Necropolis: d100 Treasures Liberated from the Sack of the Burning City

This is an excerpt from the Necropolis - a tomb-raiding supplement I am writing.

Loot from the Burning City

“It was a glorious sight. The temples of temptation, the libraries of lies, the palaces of perfidy. All were judged and levelled and made even. Legionaries and auxiliaries alike found satisfaction. Reason smiled upon Iks in those blood-red days.” - Leveller Titanká’s Diary of a Reasonable Person.

Referee: this table simulates the looting of Ébét. It is not a balanced table of starting equipment and in theory, a player might decide to retire a hero immediately after they roll on this table. That’s fine (and could be amusing). If you are using an alignment system, I would not allow any good-aligned characters to roll (unless they wanted to change alignment).

D100 Treasures Liberated from the Debauched City of Ébét

1. You died, probably alcohol or sharp metal poisoning.
 Your identity was stolen by a filthy Ebeteen. Gain 100 shekels and roll on the Ebeteen background table.
2. 100 cursed shekels that age the thief by a year every day. Each day one coin disappears into a greenish mist, taking a piece of the accursed one’s soul with it. When the thief finally dies, they are reborn as a ghoulish revenant driven by an unholy greed.
3. 1d4 clay I.O.U tokens and incapacitated by poor alcohol. Permanently lose 1 point of Con and Dex. constitution or dexterity damage.

4. 5 rotted Ebeteen hands and murderous hangover. You are permanently vulnerable to alcohol. Your first adventure, all your physical activities or activities requiring intense concentration, are at a disadvantage—but you gain a 20% XP bonus.
5. A clay pot filled with ghoul teeth and a permanent -1 to all poison saves. It’s unclear what happened, but the hero has a 10% XP bonus on their next adventure.

6. 6 golden rings worth 60 shekels, and 1d4 healing potions. After desecrating a still-active Ebeteen temple, became vulnerable to Ebeteen curses for 1d6 weeks.
7. 1 lucky shekel (grants advantage to Charisma saves) and the life-long enmity of a local Ébéteen nobleman. Disadvantage to reaction rolls with Ébéteen, advantage to reaction rolls with Iksans.

8. Accidentally murdered a Mornari mercenary over a game of Crippled Hazelnut, and ended up owing 500 shekels to the Levellers who got you off so easily. Also, the Mornari have your number now. Still, you did get a magical neckerchief from the ‘accident’ that provides advantage to saves against ropes. 
9. 1 shekel and a broken heart, trapped by an Ebeteen eunuch-succubus named Itebebotok.
10. 1d6 shekels and a disease. The disease is [d4]: (1) venereal, (2) intestinal, (3) psychosomatic, or (4) a curse. In any case, the disease depletes one ability score of choice by 1d4 every week until the services of a physic or shaman are purchased for 1d6 x 200 shekels.

11. 
1d8 shekels and a severely [d4]: (1) sprained ankle (disadvantage Dex checks), (2) pulled muscle (disadvantage Str checks), (3) fractured rib (disadvantage all physical), (4) amorous Thirsteen henchperson of absolute incompetence, unshakeable loyalty, and immense luck.
12. 1d10 shekels and a nasty rash that reduces [d4]: (1) initiative by 1d4, (2) Strength by 1d6, (3) Dexterity by 1d8, or (4) Charisma by 3. A topical cream costing 1d6 x 30 shekels should take care of it in 1d4 weeks.

13. 1d12 shekels and a bad burn (1d4 hp and Charisma damage).

14. 1d20 shekels and a rat named “Leviticus”. The rat can’t talk, can it?

15. 2d6 shekels and a purple gem (50 shekels) gouged from a marble statue of a [d4]: (1) minotaur lady, (2) sea cucumber deity, (3) octopus creature, (4) fat Ébéteen child-eater.

