Kha-Yaawk

The Kha-Yaawk are Leech Hosts .

Overview

The Kha-Yaawk are the Leech Hosts of the rainforests. They are solitary creatures, stuffed into the skins of stolen bodies. Some appear much like normal humans (or animals, for the Kha-Yaawk can steal bestial forms as well), except with skin that occasionally wriggles and glistens with a gelatinous sheen. Others are full-blown monstrosities, half-human things with wet, black skin and a face full of needled sucker. The Kha-Yaawk drink blood. In this way, they gain sustenance (and Essence). Consuming the blood than if take from a normal mortal. Once a Leech Host feeds, it usually does not require food again for three to six months.

The Leech Hosts have the following Numina immediately available to them: Discorporation, Toxic Bite, Wall Climb (see Werewolf: The Forsaken, p. 240). Toxic Bite results in tingling numbness.

Unique Numina

Secretions: By spending a point of Essence, the Kha-Yaawk can excrete a gooey, foul-smelling fluid from its bare skin. This fluid makes the creature's flesh slippery and more lithe, resulting in a +2 to the thing's Defense. The fluid also has a chemical factor, in which it burns anything that touches it. Contact with the skin does one automatic lethal damage to whatever the Leech Host touches. An object that touches the Leech Host suffers one point of damage to the object's Structure regardless of its Durability.

If the Storyteller is uninterested in debuting new Hosts, these creatures can work as Claimed antagonists, instead.

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