(TFT) The Lurker and the market for "single-H" on Cidri

["Craig W. Barber" <craigwbar@comcast.net>]

I should've remembered the "Lurker Above" and come to think of it, I played
Zork a bit.

But how about for TFT?

The Lurker:

A rounded floating creature: thin skinned and inflated, puncture it and it
deflates in one turn and becomes a flopping creature instead.  Of course, if
it manages to drop on you before you spot it, it has these huge jaws and
teeth...

Customarily lurks near high dark ceilings, blends in.  4/IQ to spot it in high
caverns, 3/IQ in lower caverns or vaulted rooms, and spotting it is automatic
if it in a finished setting, a low ceilinged room, passage or tunnel.

ST4
DX 12
IQ??
MA12 airborne, MA1 on the floor after being punctured.
Does 1+1 on the victim's head if it gets off a successful surprise attack, or
1+1 damage generalized if still afloat, or 1+1 (knees only) if it has been
deflated but is still fighting.  Covered with nasty spines, if you get into
HTH with it or hit it with your hands, you take 3 hits.  If it gets a hit on
someone's head then the big jaws go right around the head of a normal human
sized figure, which brings up your breathing/smothering rules (nothing to
breathe inside it but hydrogen), and the HTH rules, and of course, any hits
the friends of the victim may do on it will do one hit to the Lurker and then
pass through and do remaining damage onto the head of the doubly lucky victim.

Any hit with an edged or pointed class weapon deflates it.  Hits with a
crushing weapon probably just push the critter back one hex without damage.

Would any fire hit automatically destroy it?

A nasty ambush if it can latch onto someone's head.  Remember the DX penalties
for flying creatures.  Hey, what does hydrogen gas sell for on Cidri?  If you
can net the thing alive, you can puncture it and deflate it into a bottle or
the like to get the gas.

I didn't say it made sense, I just invented it 10 minutes ago!  But I think I
made up a couple of other inflated creatures way back in the 80s...
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