#RPGaDay2024 Day 27 – Shapeshifting

Day 27 of #RPGaDay2024. We’re counting down, five days to go! I continue posting about the alternative prompt challenge list by Skala Wyzwania. For more information on RPG a Day, see David Chapman’s Autocratik blog post for 2024.

The RPG challenge theme for today is Shapeshifting. Rolling a 1d10 for the quest. The result is 1: Describe a monster.

Undead Pit of Fleshmasters

The Lich Necromancer Karuthos walked down Ravall’s now silent corridors. In the depths of the catacombs are the Fleshmasters, the remains of ten, perhaps twelve, some torn apart, others fallen with their shapes half melted. The Heroes of Reavefalls destroyed the genetic pits and the Fleshmaster Brain that resided there. But Karathos can feel the flesh, the lifeless mass, and calls forth the power residing there, awakening it in death. The remains of the Fleshmasters slide and crawl, forming a boiling, roiling mass of alien flesh animated by the lich’s necromantic powers.

An undead pit of Fleshmasters is the remains of a clutch of the shapeshifting alien creatures animated by dark necromantic arts. It can shapeshift into giant creatures that are dead and lifeless. It cannot speak or communicate; it screeches and bubbles. In its natural form, it falls upon enemies like a wave, consuming them with its acidic touch. Leaving behind the bleached bones of those it absorbs.

Karuthos looks at its creation. His control over the awakened creature is tenuous but enough to give it a simple command. Hunt The Tracker! He hides in the ruins of Ravall, and you will kill it for Karuthos master, the Darkness.

Will the undead Fleshmasters find The Tracker? Join me tomorrow, and we’ll find out together.

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