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IX Mythos Bestiary Sandy’s Notes What You See DESCRIBING A DIMENSIONAL SHAMBLER A dimensional shambler is a twisted parody of a creature As it moves, it passes through intermediate dimensions and may seem to be shifting or jumping from position to position, sort of like a real-life version of Picasso’s Nude Descending a Staircase or a stop-motion image The effect is profoundly unsettling and might cause nausea or induce headaches This twisted, nearly featureless humanoid has a loose-hanging hide and an insect-like head It has four limbs, but the joints twist in every direction as the creature's form flickers in and out of visibility A cold sensation like the brush of the wind covers your body, even beneath your clothes as this entity brings a new type of sensation from an alien universe negation of all energy, light, and life, with few but terrifying exceptions The origin of the beings now known as dimensional carrying the victim with it But there is purpose to this shamblers is largely unknown They could not possibly attack The shambler typically takes the victim across have emanated from the Nothing between the the Nothing to another, alien reality This is potentially dimensions, but wherever they started, they have now far more dangerous than anything the shambler could taken up the Nothing as their undisputed home on its own, particularly if the victim’s companions The shamblers are able to move from the timeless, vacant Nothing to other dimensions with ease More terrifyingly, they can abduct individuals from those other dimensions, carrying them back to the Nothing or to other dimensions Physiology don’t know the shambler took their friend Ecology The shamblers feed by kidnapping hapless individuals, and abandoning them in other universes When a victim is pulled into the Nothing, the event produces a nearly-invisible astral trail that reaches back to the Dimensional shamblers have bizarre, twisted, only origin universe When the shambler hurls the victim vaguely humanoid forms, with smooth, semi-blank into a different plane, that astral trail now links the heads, and massive grasping claws While they can kill two realities and sets up an energy differential between with their claws, they have far more terrifying abilities the two One of the two universes is typically more at their command magical or energetic than the other, and this energy First is their terrifying ability to appear almost anywhere—inside a magically-warded space, for starts traveling along the astral trail The shamblers feed off this energy, and this is how they survive instance No spell and no wall can guard against them Shamblers typically not pick universes that are if they wish to emerge and it is nearly impossible to too immediately dangerous to deposit their victims stop them The only way to keep them out is to set up a because they want them to survive for at least a few magical ward too small for one to emerge inside hours (though if the victim goes mad in this other When a shambler attacks, quite often it grasps the victim with its claws, then fades back into the Nothing, universe, that’s fine with the shambler) The astral trail dissipates if the victim dies or assimilates to this new 325
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