Rusty Bass
tastes like rusted metal — because it eats metal
HP 2, Morale −
Special: When eating Rusty Bass, test DR12 Toughness or get deathetanus. This means you're infected and have a craving for feeling metal inside you (DR +2 on defence against attacks using metal weapons).
Lore: The meat tastes like rusted metal because the fish eats it. The lake-floor of Onda is supposed to be sand and silt. The Rusty Bass tells you otherwise — there is iron down there, and someone left it. The fish are not curious. They are merely opportunistic, the way fish are.
"Deathetanus" — canon's portmanteau of death and tetanus — affects defence against metal weapons, not other rolls; the precise psychological flavor of "craving metal inside you" is intentionally suggestive. What metal lies on the bed of Lake Onda is the river-trade hook the lake is hiding.