Ruin Deck PDF
Ruin Deck PDF
 Resin-like whorled secretions cover the    Floating [COLOR] sphere that shifts hue        Glass panels that reverse reflections      [COLOR] fluid that turns to gas if warmed
area, apparently laid down over months                    on touch.                                      in time.                                     by touch.
  or years by some kind of creature or
biological process. May be slippery. May      Nozzles sporadically spray area with         Mechanism in this chamber attempts         Creature uses chamber to gestate/birth/
  be covering something underneath.          water vapor. May be acidic. May have a         to communicate by changing light                        hide young.
                                              wonderful, pleasant odor. May induce                intensity on a screen.
 [COLOR] light heals 1 point of damage      sleep. May erase the concept of distance
per minute, up to a maximum of 6 points           (near and far feel the same).
   per creature in any 28-hour period.
 May discolor flesh. May create strange
   emotional attachments. May cause
              intoxication.
Margr 240 1 left Broken hound 226 1 up Callerail 228 2 down Disassembler 233 3 left
  [COLOR] crystal cylinders filled with     [COLOR] rods age explorers one day per          [COLOR] spheres shed bright light,           Water leak creates ice sculptures in
     thousands of dead creatures.                         minute.                               triggered by movement.                             bizarre shapes.
Remnants of shattered device scattered        Synth and metal disc can be used as a        Sparkling dust (inactive nanites) fills    Pulses of [COLOR] light are emitted from
   here. May be reassembled into a           levitating vehicle for up to one hour per    this chamber in fine drifts. May form a       a sphere-like device, changing slightly
functioning artifact that seems normal         day (depletion: 1 in 1d6). May deliver     glowing nimbus around one character.        with each pulse as if counting something
    but explodes upon depletion.            passengers to a different destination than      May form a nimbus that eases the           down. May be linked to a spatial portal
                                                         the one intended.                 character’s tasks and hinders nearby       that changes after each countdown. May
                                                                                           allies’ tasks. May form a nimbus that      be counting down to a dramatic reversal
                                                                                           enrages visitants or ultraterrestrials.                     of gravity.
Laak 239 1 right Shinspinner 276 1 left Murden 243 3 left Nevajin 244 1 left
 Umbilical ports provide those who can        Umbilical ports provide those who can          Crystal dome shows planetary sphere       Crystal dome shows a parallel-dimension
connect +1 to Intellect Edge for one hour,   connect deep sleep and strange dreams         (real-time view of Earth from high above              version of the viewer.
               once a day.                                for one hour.                                   in the void).
                                                                                                                                         Area randomly spins rapidly, ejecting
  Area of folded space held in place by       Walls of chamber striped with material        Area shakes, shifts, sometimes rotates.                  contents.
machine in chamber, closes if machine is      that absorbs light and warmth, making
deactivated. May inflict ambient damage        area impossible to illuminate or heat.
 to creatures in the area. May expand if      May instead absorb sound or vibration.
 the machine is deactivated, absorbing            May instead absorb emotions.
              nearby matter.
Nibovian wife 245 2 forward Oorgolian soldier 246 3 left Philethis 247 1 right Mastigophore 241 2 forward
   Crystal dome shows a map of the              Square pool of clear fluid, but thick        Square pool of opaque [COLOR] fluid       Square pool of boiling [COLOR] fluid that
 chamber and all other chambers within                      as honey.                       that flows to cover explorers, forming a            is cool to the touch.
              long range.                                                                   second skin that prevents wearer from
                                                Device attempts to operate on living                 seeing, breathing, etc.             [COLOR] metallic boxes hum and spit
  Skull of dead human explorer has              creatures; it can heal hurts great and                                                    sparks. May induce malfunctions in
 metallic insects for teeth, which attack        small, but often malfunctions. May           Device close to malfunction; failed       nearby numenera. May temporarily add
              investigators.                    replace a limb with a [COLOR] metal        Intellect task causes device and chamber    +1 level to nearby numenera objects. May
                                              cone. May replace one eye with a blank        to disappear, causing a new rupture in      allow viewing into nearby dimensions.
                                              metal sphere that doesn’t initially seem                 the larger structure.
                                               functional. May add vestigial wings to
                                             back that do not initially seem functional.
