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Introducing

MUTATIONS
During character creation, choose one. Mutations count as gear, but
theyre implanted: theyre a part of your body. Additional Mutations can
be gained via advances, or temporarily through Unstable Mutation.
Toxic Spore Blooms (implanted, intimate/hand, area, messy, s-harm)
When under threat, you can release a cloud of toxic spore blooms that
grow in deep pores all over your body. Youre immune, of course.
Reptilian Scales (1-armor, implanted, valuable)
Your skin counts as armor. It stacks with real armor. As a result, its
probably quite valuable to poachers and cannibals. Youve been warned.
Spider Venom (1-harm, implanted, poisonous)
You produce venom. You can coat another weapon in this venom; if you
do, that weapon gains the poisonous tag when next used.
Nesting Drones (alive, infinite, remote, psi-communication at close)
You house a number of little flying drones in your body. Its not pretty.
They do your bidding, and can speak telepathically with you when close

THE GROTESQUE
They talk about the apocalypse like its a curse. They talk about the
apocalypse like it took something from them - the golden age of once
upon a time. They talk about the apocalypse like its an act of betrayal,
perpetrated by some malign entity.
They talk about the apocalypse like as if they dont realize youre standing
right there.
a Luxe Eternal exclusive playbook for

APOCALYPSE
2k+10 by Joe Mcdaldno
w/ D. Vincent Baker
www.apocalypse-world.com

ADDITIONAL RULES

WORLD

THINGS' DESCRIPTIVE TAGS

Rending Claws (implanted, 3-harm, hand, retractable)


When retracted, it just looks like you have knobbly hands. When you let
them out, though: yikes.

Applied (constraint)
It takes intimacy and uninterrupted time for the character to use it. Youd
better have a willing subject, or restrained.

Vampire Fangs (implanted, applied, 1-harm, restores 1-harm)


You have fangs. You drink human blood. Its an intimate affair.

Implanted (constraint)
Its permanently implanted in its users skin, body, or brain.

Bloodhunter (implanted, +1forward to pursuit)


You have an unnatural sense of smell: you can track a person, an
emotion, or an object. Carry +1forward to your pursuit.

Messy (cue)
Its loud (cf ). Furthermore, it might hit every person in its area but might
miss any given person in its area; and it leaves a mess behind - cosmetic
property damage, blood and gore, barf or shit or other bodily produce, or
some other kind of mess ass appropriate.

BARTER
If youre charging someone wealthy for your services, 1-barter is
the going rate for: acting as a test subject; a weeks employ in the circus
sideshow; a weeks employ as a gate-watcher; a month of staying away from an
apprehensive hardhold.
1-barter will cover a months living expenses, if your tastes arent too
grand.
As a one-time expenditure, and very subject to availability, 1-barter
might count for: a night in high luxury & company; any weapon, gear or
fashion not valuable or hi-tech; repair of a piece of hi-tech gear by a savvyhead;
a weeks hire of the protective companionship of a battlebabe or gunlugger;
a years tribute to a warlord; a months maintenance and repairs for a
hi-performance vehicle well-used; bribes, fees and gifts sufficient to get you into
almost anyones presence.
For better stuff, you should expect to make particular arrangements. You
cant just wander around the commons of some hardhold with oddments
ajangle and expect to find hi-tech or luxe eternal.

Poisonous (mechanical)
When you take poisonous harm, mark it with a P. Poisonous harm cannot be
healed without the proper antidote. Youre sick, effects determined at MCs
discretion.
Psi-communication at range (constraint, cue)
You can communicate telepathically with the device or creature, up to the
stated range. The communication is basic and without nuance, but relatively
reliable.
Restores n-harm (mechanical)
When this equipment is used, it heals n-harm (1-harm, 2-harm) to the
person using the equipment.
Retractable (constraint)
The equipment can retract to a hidden location (shirt sleeve, inside flesh) at a
moments notice, with a simple gesture or command.

THE

GROTESQUE

CREATING A GROTESQUE
To create your grotesque, choose name, look, stats, moves, gear, and Hx.

NAME

LOOK

Blakeslee, Brambling, Lundy, Weston,


Junco, Garrett, Rya, Salia.

Ambiguous, androgyne,
intersexed, transgressing.

Bracket, Maw, Lumbar, Lymph, Thorax,


Harvest Fruit, Stamen, Echidna,
Ponyboy, Subject.

Fetish wear, scrounge wear,


scrounge wear plus utility, weird
armour, concealing robes.

