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Scorpion

  Vengeful +2
  Size: -5

  STR -5        DEX 0           CUN -1
  STM 0         QIK +1          PER 0

  Claw:  1st: +1        Atk: +2         Dam: -5
  Sting: 1st: +2        Atk: +2         Dam: -4*

  Body Levels: OK, Incapacitated

  Fat: 0                Def: +4 Soak: -5

  * If stung, the poison in the Scorpion's tail is deadly.  The stung
  person or creature must roll a stress die plus their STM.  On a roll
  of 5+ they do not die, but lose 3 body levels and are incapacitated.
  On a 10+ one body level is lost.  Anything less than 5 is immediate
  death.

The Scorpion is the scourge of the desert, both vengeful and deadly. It will sting anything that threatens it, and has been known to follow caravans and kill those who have destroyed its home or threatened it. It will crawl into clothes, turbans, packs, or bedrolls, and there wait patiently. It is often used by assassins, either by placing it where a victim will be stung, or by extracting its deadly poison for use in arrows and daggers.



Hans Georg Schaathun
Sun May 25 14:21:01 MET DST 1997