16. 70 shekels and a brand of sale gifting the hero’s soul to a demonic creature named simply “The Orchid”. The Orchid manifests as a nightmare vision each time the hero levels, granting a 1 point bonus to one ability score and permanently taking 1 hp and one loving memory as a soul bond. The Orchid leaves behind a sickly sweet floral smell after each manifestation.
17. 2d8 shekels, a malachite mace (20 shekels) and a minor rotting disease. The disease afflicts the [d4]: (1) hand, (2) face, (3) foot, or (4) other appendage, and deals one point of damage to one ability score of choice per week. It can be cured by an Iksan doctor or an Izvoreni artificer at the cost of 1d6 x 300 shekels. Alternatively, amputation also works.

18. 2d4 shekels and a scroll for “the summoning and banishment of flesh-eating beetles”. The summoned variety is useful for mortuary or medicinal purposes.

19. 2d10 shekels and an Ebeteen bone-golem bolter rod (100 shekels). It deals 1d10 damage, is long range, and renders a corpse’s bones into d4 ‘bolts’ of bone.
20. 13 shekels and a cursed black axe of Vile manufacture. On moonless nights the axe turns into a many-headed cat-like creature and sings eerie songs of forgotten vistas. By day it hums and thrums, begging for souls to eat. With a loud scream it consumes the soul of every creature it kills, increasing its critical range by one for each soul eaten. It can hold a maximum of 13 souls, souls beyond the thirteenth are dissipated in eruptions of black hate that deal 1d8 damage to every creature in a 20’ radius (including the axe’s slave). One eaten soul dissipates into the void every day. Every day that the axe is without a single soul, it eats one point of Str and Cha from its slave.
21. 70 shekels, a pound of divine flesh, a memory gap, a pounding headache and a vague feeling of unease at having set in motion something. It was [d4]: (1) nothing and that’s donkey meat, (2) a bloodbath happened at an Izvoreni surrender dance and somebody saw the hero, (3) a pact with a machine demon from beyond time who will come back with a deal the hero can’t refuse in 1d6 weeks, (4) a ritual involving dark magics, amateur brain surgery and a sentient lungfish has summoned an embarrassing plague upon the city. It will descend in 1d4 weeks.

22. 2d6 shekels and a cache of three ceramic-and-ivory slaggers: throwing arcane bombs that deal 2d6 damage in a 20’ radius and fuse flesh to stone. It takes a creature fused to a stone surface 1d4 damage and a round to free itself.
23. 2d8 shekels and a bone knife inscribed with an incantation in the ossified tongue (“the Naga King also rises”). It [d4]: (1) is a non-magical fake, (2) makes snakes friendly to the wielder, (3) progressively turns the wielder into a lizard creature over six weeks, (4) deals double damage to the undead, but draws their attention to the wielder.
24. 2d20 shekels and a water-steel sword with the water rune (ossified). It deals double damage to fire and air creatures, but half damage to water creatures.

25. 2d12 shekels and a red-and-blue bow with multi-colored arrows. The red arrows deal double damage to red targets, the blue arrows deal double damage to blue targets.
26. 2d10 shekels and an Izvoreni rifle of exceptional make and age. It deals 2d6 damage, is long range, holds eight clockmetal rounds, and in an act of Cosmic justice jams every time it deals 2 or 11 points of damage (it takes a round to unjam it).
27. 3d6 shekels and an Ebeteen whip of living flesh. The whip is imbued with the vile power of the Great House and transfers 1d4 hp from the victim to the wielder every time it strikes.
28. 4d4 shekels and a Flying Spear of ancient and vile make. The spear can be thrown three times the normal distance. At the end of the next round it picks itself up and flies back into its master’s hand like a faithless hound dog out of some disgusting Ebeteen racing brothel.
29. 3d8 shekels and a fine bronzed Ébéteen cuirass (medium armor, 100 shekels).

