The Guillotined

Each of The Guillotined wants to speak but they have been made undecipherable via their transformation.

The investigators need to help each of The Guillotined communicate to gather the different steps of The Ritual to appease The Bell. Suggestions of solutions are included in each stat block but of course other suitable solutions the players think of can and should work. Once the investigators have received The Ritual Step The Guillotined will become undecipherable once more.

If one of The Guillotined dies their “head” will fall off and the investigators can use it to try to decipher the ritual step. Each head knows a different ritual step.

For more information on who The Guillotined were please see the connections page.

Gramophone head

STR: 10 DEX: 12 CTRL: 6
HP: 4

Vinyl discus (d6)

  • Pocket watch and waistcoat attired human with the head of a gramophone.
  • A record spins letting out a voracious cacophony, a keen ear may hear a reversed voice.
  • A hot headed individual who is angered by those who don’t listen.
  • Special ability: Post deciphered the gramophone will frantically speed up until it catches fire and explodes, killing Gramophone head. Onlookers will be dealt d6 stress.

Possible solutions:

  1. Record the noise then reverse the recording.
  2. physically spin the record in reverse.

Rotary phone head

STR: 6 DEX: 6 CTRL: 6 HP: 2

Phone cable (d6)

  • An old decrepit human with a rotary phone for a head, the landline connecting to the back of their neck.
  • The phone constantly rings but the receiver only provides garbled speech.
  • Hide and ambush loners.
  • Special ability: Post deciphered they will rip off their phone head and dash away only to hunt the investigators when they least expect it.

Possible solutions:

  1. Replace old phone with newer phone.
  2. Repair rotary phone.

Typewriter head

STR: 8 DEX: 10 CTRL: 14 
HP: 3

Typewriter clatter (d4 stress)

  • Anxious analog tech hipster turned typewriter headed monster.
  • Their gnashing teeth now replaced by the clattering of keys.
  • They have become their own passion manifest, they are friendly. 
  • Special ability: Post deciphered they will amiably follow and help the investigators. Easily stressed, when they lose CTRL and fail their CTRL save , they perform their Typewriter clatter.

Possible solutions:

  1. Provide paper to type out its message.
  2. Watch the keys and note the spelt out words.

CRT TV head

STR: 12 DEX: 14 CTRL: 6
HP: 6

TV glow (d6 DEX)

  • Once a fitness and dance instructor they are now weighed down with the head of a heavy CRT TV.
  • Pure static is a poor substitute for the music of their soul.
  • Loves being the centre of attention, good boys and girls sit and watch TV.
  • Special ability: Post deciphered the TV will gain reception and flick rapidly through channels across the world, it will look for a reflection to watch its own face.

Possible solutions:

  1. Create a makeshift antenna (metal hanger, paperclips etc) and attach into the TV
  2. Percussive maintenance, reduce its HP to 0.

Steam whistle head

STR: 12 DEX: 6 CTRL: 10
HP: 6

Steam blast (d6, blast)

  • Trainspotter with the head of a steam whistle.
  • It’s whistle echoes in the fog of steam it constantly emits.
  • It wants to see and so tries to rid itself of its steam. It cannot do this alone.
  • Special ability: Post deciphered will demand for train tickets from nearby individuals. Will attack those without.

Possible situations:

  1. Bring onto the mini train to hear the message in the form of a train announcement.
  2. Stop its production of steam so it can spot trains again.

Chalkboard head

STR: 10 DEX: 10 CTRL: 10
HP: 3

Nails on a chalkboard (d4 stress)

  • A professor with the head of a chalkboard.
  • It constantly scratches at its chalkboard face letting out a repulsive screech.
  • The black board is covered in scribbles of white chalk layered on top of each other.
  • Trapped in their own thoughts they fight to regain their humanity.
  • Special ability: Post deciphered the chalk rapidly builds up, covering their body only for them to transform into a heap of chalk powder.

Possible solutions:

  1. Clean the chalkboard.
  2. Give them a different colour of chalk to write on their face with.

The Seventh Guillotined

The Seventh Guillotined has the first of The Ritual Steps. However there is no Seventh Guillotined yet. The next human (excluding The Guillotined) to lose all their CTRL becomes the seventh head.

Their head becomes a sticky note that rips into seven pieces. The Guillotined dies instantly by this. As the facilitator, write the message on a sticky note and rip it into seven pieces for the players to put back together like a jigsaw piece.