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while the Koj are larger and have no shells.
Neither the plant life nor animals are native to this planet, which has the official identifier IXP-F0AAB0342- TH3, having been transplanted here millennia ago during expansion of the Third Terran Hegemony into this
Little Love
Magic-User Level 2 Spell Duration: 1 hour per level Range: Touch
Issue 1 - November 2014
SPELL
sector of space.
Kaffa
ITEM
This simple spell causes the target to fall in love temporarily with someone for a small period of time, even if they are in love with someone else. The spell requires that the caster touch the target and after a successful casting either name the person the target is to fall in love with, or describe them to the target. A successful saving throw reduces the time affected by 50%. This spell may be cast as a ritual, which takes an hour to cast, during which time it may not be interrupt- ed and must include some owned item of both par- ties as components; casting as a maintains the spell’s duration for 1 month for every level of the caster instead of the normal 1 hour.
Kaff-ey-ayne, the goddess of Alertness and Ac- complishments, is worshipped by those who pre- pare a special drink using the ground-up seeds of a particular plant imported from far-off lands. This bitter drink, called Kaffa, is often sweetened with honey or has milk added to it, transcends simple religious use however, and is also enjoyed by those who do not worship. Kaffa itself causes potent alertness and con- centration which lasts for several hours. Too much of it however can lead to rapid and sudden side effects of collapsing into unconsciousness. Many learn to toler- ate its potency by slowly ingesting larger amounts over time.
The worship of Kaffe-ey-ayne typically occurs in those households that must rise early in the morning before dawn or who must work late into the night af- ter the sunset. Shrines to the goddess often include a special brewing altar where freshly prepared hot water is poured over the ground seeds into cups specially selected for drinking Kaffa. These cups are used for nothing else the drinking of this brew and are awarded special status. Many write or scribe worshipful phrases to the goddess upon the cups, ei- ther identifying the cups as belonging a particular wor- shipper, or including a salutation or saying that evokes belief in the goddess.
In many modern cities, the goddess is worshipped with other bountiful drinks that invoke many of the same effects as Kaffa but do not use seeds. Many believe this is a foul sorcery and avoid these drinks, while others advocate that these drinks are the only way to truly worship the goddess. Recently factions have appeared in many cities that have taken to open hostilities in the name of the goddess Kaff-ey- ayne, leading to riots and open fights within the streets. Some cities have sought to ban Kaffa and the other drinks while others have allocated districts for each of them to drink within, carefully patrolling them to quell any trouble as soon as it starts. In those cities that have banned Kaffa, there has been a rise of illegal trade in the seeds and the drink.
Moograks
MONSTER
When humanity spread out among the stars, it laid claim to a number of virgin worlds. Those it could terraform it did, and those that it couldn’t it stripped of all resources. Like a swarm of locusts, humanity moved through star systems, using up entire worlds before moving onto the next. Often left behind were the rem- nants of outrider colonization, and it is from some of these that the Moograks sprang. One alien race that humanity encountered and warred with discovered some placid herbivores upon an abandoned plan- et and took them in, uplifting them and giving them new abilities. As it turned out, rather than being stupid and as humans always believed, cattle had always been self-aware and highly intelligent but trapped within their slow bovine bodies. For millennia they had a complicated language that allowed the expression of a hundred ideas at once in a single burst of what was thought to be simple mooing when it was in fact the result of much deep thought and deliberation. The fact that humans have grown cattle for food and use as herd animals has long been something that cattle have resented and now in their form as Moograks can do something to assert vengeance upon the hu- man race. This is their driving force in life: to destroy all human life.
The average Moograk stands almost 7 foot tall on strong hoofed feet that supports their stocky, mus- cular bodies. Their upper limbs end in three-fingered paws with opposable thumbs that allow them to manipulate their environment with great ease, some- thing their ancestors could not do. Both sexes of Moograk grow horns, with males growing larger and longer horns while female horns tend to be broader and more ser- rated. Originally herbivorous, Moograks are now mostly
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