CREATURES: THEXX ~ THREAD WALKER

THREAD WALKER 4(12)

Thread walkers appear humanoid from a distance. In fact, they’re puppet-like facades
dressed in harvested human skin and clothing that hide a mass of writhing, milk-white
tendrils inside. These tendrils make up a portion of a larger transdimensional race (or
single entity?) called the Thread. Some Thread subunits learn about humans by creating
puppets from small bits of themselves, sculpting them into human-shaped bodies covered
with skin harvested from humans, garments, gloves, hoods, and masks. These Thread
walkers sometimes even take on the semblance of individuality, though this is not long
tolerated by the Thread.
Thread walkers are intensely interested in humans, though not in any one person’s Thread walkers hail from
welfare. Thread walkers study humans like a particularly uncompassionate Aeon Priest a bizarre dimension
might study insects by pulling off their wings and crushing their carapaces to see what called Reeval, where the
Thread also craft other
happens.
methods for probing
Motive: Study humans human bodies and minds
Environment: In hidden enclaves or transdimensional cysts known as Nibovians.
Health: 20
Damage Inflicted: 5 points
Armor: 1
Movement: Short
Modifications: Tasks related to social interaction as level 1.
Combat: Thread walkers avoid danger and combat if possible. If they must fight, they batter foes
with their limbs, though sometimes they may use a weapon looted from a previous human
test subject.
Some Thread walkers partly abandon their human facade and extend tendrils to attempt to
immobilize a target within immediate range as an attack. A target who fails a Might defense
task remains immobile, unable to take physical actions, and takes 5 points of constriction
damage each round they fail to escape. GM Intrusion: The
If a Thread walker is “killed,” the dozens of individual tendrils making up the Thread walker brings out
creature disband and attempt to burrow away through the earth, each the head of a previous
victim that it modified
essentially a separate level 1 creature. If five or more survive, they with an automaton’s
may regroup at a later date and attempt to walk again. animating machine,
Interaction: A Thread walker responds to most making it blink and
queries by nodding or shaking its head or by produce disturbingly
motioning with its covered limbs. It probably wordlike noises.
has no true self-awareness, though it apes
behaviors it has witnessed in humans.
Use: Missing people in the area are later
found in a nearby ruin as carcasses
that have obviously been horribly
abused and experimented on.
Loot: Some Thread walkers keep the
possessions of their victims, which
could include 3d6 shins and a few
cyphers.

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