The Chain Specter
It does not chase — it is already ahead, at the door you meant to use.
specter · Challenge rating 7
Still alive. Nobody has ended it yet.
Behavior
It does not chase — it is already ahead, at the door you meant to use — interception is the only motion left. Its chains are metaphysical until it binds; then iron, cold, just what the bound can barely stand. It is held by what it cannot put down. Named correctly it ends at once, almost gratefully; guessed wrong, the chain adds a link. People have counted.
Appearance
A translucent figure whose trailing chains are present or absent depending on where you stand. The sound precedes it by several seconds — an unhurried dragging that arrives from the direction you had decided was safe. It waits at exits the way other things wait at entrances.
Physical description
Human-sized, grey-blue and semi-transparent, flickering between solid and absence. Rusted chain trails from wrists and neck, visible only at certain angles, absolutely audible at all of them. When it binds, the links snap physical — iron scaled with rust that comes off on skin like a burn. The feet never quite reach the floor.
Weaknesses
- naming what it is bound to — correctly
- cold iron
Resistances
- physical damage
- running — it does not follow; it is already at the far end
Hunt it
The Chain Specter is on the list in Horror Story: Gotta Kill Them All. Study it here, then go and find it in the app.