Ragpie
a scrunched-up bundle of cloth — until it unfolds
HP 8, Morale −, Thick skin −d2, Smother-cloak special
Special: If defence fails you are embraced by the Ragpie, slowly choking and unable to act. Only the death of the Ragpie or a DR18 Strength test will set you free. Until then, you take d4 damage per round, and half of any damage dealt to the Ragpie is also dealt to you.
Lore: While resting the Ragpie appears as a scrunched up bundle of cloth, with perhaps a sprinkling of old bones in close proximity. When bringing down its prey, it looks more like a dark cloak, enveloping the target in a deathly choke-embrace. Climbers in Bergen Chrypt sometimes mistake one for an abandoned cloak. The mistake is the meal.
Whether a Ragpie is woven from real cloth or merely resembles it (skin? mountain-moss? burial wrappings?) is open. The "sprinkling of old bones" suggests it does not eat its kills cleanly.