Corridor Grue
The rule has no exceptions: it is never where light is.
predator · Challenge rating 4
Still alive. Nobody has ended it yet.
Behavior
The rule has no exceptions: it is never where light is. It waits in the tunnels' unlit stretches, where ambient sound dies — pipes, vents, compressor, gone at once: the only warning. Not intelligent — consistent, worse: consistency gets scheduled around, then people stop. When light fails it closes the corridor in one unheard lurch; it can afford to wait.
Appearance
A weight in the dark rather than a shape in it — a place where the black is load-bearing. Nothing about it resolves: not size, not surface, not the number of anything. The silence around it has edges. It smells like the tunnels did before electricity was a consideration.
Physical description
A man-sized or larger mass of matte black that swallows torchlight at its border rather than reflecting any. No limbs, no eyes, no outline that survives a second look. Cold pours off it the way heat pours off an opened oven. It is perfectly still until the light is gone, and no account exists of what it is like after that from closer than the far end of a corridor.
Weaknesses
- any light source at all
Resistances
- weapons — hitting what cannot be aimed at
- everything else that is not light
Hunt it
Corridor Grue is on the list in Horror Story: Gotta Kill Them All. Study it here, then go and find it in the app.