DIMENSIONAL SHAMBLER (Alien Intelligence)

Contained within the eddies of and vortices of four-dimensional space, life, unseen and unimagined nevertheless persists. Within this “realm”—for this is all the human mind can attempt to make of it—there exists a creature ascendant just as mankind now enjoys its momentary ascendancy of the Earth. It was referred to in the private journal of Ludwig Prinn (recovered in Paris in 1944) as “a shambling silhouette which cut most foul dimensions in shape”. Later shortened to “dimensional shambler.”

It is an entity composed of some kind of flesh and blood, though its chemistries and the science behind its life-cycle remain baffling to any earthly scientist. It is also huge, and strong, while still being, at its most basic (a head, two arms and two legs) formed, and able to locomote in a human manner. However, that is where similarities end. Its skin is ebony-black, and loose, hanging in folds all over its body, and its skeletal system turns and moves in unnatural ways (allowing it to spin its head like a top, for instance, or reverse its limbs). It looks, at its most basic, like a giant, leathery, shaved ape, with a deformed, collapsed face, huge arms ending in a random spray of finger-like talons, and a small head set in a vacant expression, with red insect-like eyes.

It can come and go through four-dimensional space through unknown means, and will kill and consume what it can in our world, driven by a lust for blood and living things which remains, to it, the supreme delicacy.

STR 22, CON 30, DEX 13, INT 10, POW 14, HP 26 , WP 14
SAN LOSS: 0/1D6
ARMOR:  4-points rugose hide
ATTACKS PER TURN: 2 smash attacks

SKILLS: Alertness 44%, Unarmed Combat 55%

SMASH (1D8): The shambler batters at its opponents with wild, windmill swings of its inhumanly long arms. When it reduces a target to 2 HPs, and they collapse it attempts to feed (see below).

VANISH: The shambler can teleport short distances at the cost of 1 WP. When it does, it seems to shudder, stumble and fade as it exits “reality”. Its return is sudden with no pre-indication of its arrival 

GRASP AND VANISH: Prone living targets become a focus of the shambler, who moves in and attempts to Grapple (which the target can resist); if the shambler succeeds, the target is whisked out of existence, never to be seen again.

FOCUSED TRANSCENDENCE: When focused on a single target, the Shambler remains immune all physical attacks from that target. It can be affected by any other attack, effect or power however.