Place of Interest
Description:
What look like enormous termite mounds made from half-melted obsidian rise from the ground, taller than many houses in the area. Architecturally, the mounds are all organic curves and jagged edges (ones so sharp they nearly hurt to look at).
Inside the mounds, you will find the eponymous Brewers, creatures of ferocious mien with dark exoskeletons that constantly leak mildly acidic ichor from the joints, tails that end in wickedly sharp pincers, and mouths that contain thorny appendages that serve as both tongues and mandibles.
Despite their appearance, however, Brewers are quite gentle and gregarious beings. No means of communicating with them has yet been discovered, and not only do their physically repel all attempts at investigating their mounds, but the substance of the mounds themselves resists all known form of sensors.
And yet, every ten days, Brewers emerge from their mounds and set out a plethora of what has given them their nicknames: what appear to be jugs made of slightly grainy clay that’s a bit stick.
Quirks:
Like honeycomb or curnbutter, these “jugs” are actually organic in nature, extruded from an aperture in the Brewers’ thoraxes. The jugs contain intoxicating liquids of great potency, with hallucinatory, euphoric, and other enjoyable effects. Luckily, imbibing the liquids themselves have no negative side effects (although one should be careful while under their influence)—most, in fact, often have powerful medicinal or nootropic properties as well.
Adventure Hooks:
A community leader is convinced that the nearby Brewers are using their wares to try and drug the populace into complacency, rendering the community helpless to fight off a Brewer invasion. Rumor has it that the community leader has commandeered an ancient excavator and is preparing to attack the mound when the Brewers emerge at the next market...
A handful of people are having bizarre reactions after imbibing Brewer goods, with those affected transforming into bizarre (and violent) monsters. Some say it’s some plot of the Brewers, while others suspect inhuman shapeshifters have been changed back to their true forms by the Brewers’ intoxicants...
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