Angular Hound
Creature
Description:
While the most common version of the angular hound or “glitchwolf” looks like a pixelated canine made of tiny cubes, due to the effect of their bite (not to mention what happens when they decohere completely), angular hounds can also sport ursine, feline, humanoid, and even stranger body types, all of which are threats to the very fabric of reality.
Quirks:
Angular hounds are always slowly becoming more and more pixelated. In the beginning stages of corruption, they act much like their pre-infestation self, though there is an increase in aggression and need to spread out. As the corruption worsens, they become more and more pixelated, and the likelihood that their bite will affect living things grows.
The more pixelated they are, the more their movements become orthogonal and robotic. However, just before decoherence, angular hounds are at their most erratic and their most dangerous. Not only do their mechanical movements become frenzied, their straight lines can become curves, and they can even teleport short distances. Worse, any bite is almost guaranteed to corrupt the bitten.
Destruction before the angular hound decoheres completely is a must, for if the corruption is allowed to reach the terminal stage, the infected entity will collapse into a pile of fizzing dust, and the decohering effect will start to spread throughout the area.
