Sproggers

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Sproggers were once considered nothing but monsters found in tales to scare children away from the outskirts of a village, or they are told to drunks by bartenders who don’t want the death and loss of coin on their conscience, however to any worthy Beast Hunter or Beastologists they are nothing short of real. 

Sproggers are the spirits of children between the ages of 0 and 10 that has died in view of, indirectly or directly by their parents, once dead the child’s spirit will re-enter the body and the body will begin to decay and rot away exposing organs, dried blood and brittle bones, once The Sprogger is up and running it will stop at nothing to kill and consume its parents. In terms of behaviour Sproggers are completely bloodthirsty and beast-like as they violently tear at the flesh of those in its way, however Sproggers are also somewhat intelligent as some are known to fool their prey by acting like a distressed baby by mimicking their old cry. 

Many Beast Hunters who go after a Sprogger will usually fight with The Sprogger and conduct an “Afterlife” ritual which lays the spirit of The Sprogger to rest, however there are a total of 2 more ways to defeat a Sprogger. The first is to conduct The “Slavin Call” which involves summoning a being called “The Slavin” and defeating it in order to completely heal the child giving it a “Second Life”. The second is to conduct a “Feeding Ritual” which involves opening a portal to “The Abyss” and offering The Sprogger in return for some kind of benefit be it extended life, extreme power or something that will help the conductor of the ritual.

Different Sproggers: 

Enslaved Sprogger- is a type of Sprogger that understands that its parents weren’t not the cause of their death, instead simply by seeing their child die, the child becomes an Enslaved Sprogger. Unlike “normal” Sproggers, Enslaved Sproggers will continuously apologise and show stronger signs of remorse while attacking something in their way, in addition if it manages to kill its “prey”, The Enslaved Sprogger will weep and try to put them back together. 

Bone Sprogger- is a type of Sprogger that has “lived” past the final point of decay and left all of its organs, skin and muscles behind it. While this Sprogger will continue to seek vengeance upon its parents, it does so in an extremely weakened state as its attacks, movements and even vocal expressions are slowed to a painful speed. As a side note the darkened spirit of the child can sometimes be seen surrounding a Bone Sprogger in a faded, yet ever present display.

Evolved Sprogger- is a type of Sprogger that has evolved past its material form, instead this Sprogger pain did not fade when it killed its parents but actually became more and more present within the beast. Evolved Sproggers appear as “floating child shape shadows” that inhabits a lair made of its victims bones, the goal of an Evolved Sprogger is to spread as much pain and misery as possible and it does this by “leaking” is essence and infecting nearby villages, this infection causes the infected to feel a constant pain as well as hallucinate that their skin is beginning to rot away. As far as many Beastologists and Beast Hunters are concerned there is only one way to defeat an Evolved Sprogger, that way is to destroy its lair and block any kind of exit possible, you can cover the outside of the liar in salt however this is not a confirmed step.