Ravage bear 249 3 up Blood barm 226 1 down Callerail 228 2 left Margr 240 3 right
   Square pool, empty but contains           Pod dehydrates any living creature that         Floor electrostatically sticky, holds       [COLOR] cylinder emits a low-gravity
[COLOR] crystal residue; if rehydrated, a   enters, creating a slim husk. Rehydration                     explorers.                                   field.
          creature emerges.                    requires a successful Intellect task.
                                                                                            [COLOR] solid floating in transparent      Wall mirror reflects images upside down.
  Thick [COLOR] disc emits a variety          [COLOR] spheres on device seem like           tube impossibly has nineteen equally
  of intense, moody, and sometimes           simple metallic orbs, but have an allure         matched sides and eight angles.
  overwhelming sounds that can be            via telepathic induction that is difficult
   pleasant or evocative, but which         to ignore. May remove some memories.
   eventually draw other creatures.         May create an affection for a kind of food,
                                            activity, or entertainment that previously
                                                          never appealed.
Murden 243 3 forward Nibovian wife 245 2 left Philethis 247 1 right Ravage bear 249 1 forward
     Clear [COLOR] cylinder emits             Synth sculpture moves incrementally            Complex pattern in a crystal places         Complex pattern in a crystal induces
          subsonic vibration.                            when touched.                        target’s consciousness in psychic           viewers to laugh with unexpected
                                                                                               labyrinth until they can escape.                        pleasure.
     Wall mirror reflects characters        Wall mirror reflects unfamiliar faces back.
            as silhouettes.                                                                  Wall “mirror” is actually glass pane      Wall mirror births automatons that look
                                                                                          behind which complex automatons try to        like creatures pictured in it minutes
                                                                                           exactly mimic what happens in front of         earlier, but they have a lifespan of
                                                                                                          the pane.                                    only hours.
Sathosh       251                  1 left   Stratharian       255             3 right     Yellow swarm           260     1 forward     Sarrak      250                    2 up
                                            war moth
Complex pattern in a crystal grants viewer      Complex pattern in a crystal makes             Arch duplicates creature (without             Arch cleans anything that moves
an asset on next Intellect task attempted.        viewer feel unaccountably sad.                    equipment), but dead.                              through it.
     Platform causes extreme pain to             Device fashions odd but somehow           Synth nests hold insect-like automatons       [COLOR] fire “burns” here, but isn’t hot;
 creatures on it. May slowly transform a        alluring synth bracelets that could be       that act as a single intelligence that        objects and creatures that enter area
creature into something else. May persist        used as jewelry. May hover around         knows a little of nearby areas. May be a          begin to flame, but do not burn.
  for hours. May cause extreme hunger.           wearer. May fuse to wearer’s flesh.              guardian. May be hostile.
      May cause enjoyment of pain.
Sathosh        251               3 down       Seskii      252                     1 left   Stratharian        255            2 right     Thuman         256           3 forward
                                                                                           war moth
      Arch steals one organ from any           Rack of devices hum and whisper in an         Complex device with a flat, sparkling         Rack of devices blink faster and faster
  living creature that moves through it;          unknown language if activated.           surface; all water is sucked from anything     for one minute when activated, then go
reattaching the organ requires a difficulty                                                touched to the surface (inflicting 2 points                  dead again.
              5 surgery task.                    Anyone passing through the area             of Speed damage to a character who
                                                 suddenly accelerates to ten times                         touches it).                  [COLOR] electricity grants those exposed
   Circular synth conduits run through         their starting pace, potentially turning                                                      +1 to Speed Edge for one hour, but
 the area, conveying [COLOR] liquids to        creatures and objects into dangerous           Ceiling dome sparkles with random             repeated exposure causes a runaway
               other areas.                                   projectiles.                             glows and hums.                     reaction that inflicts 3 points of Speed
                                                                                                                                             damage each round until the victim
                                                                                                                                             succeeds on a Might defense task.
Varakith 258 1 left Yellow swarm 260 2 right Yovok 261 3 forward Accelerator 20 1 left
Rack of devices become ten times heavier     Wide metallic urn from which [COLOR]          Wide metallic urn from which [COLOR]         Wide metallic urn from which acidic
             when activated.                 crystal bubbles emerge and waft until       liquid bubbles emerge and waft, emitting       [COLOR] bubbles emerge and waft,
                                                           they burst.                       psychic questions of surprise and               endangering explorers.
