The Memory Leech
Proximity is the feeding. What it takes, it has.
aberration · Challenge rating 8
Still alive. Nobody has ended it yet.
Behavior
Proximity is the feeding. It takes specifics — the way out, a roommate's face, which pills, the name on your wristband — gently, so the loss surfaces only at need. What it takes, it has — it knows the building better than those it emptied, and uses none right away. Urgency draws it as heat draws a hand; the most urgent are mid-search for what they cannot say.
Appearance
Roughly human-shaped and translucent, a membrane like wet vellum over nothing, with a churn of soft colored light where a chest would be. The light is the color of a specific afternoon you have been trying to place all week. It moves slowly, and it angles toward whoever is panicking.
Physical description
Life-sized, human-shaped, a translucent grey-white membrane threaded with faint veins of light. In the chest cavity a captured churn of color turns like smoke in a jar, brightening as it feeds. No face — a smooth frontage where recognition should land and doesn't. It glides without steps, always slightly nearer than the last time you checked.
Weaknesses
- cold — it slows to a drift
- those with nothing left to remember — it starves at an emptied mind
Resistances
- force
- fear — fear is urgency, and urgency is appetite
Hunt it
The Memory Leech is on the list in Horror Story: Gotta Kill Them All. Study it here, then go and find it in the app.