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Encounter #1: The Lone Wolf

A lone wolf encountered in the woods turns out to have become corrupted and is now a lot less frightened of people than you’d expect from an old wolf.

At first glance, there is nothing unusual about this animal; local travellers might tell stories of a ghost wolf, though, untouchable by steel and iron and prone to unusual aggression. On closer inspection (usually a lot closer than one might want!), the animal has been corrupted, somehow — it has the eye of a snake, it has insane luck in combat, and you need magical weapons to even scratch it.

Today is not a good day to be prey.

The Lone Wolf
(Canidae, Wolf, Extraplanar)

Physique 8, Strength 12, Agility 14
Psyche 3, Intelligence 6, Memory 4, Discipline 4

#4, AR n/a, DMG n/a, HP 32, DEF (48), Luck 3, ALT 71%, INTU 77%

Unarmed Combat skill (34%)
Bite attack d6+1 points of damage

Quirks:

• Salt kills. Exposure to or ingestion of salt or salt water causes damage at a rate of 1/minute. Accelerated regeneration rates (if any apply) do not apply to salt damage. Snake eyes. The extraplanar has vertically slit eyes like a snake.
• Chak’hai on All Melee Checks. Whenever the extraplanar is in melee combat she gets to roll all die checks twice, keeping the most favourable result as if a Chak’hai spell was in effect.
• Immunity to steel and iron. The extraplanar cannot be harmed with non-magical steel or iron; weapons made from these materials pass through her as if she were incorporeal.