Old World» Mad slasher

The mad slasher is a whirling dervish of death. It walks on two or three of its strange spike-tipped limbs, pushing itself along at a reasonable clip while keeping its head low to the ground. When it fights, its limbs rise and slash like whips, bringing its spikes to bear in a terrible whirlwind of tearing flesh.

Mad slashers absorb food through small, mouthlike runnels on the underside of their limbs. They emit from their runnels a horrible tittering, which becomes louder and more frenetic the more blood the slashers spill.

Juvenile mad slashers are known as mad slicers; they are smaller in size, and have only four legs. Older mad slashers grow additional legs, but are no longer able to move. They swell in size tremendously; eventually, their legs fall off, and soon after that, the engorged central eyeball is pierced from within by a multitude of tiny legs, and bursts to release a number of tiny offspring, which soon grow into mad slicers. A colony of slashers protects its elders with their lives.

Mad slashers do not speak.

Mad slicer

A grotesque, misshapen head that consists mostly of a single blinking eye is supported by four long, slender, spike-tipped limbs.

These are juvenile versions of the creatures.

Combat

Mad slicers fight just as other mad slashers do.

A mad slicer can be summoned with a summon aberrant creature II spell.

Mad slasher

A grotesque, misshapen head that consists mostly of a single blinking eye is supported by six long, slender, spike-tipped limbs.

These are adult versions of the creatures.

Combat

Mad slashers become agitated at the promise of bloodshed and scuttle into combat to attack as many enemies at once as possible.

A mad slasher can be summoned with a summon aberrant creature IV spell.