Glug, glug, gurgle - Living table (2) - Entries 51-70

Some more entries for the Bodies of Water table at DM Muse, begun about a fortnight ago here.

The table is a tool to inspire gamers and writers creating pools, ponds or lakes, even small seas.

It's a generator, meaning it allows entries to be selected randomly using dice or other methods, although sites like DM Muse automate this.

This extra 20 makes a total of 70 so far, plenty to work with, but this is a living table, which means anyone can add entries. Yours are very welcome.

This time I've gone with weird ones, but aimed again to keep them mostly non-genre and avoid being too specific about the surrounding area.

1. The liquid here forms the lens of an eye belonging to a subterranean creature.
2. The body of water is a vessel from which extraplanar beings sup.
3. Transdimensional currents refresh the waters; what will wash in?
4. The land is sorrowful, and its tears have filled this depression.
5. Flames dance across the surface.
6. The surface foams.
7. The waters evoke an intense craving for dusty, arid spaces.
8. The body has its own isolated cycle, clouds forming and bursting above.
9. A waterrise carries the glittering contents of the pool far up into the sky.
10. Tubes run out over the bank and away across the countryside.
11. The liquid is a highly volatile substance held in check by powerful fields.
12. The location draws strange flying craft to drink and so gain new energy.
13. A beacon stands unlit on a promontory.
14. The swampiness of the land suggests this body of water has recently shrunk.
15. The surface is no more than a projection.
16. The surface is found to be entirely solid - and hollow!
17. An eyestalk or periscope quietly observes.
18. A protuberance emerges at irregular intervals to run slowly over the banks.
19. The banks are extremely slippery and draw the unsuspecting inexorably inwards.
20. The reflections here are in fact scale models placed just below the surface.

I've fed them in at DM Muse as usual so they should be listed and ready to start rolling soon. If you have an idea or two for entries, or even a whole new table, you can join in.

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Glug, glug, gurgle - Living table (2) - Entries 1-50

Dyson Logos at A Character for Every Game has made another beautiful map available for us to do with almost as we will. I don't dare tackle the whole thing, but it does have some intriguing bodies of water. I can supplement those.

I've been working on a generator for pools, so I have a few options specific to that, but I've generalised much more here to get a more universal tool, perfect for DM Muse too.

I've kept them mostly non-genre and avoided being too specific about locality.

I realise some readers may not be sure what a generator is. In this case it's just a tool to inspire gamers and writers, allowing features to be selected randomly. Dice can be rolled, but with 50 entries that's tricky; luckily services like DM Muse automate this.

1. This body of water lies in a steep-banked depression.
2. The surface stands high above the surrounding area.
3. This is a hushed, airless space.
4. Unseen creatures produce a stentorian cacophany.
5. Materials soak up the unnatural humidity and run with condensation.
6. The waters are stagnant, choked with decaying plant matter.
7. The water is tidal, yet with no visible link to a larger body.
8. The waters draw the water of the body, cry for union...
9. Sirens call.
10. The water is salty, intensifying a thirst.
11. The water is sweet, perhaps too sweet...
12. The waters refract time, bringing either youth or age to the drinker.
13. The waters will avenge themselves on all who sully their purity.
14. Lightning coruscates across the surface.
15. Out towards the middle a maelstrom spins.
16. The pool is formed by a hot spring; a thin steam drifts across the surface.
17. A geyser spouts at regular intervals.
18. The surface bulges above its banks.
19. The waters retreat from interlopers.
20. The waters are in fact a shapeshifting mass.
21. Approach sees the land become liquid and the waters solidify.
22. A mist hangs low over the water, suggestive shapes forming.
23. The glittering surface mesmerises - does a voice whisper?
24. The waters are home to an unknown or lost civilisation.
25. A thin film of oil sets the surface ashimmer.
26. The water laps at banks strewn with wreckage.
27. This body of water is a flooded shaft or sinkhole.
28. Machinery rests all around, apparently abandoned.
29. Banks of reeds make access to the water difficult.
30. The shore is formed of pebbles.
31. Strange tracks run down to the water's edge.
32. The water here is a garish colour.
33. Creatures move just below the surface, leaving rolling whorls.
34. The pool is overhung; small creatures fall, feeding the water-dwellers.
35. The waters breed small flying creatures and webs span the space around.
36. Large flying creatures hunt smaller over ripples run by wingtips.
37. A giant creature lurks beneath the surface.
38. A great wreck of some kind lies a distance out.
39. A vessel is moored here.
40. A jetty runs out towards the middle.
41. The bed is thick with tokens of indiscernible form.
42. This water source draws all manner of creatures from far afield.
43. This is a ceremonial site; a processional route leads away.
44. The surface does not reflect the images of living creatures.
45. The waters are perfectly clear; on one thing only, and otherwise quite vague.
46. The waters absorb light, and much else besides.
47. The waters emanate light and radiations beyond the visible spectra.
48. The banks have a noticeably artificial shape.
49. The surface reflects the night sky, even at noon or underground.
50. This body of water is a portal to another location.

I've just added the table and entries to DM Muse, so they'll be up soon. This is a living table of course so feel free to add your own entries, or even start a completely new one.
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