Monster: Tatalla

Monster: Tatalla

Tatalla, whose name means "the eye", are malicious little creatures often employed as spies or assassins by larger creatures. Tatalla reside only in urban areas, where their services are often desired, and where they are never far from vermin to aid them in their tasks. Tatalla are scavengers, living off the remains of society. They steal what they need and give nothing back to society or to their environment.

Tatalla [City of Delights]

41 points

Attribute Modifiers: ST-6 [-60]; DX+2 [40].

Secondary Characteristic Modifiers: SM-3.

Advantages: Danger Sense [15]; Enhanced Dodge 1 [15]; Infravision [10]; Sharp Claws [5]; Sharp Teeth [1]; Silence 2 [10].

Call Swarm [17]: Ally (Bat swarm; Built on 100%; 12 or less; Conjured, +100%; Limited Use, 1/day, -40%; Magical, -10%; Maximum Duration, 1 hour, -10%; Minion, +0%) [14/5=3] + Ally (Rat swarm; Built on 100%; 12 or less; Conjured, +100%; Limited Use, 1/day, -40%; Magical, -10%; Maximum Duration, 1 hour, -10%; Minion, +0%) [14].

Tatalla Wasting: Toxic Attack 1d-1 (Follow-Up, Bite, +0%; Resistible, HT, -30%; Onset, 2 hours, -20%; Cyclic, 12-hour cycle with 12 cycles, +120%; Symptoms, 1/2 HP, HT-4, +40%) [7].

                Venom: Affliction 1 (HT; Extended Duration, 100x, +80%; Follow-Up, Sharp Teeth, +0%; Nauseated, +30%) [21].

Disadvantages: One Eye [-15]; Restricted Diet (Carnivore) [-10]; Skinny [-5]; Social Stigma (Savage) [-10].

Creature Type: Monstrous Humanoid.

Typical Stats

ST:	4	HP:	4	Speed:	5.5
DX:	12	Will:	10	Move:	5
IQ:	10	Per:	10
HT:	10	FP:	10	SM:	-3
Dodge:	8	Parry:	10	DR:	-

Sharp Claws (11): thrust 1d-6 cutting (KYOS: 1d-9 cutting), Reach C.

Sharp Teeth (11): thrust 1d-6 cutting (KYOS: 1d-9 cutting) + follow-up poison (resisted by HT; nauseated for 5 hours per point of margin of failure) + follow-up disease (1d-1 toxic; resisted by HT; 13 12-hour cycles; onset 2 hours; symptoms – a -4 penalty to HT after losing 1/2 HP to the disease), Reach C.

SM-3 Shortsword (13): swing 1d-5 cutting (KYOS: 1d-7 cutting), Reach 1 or thrust 1d-5 impaling (KYOS: 1d-8 impaling), Reach 1.

Call Swarm: Once per day, a tatalla can summon a rat swarm or a bat swarm to assist him in combat. The swarm’s point total must not be higher than 25% of the tatalla’s point total. The swarm appears on a roll of 12 or less. It takes 2d seconds for the swarm to appear, but the GM may lower or increase this, depending on the availability of bats and rats in the vicinity. The swarm obeys the tatalla for up to one hour, then disperses.

                Traits: Danger Sense; Immunity to Poison; Infravision; One Eye; Restricted Diet (Carnivore); Silence 2; Skinny; Social Stigma (Savage).

Skills: Filch-14; Pickpocketing-14; Poisons/TL3-14; Shadowing-16; Shortsword-14; Stealth-16.

Creature Type: Monstrous Humanoid.

Tatalla Venom

This poison is extracted from a tatalla. This victim must make an HT roll or be nauseated for 5 hours per point of margin of failure.

Form: Follow-Up Poison.

Cost: $570 (singular); $205 (5-batched).

Recipe: $57; 2 days; defaults to Poisons-2.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Extended Duration, 100x, +80%; Follow-Up Poison, -20%; Nauseated, +30%) [19].

  

Tatalla Wasting

Tatallas spread this disease that makes their victim more vulnerable to physical afflictions, including poison.

Statistics: Blood; HT to resist; 2 hours delay; 1d-1 toxic damage (with HT-4 after loss of 1/2 HP); 12-hour cycle with thirteen cycles. Not contagious.