SPICE

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A TABLE OF SPICE to apply to acceptable but bland adventure content

1.Half the monsters will always fight the other half , due to warring parasite worm super-colonies . One results in blue luminous worms in the eyes , the other red luminous worms in the eyes. The psychic commanding queen worms of each side are found entirely filling the body of the least likely monsters. When a monster is slain the worms will leave the body a couple of minutes later and can take over any sleeping host

2. All friendly(ish) npcs are actually escaped dreams of a ever sleeping monster

3.Everything comes back to life worse

4.Herbivores are now predators and vice versa 

5.Any rocks or stone materials within a size window of a loaf of bread to big enough to built a house on have been chained down to the bedrock or they will fall upwards. Weird gnomic people climb out of shadows every pre-dawn to check on all their work, add more chains where necessary , and sometimes singing down lost rocks.

6. All monsters , despite initial appearances , are some kind of mollusk, their bonelessness only making their movements disturbing not less able. They each have a tiny shell hidden somewhere where they keep their soul.

7.Everything is on or in an iceberg

8. Two versions of everything exist. The shit-head version at nighttime and the happyland version from til dusk.

9.All monsters are made of sewn together hairless cats, dogs and rats. The hair is elsewhere

10.All monsters are made of a single human body, distorted and enlarged as necessary

Artifact , II

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The Heartworm

A thing mostly like an arrow. Hold gently in your hand , say someone's name (the first name their mother gave them) , and it will fly away, faster than a thought and as unstoppable and traceless as a rumour. It will arrive in the heart of the named.

The Egg

If passed through the pelvis of a creature (regardless if it's alive, dead, skeletal, ash, or fossil) it will quicken and hatch in 2 nights as that creature. An exceptional sculpture can also work, even if it represents nothing that has lived before.

The 7th descendent of this creature will lay The Egg back into the world.


The Hammer

When held breaks anything it hits. After breaking something it begins to vibrate , and after 3 rounds will release a destructive pulse for a kilometre around, pulverizing anything as strong or weaker than what it just broke. It will continue to vibrate and release pulverisation waves until it makes contact with something harder than what it broke to trigger it.


DISTINCT POWER SOURCES FOR ARTIFACTS:

Low Hanging Fruit:
Radically Out of Genre, Anachronistic , Alive and Fleshy and Toothsome, Hyperreal (like at the end of Promethea or the Lego movie mcguffin) , Something physically in the room as the players, Origins in mythology otherwise not used in setting like having Excalibur or The Holy Grail

Remaining Fruit:
Jack Kirby style magic technology

Artifact-shaped Nothing , like a hole in space that your eye slides across but sword shaped or something

New Impossible Colours. Grudgingly , "Sunless Sea" was cool with the Neathbow if you want some inspiration

Everytime Artifact Is Used a Star Goes Out

Messages To Players Written On Artifact

Still Living Body Parts From Creator or Prometheus Type

Superdense Material that means artifact ways 100 times more than it should and causes time distortions around

Reshaped Intelligent Beings otherwise not in setting like Draculas , The Middle Class , or Whales

Impossible Machines Of Rutting Cog

Protruding Sex Organ of Extra Spatial being .  Appearance gives no doubt of this.

Miniature Cities Frozen at the moment of horrible disasters 

Out of Scale objects ; like a urticating hair  2 metres long, or a solar system held in the palm of your hand