Minor creatures, released from Hell for a foolish soul. Their relatively powerlessness and lack of physical detail are in deliberate mockery of the artist who sacrificed everything to give his painting life.
Order: Tempters
Infernal Might: 5 {Corpus)
Characteristics: Int 0, Per 0, Pre n/a, Com 0, Str 0, Sta 3, Dex -1, Qik 3
Size: 0
Virtues and Flaws: Tough, Weak-willed
Confidence Score: 1 (3)
Personality Traits: Enjoys Torture +3, Hateful +3.
Reputations: Tempter 1 (Infernal)
Combat:
Brawl: Initiative +3, Attack +3, Defense +3, Damage +0
Mallets: Initiative +4, Attack +6, Defense +4, Damage +5.
Soak: +6. The dancers are composed of a pulpy, rubbery substance, vaguely fungal to the touch.
Fatigue Levels: Do not to suffer fatigue
Wound Penalties: –1 (1–5), –3 (6–10), –5 (11–15), Incapacitated (16–20), Dead (21+)
Abilities: Awareness 4 (victims), Brawl 6 (grapple)
Powers:
Envisioning, 1 point, Init 0, Mentem: For 1 point, allows the demon to enter and twist dreams. If used to terrify, the victim can ignore it with a Brave Personality trait roll against an Ease factor of 9 or more. Failure to resist leads to a profound physical reaction, like a seizure.
Coagulation, 0 points, Init 0, Corpus: The creature can manifest a fleshy manikin which it uses for a body. The body is agile, and quiet, but has clumsy hands.
Weakness: The Dancers can only manifest near the “living painting” for which the artist sold his soul.
Vis: 14 pawn of Corpus, in the shreds of the painting. (Requires the defeat of all 14 dancers)
Appearance:
The Dancers are rubbery, crude shapes, released from Hell to mock the artist who gave his soul for their release. They are among the weakest of their kind, and yet their method of predation makes them dangerous.
The dancers prefer to ambush sleeping victims, or grapple as a trained group. A human rendered defenceless is tortured to death in mockery of the crucifixion. At least two of the dancers carry mallets to drive nails into the victim, but these two do not appear to have a leadership role.
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