   Gravity discharge pulses every few                                                            curiosity, until they burst.
 rounds, dramatically increasing gravity,        Gravity drops to nothing every                                                         [COLOR] plasma discharge restores 6
    which inflicts 6 points of ambient                    few rounds.                     White-hot plasma discharge inflicts 10        points to a character’s Pools, but each
 damage on a failed Might defense task.                                                   points of damage to those in its path.       repeated exposure causes the character
                                                                                                                                         to descend one step on the damage
                                                                                                                                                         track.
Mastigophore 241 2 right Chance moth 30 3 forward Coccitan 32 1 up Nevajin 244 2 down
  Wavering light sculpture resembling a          Wavering light sculpture flicks           Wavering light sculpture of a circular      Dozens of translucent spheres, soft to
 human brain with three major divisions        into existence, displaying brain of        portal through which stars and galaxies     the touch, form a mechanism that emits
             instead of two.                            nearest explorer.                               are visible.                           a lilac and ozone odor.
Pulsed light dazes victims for one round.    [COLOR] plasma sears strange symbols            [COLOR] electricity supercharges a          [COLOR] plasma causes mundane
May grant knowledge, but too many uses      and equations on exposed creature’s skin      creature’s carried cyphers and artifacts,     equipment and clothing to melt into
  inflicts Intellect damage. May implant                   and face.                       increasing their level by 3. A repeated     goo; important equipment resists on a
 a compulsion to deliver a message to a                                                     exposure causes charged cyphers to        successful Speed defense task by owner.
 creature elsewhere in the structure. May                                                  explode as if detonations of their new
erase memories of the previous 28 hours.                                                                higher level.
Erulian 48 3 right Flying elchin 54 2 forward Gazer 56 1 left Grey sampler 60 1 right
  Metallic pod turns solids to liquids.           Metallic pod freezes objects.             Metallic pod constantly discharges         Metallic pod hums and vibrates but does
                                                                                           thick [COLOR] fluid that is similar to      nothing else that is obvious to observers.
 The surrounding area is oddly quiet as        Psychic energy leaks from exposed                       drit “mud.”
  sound is stripped away and stored in        conduits. May cause discord among                                                          Psychic energy leaks from exposed
  a [COLOR] device thick with metallic      creatures in the area, potentially causing   Concentrated ion leaks from a crystalline      conduits, inducing feelings of agony
   prongs. A malfunction in the device        armed conflict among those who fail          and synth device, causing a howling,        among creatures in the area, potentially
sometimes releases the stored energy in       an Intellect defense task. May cause        moaning sound to reverberate through         making those who fail a Might defense
sonic crescendos of white noise that can     contentment and euphoria. May cause         nearby areas, along with a slight breeze.          task fall into writhing heaps.
deafen nearby creatures. May activate or       fear. May cause trust and pacifism.          A fierce wind emanating from the
       reprogram nearby cyphers.                                                          device at its source makes it difficult to
                                                                                                      approach directly.
             Random oddity                     Glass barrier holds healthy underwater        Glass barrier holds fluid-like translucent   Crystal columns are embedded with what
                                                               biome.                       fog behind which strange creatures seem         seem to be skinless, dead humanoid
                                                                                                             to move.                                    creatures.
        Oddities table, page 305
                                              Temporal energy swirls and flows through
                                                                                                                                          Massive cracked canister has leaked electric
                                                 the area; the energy has a chance to         Haze of [COLOR] gas escapes from
                                                                                                                                          algae, which crusts all surfaces in the area
                                              transport creatures who enter the area to       reservoir; the gas is a “flavored ion”
Transdimensional energy swirls and flows                                                                                                  and has advanced into some of the areas
                                                      the location of their birth.           that induces the sense of eating a very
through the area, sometimes condensing                                                                                                    beyond. The growth has achieved sentience
                                                                                             satisfying sugary treat in creatures that
  into objects that were not there earlier,                                                                                               and can telepathically speak with those who
                                                                                                    come into contact with it.
or causing equipment of creatures in the                                                                                                   are sensitive enough to hear it. The algae
        area to randomly disappear.                                                                                                       can electrify itself to gather fertilizer in the
                                                                                                                                          form of living creatures, or to defend itself
                                                                                                                                                          from grazing.
