The Spike Elemental
Every room it fights in joins the fight.
elemental · Challenge rating 10
Still alive. Nobody has ended it yet.
Behavior
It holds the boiler level; every room it fights in joins the fight — rebar, bed frames, pipe brackets, the door's own hinges, drawn in, returned at speed. Survivors describe the sound first: the building being unscrewed. Rooms it lost are known by what is gone — handrails, fixtures, the fire door — and the building learned to be barer where it expects it.
Appearance
Nine feet of compacted stone and salvaged building metal, top-heavy, its surface in constant slow rearrangement as it pulls material from the nearest wall. The face is a suggestion — shallow indentations where features would be, like a thumbprint in mortar.
Physical description
A nine-foot humanoid mass of fused masonry and scavenged metal — rebar, brackets, bed-rails — bristling in slow, migrating spikes along its limbs and back. The surface grinds as it reforms, stone on stone. The shallow face never changes while everything around it does. Where it walks, the floor is stripped to the slab behind it.
Weaknesses
- lightning — arc current shatters its cohesion
- a stripped, featureless room — starved of structure, it dwindles
Resistances
- bludgeoning
- piercing
Hunt it
The Spike Elemental is on the list in Horror Story: Gotta Kill Them All. Study it here, then go and find it in the app.