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[Howl’s Creature Block]

Senjata Esovitic Cyber-Chimera: Howl
AC: 31 Fort +26, Ref +29, Will +19
HP: 136
Tags: Unique, Cosmic, Humanoid, Aberration, Force,
Recall Knowledge DC 32 Occultism (Upon Critical Success, also can do the special action ‘Interpret Oblivion’)
Skills: Acrobatics +30, Athletics +27, Survival +27, Occultism +28, Thievery +25, Stealth +29
Str +8, Dex +8, Con +6, Int +6, Cha +4
Resistances: Mental 5, Fire 5, Persistent Damage 2, Non-Magical attack 5
Immunities: Any spell with Emotional Trait, Frightened Condition,
Weakness: Non-Lethal Damage 5, Electricity 2
Weapon: Custom Monowire Pleasure Claws +18 [+14/+11] (modular to Slash and Pen w/reach 15 feet) (Has the Weapon Traits of Hooked, Wounding and Impactful. Is also treated as ‘Unarmed’ to benefit several feats), Damage 2d12+5 slashing and 1d8+2 Psychic. Has access to the Martial Artist Archetype Feats of Wolf Stance, Follow-up Strike, Grievous Blow and Wolf Drag.
Spell: Warp Step, Ghostly Shift, Shatter Mind, Translocate,
Reactions per turn: 3 (can Attack of Opportunity)

Empathic Shadow (aura, Occult) 10 feet: Howl’s Cyber-Magic Augments allows her to use her Psychic Powers to cloak her approach. Any creature targeting the war machine from outside the aura treats it as if it were concealed unless they possess scent or a non-visual–based sense.

Hypersonic Burst [Trigger]: When Howl Steps or Strides twice. The war machine gains a +10-foot circumstance bonus to its Speed during these moves.

Slip Away [reaction] (abjuration, Occult): Trigger Howl succeeds at a save against an effect that is not have a Mental, Void, Vitality Trait; Effect Howl reenters Esovitic Cloaking at the last moment, critically succeeding at the save instead.

Calculate Threats [one-action] (Occult): Howl gains a +2 circumstance bonus to AC and Reflex saves until the beginning of her next turn.

Perverse Homeostasis [reaction]: Trigger - Howl’s nervous system catastrophically misinterprets certain harmful stimuli as adaptive triggers. Whenever Howl gains a negative/debilitating condition choose from the following below. Only one buff from Perverse Homeostasis can be active at a time:

3d6 Temp HP, +5 Speed until end of next, Ignore and gain temporary immunity of the Condition until the start of your next turn, an additional reaction starting next turn.

Unto Death [reaction] (Emotion): Trigger once per round: Howl takes damage from a creature she can perceive. Strides toward the triggering creature then attempts to Strike (Multiple Attack penalty applicable), Trip or Grapple if within melee range.

Euphoric Blades [Trigger] (Mental, Emotion):  Whenever Howl’s Strikes critical hits or executes a successful Reaction Strike , gain 2d4+2 Temp HP and Weapon Strikes gain Impossible until end of next turn.

Enter Oblivion [two-action] [Occult, Trap, Mental, Emotional, Curse] (60ft, one target, Will Save, 1-Minute Duration): 

Howl targets a single target and transports them into a Noetically Constructed Cage of Esovitic Origin and locking them there. The Target is Observed at all times by Howl whilst Howl is considered invisible to that same Target.

Target suffers a unique ‘Oblivion’ Condition: Target is considered flatfooted, cannot benefit from Aid, treat all allies or friendly npc’s as unreachable.

Target must make a Will Save

Critical Success: The target resists violently causing the Noetic Construct to retaliate causing 2d12+6 Mental Damage + 1d6 persistent Mental Damage and Frightened 4 and remain trapped in the Construct.
Success: 1d12+3 Mental Damage and gain a stacking +1 Bonus Circumstance to ‘Escape Oblivion’ next turn.
Failure: Target ceases struggling Gain the action ‘Escape Oblivion’. Which is to roll a a DC6 on 1d6 to free themselves from the Noetic Construct.
Critical Failure: Same as Failure but a flat 1d2. Additionally Howl takes 2d16+6 mental damage.

Upon Regular or Critical Failure, Howl cannot cast Enter Oblivion for the next 3 turns.

(Creator Note: Yes… you read it right. You need to ‘Fail’ the Saving Throw to not get hurt by it. Additionally, Enter Oblivion uses as a basis the Quandary Spell since I wanna replicate the ‘Trapped in a dreadful crushing space’ aspect to it. If you know the scene in Night Mare on ElmStreet where Krueger kills someone with ‘Invisible Karate’ it was as if he was being tossed around by an invisible, intangible force. That's what it would look like to outside viewers looking at someone affected. Or just imagine your fighting in Vale Tudo, but your opponent is invisible.)

Interpret Oblivion [Trigger]: Player Roles a DC 40 Occultism whilst under the effects of Howl’s ‘Enter Oblivion’ Spell. Reverse all Success and Failure Results of the ‘Enter Oblivion’ Spell.

“You came back. I stayed where you left me.”

“You smell wrong, did something happen to you?”

“Did I do good? You smiled before the master?”