   Crystal columns glow when cyphers            Crystal columns sap nearby cyphers’              Crystal column displays strange            [COLOR] cylinder emits a high-gravity
                are near.                                     energy.                          symbols in a language too complex                           field.
                                                                                                       for normal humans.
Grafts one extra automaton limb onto a        Plates a user with flexible synth, granting                                                     Heals, cures, and “refurbishes” an
user, which is an asset for tasks where       +1 to Armor but hindering all movement-       Device produces a cypher (offensive or         unhealthy living creature or automaton;
 having an extra hand would be useful.                      related tasks.                  defensive). May recharge a used cypher.       for example, a creature missing an eye or
                                                                                                                                          limb gains a new one, though one that is
                                                                                                                                                 made of crystal and synth.
Nychthemeron 94 1 forward Plasmar 98 2 left Cuiddit 258 3 right Cynoclept 259 1 forward
[COLOR] cylinder attracts nearby metallic             [COLOR] cylinder repels nearby             Synth box adds tiny legs to objects          Synth box adds tiny eyes to objects
               objects.                                    metallic objects.                               placed inside.                               placed inside.
   Grants a user long-range telepathy             Grants a user +3 to Might Edge for about     Creates a wormhole that persists for an         Over the course of an hour, a user
  for about a day; the following day the          a day; the following day the creature has     hour to a location the user chooses.            is returned to their most viable
 creature suffers a severe headache and             severe stiffness and all Might-related                                                      physiological age (for humans,
   Intellect-related tasks are hindered.                      tasks are hindered.                                                                 that’s around 25 years old).
Esculant 261 2 up Fossick 263 3 down Spurn 120 4 left Syzygy ghoul 122 1 right
Griefsteel 264 2 forward Mimetan 268 3 left Xaar 135 4 right Xacorocax 136 4 forward
    Machine heats objects to boiling         Machine adds tiny wheels to any object.       Machine adds metallic eyes to any object.       Machine stitches metallic wires to
            temperature.                                                                                                                              any object.
                                             Device contains knowledge of nearby star        Device contains knowledge of nearby
Synth helm fitted to user alleviates their                   systems.                                   dimensions.                           Device contains a wealth of
           need to breathe.                                                                                                                confusing scenes from an ancient
                                                                                                                                                  star-faring species.
 Metallic wires absorb all nearby sound.      Metallic wires amplify all nearby sound.       Synth machine rusts metallic objects.        Synth machine magnetizes metallic
                                                                                                                                                      objects.
 Device renders a creature or object out      Slender trees with [COLOR] bark have           [COLOR] spiders, worms, and similar
 of phase for a random period, usually       sprung up in a soft layer of drit and dust.    vermin are thick in the area, infesting a     Several dead creatures are here. They
     lasting no more than 28 hours.                                                        few large masses that turn out to be the      have been looted. Some may have had
                                                                                            bones of long-dead creatures that were       their faces flayed off and sewn back on
                                                                                              very, very large. May include gigantic             again with synth thread.
                                                                                                         humanoid bones.
Cypher zealot 188 2 down Cypherid 40 3 left Dal 41 4 right Datatar 42 1 forward
        Synth machine electrifies              Two large, hovering, spinning metallic        Hovering orb-shaped space eats all light.      [COLOR] rectangle-shaped slab emits
            metallic objects.                  spheres. May unlock or power nearby             May teleport things entering it. May           deep hum. May display thoughts
                                              numenera items. May shut down nearby               disintegrate things entering it.             of nearby creatures. May transfer
Machine can extrude house-sized crystal        numenera items. May stop or start in                                                       consciousness of a nearby creature into a
solids that glimmer internally but have         response to questions and answers.              Filled with tumbling components and                    floating crystal.
no obvious purpose. May create metal,          May glow in the presence of visitants            machine parts 10 feet (3 m) to a side,
synth, or flesh solids instead of crystal.              or ultraterrestrials.                apparently once fused to the walls but now    Metallic pyramids of all sizes, some as
                                                                                             weightless and dead, that crash and batter    small as a thumbnail, others as tall as
                                                An entity has already been here and             each other. Each long distance moved      buildings, are jumbled in this space. May
                                              scribed notes in [COLOR] ink explaining        through the chamber requires a successful       be magnetized. May be electrified.
