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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7883609" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/1193/Weird-War-Two-Land-of-the-Rising-Dead?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Weird War Two d20: Land of the Rising Dead</a>3.0Hako-Iri: Hako-iri (which literally means “In a box,”) is perhaps the most advanced and hideous of the Kuromaku’s Special Projects. With their curiosity not limited by anything resembling morality, and aided by occult magic, the Kuromaku have succeeded at removing human brains and spinal columns—the unfortunate victims are vivisected while still fully conscious—and wiring them into special “braincases”: an armored box filled with preservative fluids and inscribed with forbidden runes.These braincases are then installed in specially modified vehicles, mainly tanks, occasionally aircraft, and near the end of the war, experimental humanoid machines called tetsujin (iron men). Crewed vehicles such as tanks are fitted with autoloading cannon and other mechanical equipment that allows the hako-iri to control all of the vehicle’s functions.The unfortunate brains that become hako-iri are all driven mad by their experience. Most become either suicidal or homicidal (if they could speak they would either only scream incessantly or beg for death), and when unleashed in battle, they either charge straight ahead seeking destruction, or simply begin to lash out at everything around them.Shironingyo: For quite some time, the Kuromaku had been experimenting with ways to chemically enhance human beings, hoping to create a super-soldier. They hit upon a formula that caused a subject’s muscle and bone mass to increase at a fantastic rate. The process however, turned out to be so tortuously painful that the victims were driven insane before their systems gave out and they died. But this was not a failure for the Kuromaku. They found that using certain magic rituals at the moment of death kept the body alive (though the soul was gone).</blockquote>

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