The Ossuary Knight
Put down twice in the anatomy wing; back bigger each time.
undead construct · Challenge rating 8
Still alive. Nobody has ended it yet.
Behavior
Put down twice in the anatomy wing; back bigger each time. It rebuilds from the nearest bone — teaching skeletons, drawer specimens, the cemetery's shallow rows — availability over provenance. Bone feeds it; bare concrete starves it. The inventory is short forty-one specimens, the count moves nightly, and nobody who watched a rebuild says specimens.
Appearance
A skeletal warrior in armor assembled from other skeletons — fused rib-plate, scapular pauldrons, femur struts — no two components from the same donor. The skull is elongated and horned, from nothing that ever walked upright. It stands wrong and moves worse, and every joint grinds like a drawer of loose teeth.
Physical description
Seven feet of mismatched skeletal frame lashed with sinew and surgical wire. The armor is other skeletons: fused rib-cages, scapulae, femur-struts, none from the same body, several still carrying catalogue numbers in white ink. The horned, elongated skull was never human. Mid-fight it grafts on nearby bone, and the new material is not always dry.
Weaknesses
- fire
- structural collapse of the surrounding room
- bare, bone-poor ground — emptiness starves it
Resistances
- piercing weapons
- being disassembled — it has been disassembled before
Hunt it
The Ossuary Knight is on the list in Horror Story: Gotta Kill Them All. Study it here, then go and find it in the app.