Thunderwyrm

By Igor S. Pereti (igoresil@fee.unicamp.br)

Background

The ThunderWorm is a Dune-like worm, used by Wyrm itself to combat the garou. When a Garou is mounts a particularly dangerous threat against the Wyrm or tries to improve Gaia (like opening a caern, destroying a powerful Wyrm-place, exploding a Pentex highquarters), the Wyrm sends its daughter to slash some heads.

Statistics

Attributes: Str 20, Dex 7, Sta 13, Per 5, Int 1, Wit 4

Abilities: Alertness 3, Brawl 5, Dodge 3

Rage: 6
Willpower: 10
Gnosis: 8

Health: OK OK OK OK OK Ok OK OK -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -2 -2 -2 -2 -5 -5 Inc

Special Maneuvers

Engulf: (Dex + Brawl, dif 7) Damage: none ThunderWorm can engulf a number of character's equal the number of successes. Three successes are required to dodge this maneuver. Inside ThunderWorm - see Description.

Slash: (Dex + Brawl, dif 8) Damage: Str+2+successes (aggravated) While in movement, Thunderworm can inflict damage by scraping her scales against the caracters. This attack affects everybody that logically is in her way when moving.

Poisoned Slash: (Dex + Brawl, dif 8) Damage: see below Same as Slash, but if ThunderWorm spends one point of Willpower, she can inflict +7 to the damage to a single target.

Description

ThunderWorm is an all-black Dune-like worm, with very sharp scales with a mortal poison. She is about the heigth of a 23-floor building. When she's coming, she makes an earthquake that can be perceived in a 1000-miles radius. The earthquake takes five rounds before she shows up. Her "mouth" is like an "Y" and she eats everything in her way.

She is commanded by Wyrm itself, so there's really a few situations that she comes to the Earth surface. Once here, she will only leave if defeated (she's immortal, so if she drops to Incapacitated, she only goes back to the center of the Earth) or all opponents are dead. The last time she showed off was in the destruction of Pompeii (Vesuvius exploded because of her earthquake). Some elders say that she's resting near San Franscisco, but it's not really true...

Once inside the ThunderWorm, the characters can only pray or think quick. A successfull roll of Per+Medicine (dif. 10, it's an alien organism!) can show the flaws in the neural system. The gift "Fatal Flaw" of the Shadow Lords can do the same. The characters begins to take one aggraveted damage per turn inside the Worm, not soakable. If the neural system is the target of the attacks, ThunderWorm can not soak this kind of damage.

Special Note

Use this ThunderWorm only against packs that are powerful enough to fight with this beast. Think carefully before make a ThunderWorm shows off in your chronicle! I made this in my chronicle after a Theurge Rank 5 player opened a level 5 caern, and I almost killed the pack (Thanks to "Mother's Touch"!!).