CREATURES: ULENIC ~ UMEM

UMEM 4 (12)

Purplish black, umem have glowing red stomachs and claws. Eyeless, their heads are
streamlined like those of a burrowing animal. Their skin is slick, but clods of dirt and rock
adhere to them here and there, as if the creature regularly bathes in drit.
Umem are abhumans that live underground, though some live partly on the surface in
mountainous areas near isolated villages of humans. In this latter case, some hunt humans
for meat, while others pretend to be human in the deep darkness of the night, with various
levels of success. When their deception fails, they steal away a human victim into the earth,
who is never seen again. When they succeed, children without eyes are later born to the
community, children who have a strange connection with the earth.
Motive: Hungers for flesh
Environment: Anywhere underground or in mountainous areas
Health: 15
Damage Inflicted: 5 points
Armor: 2
Movement: Short; short when burrowing
Combat: Umem attack with their red-hot claws. Targets
take 5 points of damage (3 from the claws, 2 from
the heat) and must succeed on a Might defense
task or be dazed for one round, which increases
the difficulty of all tasks by one step. If a dazed
target is hit by an umem, the target is clasped in
a tight molten squeeze until they escape. Each
round a target remains in an umem embrace,
they take 5 points of fire damage and can take
no actions other than attempting to escape.
Interaction: Most umem are hunters, but
some suffer from an unsettling desire
to associate with humans. Umem live
in a complex of underground tunnels
where they chant and sing in basso
voices of a long-lost creator god who
promised to return one day. Sacrifices GM Intrusion: The
to that god’s memory are important umem throws a glob
to umem “society,” such as it is. of molten rock at the
Use: A small mountain village is suffering from a slate of character, who must
succeed on a Speed
disappearances and birth defects that produce eyeless defense task or take 5
children. A strange hole has opened up in the center points of fire damage for
of town, from which unsettling music can be heard. three rounds from the
Loot: Some umem wear cyphers strung on necklaces. sticky, lava-like substance.

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