Your current party on their latest quest is now suddenly being stalked by pic-related...

Large humanoid. Unseelie fey? Primary target is unattended children or lone adults. Visible mostly in photographs or in physical evidence after the fact, suggests some kind of psychic camouflage or memory manipulation. Primary threat is kidnapping, no sign of struggles suggest some means is used to incapacitate targets. Motives unknown, Physical strength high enough to carry adult humanoids without dragging along the ground. Long limbs likely provide great leverage if forced to engage in physical combat. Multiple limbs or tendrils have been reported. Movement speed and method unknown. May be individual entity, only one ever sighted at a time, but lack of identifying marks and variety of reported capabilities may indicate a classification of entity with several individuals operating independently.

The bard has the highest perception modifier, and would probably initiate combat with faerie fire to highlight the opponent for advantage on everyone's attacks. Ranger would probably pop it with a variety of arrows and special abilities. Blade pact warlock would charge and chop chop. Sorcerer would set it on fire. The party has pretty good mental defenses, so the opponent would likely need to resort to physical combat. Then it's just a DPS race.

A more interesting question would be how would your last party handle investigating the slenderman. He's not really an exciting combat encounter.

tell him it isn't 2012 anymore

Hmm, seems Slender isn't quite cut out for this. Secondary scenario, how would your party fare against pic related?

Who?

The Archangel, from the Fear Mythos.
>The Archangel is a portrayal of the Fear of Dying, religion, dogma, and the afterlife. It is from The Great Game Verse, where it is depicted as a twisted bastardization of the afterlife. Once a human being dies, their soul will become a part of The Archangel and will be tormented in its afterlife for all eternity. Joseph Steward believed that the only exception to becoming part of The Archangel after death was to be killed by a different Fear. This, he stated, would give you nothingness instead.

>The Archangel can also manifest as any dead person, but its favored form is as a figure in a gas mask. It will often assault humans for the purpose of increasing its supply of possible forms and has been known to use ordinary weapons to do so, especially long ranged ones. Why it chooses to do this when it has other methods is unknown. The Archangel has never been observed to speak, but has been know to communicate via writing. It writes all letters in lower-case with the exception of words referring to other Fears, wherein letters are capitalized.

>WOOOO gasmasked serial killer guy SO SPOOOOOOKY!

Fuck off.

>HURR IT'S JUST A SERIAL KILLER DURR
You just skimmed that post didn't you?

but user he is incarnation of spook of death. he's maximum spooky.

Okay, supernatural serial killer. Whatever. Still lame as all fuck.

That's a nice cravat.

There *is* some pretty interesting shit on there however.
>The first portrayal of the Fear of Nothing, The Quiet claims us all. It manifests as a crack in reality, and has the ability to "erase" anything from existence, even Fears themselves. It is usually depicted as a passive entity, with no real mind of its own. According to the Archive, the Quiet likely came from an alternate reality as a result of that reality being "torn apart" in some way. It passes from universe to universe, and has been sighted in various different worlds. The Archive defines it as the opposite of reality and suspects that the Quiet's growth is responsible for the phenomena of Dimensional Bleeding.

>The Quiet sometimes has servants, or at least worshipers, but seems to be unaware of their existence. Despite the Quiet not knowing nor caring about them, it appears to have a cult called the Hushed Monks and certain people whom it has "touched," which one person called the Sine Corda

>Once a human being dies, their soul will become a part of The Archangel and will be tormented in its afterlife for all eternity
Why?

Because it's scary I guess. It doesn't need a reason if it's horror afterall.

Because it's SPOOOOOOOOKY! He'll touch your butt forever once you die! Isn't that SCAAAAAARY?

Because being a human in the Fear Mythos is suffering.

Well, my party is literally just chaos daemons. Worse case scenario they flip away from WHF to 40k.

We just got done killing Loviatar, via killing off cleric by cleric and then killing her weakened form.

Why?

Because one of her clerics tortured our wizard's eight year old niece for giving a cookie to a rogue on the run from their temple.

So we went on a killing spree, soul trapping her cleric's souls so that they wouldn't feel any pain or pleasure in the afterlife. Then we made them watch as we killed their goddess. THEN we buried them in a completely silent, utterly dark vault on the astral plane with no way to communicate with each other.

We told them we were only going to leave them for five years. We then permanently sealed the vault as best we could.

Slendy won't be a second thought.

>Well, my party is literally just chaos daemons.
Your campaign likely involved high amounts of rape and baby-murder didn't it?

>Slenderman and the Rake
You know, it being comprised of creepy pasta shit does not make it seem like a compelling series you know.

Nah, they started as daemons. 4 greater daemons cursed by the GK to be turbo nerfed until they find a way to fix it.
As of now they're basic lesser daemons of the four.

Gonna dump some more Fear Mythos shit.
>EAT is the first portrayal of the Fear of Depersonalization. It is a hive mind of water that represents depersonalization through multiple different venues, with the most common ones being obsession, singularity, and deliberate complexity. It comes from Jordan Eats Normally Now and the Topography Genera canon. EAT's motives are never made clear. As Topography Genera continues, Camper Ian Manning claims EAT feels an insatiable hunger that it desperately wants to find some way to supress.

>The letters of EAT's name are treated as an acronym. In Jordan Eats, they're said to stand for the "Epping AquaTarkus," and in Topography Genera they stand for the "Evolutionary Adverse Trigger," but in general whether these are true or not is unknown.

>An interesting note is that, when using pronouns for EAT, the system is "it" and "her," but never "she."

honestly, i admire your dedication

>The Camper Process
>EAT works by 'eating' a body of water (e.g. a lake, a human) and replacing the water with itself. A human filled with EAT will become a victim of it, ambiguously referred to as The Camper (plural: Camper). An unsuspecting victim typically initiates transformation by coming in contact with a body of water contaminated by EAT's "ink". While the "ink" will filter itself out of the victim's body within ten days, they will continue to experience an urge to approach the aforementioned body of water, which presents an opportunity to permanently transform them into a Camper. The process, for earlier victims at the very least, is afterwards divided into several stages:

>Comatose and Open: The infected individual sits down and emptily stares into the space to their front until further contact with another member of its species.
>Copying: The individual, upon contact with another, observes their actions and attempt to imitate them.
>Breaking it Down: The individual begins to analyse the structure and reasoning behind others' actions and further attempts to imitate them.
>Getting Familiar: The individual begins to form a connection with the collective Camper consciousness, sharing their knowledge and continuously experimenting with various words and actions. Note that being quite detached from humanity, it will tend to act with a relative lack of tact and subtlety.
>Familiar: EAT taps back into the individual's former mind, allowing them to maintain their former identity and lure their surrounding into a false sense of security.
>The Camper: EAT, deeming the individual worthy, welcomes them into its consciousness.

And here's it's counterpart, DEVOUR.
>DEVOUR is a portrayal of the Fear of Addiction, specifically starvation and hysteria. An abomination even amongst the Fears, DEVOUR is a mutation of EAT that consumes the souls of mortal creatures, placing their souls into an everlasting state of false euphoria, which fuels its ever growing hunger as they twist and moan endlessly. They are essentially turned delirious, unable to regain their former sanity due to their souls being melded together and sent to a different dimension, where they constitute the singular building. The walls made of their flesh, their faces and mouths moaning in ecstasy and pleasure. All the flesh is connected, with no marks of separation. Their bodies are left in the physical world, but end up either being consumed by wild animals or confined to asylums, but most are willed to spread, even after their legs have become nothing but stumps. It only takes the souls, not the flesh. For the flesh is what helps DEVOUR to spread, defying the will of its Father.