Creatures, Entities & Personalities - extracts from the Game Design Document

CREATURES & ENTITIES

The denizens of the Underland are rich and varied, each with skills particular to their form.

A complete list of creatures and their skills and statistics is included in the appendix: Denizens of the Underland.  Here’s a sample:

• Monkeys - can use some weapons, pistols and rapiers!  They also can wear hats.  Because who doesn’t like monkeys in hats?
• Deep Ones (a la Cthulhu) - humanoid (can thus don pirate gear - a nod to Pirates of the Caribbean), breath underwater
• Angel Fish - breath underwater, ignored by most large creatures, food for some others (pluses to Holy damage - joke re ‘angel’)
• Puffer Fish - breath underwater, poisonous, can ascend quickly in water
• Old fashioned Soldiers - humanoid, equipped with musket and sabre
• Sailors - humanoid, equipped with knife or pistol or sword
• Other pirates - humanoid, equipped with pistol and/or cutlass
• Skeletal Humans - skeletal versions of the above, no breath (can move underwater, unaffected by gas, cannot swim), cause fear in normal humans (fight or flight)
• Zombies - undead versions of the above (nod to Pirates of the Caribbean), similar to skeletons in abilities, cause humans they kill to turn and rise as more zombies
• Squid - breath underwater, grapple / bind attack / ink defense (good for drowning non-aquatic enemies)
• Octopus - similar to squid but with camouflage ability too!
• Mermaids - breath underwater, charm and sleep spells
• Rats - stealthy
• Dogs - can charm some men (man’s best friend) / detect spirits (will bark when a spirit is nearby
• Cats - stealthy, often ignored / detect spirits (will hiss when a spirit is nearby (chance to flee)
• Ghosts - cannot be possessed (as they themselves are a spirit), icy touch, slow and cold damage, induce fear in certain others, cause dogs to bark and cats to flee
• Shades - shadow like creatures that debuff living characters and can repel / repulse the ghost form

PERSONALITIES

The game also includes certain notable NPCs that may be friendly, hostile or indifferent to Booty.  They are found wandering the Underland from time to time, or certain events may attract them. Again this is a sample list:

• Old Sea Salt - An old man, talks in cryptic riddles which may provide useful information if correctly deciphered.  Friendly.  But Insane.  Can be slain and possessed!
• Bill Hook - Booty’s nemesis and arch-rival.  Another cursed spirit bound to the body of a pirate.  Only ever appears in pirate form.  Can be slain but not possessed - his body rots on the spot into foul gases and bugs.  But he will reappear as his spirit drifts off, finds another human and morphs into Bill Hook again!