                                                    how to use the devices here.              level 5 Speed defense task to avoid being
                                                                                                    battered for 5 points of damage.
 Contact with wall causes slightly acidic      Contact with wall causes [COLOR] paste             Contact with wall causes fixture         Multidimensional crystal object the size
  gas to spray from ceiling fixtures for        to emerge from wall fixture for several       elsewhere in the chamber to detonate,         of a human head floats and moans,
            several minutes.                  rounds; the paste is somewhat nutritious                    but only once.                               as if in pain.
                                                          but tastes terrible.
    The space is occupied by an odd                                                          A broken, partly smashed vehicle capable      Waves of [COLOR] energy flow back and
   ecosystem of [COLOR] plants, tiny          A massive crystalline object floats at the      of traveling into the void lies in—or has    forth across this room like heat mirages
  [COLOR] clouds, and small, singing,         center of this cavity, slowly rotating, held   been somehow wedged into—this cavity.         over a hard surface on a hot day. The energy
    harmless beasts with two heads.           in place by an unseen force. May refract         With enough time and effort, the ship      ruffles hair and clothing but doesn’t seem
                                              disturbing, impossible colors that cause        might be repaired, but getting it out of      directly harmful. May cause numenera
                                                temporary insanity. May contain the                 the cavity is another problem.         devices to glow and eventually detonate.
                                               preserved head of a massive creature.                                                      May contain a surge of whispering telepathic
                                                                                                                                          voices. May switch minds of living creatures.
Long, snakelike extensions made of metal        Floor intermittently becomes intangible.          Glass container on metallic pole            Time stutters in area, causing rounds
   extrude from the floor and ceiling.                                                            contains rapidly darting gobs of          to replay over and over until a character
                                                 A lens dozens of feet across composed                glowing [COLOR] goo.                   succeeds on a difficulty 5 Intellect task.
Broken devices emit sprays of pollen-like        of clear synth has been crudely installed
dust. May change the center of gravity of        here; it focuses sunlight that sometimes     The holographic image of a gargantuan            Massive metallic ring, cracked and
creatures and objects it touches, making        shines in from cracks above onto a device      eye flickers into existence in the cavity,    possibly unstable, dominates the area.
  it difficult for creatures to walk or run        that hums and vibrates when in bright         blinking and focusing on intruders           The ring magnetically holds a brilliant
   without slipping. May cause allergic           light. May act as a datasphere terminal     before fading again for a random period.       sphere of glowing [COLOR] material at
       reactions. May be poisonous.                     while the light shines upon it.       Devices in the area are found to project      the center. May pulse in various rhythms.
                                                                                               this image, as well as have many other          May be a communication device for
                                                                                               functions that are less easy to identify.        creatures from another planet or
                                                                                                                                                           dimension.
Shinspinner 276 3 left Imusten crawler 71 3 right Kelursan 83 2 forward Tabanid 278 1 left
  Device removes eyes of those who use              Leafless “tree” of [COLOR] metal          Thin vortex of [COLOR] mist sometimes          Metallic headbands found in discarded
   it and stores them in nearby vessel;             whispers secrets in an unknown            springs up a chamber’s center, spins for      jumble contain infectious psychic virus;
 reattaching an eye requires a difficulty 5      language. May ask questions. May give               a few minutes, then fades.             initial symptoms are whispers that only
               surgery task.                        compliments and veiled insults.                                                          the infected can hear, but as infection
                                                                                               [COLOR] powder leaks from a device or        worsens, others also begin to hear them.
   Water leak. May be safe, mostly safe,        Sticky, stain-causing [COLOR] fluid leaks       aperture. May smell like metal. May be
briny, salty, oily, aerated, or sweet. May be   from a device or aperture. May burn like        magnetic. May store and release light.        [COLOR] gel leaks from a device or
inhabited by harmless-seeming creatures.        acid. May be flammable. May be molten.          May desiccate flesh and other objects.       aperture. May make laughing or other
                                                 May be a conscious creature that dazes       May stick to a particular substance (flesh,     sounds. May react to strong minds
                                                            those who touch it.                          metal, synth, glass).               or telepathy. May dissolve one kind of
                                                                                                                                                            matter.