30. 3d10 shekels and a suit of Ebeteen bondage armor (light armor, 100 shekels, advantage to certain Charisma checks).
31. 3d12 shekels and a blood-spattered set of Ebeteen Red Plume courtesan robes (light armor, 150 shekels, hiding space for 1d4 small items).
32. 4d6 shekels and a heavy suit of celadon and lapiz scales engraved with Poems of Vitality (heavy armor, 150 shekels, restore 1d6 hp or one level of exhaustion, once per day).
33. 3d20 shekels and an Ebeteen prince’s oddly lascivious armored bodysuit (light armor, 150 shekels, restores virility once per day in an amusingly grotesque manner).
34. 4d10 shekels and a biomechanical suit of armor created from a Doghead’s body stretched over a chitin pseudo-skeleton (medium armor, 150 shekels, provides advantage to Str checks).
35. 4d8 shekels and an Ebeteen sorcerer’s ghost armor mankini (light armor, 150 shekels, absorbs one blow per day in a vulgar display of power and converts it into magical energy ready for casting). The mankini is cursed and will grumbly dreadfully at any attempts to conceal it, eating through clothes and armors, so that all may gaze upon its leopard-spotted glory.
36. 3d10 shekels and a lapiz lazuli shield studded with small silver mirrors (200 shekels) that provides protections against heat rays and gaze attacks.
37. 5d6 shekels and a suit of alabaster golem armor (heavy armor, 2,000 shekels, disadvantage to melee attacks and all fine movements, 30 bonus hp).
38. 3d10 shekels and a platinum eyeball (100 shekels) inscribed three times with the Solarcity pictogram “opening, unlocking, unbarring”. It is magical and can [d4]: (1) open a door smeared in the bearer’s blood (1d4 hp), (2) awaken a corpse pumped full of fresh air (3 charges), (3) release a bound soul from an undead creature with a long, loving glance (at the cost of 1d4 points of Wisdom), (4) replace a living eye and grant the ability to see the auras of the undead even through the closed lid of a sarcophagus. The implantation procedure is painful and traumatic.

