Werewolf: The Forsaken - Blank It

out of an enormous spider abdomen and
thorax with only six legs.
Storytelling Hints: Solitary Azlu try to
strengthen the Gauntlet in an area subtly
over time, stealing animals, humans and
spirits to feast upon in their hidden
nest. Only once they have encroached
upon loci to such a degree
that the werewolves find it
more difficult to draw on their
spiritual powers do these
spinners become bolder in
their actions.
Attributes: Intelligence
2, Wits 4,
Resolve 4,
Strength 5, Dexterity
4, Stamina 5,
Presence 3,
Manipulation 1,
Composure 3
Skills: Animal Ken
(Spiders) 1, Athletics
(Gymnastics) 3,
Brawl 3, Intimidation 3,
Investigation 2, Occult (Shadow Realm) 2, Stealth 3, Subterfuge
3, Survival 2
Merits: Danger Sense, Fast Reflexes 1, Giant
Willpower: 7
Morality: 4
Essence: 4
Virtue: Fortitude
Vice: Gluttony
Health: 11 (with Giant)
Initiative: 8 (with Fast Reflexes)
Defense: 4
Speed: 17 (species modifier 8)
Numina: Discorporation, Gauntlet Webs, Terrify, Toxic
Bite, Wall Climb
• Terrify: As the ghost Numen of the same name in the
World of Darkness Rulebook, except the player rolls Presence
+ Manipulation after spending one Essence.
Attacks:
Type Damage Dice Pool
Bite 2 (L) 10
+2 on attempts to damage or immobilize an opponent during
a grapple (from extra mass and limbs)
BESHILU
It starts with a scritching sound at the edge of the
werewolf’s senses as he patrols his territory. It grows with
the local folk complaining of an increased number of rats
in the sewers, in the basement, in the woods… Before
long, the Shadow is in chaos as holes open in the Gauntlet,
and people start dying in the material world. The
Beshilu — spawn of madness and scattered aspects of an
ancient enemy of Father Wolf — are here. Instinctively
afraid of and hateful toward werewolves, the Beshilu do
whatever they can to disrupt (or even end) werewolves’
lives. Though a Beshilu is rarely as strong individually
as a werewolf is, they gather in numbers — once they’ve
reached roughly human size and intellect, the Rat Hosts
are frequently content to gather in groups of a dozen or
more without cannibalizing each other. When a group
of Beshilu gets sufficiently large, the Hosts are no longer
interested in simply fleeing from the Uratha — they are
ready to lay ambushes and to destroy their ancient rivals.
For the most part, though, they’re driven to gnaw apart
the Gauntlet in the mad hope that doing so will allow
them to merge back into the single divinely vitiated entity
they used to be before Urfarah began his fateful hunt.
HORDE’S NEST
Quote: “We know what you are! Get away! Stay back!”
Background: The Beshilu are happiest living their
lives surrounded by their Beshilu and rat brothers and
sisters, cousins, nephews and nieces. Some take this preference
to an extreme, gnawing their way into a sleeping
or otherwise helpless human victim and making a nest
for themselves within his body. They can then operate
the human’s body with a fair degree of competence,
though it’s hard to mistake a human-seeming Rat Host
for a functioning, reasonable member of human society.
Description: This sort of Beshilu tends to be scruffy
and doesn’t often go armed. Most are intelligent enough
not to let their rat siblings travel with them when they’re
out among humans looking for thin places in the Gauntlet,
but few can leave the rats far away. The individual rats
that compose them look like perfectly ordinary versions
of the species, but the skin of their aggregate human hosts
has a queasy, writhing aspect that makes them difficult to
look at. Should that skin be broken, witnesses can see the
wet, squirming mass of rat-flesh beneath the surface.
Storytelling Hints: While werewolf packs are made
up of very definite individuals working together, swarms of
Beshilu are largely of one mind in this aggregate form. While
a horde’s nest Beshilu can go among humans and pretend
to be just one of the guys, even its most subtle and low-key
actions take on a manic intensity that is easily mistaken for
dementia or anxiety brought on by extreme ill health.
Attributes: Intelligence 4, Wits 5, Resolve 3, Strength 3,
Dexterity 2, Stamina 5, Presence 4, Manipulation 2, Composure
2
Skills: Animal Ken (Rats) 2, Athletics 1, Brawl 1, Crafts 3,
Intimidation 1, Investigation 3, Medicine 2, Occult 3, Stealth 2,
Streetwise (The Homeless) 3, Subterfuge (Distractions) 1
Merits: Iron Stomach, Toxin Resistance, Contacts 2 (social
workers, homeless)
Willpower: 5
Morality: 5
Essence: 4
Virtue: Prudence
Vice: Envy
Health: 10
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