A new dimension-traveling threat for the Delta Green RPG.
It swims lazily through the air, propelling itself with waving fiber-optic fronds like some sort of vibrant deep-sea feather star, catching the currents of an ocean that human eyes cannot perceive. It’s a mass of vibrant, curling frills the size of a compact car, pulsating with a hypnotic array of nameless colors to a rhythm matching that of a heartbeat-
Your heartbeat, in fact, which begins to accelerate as you realize that the creature floating before you is drifting in your direction with speed one wouldn’t expect from something so delicate. You try to run, but it’s no use; your entire body feels as if suspended in water, and your feet cannot find any purchase on the ground.
Whatever otherworldly currents this creature swims through, you are now caught in them.
The Stelliform Liquivore is a particularly dangerous predator hailing from the dimension known as N-Space, possessing not only a greater level of intelligence than the typical fauna, but the ability to enforce the quasi-liquid physics of N-Space onto this plane of existence within a range of ten meters. This ability was seemingly developed to hunt prey from our dimension, which it can cross over into at will unlike most of the other beings of N-Space; the Stelliform Liquivore has effectively evolved to become an invasive predator of earthly life.
Trying to move on foot in an area imparted with N-Space physics is like trying to run in a nightmare, as it’s nearly impossible to find any purchase on the ground; the only way to move effectively is to swim, which the Liquivores are far more skilled at doing than most humans. These entities seem to feed primarily on blood by teleporting it straight from the veins of restrained prey, but that isn’t the only thing Stelliform Liquivores hunger (thirst?) for; when it drains blood, the Liquivore also pulls higher-dimensional energies from its prey in a process that eludes scientific description. It needs these energies to survive, on some level, and thus prefers to feed on humans and other sapient life as opposed to the variety of prey animals available in N-Space. Its favorite human targets are people who have been exposed to Tillinghast Radiation, as it allows the Liquivores to more easily detect them from N-Space.
Stelliform Liquivores aren’t incredibly intelligent, but they are very cunning; they have no idea of what a gun is or how it works, for example, but it doesn’t take very long for one to understand the danger such objects present to it. They’re clever enough to try to avoid fighting against groups, instead ambushing solitary targets when able and fleeing any time that the odds start to seem unfavorable.
MATERIAL EVIDENCE AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS
The deceased has a multitude of nasty abrasions, like someone violently scraped them with a wire brush or steel wool, but it does little to explain the complete lack of any blood in or around the body.
MEDICINE, SURGERY, or SCIENCE (BIOLOGY): There’s no sign that the blood was sucked from the wounds, either; it’s as if the blood simply disappeared from their veins before it could bleed out (0/1 SAN from the Unnatural).
On the security footage, there’s a strange visual distortion when the creature “fades in”; there’s an unexplainable flowing, liquid quality to the space around it, increasing in intensity near a spot in the thing’s central mass (0/1 SAN from the Unnatural).
SCIENCE (BIOLOGY) or UNNATURAL: The origin of this effect is something inside of it, most likely an organ that has no earthly equivalent; harming this organ could possibly disrupt the strange distortion effect, whatever it may be.
SCIENCE (PHYSICS) or UNNATURAL: The creature clearly isn’t something of this world, and neither is that strange liquid distortion; what if the thing’s found a way to impose the physics of its world onto ours? It wouldn’t have any difficulties moving under such laws, but a human probably would.
STELLIFORM LIQUIVORE – Death on Feathery Fronds.
STR 17 CON 20 DEX 13 INT 5 POW 10
HP 19 WP 10
ARMOR: 2 points of frilly chitin.
SKILLS: Alertness 65%, Flight 60%, Track (via extradimensional means) 70%.
ATTACKS: Enfold (60%, pins target and see ENFOLD)
Caress (60%, D6+2, AP 3, affects all targets in melee range)
ENFOLD: The Stelliform Liquivore wraps its fronds around a victim, pinning them. On subsequent rounds, the pinned victim loses D4 STR and WP each round as the blood is teleported from their veins into whatever unknowable feeding apparatus this creature possesses, healing the Liquivore of 1 point of lost HP for each point of STR drained. (At zero STR, the victim dies. A victim who survives regains 1 STR for each day of bed rest.)
HAVE A NICE SWIM: The Stelliform Liquivore is able to enforce the quasi-liquid physics of N-Space on any target within a ten meter radius. To be subjected to these physics is extremely disorienting, causing dizziness and a sense of vertigo; all skills that require physical coordination, except for Swim, are at a -20% penalty, but those affected are able to “swim” through the air within the radius as described in N-SPACE “SWIMMING” with a successful Athletics or Swim roll.
N-SPACE “SWIMMING”: The Stelliform Liquivore swims in an invisible otherworldly environment, allowing it a top speed as fast as a running human, as well as the ability to “swim” upwards into the air.
POINT OF WEAKNESS: The organ the Stelliform Liquivore uses to impose N-Space physics on reality is vulnerable to harm; a called shot at -20% to this organ inflicts normal damage and disables the Stelliform Liquivore’s HAVE A NICE SWIM ability until it regains an amount of HP equal to that lost from the attack. Deprived of this organ, the Liquivore will likely flee from combat, attacking anything that tries to impede its route of escape.
SAN Loss: 1/D6.
Born in a mountain and raised in a cave, when Aqualung isn’t busy wrestling alligators and strangling mountain lions, he creeps into the local library to make posts for his blog.
