Shipping Pause and Leviathan Beachings

Shipping pause

Howdy! Charlie here.

Small announcement to say that our store will be pausing shipping from the 8th to the 13th of this September.

Thankfully our studio has avoided most of the headache from the newly-imposed tariffs, but please give some grace and love to the creators and folks who are struggling with the additional paperwork and shipping costs. It ain’t fair and it ain’t right is the common sentiment here in rural Pennsylvania.

Teasers (and Blogs are a Good Thing)

This is going to be a bit of a return to form and a blog contribution.

Back when I was working on what would become Into the Wyrd and Wild, I made it a point of posting and releasing a significant portion of the book via blog posts. I was admittedly inspired by the 2010s OSR community and wanted to contribute to the collective space.

Moving forward I would like to return to that with Into the Salt and Surf, de-monetized and freely available.

Leviathan Beachings

Children of the Driftwood Heart, great beings whose hearts beat in tune with the tides. Their bodies alien and strange to mortal kind, known only because they wash ashore in sickness and death.

d10	Form	Features	Details	Wounds	Shivers
1	Fish	Eyes beyond count.	Coral-like horns.	Thousands of fist sized bites.	Laid out like a lover.
2	Eel	Fins great and small.	Huge sail-spines.	Heavy oozing cysts.	Loss that has settled in the bones.
3	Whale	Mess of tentacles.	Twin mouths.	Many iron harpoons.	Cold damp unpleasantness.
4	Squid	Claws, razor sharp.	Burning ammonia smell.	Ragged decapitation.	Something important has been forgotten.
5	Crab	Teeth, gnarled and long.	Dense matted hair.	Deeply emaciated body.	Puzzling and unsettling.
6	Mortal	Gills, bright and bloody.	Distended belly.	Covered in barnacles.	Despicable devotion.
7	Shellfish	Serpentine tails.	Long slender tentacles.	Entangled in tight ropes.	A crime against the holy.
8	Jellyfish	Shimmering scales.	Flippers ending in blunt nails.	Raw, toothless jaws.	Infectious allure.
9	Ray	Ghostly membrane.	Multiple jointed limbs.	Perforated gut.	Passing on peacefully.
10	Worm	Ferocious mandibles.	Clusters of translucent orbs.	Shallow gangrenous pits.	The first of many...

Searching a Leviathan Corpse

The corpses of Leviathans are literal treasure troves of flesh, valuables, and secrets. Characters may scavenge through its body, but doing so poses its own risk. Even in death, a leviathan remains dangerous.

Searching the body takes 10 minutes. Roll 1d6 and consult the chart.

Digging Deeper: Characters may dig deeper into the corpse, spending another 10 minutes and rolling an additional d6, adding to the previous roll. The treasures found may be greater, but so too are the dangers.

	Searching the Leviathan Corpse
1	Succulent flesh, barely marred by worms and scavengers. D6 rations.
2	Pale blubber and creamy fat, a treasure to soap and candle makers alike. D6 Common Valuables, need container.
3	A net’s contents, tangled across skin and limbs. D3 random tools.
4	Rolls of hide and skin, a fine leather if it can be cured. D3 Common Valuables and D3 Rations.
5	Harpoons and mortal instruments, buried in glistening tendons. D6 rations and d3 random tools.
6	An unbroken tooth, hard as iron and black as a moonless night. 1 Uncommon Valuable.
7	A sac of pungent and burning bile ruptures. Save v. Breath or suffer 2d6 damage as the bile quickly burns through cloth and flesh.
8	Barnacles and mussels clinging to its hide, each one eerily akin to a mortal visage. D3 rations and d3 uncommon valuables.
9	Ropes of glistening organs, still writhing even in death. Butcher for 2d6 Rations, or stretch and dry for 3d6 common Valuables.
10	A mortal corpse spills out of the belly, partially digested but still clutching something of power. D3 Uncommon Valuables and 1 random artifact.
11	The bowels perforate, pouring out rotten and foul waste. Save v. Poison or become sickened for 1d6 hours, Save v. Breath or contract a random disease.
12	A giant lump of waxy gray ambergris, wretched gold to those who value it. 3D6 Uncommon Valuables.
13	A cyst buried deep within the body, the membrane and tissue hides something of power. Random artifact or rare valuable.
14	Something stirs within, a trapped scavenger or lucky meal of the leviathan bursts out in a violent frenzy. Roll an encounter.
15	The titanic heart, still twitching in aftershock and oozing with hot blood. Butcher for 3D6 rations, a vial of its blood as a Rare Valuable.
16	Vertebrae the color and sheen of moonstone, pieces that will always hunger for the sea. D3 Rare Valuables.
17	The organs and dying body lash out in confused independence, tendrils of glistening flesh and sinew. All within arms-reach, Save v. Breath or Hold or suffer 2d6 bludgeoning damage.
18	A small, malformed body, its origins and purpose unknown; the still-born child of a leviathan. If taken, worth d6 Rare Valuables, but a Cyclone will strike by the next sunrise.
19	The nerves and tissue twitch and dance, imparting their final vestige of alien power. Fall unconscious for 1d2 days and gain 1 random Magic or Spell.
20	Deep within the cavern of its body, something whispers from the dark. The leviathan, a dying auger of the driftwood heart, answers any question you have, or grants you a terrible secret. After, roll for a change in weather and High Tide approaches.
21+	The flesh quakes and bones groan before a cataclysmic burst of gore and organs. All within 20 feet suffer 5d6 crushing and acid damage, Save v. Breath for half. Those who survive can scavenge the remaining carcass for 2d6 common valuables and 4d6 rations.