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FORMLESS SPAWN OF TSATHOGGHUA
click to enlarge Identity:  Lesser Servitor Race
Group Affiliation:  They are closely associated with Tsathogghua.
Base of Operations:  Formless Spawn dominate the lightless cavern of N'Kai, and probably inhabit other cave systems as well.
Side:  Evil
Sex:  Unknown (if applicable)
Age:  Unknown
Height:  6' - 8' long
Hair:  None
Eyes:  None
Level:  8th
Experience:  35,000
Training:  +1 Accuracy with HTH Combat
POWERS:
1. Body Power (Amorphous Composition):  These amorphous lumps of black slime can shape their bodies to take whatever shape they desire. Treat as Stretching Power, but with the maximum stretching distance of 36" (Str + End only). They are also considered to have automatic Stretching Powers Defense (at zero power cost). The shapeless nature of the Formless Spawn also grants the following powers:
        a. Invulnerability: 14 Points.
        b. Natural Weaponry (Tentacles/Bite): +3 to Hit, +6 Damage. On a successful special attack, the Formless Spawn has swallowed the victim whole. The Phase after the character has been swallowed, he will take 1d20 HP damage (from corrosive enzymes) which increases progressively by +1 for each additional phase trapped ( 1d20 + 2 HPs on 2nd phase, 1d20 + 3 on third, etc). While swallowed, the victim may take no action (a GM may rule that inborn powers may still be activated), though friends and allies may attempt to slay the monster to free him or her. While digesting a victim, a Formless Spawn may continue to fight but may not shift location without disgorging what it has swallowed.
        c. Poison/Venom (Corrosive Enzyme): Formless Spawn feed on a wide variety of substances. Primarily it metabolizes organic debris, but also devours living animals, plants, and fungi when available. This process is aided by the highly corrosive that it excretes upon physical contact (it causes 1d20 damage per phase in contact).
        d. Regeneration: Cannot heal Fire/Light based damage.
        e. Speed Bonus: +30" ground.
        f. Wings: Cost only movement to activate. Maximum Flight speed 484" (110 mph), PR 1/hour.
2. Heightened Agility A  +12
3. Heightened Strength A  +10
4. Heightened Expertise:  +4 to hit with HTH attacks.
5. Psionics (Cause Fear & Insanity):  The Formless Spawn cause fear & insanity in humans around them (radius of 14" (I in inches) at no power cost), and it lasts until the victim can make a successful saving throw vs. Intelligence on percentage dice.
6. Weakness (Prejudice):  Truly alien physiology and psyche which would put it at odds with normal reality.
CHARACTER DATA:
Weight:  200 lbs. Basic Hits:  4 Agility Mod:  Nil
Strength:  20 Endurance:  16
Agility:  22 Intelligence:  14
Charisma:  14 Reactions from:   Good:  -1     Evil:  -1
Hit Mod. (1.9) (1.8) (1.8) (1.1) =  6.7716 Hit Points:  28
Damage Mod.:  +2 Healing Rate:  1.6
Accuracy:  +4 Power:  72
Carrying Capacity:  960 lbs. Basic HTH Damage:  1d8
Movement Rates:  88" ground, 484" flying.
Det. Hidden:  10% Det. Danger:  14%
Inventing Points:  11.2 Inventing (42%):
Knowledge Areas:  Mythos Lore
END SAVE:  12 (20) AGL SAVE:  13 (21) INT SAVE:  12 (20) CHA SAVE:  12 (20)
Origin and Background: (Unknown)  A Formless Spawn is a fluid black entity which can change shape with lightning rapidity, sprouting legs, teeth, heads, eyes, and wings, making temporary shapes for temporary needs.
          "They found living things [that] worshipped onyx and basalt images of Tsathogghua himself. But they were not toads like Tsathogghua himself. Far worse -- they were amorphous lumps of viscous black slime that took temporary shape for various purposes. The explorers of K'n-Yan did not pause for detailed observations, and ... sealed the passage."
-- H.P. Lovecraft

SPELLS

Contact Formless Spawn

This spell costs 3 PR per turn and 2d12 turns to cast. Once the spell is cast, the caster must make a saving throw versus his Intelligence x2 or suffer an additional loss of 1d10 Power. The spell must be cast either at a temple of Tsathogghua (still possessing its statue of Tsathogghua) or at a spot near an opening into the black abyss of N'kai (evidently somewhere in western North America).

Once the spell has been cast, the contactee may not appear for an hour or a day or more (roll 1d100 hours) -- the caster does not know when, and must wait. Formless Spawn will ooze to the caster from the ebony depths below. Remember that there is no guarantee that a contacted Formless Spawn would rather bargain than devour the caster, or that it might not have some other alien scheme in mind.

 
Legal Status:  None.
Training Bonuses:
2nd Level:   +1 Accuracy with HTH Combat
3rd Level:   +1 Accuracy with HTH Combat
4th Level:   +1 Accuracy with HTH Combat
Notes:

To Hit (HTH):
+14
Damage (HTH):
1D8 + 8
To Hit (Swallow):
+14
Damage (Swallow):
1D20 + 1/phase swallowed + 8

XP Value (Captured/Defeated):  1600 / 800