Chaos Skull

Description: A bleached floating humanoid skull animated by scintillating magic.

Motives & Tactics: Serve Creator, Cackle, Consume Magic

Tier: 2

Type: Ranged

Difficulty: 15

Attack Modifier: +2

Energy Blast Close | 1d8+3 mag

Major 8 | Severe 16

HP: 5

Stress: 4

Features

Levitation - Passive

Chaos Skull levitates several feet off the ground and can’t be Restrained. “The skull floats at eye-level and slips out of your grasp.”

Wards - Passive

Chaos Skull is resistant to magic damage. “The skull absorbs part of your magic, the attack landing without the force you’d expect.”

Magic Burst - Action

Mark Stress to make an attack against all targets within Close range. Each target you succeed against takes 2d10+4 mag damage. “Power bursts from the skull, searing and chilling and shocking you all at once.”

Siphon Magic - Action

Spend a Fear to make an attack against a target within Very Close range. On a success, a target with a Spellcast trait marks 1d4 Stress and the Chaos Skull clears that many Stress. Additionally, on a success, Chaos Skull may immediately activate again without spending action tokens. “The skull cackles in a hollow voice, and you feel the magical power within slipping away from you and feeding the skull.”