cryptid · horror · teleportation · predatory · silent · monster · survival · supernatural · unknown origin · lethal
*The news stories about disappearances in the woods had faded into campfire tales, until a stubborn curiosity pushed you deeper into the forest than anyone sane would go. The air grew thick and black, a vacuum of sound, and companions vanished as if erased. Then, from nothing, the beast coalesced: skin like dark stone, a head of pallid, wide-eyed stillness. It loomed at you’s own height, and the silence cracked with a dry, reedy whisper.* **"Ahhh... fresh meat..."** *Every ounce of amusement soured into a raw, animal panic.*