Aboleth

Large aberration, lawful evil

Aspects

• Tentacled Horror of the Deep
• Amphibious Enemy of the Gods
• Telepath With Eternal Memories
• Always Watching

Skills

• Fantastic (+6) at: Rapport

• Superb (+5) at: Notice, Investigate, Will

• Great (+4) at: Tentacles (Fight),

• Fair (+2) at: Everything Else

Stress

Physical 1 ( ) 2 ( ) 3 ( )

Mental 1 ( ) 2 ( ) 3 ( )

Consequences

Mild (2):

Mild, Mental Only (2):

Moderate:

Stunts

Telepath: You may establish a telepathic link with any creature you can see.

Psychic Warfare: You may use Rapport to attack any creature you establish a telepathic connection with. Additionally, if a creature communicates telepathically with you, you learns the creature's greatest desires.

Master of Puppets: Gain a +2 to Attack with Rapport when attempting to control a creature.

Additionally, once per day, while Attacking a creature with Rapport, if you would inflict Stress, instead inflict the Moderate Consequence: "Dance Puppet." While this aspect is active, the creature with it is controlled by you and treats you as their master. Whenever your puppet receives stress, it may automatically attempt to Overcome this aspect with Will. You may Defend against this with Will.

If the target already has no Moderate Consequence available, instead inflict a Severe Consequence. If there is no Severe Consequence available, the target gains the Extreme Consequence: "The Waters Call to Me." and does not get attempts to overcome this effect when recieving Stress. If there is no consequence slot available, then the puppet is Taken Out for your enemies and becomes an agent of yours until the end of the scenario. At which point attempts may be made to free them from your control.

Legendary Actions

At the end of each exchange, you may choose to take one of these additional actions

All Seeing Eye: Overcome with Notice to detect a creature hidden from you. If you had previously formed a telepathic link with this creature, you may use Rapport instead.

Tentacle Swipe: Attack with Tentacles

Psychic Drain: Inflict 2 stress to a creature you have under your control. Recover 2 Mental Stress, or a Mental consequence. Recovering a mental consequence may only occur once per session. If this Stress would Take Out your puppet, they fall to the ground or sink as their brain melts. Conceding before this effect occurs means you drop to the floor unconscious or sink on the brink of death. Sufficient intervention must occur to prevent death by drowning or brain melting.

Conceding as an Aboleth

Conceding as an aboleth is more likely to occur than for it to fight to the death. Despite their pride, aboleth's are crafty individuals. Once someone has been obtained as a puppet, and things are looking like they're going south, discarding their dying prey and fleeing the scene is one tactic. Alternatively, the aboleth could take a hostage with it. Consider requiring the party to gear up and rescue their enthralled companion. As usual, when a character is under control, make sure to provide engagement and interaction. During the initial fight, let them control their own turns on behalf of the aboleth. This is more entertaining than being forced to sit in silence for the rest of the session.

Running the Rescue

After escaping with a hostage, or even during the initial conflict, consider providing snapshots into the captured character's mind. Playing through memories and utilizing diferent skills, as they attempt to regain control can be more cinematic and engaging than rolling 4 attempts to Overcome with Will and calling it a day. Alternatively, the party may request the aid of an NPC who the player momentarily controls for the rescue attempt.

Aboleth's Lair

Gargantuan Obstacle (Hazard)

Aspects

• Murky Depths
• Diseased Hollow

Skills

• Good (+3) at: Will, Roaring Tides

• Fair (+2) at: Disease

Stress

None

Consequences

None

Lair Actions

These occur once each per round either at the beginning of an exchange (Water With a Mind of its Own) or reactively to specific situations (Psychic Resonance and Filthy Water).

Psychic Resonance: Whenever an aboleth Attacks psychically, attack all creatures within the same zone with Will except for the original target.
Filthy Water: Whenever a creature other than an aboleth takes physical stress while within the water of its lair, the lair immediately attempts to Create an Advantage with Disease vs difficulty Fair (+2) to create the Aspect: "Dehydrating Disease." While this aspect is active, a creature outside of the water, or otherwise drying up, takes 1 stress for every 10 minutes it spends out of water. This aspect must be Overcome with healing magic or restorative potions with a result of at least Great (+4) or higher.

Water With a Mind of its Own: The water attempts to pull a creature located up to 2 zones away from an aboleth, by Overcoming with Roaring Tides. On a Tie or Success, the creature is pulled 1 zone closer. On a Success with Style, the creature is pulled to the same zone as the Aboleth. This water acts as active defense at all times when swimming in an aboleth's lair.

Angel, Deva

medium celestial, lawful good

Aspects

Shard of the Divine

Immortal Bane of Evil

Skills

Great (+4) at: Holy Weapons (Fight)

Good (+3) at: Will, Notice, Rapport

Average (+1) at: Everything Else

Stress

Physical 1 ( ) 2 ( )

Mental 1 ( ) 2 ( )

Consequences

Mild (2):

Mild (2), Magical Only:

Stunts

Angelic Weapons: Your weapons are magical. Your weapon attacks with holy weapons against creatures you know to be evil have Weapon:2. The additional stress inflicted by your holy weapon's weapon rating is mental stress.

Hunter of Evil: You automatically know the alignment of creatures within the same zone as you, unless they have magic concealing their alignment. Additionally, you gain a +2 to Fight while wielding a holy weapon against a creature that has committed an evil act within your view.

Healing Touch: You may attempt to Overcome a Moderate Consequence or lower with Will to begin its recovery. This consequence must be a physical ailment. Afflictions like diseases, blindness, and curses are instantly removed on a success with style.

Angel, Planetar

large celestial, lawful good

Aspects

Shard of the Divine

Immortal Bane of Evil

Skills

Fantastic (+6) at: Holy Weapons (Fight)

Superb (+5) at: Will, Notice, Rapport

Fair (+2) at: Everything Else

Stress

Physical 1 ( ) 2 ( ) 3 ( )

Mental 1 ( ) 2 ( ) 3 ( )

Consequences

Mild (2):

Mild (2), Magical Only:

Stunts

Angelic Weapons: Your weapons are magical. Your weapon attacks with holy weapons against creatures you know to be evil have Weapon:4. The additional stress inflicted by your holy weapon's weapon rating is mental stress.

Hunter of Evil: You automatically know the alignment of creatures within the same zone as you, unless they have magic concealing their alignment. When you attempt to Overcome with Will to determine a creature's true alignment, if that alignment is not Good, you may immediately Attack them with Holy Weapons. Additionally, you gain a +2 to Fight while wielding a holy weapon against a creature that has committed an evil act within your view.

Healing Touch: You may attempt to Overcome a Moderate Consequence or lower with Will to begin its recovery. This consequence must be a physical ailment. Afflictions like diseases, blindness, and curses are instantly removed on a success with style. Once per day, you may automatically remove a moderate or lower consequence caused by an affliction.

Divine Flame: Once per session, you may Attack all creatures within a zone adjacent to you with Will without splitting shifts between them. This attack deals Mental Stress.

Using the Smothering Rug

Beacuse the Rug of Smothering is a fairly simple problem to solve, remove the rug without damaging the person inside, it may be best to place the Rug within the context of a bigger problem. Maybe a vital skill is needed from the person trapped, or the room is quickly flooding from a wizard's trap. Such setups quickly increase the lethality of the rug, but drastically increase its dramatic potential.