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The House Man

Monster type: Collector (Motivation: To steal specific sorts of things)

He is in your house. He’s in the walls, he’s in the plumbing, he’s in the closets and under the bed and in the cupboards.

He is the House Man. And as far as he’s concerned this is his house, and you are not welcome in his house.

No one is sure where the House Man comes from, he just appears one day, growing in the walls like a mold or fungus. But once he awakens he claims the house as his own, and will do anything to drive out the true occupants, who are intruders in his mind. The House Man does not share, he does not cohabit, he is selfishness and entitlement personified.

Physically the House Man resembles a giant lanky man, over twenty feet long with elongated limbs and pale fish belly white skin. He is hairless and wrinkly with yellowed eyes and teeth and long crooked nails.

Despite his size, the House Man is boneless, he cannot stand under his own weight, and instead crawls around, not that he spends much time out in the open; The House Man prefers to hide in tight enclosed spaces: In walls, closets, cupboards, vents, dumbwaiters, even pipes and plumbing. Their boneless nature lets the House Man squeeze into virtually any space no matter how narrow. An inch of space between a wall and a bookshelf is enough space for him to occupy.

Once the House Man becomes aware of “intruders” in his house, he will set about a campaign of terror upon them in an attempt to drive them out. He starts small, stealing small objects and food, allowing fleeting glimpses to be caught of him, making strange noises and smells. As time goes on they become more aggressive; reaching out to claw at its victims, smashing and destroying things, or maybe even killing a pet or small child. The House Man does not stop until its either driven out or killed the original occupants of the house.

Fighting the House Man is difficult; it can move shockingly fast and can attack from virtually any space or direction; a hand can snake out of a toilet, or a kitchen sink drain, or from a crack in the wall to slash at his victims, and he keeps himself well hidden, never coming out in the open willingly. Fighting the House Man is essentially fighting blind.

However, the House Man has a weakness; they cannot exist in the outside: Fresh air and sunlight are poison to the House Man. If the windows of a house are opened wide, and it is somehow pulled from its hiding space, then it would quickly shrivel and die. If actually pulled outside, the House Man would literally crumple to dust in seconds.

Once dead, if the walls of the house are explored, the House Man’s nest can be found; filled with trinkets and treasures its swiped, and the bones of previous victims.

Powers: Elongated rubbery body, can squeeze into virtually any space no matter how small. Can silently snatch and steal baubles which draw its attention.

Attack: Scratching nails: 3 harm, far*, innocuous

*ordinarily this would be hand or intimate, but this takes into account the House Man’s elastic body and ability to attack from a distance.

Armor: 1 (rubbery body)

Harm Capacity: 6

Weakness: Poisoned and killed by fresh air and sunlight, instantly dies if they go outside.

"Runnin'" by Adam Lambert from Trespassing (Deluxe), 2012

"Broken English" by Adam Lambert from Tresspassing, 2012

Me: I can

Jumps in the speedboat and vroom vroom :)