Cats, and What They Know

In the style of Archons March On, have 7xD20 Cats. Use them as oracles, antagonists, employers, tenuous companions, reluctant allies, but never pets

(d20) Cat's Form... 

1	is huge, coiled, powerful
2	is small, slinking, slippery
3	is lanky, muscle stretched thin over bone
4	is comfortable, fat and contented
5	is scarred, battered, vicious
6	is tiny, teacup-fragile
7	is stretched, long and slow
8	is stout, businesslike, hurried
9	is skeletal, jittery, shaking
10	is dainty, luxurious, unhurried
11	is awkward, bumbling, clumsy
12	is strong, controlled and dangerous
13	is restless, pacing and prowling
14	is wispy, scarcely there
15	is contorted, broken and bent
16	is short, belly sweeping the ground
17	is spindly, legs stretched and thin
18	is slender, trim, well maintained
19	is lean, rangy and quick
20	is captivating: smooth, fluid motions

(d20) This Cat's Coat

1	is glossy, slick and iridescent as oil, hair clinging to your palm like a stain.
2	is tawny gold, warm to the touch, dried flowers tangled in its curls.
3	is stone grey, ripples when it moves. Sometimes, as it stretches, a glimpse of gold buried beneath dull fur.
4	is parchment brown, papery and dry, rustles when it moves.
5	is the color of wet sand, patterns racing across its flanks in the secret language of rain
6	is jet black and flowing, a luxurious river of ink
7	is like snowfall, white, soft, airy, each strand of hair nearly crystalline in structure
8	is deep green, like moss at the base of a stone wall, damp and cool
9	is sunset purple, a slow unwinding cloud
10	is bright orange, bristling. Static electricity arcs out from a tiny apricot thunderhead
11	is pale as limestone, smells of the sea
12	is ivory and black, arranged in a perfect tuxedo, not a hair breaking rank
13	is calico, the pattern architectural, forming the floor plan of somewhere you haven’t been invited
14	is tortoiseshell, light and dark bisected almost perfectly but for a few dapples forming unrecorded constellations
15	is a pale blue, the color of clouds stretched thin across a wide, bright sky
16	is tabby, the amber stripes appearing somehow closer than the black ones, which yawn inward
17	is smooth, hairless, dry. Calls to mind old leather, binding books made for the dead to read
18	is white-pink, shines in the dark, glowing pearl
19	is dark brown, the color of tea steeped too long, leaves soaking in unread omens
20	is deep blue, flecks of white drifting in it, small stars lost in the enormity of the sky

This Cat's Eyes...

1	are hard and old and grey, flint arrowheads
2	are soft, honey colored and sweet
3	are wary, emerald-fevered and crazed
4	are charming, little laughing stars
5	are wide: the pupils wax and wane with the moon, going from inky fullness to vanishing completely
6	are bright, diamond pinpricks
7	are burning, vermilion suns
8	are bright, awful blue
9	are hungry, yellow and deep, its gaze a swallowing mouth
10	are uncanny, always meet your own, an unceasing grey judgement
11	are amber, smooth and golden, pupils like trapped insects
12	are silvery coins, pupils like the stamped heads of dead kings
13	are mirrored, somehow only catching reflections of your own eyes, wide and wondering
14	are green and staring, a viridian wave crest perpetually about to break
15	are sleeping, stare through you to gaze at dreams
16	are laughing, alive with some joke you just missed
17	are half open, light between lids like a trapped pearl
18	are knowing, already tired of your question they know is coming
19	are secretive, insinuating you in a conspiracy without telling you what it is
20	are patient, waiting for you to realize something, unwilling to give you a hint

(d20) This Cat's Smile...

1	is fearsome, a crooked, fanged gap
2	is friendly, as if it knows you, has been through a lot with you, is glad you are safe
3	is subtle, hard to catch. One instant it looks like a dumb animal, the next, like it’s laughing at you for thinking that
4	is bloody, mouth stained a drying crimson, daring you to ask what it ate
5	is hidden beneath thick, hoary whiskers
6	is fixed, as if it has been smiling so long that it’s afraid not to smile
7	is manic, contagious. You start to find its smile on the mouths of others, to feel your own mouth twitch to emulate it
8	is flighty, quick to vanish as you break rules you didn’t know existed
9	is cheerful, bright and honest as sunshine
10	is full, like it’s hiding something in its mouth
11	is your mother's smile, something about it, a trick of the light or a certain wrinkle of the mouth
12	is greedy, hard to take your eyes off of, demands your attention
13	is slow to arrive, yet always seems on the brink of appearing
14	is wry, personable, directed at you, not at anyone else
15	is menacing, a display of needle-sharp fangs
16	is showman-like, a practiced grin, welcoming and predatory
17	is sad, soft, knowing: “you poor thing”
18	is regal, lofty, the smile of one who knows they deserve your adoration and will receive it
19	is comfortable, self contented, uninterested in your woes
20	is dismissive, bored, waiting for someone more interesting to present themselves

(d20) This Cat's Claws...

1	are hidden, practiced, and patient
2	are shining, glint light off their points
3	are long, saber-rattle against the ground
4	are crooked, chipped, broken
5	are mossy, earth caught in their curves
6	are clever, able to pick a lock or flick a latch
7	are kind, can cut your skin to let your hurts and maladies flow out
8	are courteous, used only as a formality
9	are capable, workmanlike, catch rats and roaches
10	are invisible, their presence only made known through prickling pain
11	are well traveled, worn with use
12	are grasping, hooked and clutching
13	are sinister, carry poison in their points
14	are subtle, hard to follow. They dip into dreams, scoop out thoughts like fish
15	are lethal, well trained at snatching breath
16	are hard and bright, draw sparks when scratched against the earth
17	are cryptic, have drawn secret signs and hunted spirits
18	are crystalline, like tiny points of diamond
19	are beautiful, hypnotizing, countless patterns caught in their sheen
20	are quick, sliding out of paws the moment your back is turned

(d20) This Cat Knows...

1	your name, and the names of all who have wronged you
2	the regrets of the dead and the damned
3	where the devil lives on earth
4	the doors and stairs that take you to the city behind the city
5	where the gears and pulleys that work the props and backdrops of reality are hidden
6	a spell unknown to all others
7	the way into and out of every house in the city
8	where the rarest fish are caught
9	where the king of mice holds court
10	how to hide from the moon
11	the old name of the sun
12	how to catch and kill stars
13	the names of all bastard children
14	how this night will end
15	the names of your unborn children, and their father or mother
16	the wealth of every being it has laid eyes on
17	what the birds are planning
18	how to win the heart of any being that can love
19	trade routes to any land on earth
20	how you will die

(d20) This Cat Wants...

1	to be warm and fed
2	to luxuriate on rare silks and furs
3	to learn secrets
4	to eat things it has never tasted
5	to be worshiped as a god
6	to scar others, leave its mark in flesh
7	to kill vermin, eradicate the creeping kingdoms of dust
8	to breathe the breath of the newborn and the dying
9	to have books read to it
10	to have odes written in its praise
11	to have lives taken in its name
12	to accompany you. It will not say why
13	to topple structures of power, leaving chaos
14	to live as men live
15	to hunt in untouched places
16	to meet and mingle with heroes and nobles
17	to kill a specific person
18	to meet its true love
19	to travel to places unheard of
20	to be perfumed with rare herbs and oils