STATS
Choose one set:
Cool+1 Hard+1 Hot-2 Sharp+1 Weird+2
Cool-1 Hard+1 Hot=0 Sharp+1 Weird+2
Cool-1 Hard+2 Hot-1 Sharp=0 Weird+2
Cool-1 Hard=0 Hot-1 Sharp+2 Weird+2

MOVES
You get all the basic moves. Choose 2
grotesque moves.

HX
Everyone introduces their characters by
name, look and outlook. Take your turn.
List the other characters names.

Severe face, alarming face, spiny


face, crooked face, inhuman face,
interrupted face.
Hungry eyes, lonely eyes,
mesmerizing eyes, lidless eyes,
unblinking eyes, compound eyes.
Angular body, lumpy body, sad
body, contorted body, wet body,
transitory body.

Everyone else, whatever number they


tell you, write it next to their characters
name.
At the end, find the character with the
highest Hx on your sheet. Ask that player
which of your stats is most interesting,
and highlight it. The MC will have you
highlight a second stat too.

IMPROVEMENT
Whenever you roll a highlighted
stat, and whenever you reset
your Hx with someone, mark
an experience circle. When you
mark the 5th, improve and erase.
Each time you improve, choose
one of the options. Check it off;
you cant choose it again.

GROTESQUE MOVES

LOOK

Spore Farm: that stuff that grows on you is a viable food source. Each
week, you produce 1-barter worth of food. When eaten, it does s-harm &
the consumer carries +1forward.

STATS

MOVES
do something
under fire

COOL

HX

help or interfere; session end

highlight

go aggro;
seize by force

HARD

highlight

GEAR
You get:
one Mutation
one small, practical weapon
oddments worth 1-barter

Small practical weapons


(choose 1):
Go around again for Hx. On your turn,
.38 revolver (2-harm close
choose 1, or 1:
One of them is disgusted at the thought reload loud)
9mm (2-harm close loud)
of you. Tell that person Hx+2.
big knife (2-harm hand)
One of them has a morbid fascination
sawed-off (3-harm close reload
with you. Tell that person Hx+2.
messy)
Tell everyone else Hx=0. Youre mostly
stun gun (s-harm hand reload)
avoided.
On the others turns, choose 1 or both:
One of them is pure and untainted,
worthy of adoration and ire. Whatever
number that player tells you, give it +1.
One of them is hideous and unstable,
much like you. Whatever number that
player tells you, give it +1.

NAME

seduce or
manipulate

HOT

highlight

read a sitch;
read a person

SHARP

GROTESQUE SPECIAL
If you and another character have sex,
you both mark experience. They have
+disease and +judgment until they
bathe.

highlight

open your brain

WEIRD
HARM

highlight

countdown

12
9

3
6
stabilized

shattered (-1cool)
crippled (-1hard)
disfigured (-1hot)
broken (-1sharp)

IMPROVEMENT > >>improve

experience

__ get +1hard (max +2)


__ get +1sharp (max +2)
__ get +1weird (max +3)
__ get a new grotesque move
__ get a new grotesque move
__ gain another Mutation
__ get followers (detail) and fortunes
__ get a gang (detail) and pack alpha
__ get a move from another playbook
__ get a move from another playbook
__ get +1 to any stat (max stat+3)
__ retire your character (to safety)
__ create a second character to play
__ change your character to a new type
__ choose 3 basic moves and advance them.
__ advance the other 4 basic moves.

Unstable Mutation: at the beginning of the session, roll+weird. On


a 10+, hold 2. On a 7-9, hold 1. At any time, you can spend your hold to
temporarily use a mutation you dont have (i.e. for one task or one tick of a
battle). On a miss, the MC will tell you how your body changes.
Rapid Adaptation: when you do something under fire, roll+weird
instead of +cool.
Attuned to the Unnatural: when you examine an abomination of
nature (must be a living, physical thing), roll +sharp. On a 10+, hold 3.
On a 7-9, hold 2. You can spend your hold while interacting with the
abomination of nature, to ask:
what made it the way it is?
what does it hunger for?
how is it a threat to me?
are there others like it?
how can I utilize it?
Third Eye: you have access to augury. Your antenna is implanted inside
of you. If you use augury to reach through the maelstrom to someone
connected to it, you count as having time and intimacy with them.
Perversion of Conduct: when you attack without threat or warning,
+1-harm to your first attack. When you attack from behind or with stealth,
gain AP.
Fear of People: when cornered by a gang or mob, roll +gang size (1 for
small, 2 for medium, 3 for large, 4 for a village). On a 10+, carry +1forward
to your next action. On a 7-9, carry +1forward to your next action, if that
action involves running away or hiding.

HOLD

BARTER

MUTATIONS & GEAR

OTHER MOVES

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