[i]Whatever end the partially eaten human had met with, it had not been a quick or pleasant one. The face was no longer a face, though one could tell that the final moments had been painful. The jawbone was stretched wide in a screaming rictus, the eyes gouged out and a black hole left where the nose had been. The viscera had been pulled out and mostly eaten. The feet and hands were gone. Old news stories exist, detailing what chimpanzee victims look like. Those maulings are of the sort that even if the victim survived, they would have been better off dead. A chimpanzee had nothing on this. Edrik would have moved quite close to where the monster was hiding, as it had just gone around the corner. Was it still there? No, it had moved again. It was up above, on top of the crypt. It had at first only feigned going up there, but after sensing such an opportunity...

It leaned out almost directly above the wizard, an eldritch gargoyle illuminated from beneath by the blue glow of the sword. It had picked up one of the bullets before going there. Just in case the wizard had planned something or happened to look up, the Magna Pater would toss the bullet overhead so that it would land several yards away on the right. It knew that the distraction would probably make the strong one look away for only the briefest of moments, and so it was quick to follow up. The nightmare's freakishly long tail would dart down to coil about the man's left arm from behind. If the horror succeeded then it would proceed to haul its catch up off the ground with a sharp jerk, taking away his footing and bringing him in close. Its wet, glassy eyes rolled down into its skull. An eerie luminescence shone from what took their place. A new set of eyes, almost human and radiating a phantasmal hue of cerulean not contained fully within the mortal spectrum of sanity and comprehension. Even if the wizard didn't look directly into them, he'd be able to literally feel the creature's gaze crawling over his body. Staring directly in would be as if one's very essence, personal and private, were being fondled by ghoulish, fumbling claws.[/i]