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    Monster Trove: Things Others Swore They Saw

    Betobeto-san

    Medium - Impartial Impartial (Wanderer)
    HP
    9
    AC
    11
    DR
    0
    Attacks
    0
    Attack
    none
    Size
    Medium
    Alignment
    Impartial Impartial (Wanderer)
    Intelligence
    Below Average (5-7)
    Magic Resistance
    Divination that seeks it returns an empty road. Spells that reveal the invisible show nothing, because there is nothing to reveal - only the sound, which is not an illusion and cannot be dispelled.
    Saves
    Quick 1 / Tough 0 / Mind 2

    There is nothing behind you. There are only the footsteps, keeping your pace exactly, stopping a half-beat after you stop. Betobeto-san has never harmed anyone in living memory. It simply follows, all night, in the dark, on the road, and the following is enough to unmake a person by morning. The remedy is old and unglamorous: step aside and say aloud, Betobeto-san, please, go on ahead. The footsteps pass you and continue up the road, and that is the end of it.

    Special Attack

    It has none, and this is not an oversight. Betobeto-san does not attack, ambush, or defend itself. Any creature that spends a full night followed must save Wis Mind at dawn or be Weary until it has rested two full nights instead of one.

    Special Defense

    Never There: it cannot be seen, targeted, grappled, tripped, blinded or flanked, and area effects pass through the space it seems to occupy. Stand Aside: any creature that steps off the road and invites it past is released immediately. It takes the invitation every time, without exception or grudge.