39. 4d8 shekels and an Ivory Spine that can cure paralysis. It sinks into the flesh of the recipient, replacing the original organ and restoring mobility. The recipient gains 1d4 Constitution but loses 1d4 Dexterity.
40. 4d10 shekels and a set of ghoul teeth set into an accursed mouth implant. The teeth meld into the mouth of their owner and regenerate 1d6 hp every time the flesh of a new sentient creature is eaten. Over time the owner loses all their hair, and their eyes shrink into small, desert-adapted slits. It’s pretty gruesome.
41. 4d12 shekels and the gruesome Egg of the Flowering Flesh. Implanted into a body, it grows into a semi-sentient prehensile tentacle, which can be used as a third hand. The tentacle can only be removed with bloody butchery and restoration magics, even then it also causes the permanent loss of 2 points of Constitution.
42. 5d10 shekels and the Ceramic Chest of the Livingwater Duke. This decorative cuirass is an incredibly powerful Izvoreni healing suit, which can restore a dead human to life or keep a grievously injured warrior alive. The ceramic chest sends out feelers of glistening tubing, which intertwine with the recipient’s body. Ceramic platelets and wires spread and create a body that is faster and stronger than before. Removal of the ceramic chest always results in the death of the recipient and the recipient can only wear customized armour, due to their altered body shape. The ceramic chest counts as light armor and grants a +1 bonus to Strength and Constitution. However, the wearer also becomes vulnerable to electric attacks.
43. 4d20 shekels and an anthracite bas relief of a particularly disgusting ritual, that does actually permanently increase Dexterity by 1d4 points. It is a dreadful ritual, though, costing 2,000 shekels and requiring 3 shacklemind servants. Spoiler alert: servants don’t make it at the end.
44. 5d8 shekels and the Singing Flute. A golden flute golem that can be commanded to sing on its own.
45. 5d6 shekels and the Gloves of Bronze and Steel. One glove grants a +1 bonus to all melee attacks, the other grants +1 fire damage to all melee attacks. Both gloves together can be used to create fire-shadow-puppets.
46. 140 shekels and a resilient large jug of light-green crystal filled with an amber liquid of preservation. Inside is a pair of authentic elven feet, thousands of years old. They’re just feet. Not magical or anything.
47. 3d20 shekels and a dust-stone spearhead that whispers of a long-dead vizier who walked through walls and drank the blood of kings (250 shekels).
 Mounted on a proper haft, the spearhead can strike ghosts and other spirit creatures.
48. 6d6 shekels and a five-pack of totally legal cut-price 10 shekel single entry passes for the Necropolis, with proper Party seals and everything.
49. 42 shekels and a hand-signed edition of Mostly Harmless: A Guide to the Dead Among Us. Studying the book closely, and experimenting on three different undead, grants resistance to energy and blood draining attacks.
50. 6d8 shekels and a very authentic-looking forgery granting the status of Leveller Colonel in the Iksian military, as well as two official cleansing licenses (worth 95 shekels each).
51. 6d10 shekels and a full set of original, germ-bonded papers certifying the bearer 
as a bona fide Comrade of the Levelling Bureau, granting permanent customs-exempt de-imperializer status. How or why they seem to be completely legit is a mystery that should remain between the Hero and the Bureau.
 The Bureau also now refers to the hero by their reasonable name of Truthfire.
52. 6d12 shekels and an original Brotherly Society of Expeditious Transportation tattoo that marks the bearer as a member of the malodorous smugglers who viciously avoid the customs and taxes due to the people of the Reasonable Republic. Being caught by the Levellers will not end well.
53. 25 shekels, a sapphire worth 2d100 shekels, and an Iksan get-out-of-jail-free chit given for extraordinary services rendered in the liberation and redistribution of effects.
54. 6d8 shekels and an Iksan License of Resurrection and Reanimation, a rather valuable permit.
55. 6d10 shekels and five scrolls of Cure Symptoms, and one ceramic tile of Cure Disease.
56. 7d8 shekels and a 33% share in a public-private partnership chartered Iskan troop boat. The other two owners are Brina, a Strupeni herbalist, and Marasa, a Kamini wool merchant.
57. 30 shekels and a small ebony chest of mummy dust (1d10 doses). Inhaling the mummy dust gives a +1d4 Wisdom bonus for a day. Con DC 10 save or become addicted. Addiction applies a -1d4 Wisdom penalty every day without mummy dust. Might be better to sell this stuff.
58. 4d20 shekels and an apprentice child captive named Malorop, said to be of the blood of the Glorious Architect. The child is skilled at [d4]: (1) nothing, truly an accursed child that seems to have an uncanny knack for not dying, (2) thievery and spite, (3) tailoring and the dressing of hair, (4) painting so accurate that the child looks uncannily like an incarnation of the foretold Doom Painter, who shall paint such an accurate depiction of Iks the Ninth, that it will trap the First Secretary’s soul upon the canvas, killing him.

59. 3d12 shekels and the friendship of a BFF of the Goddess of Love you saved from certain destruction. The BFF gives you advantage to saves against poison, so long as you regularly give a small token of appreciation.
60. 1d30 shekels and a fellow claiming to be the wandering King of Yore gave you a lodestone that will grow warm when near the Circle Gate in the Necropolis. It could be used to navigate the Necropolis.
61. 3d10 shekels and a sultry war captive (500 shekels) named Asitomislit. The captive is a skilled [d4]: (1) merchant, (2) scribe, (3) singer, (4) medic-eunuch.

