TTRPG creations: 3/365: Hooked Horror

 The Hooked Horror

 Swamp dweller, muck diver, crust cap, clawed cancer. Stalked eyes spasm, bloodshot build up from withdrawal. The voices whisper for more fuel promising bliss. Sweet relief. Another hit.

Never felt feelings hit home harder as the fungi feeds the body. A brand new rush reanimates the crab, pincers rapidly clicking, blue blood boiling, rapid breathing. The hooked horror needs to find more bodies, more meat for the grinder, anything to feed the mushroom.

The battlefield erupts in frenzy as the new combatant arrives. Wading into the soon to be corpses, serrated tweezers snap through necks, pinch off digits and pulverize armour. The crustacean cares not for allegiance, race or religion only for the fuel.

 

Bodies carved up, limbs snapped, crusty colossus claws mash organs to paste. Covering the spores in organic plaster they release more endorphins. The Hooked Horror foams at the mouth, drug appetite sated for the moment, but not for long. The fungi knows the crab can't survive forever, it starts to lower the amount given driving the crab into more destructive deeds. As the armoured drug addict approaches death the parasite rapidly spreads throughout the body. The body spent finally perishes only for the fungus to spread to all around it. The cycle continues.

 

The Hooked Horror

ARMOUR CLASS:2

HIT DICE: 5

MOVE:  60'(20')

ATTACKS: 2 pincer or bite attack

DAMAGE: 2D6/2D6 - 1D8

SAVES: F3

SPECIAL: Releases fungus bacteria on death. Saving throw versus poison to avoid infection.

NA: 1