The Sightless Hunter
Survivors learn its rule the hard way: stillness reads as ambush. It answers predators first and fastest.
beast · Challenge rating 7
Still alive. Nobody has ended it yet.
Behavior
It hunts the tree line by vibration and scent; survivors learn its rule: stillness reads as ambush. Freeze and you declare yourself a predator — it answers predators first and fastest. Run and you are a clean signal with a head start. No safe option, only arithmetic it has run longer than you. The bodies at Woods Edge were the ones who stopped to think.
Appearance
A long-limbed quadruped, gaunt muscle under grey-brown hide, utterly silent but for steady breathing that does not change tempo when it kills. Where the eyes should be, the skull is smooth, unbroken skin — no sockets, no scars, nothing that was ever going to open. The nostrils flare constantly. The ears track separately, like instruments.
Physical description
Wolf-built but longer in every limb, gaunt musculature moving visibly under taut grey-brown hide. The skull is sealed smooth where eyes would sit, skin unbroken over the sockets like something healed shut generations ago. Oversized nostrils, wet and working; ears rotating independently. Its gait is a glide; its breathing is the only sound it makes.
Weaknesses
- olfactory disruption
- true stillness joined with scent-masking — both, together, exactly
Resistances
- darkness
- anything aimed at eyes it does not have
Hunt it
The Sightless Hunter is on the list in Horror Story: Gotta Kill Them All. Study it here, then go and find it in the app.