The Strange Bestiary
Fractal worms can stretch for a few thousand feet (600 m) or more and insert their feeding tips into recursions that have an interface to the Chaosphere. Sometimes fractal worms do this merely to see what's inside a new recursion interface they locate, but other times they do so to feed. From within a recursion, the inserted feeding tip can appear like a tentacle or tube curling down from the clouds to pluck prey from the landscape.
Literature on fractal worms also calls them scapeworms and recursion worms. It’s possible that fractal worms were born in a recursion hosted by Earth, but more likely, they are natives of the Strange that were drawn to Earth and its tasty riches. s
Motive: Hungers for flesh, curiosity
Environment (the Strange): Anywhere in the Strange near a recursion interface; never on Earth
Health: 90
Damage Inflicted: 10 points
Armor: 7 or 12; see Combat
Movement: Short
Modifications: Speed defense as level 3 due to size; surface knowledge (literally) of any recursion in the Shoals of Earth as level 5.
Combat: A fractal worm attacks by unfurling quickly enough to smash a target within 300 feet (91 m) of its tip, which deals damage to the target and all creatures within short range of the target. Given that a fractal worm can extend just a portion of its incredible length through an interface between the Strange and a recursion, creatures never see the worm’s entire length unless they’re pulled out of the recursion and into the Strange (or if they encounter the worm in the Chaosphere to begin with).
Fractal worms gain an additional +5 to Armor against all attacks involving cold and heat.
Interaction: Fractal worms are very intelligent and telepathic, but they don’t seem to share a language or a mind-set with natives of the Shoals of Earth. Use: Few creatures can withstand a hunting fractal worm. When a worm inserts itself into a recursion near a population center, mass panic ensues among those who witness it feeding. Loot: If one of a fractal worm’s teeth can be salvaged from its body, it can be used like a dowsing rod. If used in a recursion, the tooth points to the nearest connection to the Strange. If used in the Strange, it points to the nearest recursion interface. Each tooth has a depletion of 1 in 1d20.
GM Intrusion: The fractal worm snatches a character who fails a Speed defense roll out of the recursion and into the Strange (or if encountered in the Strange, it drops the PC into a nearby random recursion) so it can feed on the morsel in peace.