Mozck             102               1 right     Nacreon wind           105        2 forward   Namnesis          106               3 left    Zek       282                      1 right
automaton
      Invisible device casts shadow,             Messily disassembled automaton is           Disembodied mechanical hand floats in        Spinning disc hangs at chamber’s center.
               hums quietly.                               scattered here.                   the air. May attempt to grasp and crush       May spin faster when disturbed until it
                                                                                                         anything nearby.                  detonates after three rounds. May alter
   Biological matter leaks from a device        [COLOR] putty leaks from a device or                                                             spin to replicate sounds.
  or aperture. May be eggs, hands, bone         aperture. May animate if sculpted into       Corpses of creatures resembling the PCs.
fragments, tentacles, eyes, organs, shells,      the form of a creature. May follow its       May be infested with parasites. May be         [COLOR] stasis tanks containing
   hair, teeth, blood, or brains. May be                 creator or be hostile.               resting or destroyed automatons. May        humanoid creatures. May resemble the
 glass, synth, crystal, or metal replicas of                                                   be clones, time travelers, or surgical      PCs. May look different to each viewer.
                organic parts.                                                                              alterations.                  May be blank (mindless) or programmed
                                                                                                                                            with specific instructions. May have
                                                                                                                                                     duplicate organs.
Nerodrod 110 2 forward Nibovian guide 112 3 up Omath ranger 118 1 down Blood barm 226 2 left
  Chamber suspended on synth cords              Torso of faceless humanoid of [COLOR]          [COLOR] polyp drips ichor that pools         Pool of cool-to-the touch liquid metal.
    attached to a much higher area;            synth protrudes from wall, makes strange                      here.                         May harden anything submersed in it to
  sometimes chamber moves between                 gestures in response to questions.                                                       a steel-like consistency. May animate to
              those areas.                                                                       Another group of explorers. May          form the visage of anyone looking into it.
                                                 Malfunctioning portal device. May be           be known to a PC, infected, fleeing,
   Holographic machine intelligence.               repairable. May be one-way or part        hostile, sleeping, confused, dead, acting     Tiny [COLOR] insects crawl everywhere;
  May be benevolent or hostile. May be            of a network. May not connect to an        erratically, the wrong size, out of phase,   the insects are essentially harmless (level
  insane. May be able to alter reality in        environment that is safe for humans.           or following a living or automaton         1) but tend to get into clothing, hair, and
limited ways. May desire to be relocated          May connect to another dimension,            “guide” found elsewhere in the ruin.                     bags and packs.
               elsewhere.                      planet, scale, or time. May alter creatures
                                                          that pass through it.
Reconstructor 135 1 left Roummos 138 3 forward Steel angel 151 2 left Stitcher 153 1 right
  Creatures that trigger a slender device          Beam of light suspends a massive            Beam of light lifts and suspends any      Glass container holds slug-like creatures
gain a glowing, symbol-like tattoo on their     stone cube scribed with strange writing;       creature or object that enters it. May     without eyes in a haze of [COLOR] mist
foreheads. May transform the creature’s         breaking the light beam causes the cube          quickly age anything in the light.        that sustains them. May be telepathic
 irises instead of appearing on forehead        to crash down and break. May contain a                                                   and intelligent, without much purpose or
    (this doesn’t interfere with vision).        creature that wakes when cube breaks.        Something has been storing its kills or    motivation. May try to convince explorers
                                                                                              trophies here, resulting in many dead                     to free them.
Tiny [COLOR] amoeba-like creatures drip             Damaged area glows with residual           bodies or skeletons. May be carefully
   and flow around the area; they carry a         radiation, inflicting 1 point of ambient             stacked or displayed.               Area has been transformed into other
parasite, and living creatures that enter the   damage on each creature in the area each                                                  substances, as if by the iron wind. May
  area risk contracting a mind-enhancing                           minute.                                                               contain a still “seed” of the iron wind that
 sickness (a disease) that heightens their                                                                                                         activates if disturbed.
  mental capacities even as it kills them.
Sweall 154 1 forward Tanglet 159 2 left Anhedon 253 3 right Babirasa 254 2 forward