So here's the map for The Dig, a minidungeon on Hex 0905 of the Frogstar Peninsula hexcrawl.
I'm planning on sticking the map on the right side of a page, so the elongated shape won't be too annoying.
Basically, morlocks and their chelinausca master were digging a secret subterranean highway nearby when they noticed a bunch of humans excavating fossils a nearby hillside. They've decided to kill all the humans. Rocks from fossil beds (and oil reservoirs) are pretty much impregnated with about 1000 ghosts/cu. ft., so it wasn't too hard for the chelinausca necromancer to agitate the ghosts into forming a life node, which is causing the fossils to spontaneously reincarnate as organic ghost manifestations. Their biologies are built from their own memories, so some details aren't quite right. Anomalocaris, for example, is twice as big as it should be and can fly for some reason.
In addition to morlocks and a couple of chelinausca, here are some critters that are running around.
TRILOBITES
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of course trilobites can curl up |
MARRIA
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just floating mouths |
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of course, they were ridiculously tiny, but what if they were tall and walked around on little leaf legs? |
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when I die, I hope my bones remain in an interesting position in 500 years sorta reminiscent of one of Scrap's drawings. |
MOTHERFUCKING ANOMALOCARIS!!!
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when anomalocaris was discovered, they thought it was three separate beasties |
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they thought the mouth was a pair of shrimp that had died near each other and the mouth was some sort of jellyfish |
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and the body was some sort of leafy plant you can still see the jellyfish-shrimp-leaf in old illustrations |
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so the grabby spike fangs look pretty horrible but you may be thinking: "whatever, it's got a butthole for a mouth, how can it hurt me" to which I say "impaling tongue spikes" based on a true a story |
OPABINIA
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opabinia had 5 eyes and a central mouth tentacle-pincer YES, SIR ANOTHER PERFECTLY NORMAL EARTH ANIMAL |
EURYPTERIDS
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but you don't know that they came 100 million years later that's like nothing, honestly |
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I'm not even sure this one is an eurypterid
that's probably a scuba-diver, though
OTTOIA
FUN FACT: this is not a penis |
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AAAAAAAAAAGH |
HALLUCIGENIA
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someone drew an anthro version of hallucigenia this actually makes more sense that what we think hallucigenia really looked like |
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THIS WAS A REAL THING |
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YES, A PERFECTLY NORMAL EARTHLING CAN YOU GUESS WHAT IT DOES IN COMBAT? |