Codex R

Unwa...................................................................4
Dalius’ Hair.......................................................5
Phir and Cy, The Twins.................................6
Geometrical Force......................................... 7
ISD3.....................................................................8
Ghonian.............................................................9
Macula..............................................................10
Irdinemoe.........................................................11
Teblev............................................................... 12
Tik Tik................................................................14
Orguian............................................................ 15
IOUAE............................................................... 16
Boins..................................................................17
Collectors........................................................ 18
Senicodono.................................................... 19
L’ckens.............................................................20
Sveitslitz.......................................................... 21
Madrones.......................................................22
Thrill Mimics................................................. 24
Chronie...........................................................25
Lonely Ghost.................................................26
The Stage....................................................... 27
Hills of Comfort and Mild Manners.......28
Kedats.............................................................30
Eggs................................................................... 31
Skindwellers.................................................32
Pilgrims..........................................................33
Bucafols..........................................................34
Buckets...........................................................35
Nagoe..............................................................36
The Hall Forgiving Eyes............................ 37
H........................................................................38
Sleepy Eerta..................................................39
Uos....................................................................40
Slamu................................................................ 41
Gurpa............................................................... 42
Yum Beasts....................................................43
The Giant Blush............................................ 44
Dobrah............................................................ 45
Strantxess Express.....................................46
Kermia Park...................................................47
The Best Hedge Mazes.............................. 48
Johnny, Annie, Priscilla and Tommy......49
Astrals.............................................................50
The Five Sacred Relics of Fun...................52
Relics Detached............................................53
Tables.............................................................. 54
A Visit to Villa Madrones...........................55

Written by Roque Romero and Eric K. Hill

Illustrated by Roque Romero
Edited by Jarrett Crader
Layout by Eric K. Hill
Copyright 2021 Roque Romero
Codex R is an independent production by Roque Romero and is not
affiliated with the Melsonian Arts Council.

Funded by the VEGAP Assistance and Cultural Fund with the collaboration of Z ESPACIO CULTURAL IGNACIO ZULOAGA.
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Unwa Dalius’ Hair

They were, for obvious reasons, everyone’s favourite deity before
being pushed to the wayside by the devotion to Order. Blessed
with many eyes and six mouths, Unwa could spot where the most
exciting fun was to be found, and shout it in all directions. Their
noses could detect any bad vibes even before they happened.
Currently making ends meet among mortals as a lookout.
A single strand of hair, stately erect with vigour and beauty
without equal. As long as Dalius occupies the throne, he is the sole
ruler of The Court. Meddling subjects cursed with tufts and locks
unworthy of notice are constantly plotting ways to fool Dalius
from the throne.
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Phir and Cy, The Twins Geometrical Force

Once The Court decided that Order, Logic and Clear Definitions Given The Twins lack of any talent for violence, The Geometrical
of a Singular Meaning were to be the basis of their religion, Force manifested as their demonic servants, ready to exterminate
marketable avatars were requested and The Twins descended heretics or point out the gaps in logic of undesirable ideologies.
from the sky with a shout. [Skill:8 Stamina:10 Initiative:1 Armour:1 Moderate Beast]

1 2 3 4 5 6
Furious Disappointed Stringent Smug Stumped Serene
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ISD3
Employed by Phyr and Cy to examine the structural integrity of
spheres and non-geometric beings.
[Skill:10 Stamina:8 Initiative:2 Armour:2 Large Beast]
Special: On a Damage roll of
6+ the target takes double
Damage as ISD3 finds their
weak spot.
Ghonian
The Ghonian Plants are the Intelligence Agency’s crowning
achievement, accomplished by extracting Shamelessness from
a tattletale and letting it ferment with the Entitled seeds of an
award-winning orchid. A grown plant is able to record all voices in
its vicinity, excitedly reciting them when harvested.

1 2 3 4 5 6
Intent Disgusted Vicious Enraged Curious Homesick
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Macula
Given that one can only die once, most fallen Disorderly soldiers
choose to spend the afterlife in the form of a chaotic fountain of
blood, a final act of defiance against the status quo, gathering intel
on the enemy in preparation for a highly unlikely uprising.
11
Irdinemoe
Appointing the soul of a living language as sole prosecutor has
its obvious benefits. New laws are made up at will. Word on the
street is that a single loophole would instantly kill it, though none
has ever been found.
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Teblev
Judge, Jury and Prison! Teblev makes up the second half of the
judicial system, working in awe-inspiring unison with Prosecutor
Irdinemoe. Proceedings are held on their scalp, defendants
quickly swallowed after sentencing.
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Tik Tik Orguian

