| Hadal Gulper |
“It hung upright in the enveloping darkness of the Abyss. A human-sized figure, its tail suspended without
motion. Its arms were held out to the sides, spindle-like stabilizers terminating in claws with webbed skin
stretched between the digits. The mouth gaped, it was an expanse opening on the sac-like head, which hung
forwards and downwards as if ready to suck-up anything in the creature’s path. There was no neck, rather the
head was continuous was continuous with the cylinder of its torso. The skin was heavily wrinkled and folded, as
if it was meant for a creature at least twice the size. The wrinkles on its head continued down the crest on its
back. Far back on the head two eyes, like points of blackness, could now be seen. The two barbels beneath its
gape twitched suddenly, then the head widened in a wave that rippled down from its mouth to the hilt of its tail,
as it gulped in ether. It began to omit light from slit-like fissures which were opening along the length of its tail.
As these glands widened, the light intensified from cyan to a crimson glare. It gulped in ether again but this time
the mouth, head and chest stretched open large enough to swallow any of us. Forcibly the head and neck
shrank, expelling a jet of ether and in a blinding flash of red light, the creature had gone.”
Intelligence: level 2
Size: M (S-L)
Hits: 20-160
Hit Allocations (Body part: d100 / % of base hits / criticals as % base hits):
Head: 86-100 / 50% / 20%
Left Arm: 81-85 / 25% / 8%
Right Arm: 76-80 / 25% / 8%
Torso: 21-75 / 60% / 30%
Tail: 1-20 / 60% / 20%
Strength: 0.2 to 4 men
TM: 10, 20, 100-200 (swimming, jetting)
SM: x 1
Attacks:
Tail: AS 30 Damage 1d10 + (2-20)
Swallow whole (target of almost any size): AS 20
Once swallowed the victim must fight out of the torso. The stomach has an internal AC of loses 1 crit / body part
/ round whilst in the stomach.
Defences:
Jetting—escape response;
Luminescence—dazzle for 1d10 +2 rounds, -60 see, -30 action modifier;
Luminescent ink—dazzle all within a 10 metre diameter cloud, range 10 m for 1d6 rounds, cloud lasts for one
hour, -40 see, -20 action modifier;
Black ink—blinds instead of dazzles and also numbs sense of smell / taste, -20 action modifier, see -20,
smell/taste -40.
motion. Its arms were held out to the sides, spindle-like stabilizers terminating in claws with webbed skin
stretched between the digits. The mouth gaped, it was an expanse opening on the sac-like head, which hung
forwards and downwards as if ready to suck-up anything in the creature’s path. There was no neck, rather the
head was continuous was continuous with the cylinder of its torso. The skin was heavily wrinkled and folded, as
if it was meant for a creature at least twice the size. The wrinkles on its head continued down the crest on its
back. Far back on the head two eyes, like points of blackness, could now be seen. The two barbels beneath its
gape twitched suddenly, then the head widened in a wave that rippled down from its mouth to the hilt of its tail,
as it gulped in ether. It began to omit light from slit-like fissures which were opening along the length of its tail.
As these glands widened, the light intensified from cyan to a crimson glare. It gulped in ether again but this time
the mouth, head and chest stretched open large enough to swallow any of us. Forcibly the head and neck
shrank, expelling a jet of ether and in a blinding flash of red light, the creature had gone.”
Intelligence: level 2
Size: M (S-L)
Hits: 20-160
Hit Allocations (Body part: d100 / % of base hits / criticals as % base hits):
Head: 86-100 / 50% / 20%
Left Arm: 81-85 / 25% / 8%
Right Arm: 76-80 / 25% / 8%
Torso: 21-75 / 60% / 30%
Tail: 1-20 / 60% / 20%
Strength: 0.2 to 4 men
TM: 10, 20, 100-200 (swimming, jetting)
SM: x 1
Attacks:
Tail: AS 30 Damage 1d10 + (2-20)
Swallow whole (target of almost any size): AS 20
Once swallowed the victim must fight out of the torso. The stomach has an internal AC of loses 1 crit / body part
/ round whilst in the stomach.
Defences:
Jetting—escape response;
Luminescence—dazzle for 1d10 +2 rounds, -60 see, -30 action modifier;
Luminescent ink—dazzle all within a 10 metre diameter cloud, range 10 m for 1d6 rounds, cloud lasts for one
hour, -40 see, -20 action modifier;
Black ink—blinds instead of dazzles and also numbs sense of smell / taste, -20 action modifier, see -20,
smell/taste -40.
