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ABYSMAL6 (18)

Cypher Bestiary

An abysmal is sludge from the ocean depths that dredged itself to surface, somehow imbued with unholy life. A turbulent 17-foot (5 m) diameter abysmal is equal parts water, mud, and the remains of sea creatures and drowned people.

Health: 25

Damage Inflicted: Major wound

Movement: Short; long when swimming

Modifications: Dodge as level 4 due to size s

Combat: An abysmal attacks with a full-body crashing wave, targeting up to three creatures in an adjacent immediate area.

Abysmals also have the following traits.

• Choking Residue: The abysmal chooses one creature who chokes on a quantity of sludgy water deposited in their lungs on a failed Might defense roll. The affected target takes 3 Speed damage (ignores armor) each round until they succeed on a Might roll as their action to clear the fluid.
  
• Expel Corpse: As its action, the abysmal expels a portion of its substance, creating a servitor zombie composed of sludge, sea-life, and dead people. This costs the abysmal 3 health that does not regenerate.
  
• Implode: Once per day as its action the abysmal pulls a successfully attacked or touched target into the miasma of the abysmal's interior. The engulfed target can attempt a Might roll each round as their action to win free. Each round the target remains engulfed, they are assailed with lethal pressure found at the bottom of the sea and take a major wound (ignores armor).
  
• Regenerate: An abysmal regains 3 points of health each round.

The frigid undead "heart" of an abysmal is a fragment of some ancient, inscrutable being, a relic that fell from space outside of time.

GM Intrusion: A character damaged by Choking Residue soon develops a persistent, wet, hacking cough.......

HORRIBLE APPEARANCES

Things, almost by definition, have an inconstant form. But what does it look like right now?

d10	Appearance
1	Shapeless pile of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly luminous
2	Pustules constantly rise and pop, excreting a greenish-red fetid ichor
3	Temporary eyes blinking open across the mass, sometimes overlapping
4	Distorted, stretched, half.mimicked form of some previous victim, thrashing
5	Writhing, slapping, undulating tentacles; tentacles all the way down
6	Humanoid face splits open revealing a wide, tooth-filled maw
7	Lump of six or seven half-fused human bodies moaning, gurgling, rising tower-like
8	Glimpsed in mid transformation; limbs sprout, bones snap, and flesh tears apart
9	Oily, reflective pool of fluid reminiscent of a sewage spill from a butcher's stall
10	Translucent gel-like mass in which darker tendrils slither along wormy trails

WHAT A THING WANTS

A thing's goal may be unknowable. Other times, a thing has a motive.

d6	Motive
1	Assimilate all flesh
2	Prepare the way for invasion by aliens
3	Escape back to space
4	Gain knowledge (through assimilation)
5	Build a machine to call mate from nightmares
6	Successfully blend in and be left alone

WORDS OF WOE

Use some of these "Lovecraftian" adjectives when you're describing a thing or its degenerate trespasses: Abominable, amorphous, antediluvian, bleating, blubbery, chattering, colorless, croaking, degenerate, dripping, faceless, gangrenous, heaving, howling, inscrutable, jabbering, loathsome, mucilaginous, murmuring, obscene, quivering, profane, pustular, rubbery, squamous, undigested, writhing