She visited The Court with hopes of entering a trade agreement.
Dalius instead saw greater use for her as his private fan,
imprisoning her in a hole. Her parents miss her very much.
Head of R&D at The Courts’ culinary department. Consciously
ignoring the importunate insipidness of its masters. Its
sole concern is the discovery of new culinary delights.
Orguian’s process relies on harvesting new experiences,
passionate emotions and sincere hugs, refining them into tasty
pellets in its belly hole. Its bottom hole ejects prototype pellets,
forming a colorful trail behind it. Banned from using the word
“arts” after culinary.
[Skill:4 Stamina:7 Initiative:1 Armour:2 Small Beast]

1 2 3 4 5 6
Excited Curious Sombre Lost Remorseful Furious
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IOUAE Boins
There’s more to successful warfare than just deafening firepower. Unnervingly large and indiscriminate waste collectors serving the Special: Test Luck or be
The IOUAE virus is designed to sneak into enemy territories to Sacred Junkyard, slowly chipping away at fulfilling the prophecy grappled, taking Damage as
infect literary works and constitutions, changing or erasing the to grow an amusement park from the waste. Anyone seeking Large Beast each round.
cultural pillars that unify a culture. to retrieve an item must catch Dancing Chaba, the guardian, a
drunken whirlwind.
[Skill:6 Stamina:14 Initiative:1 Armour:2]

1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
Intent Intent Intent Hateful Hateful Hateful Diligent Diligent Diligent Focused Focused Stressed
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Collectors Senicodono
Looking to trade in order to complete their collection. They try These particular drawers sit on the back of Collector Sam, and
not to think about what they will be when their collection and as we can see she’s strenuously collecting possessions (or body
purpose is fulfilled. parts) from assassinated politicians. Different Collectors collect
different things—don’t you dare suggest otherwise.

D6 Things They Collect D6 Things They Can Part With

1. Celebrity Skins 1. Ghonian Seeds
2. Shimmering Things 2. Quilt Samples
3. Hair 3. Boin Whistle
4. Macula Drops 4. Cursed Ammunition
5. Pilgrim Pheromones 5. Mysterious Egg
6. Uos Tails 6. Unwa Party Flyers

1 2 3 4 5 6
Delighted Confused Shy Decisive Generous Greedy
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L’ckens Sveitslitz
An effective reminder to mischievous minds. The Court made an Ambulatory buildings roaming the lands each night in search of
example of these insubordinate poets. They now spend eternity those most in need of shelter and love. They rest during the day
crawling down The Wall of Remorse, reborn each morning. and soak up their nighttime guests’ painful stories.
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Madrones
Each new dissident movement requires a unique response. The
Court is well aware of this and developed a system of defence.
Each incubation chamber houses an eager villain uniquely suited
for their task, starving for violence.
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Thrill Mimics Chronie

Attracted to voids of work ethic. Tempting workers plagued by
monotony with bright colours and jovial games.
[Skill:8 Stamina:11 Initiative:2 Armour:0 Large Beast]
Special: Test Luck or Drown.
The Thrill Mimic turns bright
red and launches itself to cover
the target’s face with
its tentacles.
With each of their parts existing simultaneously on separate
spheres, Chronie is admittedly a marvel of engineering. Blinded
by the self-professed brilliance of their invention, the construct’s
maker failed to notice a small but potentially devastating flaw.
Public transportation, industry and councils have all learned to
rely on the comforting timekeeping services of Chronie. What
kind of chaos awaits once Daylight Saving Time arrives? Since
Chronie lacks the DST-safe routines, entire economies are
threatened to be thrown into disarray.

1 2 3 4 5 6
Cruel Cruel Cruel Starving Starving Starving
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Lonely Ghost The Stage

Longs for conversation but locals know to avoid any contact with When the boredom from watching the same play night after night
the giant stone face. Their prophecies always come true, and due became too much, The Stage decided to grow legs and leave for
to their pessimistic nature they are exclusively bad ones. the ocean to experience the excitement of a real storm. Ashamed
by his rash decision, he stays put for fear of reprimands. The
actors trapped within him are probably really hungry by now.
D6 Prophecies
1. The Yum Beasts just got tired of statues.
2. The Kedats will be ready tomorrow.
3. The Gurpa will break free on Thursday.
4. With just one more embarrassment, The Giant Blush will
explode, killing thousands.
5. A Ghonian in The Best Hedge Mazes knows a terrible secret!
6. ISD3 will find this sphere’s weak point in D6 days.
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Hills of Comfort and Mild Manners

