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Numenera Creature Deck 2
Numenera Creature Deck 2
Idyc 5 (15)) Igothus 3 (9) Imorphin Gonoph 5 (15)) Imusten Crawler 5 (15))
Health: 19 Armor: 2 Health: 9 Movement: Short Health: 23 Movement: Flies an immediate Health: 18 Movement: Short; short
Damage Inflicted: Movement: Short; Damage Inflicted: Modifications: Speed Damage Inflicted: 5 distance each round Damage Inflicted: when climbing; immediate
3 points short when climbing or 4 points defense as level 4. points Modifications: Stealth as 6 points when burrowing
swimming Armor: 2 level 7. Armor: 2 Modifications: Stealth as
Armor: 1
Combat: The idyc’s abilities are based on the initial Combat: Imorphin gonophs don’t move quickly, so level 7.
health of those it encounters. It targets healthy Combat: Igothus are fast and agile, savagely anyone who wants to break off combat with one can Combat: An imusten crawler bites prey if the
creatures in hopes of finding robust hosts for its attacking with claws and teeth. They never usually do so by moving out of range. An imorphin victim fails a Speed defense task, inflicting 6
young. use weapons or armor, and they prefer swarm gonoph rarely pursues. Normally it attacks only points of damage. The bitten target must then
tactics. A group of five igothus can attack as a if attacked first (usually by a victim who doesn’t succeed on a Might defense task, or it feels a
Healthy: Attacks with a shower of short-range darts single individual of level 5, inflicting 8 points of appreciate having their equipment stolen). numbing, mounting pressure in its lungs, which
(up to four as a single action) and then attempts
damage. In addition to lashing a target with its tendrils to begin to fill up with smothering gel. The victim
to break off the engagement. Victims struck by a
inflict 5 points of damage, a gonoph can reveal a takes 6 points of damage (ignores Armor) each
dart must succeed on an additional Might defense Igothus seem to be utterly fearless and fight cavity resembling a large mouth that emits piercing round until it succeeds on a Might defense task.
task. On a failure, the embedded dart digs deeper
with a savage bloodlust to their dying breath. sonic effects, including the following: Each failed task to cough up the gel makes the
into the tissue and becomes impossible to extract
In the moment in which it is struck down, an succeeding defense task one step more difficult as
without a special operation. Sometime over the Sonic barrage that inflicts 5 points of damage on all
igothus can often make a single, final attack if it the victim suffocates.
following three days, the victim releases 1d6 tiny targets within immediate range
level 1 idycs. This inflicts 3 points of damage per has the opportunity. An imusten crawler instead may choose to secrete
idyc so hatched. If the victim survives, they feel Piercing sonic ray that inflicts 5 points of damage gel from its skin that holds the victim in place—
protective of the newly hatched creatures. (ignores Armor) on one target within short range rather than suffocating it—in a pocket of clear,
Reverberation that deafens all characters within viscous material. The gel has a soporific effect
Hurt: Attempts friendly interaction. This could
occur even after the idyc has hurt a previously short range who fail a Might defense roll. Each and can store living creatures indefinitely until the
healthy victim with darts. round, they can attempt another Might imusten becomes hungry enough to eat.
68 69 defense roll to shrug off the effect. 70 71