Bestiary

Hecatoncheir
Skill 12
Stamina 42
Initiative 8
Armour 0
Damage as Gigantic Beast

A hundred limbs sprang forth from its mass, unapproachable,

and the mighty strength in its great form was immense.

Special
AForest
Hecatoncheir does not die. Instead it appears dead for one
initiative, and takes two initiatives, during combat, to stand
Of
back up. If Hecatoncheir runs out of initiative during a combat
it will remain dead until the end of combat, eventually coming
back to life and will continue to pursue the party. Will add the
limbs of your fallen party to its body while not in combat.
Whispering
D6
1 Distracted
MIEN D6
4 Rage
MIEN SpeakerS
2 Scared 5 Nauseated
3 Violent 6 Hurt

Dream JaM
Nymph
Skill 3
Stamina 4
Initiative 3
Armour 0
Damage as Small Beast

Divine spirits of nature.

Special
Roll on Nymph Table to discover which you’ve disturbed.
D6 NYMPH
1 Meliae — Caretakers of Life
A Pamphlet Dungeon Escape
2 Oceanids — Defenders of the Young
3 Napaeae — Module for Troika!
4 Hyades — the Rain Makers
5 Lampades — Torchbearers of the Hecatoncheir
6 Maenads — the Raving Ones Derek Kinsman
D6 MIEN D6 MIEN
1 Mischievous 4 Uninterested
A Forest of Whispering Speakers is an independent production by
2 Curious 5 Concerned Derek Kinsman and is not affiliated with the Melsonian Arts Council.
3 Childish 6 Angry Public domain art from Highland Paranormal Society’s Library Images Vol. 1 & 2
Rules—Like Notes
Hook & Rumours
Roll on the Hooks & Rumours tables to find out why you are
here, and/or add this as a random location in your own setting.
Rôgue—Like Dungeon Escaping
As you move through the seemingly infinitely sprawling castle,
roll on the Rooms table to generate the rooms and halls you
travel through. The castle is claustrophobic and confused.
Castle Gormenghast, Winchester Mansion, Hearst Castle, House
on the Rock, and the H.H. Holmes Murder Castle should come
to mind. Roll on the Encounters and Environmental Effects
table to find out what is going on in each room.
Optional, but recommended: the rooms disappear as you leave
them, you can’t backtrack. Draw your map in pen, overlapping
as you go. Make a mess, the architects of this castle sure did.
Getting Inside Outside
If you start from within the castle, roll on the Rooms table to
find out where you begin. If you start from outside the castle
you enter first into the Anteroom. Leaving this room results in
you becoming disoriented and unable to simply backtrack to it.
Once you leave this room you explore the Castle looking to
discover its secrets. When the Hecatoncheir appears your sole
mission is to escape, whether you’ve discovered the secrets of
the castle or not.
Roll 1D6 + 6 to determine how many Rooms you explore before
the Hecatoncheir can appear.
Roll 2D6 + 6 to determine how many Rooms you explore before
the Anteroom can appear (or reappear if you started there).
Optional: If pressed for time, have the Hecatoncheir appear
after N rooms explored, and the Anteroom appear after N
rooms since the Hecatoncheir appears. Give 10 minutes per
room. This should help calculate timing.
Fancy Locations
Anteroom
Every surface is so reflective that the room looks like it goes to
infinity in every direction, as do reflections of yourself. Under
all that polished Malachite & Chrysocolla it is, however, a
standard mud room.
Great Hall
Unlike the Anteroom, this room actually goes to infinity in
every direction. However, you somehow still find doors.
This room has 2 Encounters.
Kitchen
A well used kitchen. Every surface was once a well polished
silver. Hygiene and cleanliness were not required here.
The Hecatoncheir will always be waiting for you in the Kitchen.
No other Encounters happen here.
Gardens
You’ve never seen such a beautiful garden. You are so
overwhelmed by the beauty of the garden you lose -1 Skill
while in the Gardens.
You always disturb 2D6 Nymphs in addition to the rolled
Encounter. This is their home.
Environmental & Character Effects
Hypothermia
Temporarily lose half Skills + 1 Skill for every action taken
while outdoors. Effect ends once indoors.
Flickering Lights
A candle flickers, light reflections bounce off the chrome and
gold decor. You blink to readjust your sight to the dimmer light,
and when your eyes reopen the room has changed. Reroll on
the Rooms table. -1 Skill or suffer from Claustrophobia on your
next creature encounter.
Claustrophobia
You become over taken by fear. Your first Initiative Token must
be used to regain composure. Your remaining Tokens can only
be used to make Move, or Cover actions. Effect doesn’t stack.
Optional: stack the effect.
D4 HOOKS
1 You are all minor employees of the Castle.
2 Terrible weather lead you here.
3 You plunder castles, and this is the mightiest castle.
4 The Nymphs have requested aid.
D3 RUMOURS
The Hecatoncheir is a military experiment from the
1
King’s Body Guard gone horribly wrong.
The Royal Society of Alchemy opened a doorway to
2
another Sphere, and let something in.
3 Nymphs are guarding a fallen star in the Gardens.
D6 ROOMS
1 A Weirdly Shaped Hallway. 2D6 Encounters.
2 A Luxuriously Relaxing Room. 1D6 Encounters.
A Confusingly Infinite Gallery. 3D6 Encounters. Roll
3
3D6. The Great Hall appears on a result of 16-18.
A Busy Room Where Work Gets Done. 1D6
4 Encounters. If the Hecatoncheir can appear, roll 3D6.
The Kitchen appears on a result of 16-18.
A Small Hallway Shaped Hallway. 1D6 Encounters. If
5 the Anteroom can appear, roll 3D6. The Anteroom
appears on a result of 16-18.
An Opulent Space Between Spaces. 3D6 Encounters.
6
Roll 3D6. The Gardens appear on a result of 16-18.
2D3 ENCOUNTERS
2 Hecatoncheir appears (no encounter if it can’t).
A barely alive Minor Employee bursts into a coughing
3 fit before passing. Hecatoncheir will appear 1 Room
sooner (no Encounter if Hecatoncheir is already out).
4 You observe some Nymphs. 1D6 Nymphs.
You get turned around. Anteroom appears 1 Room
5
later ( no Encounter if Anteroom can already appear).
6 You disturb a gathering of Nymphs. 2D6 Nymphs.
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
2D6
INDOOR OUTDOOR
2–11 No Effect
12 Flickering Lights Hypothermia