a2 - The SKIZO

 Spikes shoot up and 4 crude scarecrows that radiate FEAR (save vs Magic) on poles. Huge coop.

Corrugated steel roof and wire: tiny dinosaurs (HP 2, AC 9, Move 0/12, ML6) clucking and rustling underneath, many nests: filthy. If you really look (letting the dinos in the way move around to give the proper vantage) there is a collection of hairy bodies surrounding a nest around the center. This is a TERMINAL, but the linked pack is dead to a man. They don't appear to have been bitten by the dinos.

SOUND: Clucking

Jim Harris

Players can scurry under the fence into the coop and investigate the nests if they are reckless, or wish to make their way to the terminal and jack in. The dinos aren't aggressive, but enough of them will give little nips that players take 1 damage aggregating per round (1/2/3 etc).

Players can reach 1 nest per turn. The terminal seems to dance just out of reach - never quite where they think. The nests have dinosaur eggs, along with strange bits of sentient meteorite.

Roll d10 per nest

1 - 3        METEOR HATCHED. All dino eggs have been consumed for sustenance

4              IN PROCESS. d4 Damage per turn as the meteorite feeds.

5              CRACKING. Arcane energies horrify. Feeling of horror from the scarecrows intensifies. Save vs magic at -2.

6-9           EGG INTACT. Might fetch a pretty price but roll d6 per Round. On a 6, see CRACKING, then IN PROCESS, then HATCHES.

10             TERMINAL. There you are you little onion!

If an egg is in process of hatching or cracking, within d6 turns a BEJEWELED caretaker will appear (see as of yet unconstructed random encounter table) to tend.

If an unhatched metoriod is carried around, test with 1d6 per turn : on a 6 it begins to crack. An intact meteroid would sell for plenty: between 2000 and 5000 gp depending on the buyer, but good luck with that!