Distraught by the knowledge that their record comforting quilts
are used to subdue dissident voices, and powerless to act. The
Hills are capable of nothing but growing against their will and
wondering how things got so bleak.
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Kedats Eggs
Directly after a botched haircut, the modest life of a Kedat is Bald avatars of the baby-faced and brittle. Driven by spite for the
unceremoniously brought into existence, forming from the Kedats, they are intent to bring about the apocalypse before their
subject’s lost hair and shame, held together by regret and dust. sworn enemies do.
A Kedat fashions their armour from knickknacks. The many eyes [Skill:3 Stamina:11 Initiative:2 Armour:0 Large Beast]
are merely decorative, but help Kedats cope with the judgemental
gaze of strangers, slowly building their confidence and numbers
to bring about The End of Times.
[Skill:5 Stamina:6 Initiative:3 Armour:0 Small Beast]

1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
Scared Cautious Desperate Paranoid Unhinged Confident Scared Cautious Desperate Paranoid Unhinged Confident
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Skindwellers
Sleep during daylight under Big Dana’s skin. Hunt fresh skin for
Dana during the night, expanding their territory.
[Skill:7 Stamina:13 Initiative:1 Armour:0 Large Beast]
Pilgrims
For ages, the Shells enviously watched the seemingly intoxicating
mobility of bipedal beach patrons. Finally, once their desire grew
too strong, the Shells collectively evicted their ungraceful and
slimy tenants. Suddenly free, the Shells coaxed the bipeds into
union by promise of glory on both land and sea. Pilgrims see their
kind as the apex of evolution, often engaging in unsolicited duels
to prove their point.
[Skill:9 Stamina:11 Initiative:3 Armour:2 Large Beast]

1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
Stressed Barbaric Busy Fastidious Insecure Elated Aggressive Hungry Dismissive Impatient Proud Smug
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Bucafols
Dalius imagined that the perfect servant would lack mouths able
to talk back, thus the headless Bucafols rose from the soil, ready
to serve. Dalius’ excitement waned almost instantly—turns out a
servant without ears to receive commands is useless.
[Skill:7 Stamina:10 Initiative:2 Armour:1 Modest Beast]
Buckets
Abandoned and deemed useless, the Bucafols fumbled in
existential limbo until discovering the utility of buckets, worn
to signal status, personality and mood. To the best of their
knowledge, the buckets make them blend in seamlessly with
the rest of society.

1 2 3 4 5 6
Happy Pitiful Proud Envious Desperate Heartbroken
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Nagoe The Hall of Forgiving Eyes

Left homeless and vulnerable when abandoned by the Pilgrim Though The Hall lacks both followers and prophets, city folks don’t
Shells, some opportunistic Nagoe gastropods entered a symbiotic dare to gamble on not granting its wishes.
relationship with the Bucafols. They claim the arrangement is
mutual and harmless for their hosts.

1 2 3 4 5 6
Scandalous Greedy Cocky Bored Pissy Vengeful
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H Sleepy Eerta
Vagabond and self-proclaimed Saviour of Lost Souls. Attached to H’s back for as long as she can remember, being H’s
Aimlessly walking the lands, absorbing any lost or NEEDY soul longest companion. Forgot her past as a council woman. Content
he encounters, now happily sharing skins, H bravely carries knowing she found the spot where she belongs, and it’s right there
them and their burdens to the place where they belong. What on H’s back. Acts as H’s lookout and naturally has his back at all
constitutes a lost soul apparently varies widely, depending on his times, if she’s awake. Carries a fortune in national secrets deep in
mood. Though H means well, some subjects have allegedly been her mind, if she remembers.
absorbed against their will.
[Skill:9 Stamina:10 Initiative:1 Armour:0 Modest Beast]

1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
Sombre Skeptical Sympathetic Curious Generous Appalled Suspicious Worried Forgetful Dormant Surprised Envious
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Uos
After being hunted by amateur adventurers for generations,
these sewer rats decided to skip a few evolutionary steps, trading
flesh and fur for a fearful electrical tail. They roam the city streets
looking to avenge their forefathers.
[Skill:6 Stamina:6 Initiative:2 Armour:0 Small Beast]
Special: Can cast the Jolt Spell.
Slamu
Noticing how everyone was disgusted by giant bugs but coveted
gold, the Slamu decided to mimic gold bars. Patiently waiting to
strike unassuming victims, to suck the unloving heart who shunned
them out of their chests. Deep inside, they still yearn for acceptance.
[Skill:9 Stamina:6 Initiative:3 Armour:0 Small Beast]

1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
Annoyed Exhausted Vengeful Terrified Sleeping Ecstatic Vengeful Spiteful Malicious Frustrated Surprised Ashamed
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Gurpa Yum Beasts

Even though their screaming can be heard several blocks away, So far the Yum have satiated their hunger with stone sculptures.
citizens have a silent agreement not to talk about why the old The City fears the day they inevitably move on to its buildings.
station is brimming with reality bending monsters. Maybe they [Skill:6 Stamina:15 Initiative:1 Armour:1 Gigantic Beast]
will go away? And the walls are sure to hold!

