Tired Crystal Demon

creature / demon / room-bound MÖRK BORG Rotblack Sludge, p.6 (Library/bedroom)

bound to a room, longing to leave it

HP — Morale — No armor, Cannot be harmed

Appears in the Library/bedroom (Room 3) of the Accursed Den when a reader, studying the obscure literature there, yells the words: "You dead, arise!" The skeletons in the room do not awaken; instead the demon shudders into being.

Special: Mental Shockwave. The demon will drain the text from one scroll the readers carry. Then it sends out a mental shockwave before vanishing. Any PC failing a Presence DR12 test is unable to use Powers for the rest of the scenario and loses d6 HP.

Lore: Bound to this room for reasons no one remembers, the demon would very much like to leave; it cannot. So it eats words. The scroll text is gone forever — drained into the demon and carried into the next place crystal demons go when they grow tired enough. The shudder before vanishing is something like relief.

Connections

Accursed Den, Rotblack Sludge, Powers

Gaps / Expansion Notes

What binds the demon, why crystal, why tired — none of these are written. The "next place" it goes is wide-open expansion territory; a small adventure could be the PCs following the drained text into wherever crystal demons retire.