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On The Hounds of Tindalos

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gauntman:


The Hounds inhabit the angles of time while mankind and all common life descend from curves.  This concept is hard to imagine and only seems to be used with respect to them and even more horrible denizens of Tindalos.  The Hounds lust after something in mankind and other normal life, and follow victims through time and space to get it.  They are immortal.

Just what these creatures look like is questionable, since those whose meet them rarely survive.  Because their realationship with angles of time, they can materialize through any corner if it is sharp 120 degress or less.  This is horrible considering most rooms in houses meet at 90 degrees.

Once a human has become known to one of these creatures, it will follow them through anything to get them.  If driven off by a target, a hound will usually give up.  Unfortuanately, such a creature is very difficult to drive off.

Attacks by the Hounds have been recounted many times in modern tales and have been responsible for the disappearances of many occult scholars who attempt to peer through the veil of time and space only to be viewed from the other side.  Once spotted, it usually takes a Hound 30 days or more to track it's victim through time and space.  Often it will torment its prey for a period before finally striking. 

One case of the Lemarshland family of Northern Scotland suggests that all male ancestors of the household were slain by such a beast on the eve of their 34th birthday for some act committed by a early forefather 12 generations before.  This beast was finally stopped only when the family line was killed off.

It is said the tongue of such a beast creates a deep penetrating (though bloodless and painless) hole.

Hammers:
A true gauntman post, just the way we like'm. :)

Rhoderic:
Aha, that would explain this scenery piece, then.



Keep up the good work!

gauntman:
Nice....I forgot about that range on scenery.

This is a great beastie to have randomly brought into a game.  Unlike some of the others which attack the nearest living thing, this beast unmercifully tracks the single figure who is responsible for activating/summoning it.  Other players will have a sigh of relief and be glad "it's not me".  Because it will be unlikely that figure will survive.

commissarmoody:
vary nice

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