1 2 3 4 5 6
Starving Starving Starving Starving Starving Satiated
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The Giant Blush Dobrah

A communal bio-mass for absorbing embarrassment was a great Dobrah rose from the pool of merchants’ abandoned dreams that
success, with productivity and approval ratings skyrocketing. It filled the ground below the arches. A homebody and too big for
has, however, been anything but comforting since faces formed extraction, he now protects the market.
on the blob’s surface. Dangerously close to reaching critical mass. [Skill:3 Stamina:12 Initiative:1 Armour:0 Large Beast]

1 2 3 4 5 6
Happy Curious Gossipy Pensive Suspicious Grieving
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Strantxess Express Kermia Park

Though functional and free, this was not what the people had in An act of defiance toward geometry hidden among the Hedge
mind when requesting public transportation. Powered by the feet Mazes. Who is behind the People’s Sculpture Network and what
of its passengers. is their plan?
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The Best Hedge Mazes Johnny, Annie, Priscilla and Tommy

Looking at the mazes from this elevated view misleadingly makes Souls of children who got lost in and swallowed by the Mazes.
them seem surmountable. But, as expected from sore losers, they Joining forces, they managed to possess its map and escape in
cheat and transform if they are close to being solved. bipedal form. Disheartened from discovering no one missed
them, they now seek a purpose.
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Astrals
Do not disturb.
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The Five Sacred Relics of Fun Relics Detached

The old way. The relics each represent the five cornerstones of Upon learning relics are indestructible, The Court hid each relic in
fun: Sharing, Friendship, Recreation, Cheers and Curiosity. five different extra-spheral locations. If found, be extra sure to not
hold it wrong side up!!!
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Things That Might Happen

» Unwa is plotting to fool Dalius to leave his throne by using his fear of rats. He
needs one live Uos.
» In a fit or paranoia, Dalius has illegalized scissors. The Hairdresser Union is 1 2
looking for a trustworthy smuggler.
» A defector claims to know the location of the Relic of Sharing. 3
» Someone is posing as a hairdresser and giving horrible haircuts, dramatically
increasing the Kedats’ numbers.
» ISD3 has been informed of the Astrals’ existence and is fuming.
» H is desperately searching for one of Chronie’s pieces, said to open a door to
an abandoned sphere. A filthy rich soul in his care claims their family is trapped
there.
» Teblev and Irdinemoe are preparing a trial and the accused Nagoe have hijacked
Sveitsliz, forcing it to march to the west to escape justice. Eerta is the only 9 6 4
witness of the hijacking.
» Johnny, Annie, Priscilla and Tommy hope to regain their previous lives.
They were told by Unwa that Phir and Cy have the power to gift them three-
dimensional bodies, but the Geometrical Force blocks any council with the
deities.
» Tik Tik’s siblings have come to this sphere in search of their daughter, but
now they are hunted by Kedats, mistaking them for angels sent to block the
apocalypse. They are hiding in the Hedge Mazes.
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5
D6 Events
1. It’s Dalius birthday! Offering gifts is mandatory, bad gifts are punishable by death.
2. It’s the anniversary of Dalius’ coronation! 100 duels are arranged in his honor. 8
3. Bad Hair Day Remembrance. All eyes must be closed by law.
4. Election! Your love for Dalius must be proven by vote!
5. An unscheduled Purge Day is announced.
6. Someone foolishly disturbed the Astrals. No gravity for d6 hours.

A Visit to Villa Madrones

1. Jo the Bucafol is sad—they were cleaning the
residence but fled when accidentally waking
the Madrones. Dropped their favorite bucket.
2. Orangery. Warm and sweaty. Wondrous
plants, among them a Ghonian.
3. Library. A bunch of Eggs are plotting the
coming apocalypse together with an IOUAE.
4. Someone is using this room as a trash pile.
Sneaky Slamu hiding in the rubble.
5. Thick smoke maze. Strong tobacco stench.
6. Buff and angry Pilgrim guards competing
over who has the best calf muscles.
7. Venerated chamber of Codex R.
8. Hall of Mirrors. See who the richest person
on any sphere is.
9. Madrones Chamber. They are slowly waking
up! Someone should probably comfort them
back to sleep before it’s too late for all of us!
 It longs to be read.

The vellum will

seductively caress a
reader’s hand.

Claims to have
written itself,
but refuses to
answer why.

- Mien -
1 2 3 4 5 6
Evasive Probing Gossipy Distracted Playful Sinister