Modern elementals

Marcantony

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Im trying to come up with some modern day elementals and so far all Ive been able to think of is;
Sludge (sewer water), Electrical (fire), Concrete (earth), Steam and Dust (air)

How do these sound? Any other ideas?
 

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Smog
Medical Waste
Chemical Waste
Nuclear Waste
Recycling (Glass, Plastic, Cardboard, Metal, Pizza Box)
Oil or Gasoline (like from a pipeline)

Hmmm. Some of those might make better golems.

Edit: can't spell today for some reason.
 
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Shadowrun did a similar thing, but simply made them 'toxic' versions of the regular elementals.

If you really want various other kinds of creatures, pick up White Wolf's Book of the Wyrm and Book of the Weaver. These two books have lots of interesting critters that sound like what you're looking for.
 

Kesh said:
If you really want various other kinds of creatures, pick up White Wolf's Book of the Wyrm and Book of the Weaver. These two books have lots of interesting critters that sound like what you're looking for.


Glass elementals *shudder* and the like are the great stuff you can steal from Werewolf products. Book of the Wyrm is also one of the most perverse modern "monster manuals" you can find anywhere. The great thing is that most of these critters can be presented as either unsettling metaphors for modern day life (people slowly tranformed by their spitural addiction to botique make-up kits in their desprate desire to be always loved and beautiful) to Army of Darkness campy "She applied the eye shadow of the Necronomicon!!!!" "Die! Mortal fool!"

And the tainted toy section is great and twisted.

"Let's get Bobbi her own 'Dr. Giggles Surgery Playkit' for her birthday, honey."
 
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Cyberelemental? A spinoff of an electricity elemental that zips about the 'net like a virus?

It all depends on what elementalism means in your culture. I just got back from the Cheyenne Sundance in Oklahoma, and it was interesting to see what objects became their metaphors for life. Like, Zeus wasn't a lightning god because electricity was somehow important to his nature. Zeus was a lightning god because lightning was the scariest thing on the planet at that time. Metaphors grow out of things that are important to us.

So play with that, and what do you get?

Auto-elemental.

A few days old, it looks like an VW bug and drives around, killing pedestrians. It feeds on belief, grows, and becomes a Buick. It runs down more folks, runs cars off the road, grows into an SUV. Soon it's powerful enough to be the world's fastest, toughest, ANGRIEST semi. If the PCs don't stop it, it'll get to the junkyard and come into its full potential...

Cellemental

They look just like a brand-new phone with lots of features and gadgets. They have some kind of domination ability, like a puppeteer. Once somebody picks one up, it becomes THEIR phone. They try to use it everywhere. It's got all their friends' numbers in it. It gets great reception. It has "this really great rate that gives them all kinds of free minutes". It preys on the weak-minded, those with a subconscious feeling of inadequacy because they can't or don't communicate. They DO communicate now, calling everyone, talking in restaurants, movie theaters, getting glares as they talk instead of ordering at the coffee shop. Finally, their attention fully on the phone now, they make some foolish mistake, have an accident. And when they die, they are found to have been malnourished, haggard from lack of sleep, and eaten up from the inside by some kind of cancer.

And lying next to them are two really KILLER cell phones. :)
 

Hmmn... modern things eh?

Kevlar Elemental?
Teflon Elemental?
Velcro Elemental?
Astroglide Elemental?
:p

I guess those aren't really elements... Hmmn... How about a plasma elemental?
 



There was a old rpg called nightshift (I think) and they had as a creature a elemental called the City elemental. This elemental would take the form of whatever the ideal vision of the city would be. in philadelphia, the city elemental would appear as a old colonial person or in New Orleans, it would appear as a masked mardi gras persona or one of the voodoo loas.
 

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