Time for me to try and get my backlist of monster stats under control.
November 1
We start with the Terror of Blue John Gap, a trogoloditic cave bear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
November 2
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November 5
Sometimes a piece of art is so good it needs its own monster. Desprez was an engraver and architect. His chimera is a skeletal creature with three heads: one like a bird and the other two with the faces of humanoid demons. It carries its latest victim inside itself, chewing on their body until it falls apart. It then makes a nest of the bones.
My suggestion is that this is what Baudelaire's Chimera becomes after it marches a sufficient number of victims to their death.
Desprez’s Chimeras
Order: Tempters (Greater Maggots)
Infernal Might: 25 (Animal)
Characteristics: Int +2, Per 0, Pre +1, Com +2, Str +6, Sta +3, Dex +2, Qik -2
Size: +3
Virtues and Flaws: Weak-willed.
Reputations: None
Hierarchy: 1
Personality Traits: Selfish +5
Combat:
Enormous Beak Init. -4, Attack +14, Defense +2, Damage +11
2 x Large Teeth Init. -2, Attack +12, Defense +5, Damage +9
2 x Large Claws Init. -2, Attack +13, Defense +7, Damage +10
Tail spike Init. -4, Attack +10, Defense +5, Damage +5
Soak: +4, but is skeletal so this rises to +9 against weapons that pierce.
Fatigue Levels: OK, 0/0, –1/–1, –3, –5, Unconscious
Wound Penalties: –1 (1–8), –3 (9–16), –5 (17– 24), Incapacitated (25–32), Dead (33+)
Abilities: Brawl 5 (humans), Athletics 5 (run), Hunt 5 (humans), Infernal Lore 2 (tempters)
Powers:
Possession, variable points, Init +2, Mentem: See Chapter 4: Infernal Legions, Demonic Powers. Can only be used on victims hooked with tail spike.
Coagulation, 1 point, Init -1, Corpus: See Chapter 4: Infernal Legions, Demonic Powers. Obsession, 1 to 3 points, Init -5, Vim: Pilgrimage. See Chapter 4: Infernal Legions, Demonic Powers. Can only use this power on victims hooked with its tail spike
- Weakness: Abhorrent Material (fennel)
Vis: 5 pawns of Vim vis, in spike
Appearance: A skeletal creature the size of a horse, with three heads. It carries a victim in its abdominal cavity, from which it eats. It sometimes does this in battle to force Brave checks. For more terror, eating refils its <ight Pool.
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November 6
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November 7
Boneless
There’s a cryptid found in Longdendale, a mountain pass in the Peak District of England. It’s a slug the size of a horse, with a head that looks like that of a whale. It has at least one eye, which swivels madly in its socket. Boneless makes a grating noise as it travels. It doesn’t seem linked to any Realm: it might just be an animal that has risen up out of the caves that riddle the Peak.
Characteristics: Cun –2, Per +4, Pre –2, Com –2, Str +10, Sta +3, Dex –1, Qik –6
Size: +3
Virtues and Flaws: Magic Animal, 9 x Large, Finds salt mildly poisonous.
Personality Traits: Hungry +3, Patient +2
Combat: Bite: Init –6, Attack +5, Defense +5, Damage +14
This bite is made using a tongue covered in tiny, rasping teeth.
Soak: 0
Fatigue Levels: OK, 0/0, -1/–1, -3/–3, -5/–5, Unconscious
Wound Penalties: –1 (1-8), –3 (9-16), –5 (17–24), Incapacitated (25-32), Dead (33+).
Abilities: Awareness 9 (predators), Brawl 5 (bite), Swim 5 (river).
Vis: Nil.
Appearance: a slug the size of a horse, with an oddly-shaped head.
Source: Based on the Sarmatian Sea Snails in Transforming Mythic Europe, page 57.
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November 10
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