“I bite loud people who hurt you.” *cuddles* “I good doggie.~”

*after casting Enter Oblivion* “Yes! Don’t let go.” *upon Save Success* “Now I know where you are!” *loud screaming noises*

“Too LOUD!” *leaps and attacks*

“Oh? Balikatan… War… Game? A game? A game! I wanna play!” *leaps out of the VIP Observer box to ‘play’ with the soldiers.*

[-]

>In all of House Senjata’s crimes against sanity, there is one that best exemplifies the commodified Industrialized-War Complex they represent. A black mirror of what ungodly fate those of above the Earth’s sky jeer upon frail humanity poisoning planets without compunction: The Cyber-Chimera known as ‘Howl’. I have my fair share of cutthroats, charlatans and evil space wizards. But Howl would easily make playthings out of those who attempted to stop me before. Plenty do. She was terrifying to me and many of her victims because violence had become her native tongue before she ever learned another. What Senjata did to her will continue to haunt me in my sleep even after she now sleeps by my side. But first explainer to first time readers: Take the Esovitic Disciplines of Empaths. Some of the most benevolent and altruistic of Disciplines On my thaumaturgical texts they are written of with almost ironic optimism: ‘Menders of Grief’. ‘Shepherds against Fear’. ‘The Bridge above the Maelstrom’.

>House Senjata asked the question: ‘What if Empathy allowed one to destroy rather than to mend?’

>I struggle, dear reader, to fathom this inversion, yet somehow, those Alien bastards figured out a way to twist anything good and holy into such an abominable machine. The closest terrestrial analogy would be if humanity discovered an angel capable of curing all sickness… and within twenty years converted it into an Biochem Weapon that you widdle the finger atop of the big red button if your enemies think of doing any ideas against you.

>No. Worse.

>At least WMD’s announce themselves. Sirens sound. Satellites observe the launches. And it ends you quickly.. There exists a physical aspect to it.

>Howl’s flavor of Empathy leaves countless victims dying from impossible approaches. Entire populations could be driven into madness while observers record only despair, anarchy, and spiritual collapse.

>{Queen of Smiles: Oh, my little star but who doesn’t love having their own pet dog you can sic at your enemies? Just point and shoot. No need overcomplicate things. Shall we onto your enemies? Your critics? Your traitors and doubters?}

>From Yamal’s grapevine here’s what I know of the person that is Howl: She’s a Hulikas, or Fox-Folk to you dear readers, born on the planet of Komondor. The planet is wracked in an eternal state of strife where territory, allegiances and resources are as fluid as the blood constantly spilled. She was born as a war-orphan turned into a feral child. A tragic case if not for the fact the girl that would become Howl has the budding power of the Esovitic Discipline of Empaths. Now Empaths are usually the whole ‘let me feel your thoughts’ therapeutic kind of Esovis Practitioners, often found in very social-heavy roles in the Milky Way. Howl had no luxury, let alone a chance of such an upbringing in Komondor. Adapted to use her powers to navigate across planet’s wartorn landscape using Empathic Anchors as nodes for navigation. She has gotten a cryptid-like status as a mysterious drifting ‘Hound’ that ambushes and takes food on the road with a very high lethality rate.

>It wasn’t long for House Senjata to find her and capture her for their own ends. They took an Empath—one of the galaxy’s benevolent and most sought after Esovis Cultivators—and TWISTED her. Flesh mechanized to enhance all but the most primal of functions. To sic at whatever her master points. Reward centres modified so obedience and violence blurred into the same sensation. Imagine teaching a starving dog that affection arrives only AFTER you tell them to commit an unspeakably violent act. Then imagine that said dog has the ability to perform constant psychic assaults alongside the usual leap and claw. It went as well as you expect when House Senjata sic’d them at the Navy SEAL’s.

>{Eyes-Behind-the-Lock: They will not stop! They cannot stop until Earth is on their knees master.}

>Even after 10 years with House Senjata’s top of the line institutions, Howl’s mental state is no different to an overly eager yet trained Attack Dog. I should hate her. By every sane measure, I ought to know what she did to Earth. Yet every time I looked beneath those eyes, there remained something I swore I and the rest of Humanity will strive hard to never become: Being reduced to a glorified livestock of a race. Like an animal abandoned young enough that it mistakes the hand holding the lash for love.

>{The-Seventh-Magi:* *Siblings-of-mine, you are both oversimplifying her. Observe longer. She hoards small acts of kindness as if they are gold. Curious.}
{Queen-of-Smiles:* *Injured things remember warmth more vividly than healthy ones. To whom would you like to sic her next? Your critics? Your enemies? Your traitors and doubters?}
{Eyes-Behind-the-Lock:* *How about no? The Banker barely survived the backlash.}
{Queen-of-Smiles: Oh you know my rebuttal to that Brother-of-mine. Beat a man enough, and they will be afraid of their own shadow.~}
{the-Seventh-Magi: Keep beating a man enough and you will make them fear nothing! Do not listen to her this time.}

>Now where the hell can I buy more Pillows? She chews through them like how Jerome chews through chicken wings.

-Excerpt from Alfonse ‘the Renegade Banker’ Sulayman’s Paimenic Palimpsest 

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