Table of Contents

How to Get the Players Involved.................................................................... 5

Robert, Vegetal Vanquisher of Worlds, The Green Messiah.................. 6
Radicinoids, Doppelgänger Plants That Will Replace You
and All Your Friends...........................................................................................8
The Seekers of Love, What a Bunch of Utter Cults................................ 10

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The Men in Black of the Royal Horticultural Society............................ 12
Four Armed Bandits......................................................................................... 14

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Town Littleworth............................................................................................... 16
The Clark Farm................................................................................................... 18
The Grove............................................................................................................. 21
The Great Tree....................................................................................................25
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The Roots.............................................................................................................27
The Trunk............................................................................................................ 28
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The Top of the Tree.......................................................................................... 30
What Happens if Robert is Stopped?.........................................................32
What Happens if Robert is Not Stopped?.................................................32
Weird Fruit...........................................................................................................35
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So You Wanna be a Murderous Doppelgänger Vegetable?..................42

Inspiration, or From Whence I Stole All the Good Ideas.....................44
The Whole Country Has a Saxon Air,
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and the Inhabitants are Savages..................................................................45

Appendix N(PC).................................................................................................46
Town Littleworth (map)...................................................................................48

3 GREEN MESSIAH
WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
GREEN MESSIAH is set in Sussex in 1630. In 1624 an alien spacecraft from
a dying planet crashed just outside the hamlet of Town Littleworth. Inside
the craft was an alien child that was adopted and raised by a local couple.

Alas, the child has turned out to be a wood elf monster that wants to take
over the Earth with strange plants and an army of shape-changing emo-

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tionless drones.

Aside from the alien flora, characters will also encounter agents of the

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government investigating the extra-terrestrial threat, a bunch of religious
nuts who think the alien is the second coming of Christ, and some bandits
searching for their lost loot.

(There’s also a bit of treasure if your players are nihilistic sociopaths who
care nothing for the survival of humanity.)
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Oh, and the supernova that destroyed the alien civilisation was visible
from Earth around 4 BCE, so technically, this is a Christmas adventure.
Happy Christmas!
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Kelvin Green, still by the sea,
April 2021.
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HOW TO GET THE PLAYERS INVOLVED
You know your players and your cam-
paign better than I do, but here are
some ideas for getting the characters
involved in the events in Town Little-
worth.
* They might have heard about
the lost treasure (page 23) from
criminal contacts, of which I’m
sure they have many.
* They might also have heard about
the weird crops coming out of the
hamlet. Maybe they have been sent
by a sage or wizard or some other
untrustworthy beardy bloke in a
dressing gown to go and have a
look.
* Or someone has mentioned the,
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you know, 400’ tree (page 25) and
thought it was a bit unusual.
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* A friend or contact mayight have
visited the hamlet and been
replaced by a Radicinoid (page
8). Perhaps the player characters
have lost all contact with this
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unfortunate person, or perhaps
they have returned from Sussex,
and the player characters have
noticed that they are a bit “off” and
want to find out why.
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* Maybe the player characters have
heard about the people of Town
Littleworth being a bit odd. More
odd than usual for a tiny place in
the middle of nowhere, that is.
* Perhaps the player characters have
religious connections and have
heard rumours of a messianic cult
operating in the area, or maybe
they have direct contact with
the Seekers of Love (page 10)
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and have heard there’s an actual
messiah-like figure there.
* It’s possible that one of the
aforementioned untrustworthy
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beardy blokes has worked out that
something fell from the sky in 1624
and has sent the player characters
to investigate.
* It’s also possible that they work
for an agency similar to that of the
Men in Black (page 12) and have
been directed to investigate the
weird fruit, strange people, things
falling from the sky, or all of the
above. Perhaps they work for the
same organisation, in which case
you might want to drop the MiBs,
or maybe there’s some inter-
departmental rivalry.
* All that said, maybe the player
characters are just passing
through the hamlet on their way
to somewhere more interesting
because Town Littleworth is
boring and dull, and nothing of
note ever happens there. Until
now, obviously.
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ROBERT, VEGETAL VANQUISHER OF WORLDS,
THE GREEN MESSIAH
From a distance, Robert Clark looks like
a normal tweenager. Up close, it’s clear
he’s far from normal. Robert is about 4’
tall, and his skin has a greenish tinge.
He has pointed ears, black eyes with-
out iris or pupil, and his hair is more a
mossy substance that covers his head.

