Crook Stalker (Beholder Bandwagon)
Garamondia, Mediums and Messages, Nothic's Eye, and now this. Behold:
These rahi use a psychoelectric signal to control fikou spiders, driving them as a shepherd with a flock. The spiders feed the predators which would otherwise eat the stalker.
Crook stalkers hold territories, a day's walk wide. They experience unpleasant psychic interference from other stalkers within this range. They have been known to construct startlingly clever traps using the webs of their servants, even using the webs as slings, fasteners, and rope, to create a variety of mechanical advantages otherwise exclusive to more intelligent life.
Crook stalkers see in all directions owing to their omni-eye. The "eyestalks" around the central eye are in fact whip-like antennae which they use as a last resort when fleeing is impossible.
Rahaga Bomonga says: "I hope the traps are the extent of their ability to plan, because I don't like our chances if they are up to something more."
Crook Stalker
Number: 1, or 2 fighting each other.
Defense: As matoran, but sidesteps attacks from medium or longer range. Brittle.
Movement: As matoran, but can climb walls and ceilings. Deliberate.
Battle Dice: 1. Cowardly.
Command: Spiders and other such creepy crawlies have perfect coordination while within medium range of the crook stalker. It has 1 additional Battle Die for every 3 servants, and the ground within reach of the stalker is blocked by its servants if it has 6 or more.
Whirlwind Attack: Strikes every creature in reach. Struck creatures save or have their next action chosen by the stalker.
Bonus: Fikou Spider
Number: 1d6, or 2d6 under a Crook Stalker's command, or 3d6 in underground lair.
Defense: Hard shell (back only).
Movement: As matoran, but can climb walls and ceilings.
Battle Dice: 0, or 1 if target is caught in web.
Web: Easy to destroy, hard to notice. It takes a spider 1 hour to make enough web to fill a standard doorway. A spider produces that much web in a day if it eats. It can eat webs to do this.