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153 CHAPTER SIX • CREATURES OF THE UNDERWORLD Plasmic Physical Att. Will Health Attack Dodge/ Abilities Str/Dex/Sta Levels Spd/Acc/Dmg Soak Ashen Nomad 2/2/2 3 -0/-1/-2/ Punch: 5/4/2B 4/1L/2B Awareness 1, Brawl 2, -4x2/I Dodge 2, Survival 4 (Desert +2) Black Garda 1/3/1 4 -0/I Fiery Crash: 3/0L/1B Athletics 5 (Flight +3), 6/8/16L + special* Brawl 5 Bone-Road Walker 4/2/2 4 -0/-1x2/ Bite: 6/3/1L, 6/1L/2B Dodge 4 -2x2/4/I Butt: 5/2/4B Firedust Phantom 0/5/0 1 Special* 8/0/20L 0/0/0 – Firefly 2/5/1 1 -2/I Fiery Touch: 7/0L/1B Brawl 1, Dodge 2 8/6/2L Hungry Mirror 0/0/2 7 -0/-2x3/-4/I Virtue Drain: 0/1L/2B – 0/0/special* Lesser Rock Dragon 15/3/20 5 -0x7/-1x4/ Bite: 6/7/15L, 4/10L/20B Archery 4, Athletics 2 -2x3/-4/I Claw: 6/7/15L, (Flight +1), Awareness 3 Lava: 6/7/30L (Personal Domain +2), Brawl 4, Dodge 1, Presence 2 (Intimidation +3) Razorwing 3/3/5 3 -0x2/-1/ Wing Slash: 7/0L/1B Brawl 1, Dodge 2 -2x2/-4/I 6/6/3L Scorpion Wasp 3/2/3 5 -0/-1/-2x2/I Sting: 6/6/1A 8/2L/5B Athletics 4 (Flight +1), Awareness 2, Brawl 3 * Further information exists in the creature’s write-up. All creatures have Intelligence •, Perception •• and Wits •••, unless the description says otherwise.
EXALTED • BOOK OF BONE AND EBONY worn in the city of Stygia, and despite the danger they pose, many attempt to kill them in order to take the creatures’ corpses and form them into real masks. The masks are active swimmers and feed on other sea creatures that fit their tiny mouths, but they can also drain Essence and blood by using the local reefs as weaponry. Once another being comes into contact with the reefs, the coral masks can direct the coral to attach to the victim and drain her at the rate of 3 motes (or health levels, if the target has no motes) per turn. This damage is an environmental effect of being near the reef (see Exalted, p. 243), with a successful Stamina + Resistance roll, difficulty 2, required to resist. The victim loses only 1 mote if she successfully resists. The interval is one turn. This is the only defense the masks have against creatures that mean them harm. As they grow in size, coral masks grow weary of existing underwater and realize that they actually need a larger, physical body to fulfill their growing passion for creating chaos. Once a mask decides to find a host, it plays dead (this ruse can be discovered by succeeding on a Perception + Awareness roll, difficulty 3, since small animals still won’t approach the area where the coral mask is) and allows a collector to pick it up and reform it into a wearable deathmask. For this reason, coral masks sold in the city of Stygia must be sold with a certificate stating they were harvested from live, free-swimming specimens, and sellers must try them on before a sale. Once someone — except for Exalted and spirit beings with an Essence rating higher than •••, since they possesses far too much strength for a coral mask to overcome — wears the mask, the creature begins to expand and grow around the head and body of the victim until it has trapped the wearer and assumed control over her. Victims cannot be larger than an adult ghost and no smaller than a ghostly child. When a coral mask attempts to assume control over its victims, the mask must succeed with an attack that inflicts at least one health level of damage. Once it has established itself as a parasite on the host, the victim and the mask engage in opposed Strength feats (masks gain a cumulative automatic success for each turn they remain on their hosts). If the wearer fails to remove the mask within five turns and her player fails a Willpower roll (difficulty 4), she becomes a slave to the mask’s will. Interestingly, the plasmic’s connection to the host’s mind allows it to think rationally as if it had a human Intelligence rating of •••. Nonetheless, even coral masks possessing the most mannerly of individuals cannot suppress their primal urges, and they are ever driven to create chaos among the Underworld’s citizens. It is only possible to remove an attached mask by striking it or burning it for at least 14L damage. If struck while the victim wears it, the wearer also suffers the same effect. 154 EBON WHALE The shimmering ebon whales traffic the waters between the South and the Isle of Shadows. Driven by a hunger to consume, ebon whales are omnivores, eating ghosts, living flesh, fish and even other plasmics. Sailors rightly fear the whales’ attacks, since one blow with their tails can sink a large ship, leaving those onboard to fend against the hostile creatures of the Sea of Shadows, most significantly the giant, ghost-eating whale itself. Yet, many ghosts travel the Sea in hopes of bringing back the skeletal remains of an ebon whale. The bones are extremely useful in many necromantic constructions or simply as raw materials for ebony trappings. EOI The Western Underworld is the natural habitat for numerous races of birds that lack the ability to fly. Once such creature is the deformed eoi — half seagull and half crab. Eoi live in cavities under the sand all over the Western isles. They sleep during the day and search for seafood after nightfall. Due to their tough shells, batches of eoi will fetch a high price from artificers with expertise in armor manufacturing (Resources •••). Armor made of eoi has the statistics: +5L/+7B, mobility penalty 1 and fatigue 0 (and hardness 2, if using Exalted Power Combat). Such armor normally costs Resources •••• but can be found cheaper where the creatures are common. ULDRA Uldra are land-based creatures appearing as humanoid sharks with extremely dry skin and eight tentacles sprouting from their shoulders. Unlike the sharks that plague Creation’s waters, the uldra do not consume that which they kill. They merely thrive on the act of slaying another creature, even others of their kind. Upon encountering one another, the creatures engage in fierce combat until one of them is dead. Witnessing these events is often exciting, since it involves not only direct combat between the two. There is also tracking and canny strategies involved since the uldra possess chameleon-like abilities (reflected by their high Stealth score). While it is possible to find them on any isle, the uldra refrain from constructing nests close to inhabited areas. If they did otherwise, they would lose the excitement of the hunt. SALTWALKER Saltwalkers have been around the West since long before the Contagion. Water from the Sea of Shadows surrounds their lizard-shaped bone structure as flesh does around a living creature’s bones, providing them with an excellent defense against weapons (they only inflict half of the rolled damage on an attack). Their small size, about the
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