62. 6d12 shekels and an elderly captive (200 shekels) named Nisokopatlit. The mangy slave is a capable [d4]: (1) butler, (2) gong farmer, (3) architect, (4) poisoner. Poisoner? That could be dangerous.
63. 2d6 shekels and a couple of sultry captives (400 shekels) named Begotodip and Begesemip. They are [d4]: (1) deft thieves, (2) bumbling bricklayers, (3) mournful morticians, (4) an aristocratic brother and sister with a powerful revenant looking out for them.
64. 2d6 x 10 shekels and a captive spear-lover (150 shekels) named Bogetenimat, of [d4]: (1) exceptional beauty, (2) heart-breaking ferocity, (3) violent moods, (4) dark and hidden secrets involving a flesh parasite given into their keeping by the Hidden Priests of the Flesh God.
65. 1d6 x 10 shekels and an Izvoreni slave named Odtod, who is an [d4]: (1) accomplished mechanic, (2) grand historian, (3) capable administrator, (4) golem pilot.
66. 4d20 shekels and a Doghead slave named Misi, of [d4]: (1) magnificently soft fur, (2) gloriously sharp teeth, (3) a silent and inscrutable mien, and a talent for avoiding traps and ambushes, (4) incredible intelligence and potential that will be utterly wasted if she is kept as a mere slave (if turned into a PC, roll 5d6 and drop lowest two dice to generate Intelligence).
67. 2d20 shekels and an attack ghoul (AC 12, HD 2+2, vicious) on a chain, along with a lapiz command wand blood-bonded to a lazuli nail driven into the ghoul’s brain. The ghoul is named Kritibotek.
68. 3d12 shekels and a luxuriously furred dancing Doghead slave named Boba. The dancing slaves gives advantage on morale and fear saves.
 Why you would make a Doghead slave dance in the middle of a tomb … I don’t know. I just don’t know.
69. 4d12 shekels and a comfort golem (AC 10, HD 2, elegant) named Ease-becomes-you. The golem is immensely and intensely skilled and pneumatic.
70. 1d8 x 10 shekels and a slave skeleton (AC 12, HD 2, bronze-plated) named Clackers.
71. 1d100 shekels and the souls of 2d20 hapless Ebeteen that died in the accidental burning of a beerhouse that may have been caused by the ‘hero’. Not like vengeful shades of the dead would ever pursue the hero. Oh, also acquired a large dunite beer stein that magically refills itself with blood red ale every sunset and every sunrise.
72. 5d12 shekels and an invisible servant named Cherob, who whispers suggestions about dangers and threats (advantage to perception and insight). Cherob may be imaginary. Cherob sometimes whispers downright creepy suggestions.
73. 7d10 shekels and five pieces of rancid space pie. The space pie grants disadvantage on physical checks for a few hours, but also invisibility to undead.
74. 7d6 shekels and four sachets of blue lotus. Each sachet grants 1d4 temporary spell slots and disadvantage on all perception checks for a day.
75. 7d8 shekels and four cakes of red chung. Each cake grants 1d6 temporary hit points and disadvantage on all persuasion checks for a day.
76. 7d12 shekels and three vials of medicinal mercury tincture. Each vial gives advantage on poison and disease saves for a day.

77. 7d4 shekels and two bottles of rational water. Each bottle grants immunity to one drain attack for a day.

78. 2d4 x 10 shekels and six saving grace lilies. Drunk as a herbal infusion, they give advantage on acrobatics checks and dexterity saves for a day.

79. 1d4 x 20 shekels and two cakes of motor chung. The cakes give advantage on initiative checks for a day. They are addictive (Wis DC 10) and expensive (100 shekels per cake).
80. 5d12 shekels and a full bottle of Vim, twenty big gulps’ worth. Drinking a gulp of vim gives advantage on the next attack or save. Only one gulp is active at a time.
81. 5d20 shekels and two full tins of pre-packaged VigorTM. VigorTM is a processed meat product created from the offal of the Living God Itself. Lightly grilled it fully restores a sick or injured person to health, and as a burnt offering it can reattach a soul to a body.
82. 10d10 shekels and three Mortadellas of the Immortal Flesh, processed from Godmeat by the cannibalistic Ebeteen. Conveniently, each mortadella can be thinly sliced to restore up to 20 hit points in 1 hit point increments. A single slice can also purify water. Weird, yes.
83. 4d6 shekels and a god-debt deed to a studio apartment, fit for one, in the Diorite Port (40 shekels per year)
84. Four copper pots and a god-debt deed to a slum tenement, fit for ten or a hundred, in the Diorite Port (300 shekels per year).
85. 8d12 shekels and a god-debt deed to a small farm with a few slave tenants in the Delta. Could be a cushy retirement (200 shekels per year).
86. 100 shekels and a god-debt tablet to a fine house, fit for ten free humans, in the Bronze Heavenly Bullock district of Ébét (250 shekels per year).

