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No. Enc.: 1 (1)
Alignment: Chaotic
Movement: 75' (25')
Armor Class: 5
Hit Dice: 10
Attacks: 1 (bite or tongue-stab)
Damage: 2d8 or Special
Save: L7
Morale: 9
Hoard Class: None
XP: 1,700
Many Ancients claimed to be victims of traumatic alien abductions involving humiliating experimentation and agonizing torture...
...but they were dismissed as crackpots and lunatics, their tales relegated to tabloids and shoddy television programming...
...BUT THE STORIES WERE TRUE...AND EVEN MORE HORRIBLE THAN IMAGINED!!!
Once Pure Human males, x-husbands are slimy, skull-faced horrors warped by extraterrestrial modification. They scuttle "backwards" on all fours thanks to wrenched, twisted frames
An x-husband attacks with toothy maw and elongated (5' long), piercing tongue. The tongue discharges with such force that it penetrates a victim's skull, killing instantly upon a failed Saving Throw Versus Death. Protective visors, armored helmets, and the like allow +3 bonus to the Save.
X-husbands obsess about reuniting with their former families and loved ones. But to be accepted by those they once knew, an x-husband must return to its original human likeness...which it does by being reborn through a human host!
The process is abominable, as the creature subdues a Pure or Mutant Human female, extrudes an ovipositor from its chest into her mouth, implants an egg...and then dissolves into viscous sludge as she lies unconscious.
When the poor woman awakens 1d6 turns later, she has but moments to realize she's impossibly bloated with a full-term pregnancy...
...that spawns a full-grown adult male, who claws and gnaws his way free, killing her.
"Ghastly" doesn't even begin to describe it.
The newly reborn x-husband looks identical to its prior Pure Human incarnation, and it does everything in its power to find its kin. Upon the joyful reunion, the x-husband feigns amnesia, and happily accepts all the adoration and attention it can, before implementing the next phase of its sinister agenda....
Mutations: Aberrant Form ("Tongue-Spear")
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Another film high on the sleaze scale--and don't try to figure out the life-cycle of those aliens.
ReplyDeleteYou're not kidding. The only reason I statted this one up was because I couldn't get it out of my head.
ReplyDeleteAs for "figuring out" the aliens, according to my arcane researches (thanks Fangoria!), nothing made sense because of spontaneous, drug-fueled, script rewrites.
It does stick with you.
DeleteAnother notable thing about this film: it introduced the world to future Bond girl Maryam D'Abo.
I...I may have watched her scenes a time or two. Or five.
DeleteAnything to get that clown out of my head.
I remember the "giving birth to a fully grown dude" scene, but never really knew what movie it was from. Thanks for the upcoming nightmares!
ReplyDeleteBecause I had to suffer, you do, too.
ReplyDeleteI'm a giver!