GROAN (#28/31, #28/365) [OOTP IV]
STAMINA: 5
ATTACKS: 1
WEAPON: Dagger or Club
ARMOUR: None
DAMAGE MODIFIER: None
HABITAT: Caves, Dungeons, Ruins
NUMBER ENCOUNTERED: 1-3 or 4-24
TYPE: Animal/Humanoid
REACTION: Unfriendly-Hostile
INTELLIGENCE: Low-Average
Yet another weird example of subterranean people from the Underearth of Titan, the GROAN are a race of strange eyeless monsters as white as bone, that look like some small weird humanoid hybrid of bat and maggot. Their heads are bare except for a fanged mouth, slit-like nostrils and elaborate hearing pits, their bodies pallid and slimy, with clawed hands and feet, and with spindly wings sprouting from their back, upon which they can fly for a reasonable distance underground if the space is big enough. For the Groan use sonar to fly, to navigate the dark caverns, and are immune to the penalties of bright light or darkness due to their absence of eyes. Their sonar is so strong they only suffer half "visibility" penalties from mist, cloud, smoke or fog.
The Groan are always on the lookout for food, and their small scouting parties will usually be armed with bone-bladed daggers or spiked clubs with which to subdue prey, and will also have 1-3 skulls each to throw at any prey encountered. Their bodies exude a pustulent, noxious slime; anyone wounded by a Groan in melee combat must Test for Luck or catch the Wasting Disease.
They are devotees of Nyctule the bat god, and larger colonies of the creatures, usually four to twenty-four in number, will have erected a small shrine in their territory to their patron deity. They will also be ruled by a Groan King or Queen (SKILL 8, STAMINA 7) who may or may not have some basic shadow magic powers. Once such colony lay in a sub-level of catacombs attached to the ancient underworld known as the Haelsgarth that lay beneath the Moonstone Hills.
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