87. 1d4 shekels and a god-debt deed to the hamlet of Under the Feet of the Destroyer of the Impudent (500 shekels per year) in the estuary of the River of Life. A hero can resell the deed or retire to live the life of a landed liberator. The impudent Ébéteen peasantry will probably not be friendly.

88. 1d10 shekels and a blood-stained cloak of silken darkness that grants advantage against melee attacks in the dark, the cloak is also embroidered with a map of the Tombstone Trees of the Scribes (all scenes are known, advantage to open a few locks and disable several traps).
89. 1d100 shekels and a map of the Streaked Ziggurat of the Watching Cat (all scenes are known, advantage to open a few locks and disable several traps) tattooed onto a skin-fish mask. Wearing the mask grants limited waterbreathing.
90. 7 shekels and seven sticks that turn into seven serpents (AC 13, HD 1, venomous) that slither into a map of the Glass Pyramids of the Six Piece Queen (all scenes known, advantage against a few locks and traps).
91. 5d12 shekels and a golden rod that protects the holder against paralysis and has a map of the Gilt Domes of the Eunuch Princes (all scenes known, advantage against a few locks and traps).
92. 4d10 shekels and an unbreakable porcelain mask. If fed the blood of a virgin beast, the porcelain mask can turn its owner’s face bright crimson for a day.
93. 8d10 shekels and a dragon ivory amulet of the Ghost-rank that gives advantage to hit noncorporeal creatures.
94. 93 shekels worth of gold dust and a jade and gold phylactery, ready to receive a hero’s heart. While a hero’s heart is in the phylactery, the hero’s body is vulnerable to turning and exorcism, but even if reduced to 0 hp, the hero’s soul flees to the phylactery and can possess a new ‘willing’ body.
95. 9d10 shekels and a map of a Kingdom of Heaven accessible through a submerged visage. The map is engraved upon the reflecting eyes of a feathered snake (AC 14, HD 2, bite of Sleep).
96. 9d10 shekels and an ancient golem-powered war chainsaw (disadvantage on melee attack, deals 3d6 damage on hit, double against zombies, cleaving weapon).
97. 99 shekels and an unholy parasite of the Dead Flesh God. Ingesting the parasite permanently reduces Constitution by 1d4 points, doubles the healing rate and provides complete immunity from magical corruption. Ebeteen curses are twice as effective against the parasite host. Additionally, the parasite can hold one spell in its neural net. If the host’s hp drop to 0, the parasite will try to take control (Wis save DC 14). If the parasite takes control, create a second character for the parasite. The parasite wants to reanimate the Dead Flesh God, but has no idea how to do that, being a mere bundle of impulses and mind control protocols.
98. 10d10 shekels, the god-debt deed to a strong and stable plucky little temple (50 shekels per year) and an original copy of the recipe for opium of the masses, the cheaper substitute for reason. It can be used to produce a panacea that provides resistance against depression, ennui, and mortal terror—the perfect tool for a charlatan.
99. A small chest filled with bloody gems and gore-smeared pearls of exquisite value (worth 1d100 x 1,000 shekels) and a god-debt deed, legally transferred to the hero with signatures in blood, for a barony on the shores of the Cyan sea (20,000 shekels per annum). If the hero chooses to retire immediately, give the next character a suspiciously rich uncle and 10x the starting cash.
100. The hero came out of the looting with nothing, save a simple linen smock or robe. All their shekels, all their equipment, disappeared in a rainbow haze. A vague sense of dreadful certainty fills the hero that all material things are mere illusions. The hero is now completely immune to all diseases, curses, and demonic possession. Additionally, the hero acquires equal XP for ritually destroying wealth, as for carousing (save that ritual wealth destruction carries no risks of mishap).