Astral Shambler

Attributes

Dex: 8  Str: 12 Tou: 9
Per: 9  Wil: 7  Cha: 6
Initiative: 9           Physical Defense: 14
# of Attacks: 2         Spell Defense: 15
Attack: 13              Social Defense: 10
  Damage: 19            Armor: 6
# of Spells: (1)        Mystic: 8
Spellcasting: 12        Knockdown: 12
  Effect: 10            Recovery Tests: 4

Death Rating: 50        Combat Move: 40
Wound Threshold: 14     Full Move: 80
Knock Out: 43           

Karma: 15               Karma Step: 9
Powers:
Astral Shift, Circle 3 Nethermancer, Terror 10
Legend Points:
815
Commentary:
Astral Shamblers have a humanoid shape with elongated arms and fingers which end in long talons. The Astral Shamblers skin is usually gray and seems to hang off the body in large wrinkles and folds as if not completely attached. The face also has the hanging skin which casues the Astral Shambler to look as if it doesn't have a face. Three gaping holes in the face would be assumed to act as eyes, and mouth as usually their positioning is in the appropriate places for such structures.

The Astral Shambler's power Astral Shift is like the power in most Horrors which lets them go back and forth between the astral and physical plane. But Astral Shift allows the Astral Shambler to "drag" objects and people into Astral Space with it, or vice versa. To do this the Shambler rolls its spellcasting versus the target's spell defense. An average success means it has successfully brought the target with it. The Smablers favorite mean of feeding is to appear in the middle of a large group of people grab a victim and then go back into astral space with the victim. The Shambler then feeds on the anguish and fear from the victim's loved ones and the fear of the victim. The Astral Shambler usually lets victims caught in such ways to wander about astral space as they please, after it has fed all it can off the person. Victims usually die of thirst in a day or two.

Credits

The Astral Shambler was created by Mike Boaz (mash@bev.net). The idea was drawn from the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

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