster, from an in-universe monster manual"! This prompt proved to be tricky, because it's more about creative writing than game design... But I did my best, and came up with this Veins in the Earth-like "world building through bestiary", an in-universe survival guide for people who are exiled to a cursed forest covered in volcanic ashes.

Happy Secret Jackalope to everyone!

“Perils of the Bleak Forest, being a Survivor’s Guide for the Recently Exiled”

Grey-barked Crooked Willows

When the thirst becomes unbearable, look for crooked willows with the dark grey bark, for the roots of these abominations reach down into the moist strata of the soil deep under the ashes. Dig deep, and have a vessel ready to capture the drops of life-giving liquid.

Beware, though, that among these trees, some are sentient and thirst not for water, but for the very blood of exiles like you and me. You can tell them apart by the swaying motions of their branches that do not adhere to the blows of the howling winds.

The crooked willow cannot uproot, but the reach of its branches is longer than you expect. They strike with deadly precision, like a whip; then entangle and draw their victim close to their trunk; and then their bark cracks open and the black tendrils desiccate thy body.

Nighthowls

As far as I could establish, the lupine howls that we hear during the darkest nights are not anchored to any body or beast; they are but resonances of the air and murderous intent. When you first hear them, there still might be a chance to flee, but choose the direction wisely. The Nighthowls travel in spirals. If you cannot hear them, they cannot hurt you. But even if just the faintest sound gets through, the mind is flooded with nightmarish visions and never recovers.

Some say the Nighthowls’ victim becomes the eye of the sonic storm from then on, but I do not believe this.

Opaque Beast

Twice the size and thrice the strength of a bear, this fearful monstrosity is in fact one of the lesser perils of the land. It never attacks, unless its eggs are threatened. The Beast’s yellow eyes absorb light – that’s why its appearance is foreshadowed by a fog of dusk. Somewhere in the center of this darkness is the nest of the Beast, where it lays eggs. The obsidian shells hide nutritious yolk, enough to feed three men for three days.