Sunday, March 17, 2024

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BLACK FEELER BEAST (#16/31, #76/365) [OOTP IV]

                Adult     Young

SKILL:        12          6

STAMINA:   24          6

ATTACKS: 4

WEAPON: 

    Adult - Tentacle (as per Very Large Claw) 

    Young - Tentacle (as per Small Claw)

ARMOUR: Light

DAMAGE MODIFIER: 

    Adult - +2 to Damage Roll

    Young - None

HABITAT: Caves, Dungeons, Ruins

NUMBER ENCOUNTERED: 1

TYPE: Monster

REACTION: Hostile

INTELLIGENCE: Low

Possibly thought to be related to other similar terrestrial non-aquatic cephalopods, such as the Salt Sucker and the Sand Squid, the BLACK FEELER BEAST eschews the surface of Titan and instead lives a subterranean lifestyle, preying on whatever it can find in the tunnels and caverns that burrow beneath the planet. Its body is spherical and mostly comprised of mouth and stomach, while sprouting numerous black hairy tentacle-like feelers with which it attempts to subdue its victims. Should a Black Feeler Beast score two successive hits in a row, without taking any hits in return, it will have grasped its opponent tightly and flung them into its gaping maw, where they will take Large Bite damage (or Very Large Bite damage if from an adult creature) until the victim or the Black Feeler Beast is dead.

Recent work by the wizard Geronicus of the Mage Order has revealed that the majority of Black Feeler Beasts encountered by adventurers and others, in places such as the Dark Chasms or the Homrath Caves, are actually only the younger versions of the creature. Adults are enormous, very dangerous, and rarely met by chance. The most infamous adult Black Feeler Beast of recent times was the much-dreaded Beast of the Fellscar Crags, who preyed on unfortunates subjected to "The Chase", a sacred ceremony of the Xokusai Orcs run according to the rules laid down in the Prophecy of Mukinahdun.

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