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He has a mild, mulchy scent, like the
woods on a rainy day. Nice.

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As an alien raised by humans, Robert
is a bit odd. He understands human
behaviour, or at least the subset of it
specific to an inconspicuous hamlet in
Sussex, but has no particular affinity
with it and seems aloof and detached,
as if he is observing everything as part
of an experiment. He comes across as
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apathetic and superior.

Well, except in one case. The love his

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adopted parents (page 6) show to Rob-
ert confuses him, almost as much as
his own affection towards them. He as-
sumes he has been conditioned in some
way, but even so, he can’t bring himself
to harm or replace the Clarks.
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If you are some kind of pervert and

allow dirty, stinking elf characters in
your campaign, they will feel an inex-
plicable sense of kinship with Robert,
because he is more or less an elf, just an
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Elf From Spaaaaaaaaaaace!!

What does he want?

Robert was engineered to conquer
worlds and restore the space-plant
empire, so that’s what he’s going to do.
Does he actually want to do it? That’s
one for the philosophers to sort out.

His argument, which he is prepared to

explain, is that he is a superior life form
— in fairness, he is — and so it is only
natural that he rules the planet.
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 ROBERT CLARK, verdant con-
queror: Armour 14, Move 120’, 2 Hit
Dice, 9hp, Thorn Burst 2d4 damage
or weapon, Morale 8.
If he absolutely must, Robert will use
the weapons of the fleshy things, but he
prefers his...
Thorn Burst
Robert can produce thorns from his
skin that he can then fling at any
number of targets within 60’. The total
damage is 2d4 that can be distributed
as Robert likes. Anyone hit must save
versus Paralyzation or be immobilised
for a Round.
Plant Power!
Robert is immune to harm when in
contact with bare ground, or a plant
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in contact with the ground. He can be
pushed, pulled, or lifted as normal. He
does not need to breathe, drink, or eat.
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He is also immune to Charm spells and
effects, and is unaffected by limitations
on movement caused by plant growth.
Spells that affect plants and plant
creatures affect Robert, but he does get
a save.
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He can communicate with plants at will,
although his extra-terrestrial nature
means that Earth plants are as likely
to be unfriendly as not. The trees of
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the Grove (page 21) and the Great Tree
(page 25) are always friendly towards
him.
Robert can cause a 40’ by 40’ area to
be filled with abundant and wild plant
growth; such growth halves all move-
ment rates within it.
He can blend in with plants and trees
such that he can act from surprise on a
roll of 1-5 on 1d6.
No Sleep ‘til Cooksbridge!
Robert is immune to Charm and Sleep
spells. If you have the sort of game in
which ghouls, instead of inspiring dec-
adent Bostonian painters, can paralyse
people, Robert is also immune to that
paralysis effect.
The Clone Wars
As long as Robert is in contact with
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the Top of the Tree (page 30), he can
manifest through any Radicinoid (page
8) within three miles of the Great Tree.
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In an instant, the creature changes to
resemble Robert, and he takes over
complete control of the Radicinoid’s
form. Imagine it like that bit in The Ma-
trix when an Agent takes over a random
citizen, except with much less kung fu.
If the creature is destroyed, Robert’s
consciousness returns to his own body.
While in this form, Robert does not
have any of his immunities but can use
any of his other abilities as normal.
THE SNYDER CUT
Sardonic Referees might decide
that if a character’s mother is called
Jenny, and Robert finds out, he will
spare that character.
ROLL UP! ROLL UP!
Robert will be of considerable
interest to dodgy wizards and other
such disreputable scholars, who
will pay 2d10x50sp for his corpse,
or double that if Robert is captured
alive.
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