Skinners
Hiding in the dark
of those abandoned places that so few ever venture to explore.
Watching and waiting for a lone victim to wander in to close. Razor
like claws itch for flesh to sink into while their minds crave the
euphoria that your terror provides them. Wanting two things above all
else, your skin and your screams.
“I can't even
close my eyes at night without seeing them. Those bodies, four or
five of them, it was hard to tell. Piled in a corner with their skin
gone. Two of them were smaller I remember that, they were probably
children. There was blood everywhere. It was all over the room
upstairs, practically soaking in it. Then the trails of it where I
guess the thing drug them downstairs to the... pile. What? Yeah I saw
it. Some kind of dead thing I think, still walking around, God it
stank. It had knives or something and it tried cutting me from
behind. But I had my vest on and it stopped most of it... still got
twenty stitches out of it though. It was on me fast, but then the
back up I called came running in the other door and it shrieked and
ran off. I'll never forget that night. Or that two of them were
children.” Officer Donald Haskins, Chronicle PD.
Appearance
Bearing an uncanny
resemblance to humans in both height, proportion and general body
movements they are anything but human. Residing a rung above us in
the food chain we are what they prey on. The differences in
appearance set them apart if seen uncovered. Thinner limbs and center
mass they look built like somebody with an eating disorder in that
regard. With skin that is almost blood red, with a raw look covered
in hundreds of small thorn like extrusions. Possessing no body hair,
ears or lips they have a slit for a mouth and a row of jagged sharp
teeth behind it. Their fingers end in claws that are flat, almost
like double edged razors, and roughly two to three inches long.
However they are
rarely seen uncovered except on an autopsy table in some dark back
room someplace. Read the section on Physical Feeding to get an idea
of how they are usually seen out in the world.
Behavior
Sunlight is a bane
to these creatures when they are uncovered. With skin that is easily
burned they hide out in abandoned buildings and subterranean
locations that still have a chance of humans making their way into
(old subway tunnels, large storm drain systems, etc). Hiding in the
shadows and watching from a distance when they spot a potential
target you rarely see them unless they want to be seen. If there are
out numbered they are rarely attacked, but then again they also don't
more in groups very often. Most encounters reported are of the one on
one type. It is very obvious that they possess an almost human level
of intelligence and are capable of using just about any weapon to
some degree.
Attack
Even
when possessing a strength and speed greater than that of a typical
human they still prefer a sneak attack.
Everything from a straight forward hit from behind to some sort of
trap, anything they can think of. Only one catch, they do not kill
outright and intend to make the target suffer as much as possible
before ending their life. One of the most reported methods is to
immobilize the person through stunning or just by over powering them
and then using some sort of restraints on them (ropes, handcuffs from
previous victims, etc). Once they are unable to fight back their
claws are used to slice open a long stretch of skin, then to work
them up under the flesh and slowly skin the victim alive.
Emotional Feeding
The
skinners feed off the pain they cause in others. A necessary part of
their mental nourishment.
Without it they will eventually grow delusional, with emotional out
of control fits of anger and an inability to sleep. At some point
this will cause them to either grow bolder when searching for victims
or, in most cases, to become even more seclusive until they suffer a
brain aneurism which will kill them. When receiving the emotional
rush of the pain they have created it acts like a drug, euphoric and
never enough, leading them to drag out the tortures for as long as
possible.
There
is, however, one very unique and strange weakness to this. It only
works when they are the cause of the pain. If someone or something
else that they had nothing to do with causes the pain then there is a
severe mental backlash causing a great deal of agony on the Skinner
itself. The greater the pain the more it forces them back. This is
also the believed reason as to why they are rarely found in groups as
the attack of one would drive the others away.
Physical Feeding
This is where the
skinning part comes into more importance. Those thorn like things on
their skin are actually part of their digestive system. Once a person
has expired they finish removing the layers of skin and then cover
their body with the pieces. The thorns hold them in place like
hundreds of small hooks while they also release a digestive enzyme
which breaks the flesh down. This is then absorbed through pores in
the skin providing the creature with substance. The process may take
weeks to finish leading to encounters where people think they are
being attacked by something undead as the layer of skin is rotting on
the outside.
Afterward
Once they are
finished and their meal is dead they will generally drag it off to
some other section of their chosen lair. Usually the furthest point
away from where people usually enter from. They are absolutely not
interested in doing any other kind of clean up at all. Blood is left
where ever it hit the floor and even bits and pieces are left lying
about. They simply wait for their next food source as they soak the
in warm feeling of their emotional feeding for several days.
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