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Scavenger Packs are gestalt swarms of individually minor Banes of hunger and desperation.

Overview[]

Scavenger Packs are Banes of desperation and starvation. They are common in slums, war zones, and areas suffering from famine or drought, and they take the form of packs comprising emaciated, possessed animals. Cunningly cruel, they have been known to possess a full pack of animals, then find starving humans — tempting them into possession by offering the animals as food — who are then, themselves, possessed.

Danger comes when an infestation of them occurs, or in the circumstances that spawned them. After all, deprivation severe enough to spawn a single Scavenger Pack is likely to spawn more, and probably arouses enough human misery to tempt the unfortunate into possession.

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When encountered in the physical world, Scavenger Packs prey upon the vulnerable and weak while looking for a victim to possess. Scavenger Packs frequently possess scavenging animals, wretched and hungry, in addition to unfortunate humans. In the Umbra, Scavenger Packs are markers of material suffering and opportunistic scavengers. They sweep areas captured by other Banes, devouring isolated spirits and wounded combatants, or congregating around the Umbral echoes of the places that spawned them. They appear as vortices of tiny, swarming spirits, not unlike a cloud of ghastly gnats or flies.

Each turn that no damage is inflicted on the spirit, it can attack and consume a local minor spirit instead, increasing its Power by 1 until it reaches 9, at which time it splits into two Power 4 packs. This feeding frenzy lasts only for a scene, after which time any remaining swarms burrow into the Umbral landscape to hibernate.

A single Scavenger Pack can possess a number of victims equal to its Power. Each victim becomes a starving manifestation of the Scavenger Pack’s hunger, relentlessly pursuing anything the victim can devour — usually people or animals — by using their augmented strength to rake and bite. Survivors of these attacks frequently become hosts for the Scavenger Pack themselves, as it increases its Power for each victim fed upon.

Stats[]

Second Edition[]

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Revised Edition[]

  • Rage: 5, Gnosis: 6, Willpower: 4, Essence: 15
  • Charms: Possession, Tracking

Fifth Edition[]

  • Power: 4–8
  • Exceptional Dice Pools: Brawl +3

References[]

World of Darkness spirit types
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