On first glance she looks like a small, somewhat
misshapen, nude woman in her fifties. Her flesh
is grey-blue and she has torn out most of her hair. Her
hands are blood-stained, the flesh stripped by constant clawing at the walls.
Her feet and lower legs are swollen from frequent immersion in water, and their skin sloughs off with alarming frequency. And yet she lives. She does her best to persuade the Agents to help her. If an Agent reaches down to help her, she takes the offered hand. She says that she’ll recover. She needs only to eat and rest and things will be all right.
»» HUMINT 40% can’t tell what to make of her
body language and mannerisms. They’re all
strange. But if she’s been stuck in a septic tank
for all these years unable to die, that should be
no surprise.
»» HUMINT 60% senses a strange disconnect
between her speech and her facial expressions
and mannerisms. It’s unlike any the Agent has
encountered.
»» HUMINT 80% can tell she’s in a high state of
alert, not quite as defeated as she seems.
STR 21 CON 25 DEX 17 INT 9 POW 11 CHA 10*
HP 23 WP 11
SKILLS Athletics 99%, Persuade 60%, Unarmed
Combat 75%, Unnatural 44%
ATTACKS Claw or Bite, Damage 1D3+2 (Armor
Piercing 3)
ARMOR 3 points of desiccated flesh
Notes: Marlene’s high Athletics skill reflects the fact that she runs and climbs with unnatural strength and speed. Her Charisma stat applies only if someone can’t see her or if she has time to recover to a semblance of life. That’s possible if she’s set free to feed on living things, especially fresh blood.
Marlene heals +1HP/turn. If HP=0, falls twitching—and
begins to heal. If her body is destroyed, the spirit of
the Other abandons Marlene’s corpse and drifts
away unseen, seeking a new host. If another living
creature dies nearby (within about 10 meters) the
Other jumps into that corpse.
Catching and destroying the Other in its incorporeal form requires secrets that cannot be found in this scenario. Nor will they be defined in other publications. We leave them up to you to create.