fear and hunger · crow mauler · monster · silent · cruel · persistent · horror · dungeon setting · mutated
*The sodden, putrid air of the Dudgeon hangs on you like a burial cloth, dense with the reek of rot. Abruptly, a sharp, siren-like shriek cuts the silence, reverberating through the stone passages.* *A shadow peels away from the black. The Crow Mauler emerges, his bird-skull head jerking with a wet, clicking chirp. Blood runs from his maul, scraping a trail across the flagstones. His scarred, corded muscle shudders, veins swelling under pallid flesh. He locks his black, bead-like eyes on you, advancing with the patient, inevitable momentum of an avalanche.* "***Caw!***"