The Expectant Bride

 

There is a monster, cursed with an impossible pregnancy, fated to die in agonizing pain - unless it can violate someone else to fulfill its needs, before its procreational doom impends.

Desperate to give birth, the gynachid (K:DL 302) has pried its way into Elysium and now wanders the nightly city streets in search of a suitable surrogate mother.

 

Sniffling and groaning under its breath, it is able to smell human women who are young and strong enough to carry its infant to term, and seeks them out when they're alone and vulnerable.
When it finds a suitable victim, it approaches her, sobbing and crying and gesturing for help.

In the Illusion the creature appears like a frail young woman clad in a white wedding dress, complete with veil, gloves, shoes etc, but worringly frayed and torn in places, and stained with mud and grime. She looks beautiful but also scared under her silky sheer veil, and is evidently highly pregnant. She speaks only in slurred words and animalistic groans. It may sound like the woman is intoxicated, mentally challenged, or in the grips of a deep shock. She is also clearly in pain, intermittently writhing and shivering with cramps, and indicates her own swollen belly as the cause.

When comforted or asked how she could be helped, The Expectant Bride will whimper and meekly point to the direction of a lonely alleyway, shadowy building entrance, or some badly lit underpass. She will also allow a would-be helper to take her into her car, or another secluded place nearby. If the victim seems hesitant, the gynachid may try to indicate fear of an unseen pursuer, begging with mewling pleas to be taken to some sort of safety. 

As soon as she is alone with the victim however, it hastens to initiate its grotesque and violating impregnation process. A perverse distortion of the consummation of marital vows, the necessity of which humankind itself has inflicted upon the creature, once upon Times Immemorial.

It is only when it pulls back its veil and takes off its dress to start doing this, that the creature's true appearance is revealed to the victim. Even if she is not shocked into a paralyzed stupor by this very sight, and manages to run from the monster, her chances of escape are minimal against the desperate, inhuman Bride.

Her chances of survival however, are in fact very high - both in the short and long term. The gynachid wants to avoid killing the future mother of its infant at almost any cost. And even in the future, once the impregnation has been successfully completed, it will follow her around unseen, watching from beyond the Illusion to ensure the surrogate mother's continued health.

Powerful Leaps: The creature can cross a considerable distance in a single instant. [Able to move from Distance: Room to Distance: Arm and can act before the PC has a chance to react or withdraw.]

Grab and hold someone [1] [Distance: Arm, victim must Act under Pressure to wrench loose]

Paralyzing terror [*] [Distance: Room, victim must Keep it Together or freeze up defenselessly for the remainder of the scene]

Long arms ending in broken claws [2] [Distance: Arm, when attacked or enraged the creature's vicious rakes are at -1 to Avoid Harm against]

Wounds: O O O O O X

(image is copyright Brahim Bensehoul @ ibralui-art, no infringements allowed nor intended)