NYC Abandoned Tunnels

[Sagan Darkside]

I'm still debating on some "odd" encounters, as well as and Underworld Ecosystem.

Any suggestions?

Tortured forms of the other people sent this way, but never made it.

All the rats have human faces(if someone looks) and constantly whisper- "run away".

The walls of the tunnels have "carvings" of people- as if they were being pulled into the stone walls.

SD

 

[Labmonkey-XL]

I dunno about the rats with human faces, my group was pretty familiar to Cthulhu and know too well the rat things.

Maybe a wind whispering "Run away", and the carvings of people on the wall sound good. I'll use both those ideas.

Would it make sense to have a tribe of goblins or something? Have them ambush them from inside an old trolley car or something?

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

A subterranean race of goblins with pale skin and completely white, blind eyes. Sound interesting?
Kobolds that can blend into things like chameleons...

Tribes of humans who retreated into the tunnels during the Cuban Missle Crisis or the War of The Worlds hysteria and now live down there, thinking the world above must surely be a wasteland by now.

Sentence fragments?

 

[Shadow64]

Don't forget the "standard" underground monster of new york - big albino alligator. for "weird" monsters i would start looking at either underdark monsters and power them down a bit or start looking at "normal" underground denizens (rats, roaches, spiders, etc) and humanize them (use the anthorpomorphic template from Savage Species). They could find small tribes of ratmen, sentient swarms of roaches, baby phase spiders, etc. What about a trash-golem/elemental? Maybe a Behir (smoke monster) that uses pipes to get around. Heck, make it a whole clan (3-4) they have to fight in part of a tunnel with loads of broken pipes. They hurt one Behir it runs, another pops out from somewhere else until they are all dead or run away.

The idea of the wind whispering "run away" is very cool. I think that would be nice for any sort of creepy adventure.

 

[jaerdaph]

Tribes of humans who retreated into the tunnels during the Cuban Missle Crisis or the War of The Worlds hysteria and now live down there, thinking the world above must surely be a wasteland by now.

Cool - I like this idea.

 

[WayneLigon]

Of course the big albino alligator. Or take it a step further and use albino Lizard Men... illegal toxins have made the alligators evolve

Little feral children. Dirty, scarred, naked, with spears made from rusted pipes with sharp bits tied on the ends. Ears are all notched up in some complex tribal pattern thing; bodies have semi-flourescent 'tatoos' made by spraying themselves with spray paint left over after they dry-gulch some taggers and devour them. Did i mention cannibalistic? Use halfling stats.

The Homeless Otyugh. A tentacled Otyugh-like thing made of fused homeless people, disgustingly elongated and such; obviously a 'made' thing, which should get them really worried as to WHAT would make such a thing...

I keep having flashbacks to Ellison's really disturbing story about the other albino things that live in the NYC sewers. Eric's Grandma would lose her mind. Man, I wish I could remember the title.

 

[Labmonkey-XL]

Cannibalistic Halflings sound good, Chameleon Kobolds, and Subterrainean Goblins sound good as well.

I'm avoiding the whole alligator myth, and creating an entirely new one in this game. Otyughs would be too predictable with this player group.

One time for a Wierd Wars 2 campaign I did, the players became prisoners and were forced to eat taco's. There was a group of Otyughs hiding in the toilet, and the prisoners would always get scared when they had to go to the bathroom cuz someone would get killed. (dont ask, it was suppose to be a campy game)

Whats the book that has the subterranean template that you can add to any monster? I know I have it somewhere, I just cant remember for the life of me.

I was going to add Subterranead and Urban templates to all the creatures in the abandoned tunnels.

 

[Tellerve]

I can't believe nobody has brought up another great "myth" of NYC's underground. The mole people! You could make them be the same ones as the Cuban Missile Crisis people or mutants into some other race.

BTW, I really like the idea you've got going with the tiefling bartender being a lynchpin in an organization of sorts. Although if I were to run it myself, I think I might have him test the heroes with this adventure and then they fight the encroachment of the shadow element (demons/devils, bloodwar) onto this world. *shrugs* eh, Just spewin' thougths but it is certainly a neat idea.

Tellerve

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

I can't believe nobody has brought up another great "myth" of NYC's underground. The mole people! You could make them be the same ones as the Cuban Missile Crisis people or mutants into some other race.
Tellerve

Hehe, I thought about mole people when I posted but figured the "CMC" people were enough. Makes me think of the Mole Boy from Sam & Max.

Abandoned, Underground, Masonic, Temple...

 

[Labmonkey-XL]

I think I might have him test the heroes with this adventure and then they fight the encroachment of the shadow element (demons/devils, bloodwar) onto this world. *shrugs* eh, Just spewin' thougths but it is certainly a neat idea.

Its a possibility I'm thinking about.

I got about 2 more weeks until I'm thinking of running the campaign so I got a while for last minute changes and Ideas.

I want to avoid common NYC myths and just create an ecology of underground evil denizens.