176 - Mirrormouth

Unnatural Entity: Mirrormouth

Within the deeper machinery of the universe there are unnatural processes that clear away the waste products of humanities’ messy meddling with the universal firmament. Humanity, being the unpredictable element that necessitates the clean up in the first place, can pollute these processes into being something more than intended. For example, collapsed otherspaces leave behind wreckage and fragments of the intentions and beliefs that built them. The precursors to mirrormouths dutifully spawn, multiply and scoop up these fragments in the wake of these collapses and digest them so they don’t bleed into reality before dissolving into ephemeral flotsam themselves. All of this occurs in dimensions imperceptible to all but the most spaced out and incoherent of magi.

Occasionally exposure to this wreckage causes a mutation in the clean up organism’s reproduction, instead of programmed death it persists like bacteria that has learned to turn magickal radiation into food. Persisting, it needs more food.

Mirrormouths appear as man-sized, disembodied, toothy maws in the junctions between spaces, like doorways and tunnel openings, but also symbolic portals like reflective surfaces (hence the name). They can only intersect with our world in these junctures, the rest of the time they maneuver in a spaces as invisible and intangible to us as we are to them.

Despite appearances they aren’t physically dangerous and will only go after those involved in constructing or maintaining an otherspace (completed permanent otherspaces don’t register to them for some reason, hiding in one is a good way to avoid attention from a pack of ‘mouths). Instead a mirrormouth will snack off of an otherspace objective, each percentage point will give it another week of life. Alternatively it will parasite on maintenance of an existing otherspace, costing an extra charge per day unless dislodged and dealt with, for the same benefit

There’s rumours of a YA novel author and adept in New Jersey that keeps a tamed mirrormouth as a pet. Threatening would-be universe builders in a unique protection racket or sending it to chow down on pocket dimensions whose powers she wants for herself. Two people have tried to kill her for her predations, both were sent back to their respective cabals bent 90 degrees backwards at the waist but otherwise unharmed as warnings.

Mirrormouth, Extradimensional Cleaner
Wound Threshold: 50. Mirrormouth’s can’t be hurt directly, damage to a junction one appears in will harm it normally but only push it out of our dimension temporarily if destroyed unless the mirrormouth is also dead.
Otherspace Sniffer 50%: Once a week a mirrormouth can roll on this identity to track down an otherspace or cabal making one based on magickal energies visible in its dimension. +20% shift on instances it has previously fed on.
Local Reality Warping 70%: Mirrormouth’s pick up the characteristics of the otherspaces they eat. Per encounter they can roll once for each of these until they succeed, inflicting the successful result on local reality for the duration.
Om Nom 60%: On a successful roll can gobble the sum of an otherspace-building objective’s percentiles at a rate of 1% per turn unless interrupted. Usable once per encounter.