Gristlesquid

land-dwelling apex ontovore

Headcount

1

Vitals

com
d10
mov
d10
rea
d4
wil
d12
cha
0
hea
22
grt
16
DR
1
(rubbery skin)

Habits

  • Snapping apart bones in its beak (deg bones? human?)
  • Fluttering through the canopies after a family of birds
  • Slowly dressing its rubbery skin in gray leaves

Dogma

  • Sociopathic individualism Filled Pip Filled Pip Pip Pip Pip Pip

Attacks

  • Spiny tentacles, d10 damage plus draining. Each hit drains d6 GRT from the target to the squid.

Powers

Sneaky – Bonus of +3 to MOV/sneak checks.

  • Flight (free)
  • Ink (standard) – A gristlesquid can burn d8 GRT to spray steaming, dark green ink in a 5-M-wide cone; anything in the cone suffers disadvantage on COM and MOV rolls until spending a round wiping off the ink.

Gear

  • None.

Story notes

The bag-like, tentacled organisms called gristlesquid never stop growing in size as they age, although their rate of growth slows. Most adults encountered in the woods today are between 3 and 6 M in height and less than 2 M in width (and thin-skinned). A gristlesquid always tries to ambush targets. If it loses half of its health, it flies into the nearest tree and sprays ink.


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