<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/6f/Invisible-Man-780294.jpg)</div><strong>Skin</strong><br/>HP 23/23; AC 17; Init +3; Fort +5, Ref +4, Will +3<br/><br/>Skin did not like Pandemonium. It was all too familiar, at some subconscious level, and yet incomprehensibly alien at the same time. Chaos, wild and unrestrained, but simultaneously shackled to a mindless and utterly malevolent purpose. It was nothing like home, what tiny fragments of memory remained of that place to Skin, but the similarities were just close enough, and Skin had not yet fully regained unconscious control over its physical form. Newly empowered and invigorated flesh and ichor threatened to rebel, to reshape itself without guidance or direction, and it took all of Skin's focus to avoid catastrophic dissolution in the face of Pandemonium's constant howling winds while it silently plodded along behind the rest of the unity. In the brief respite at the Harmonium camp, it had found enough cloth scraps to fully conceal its epidermis, but for much of the initial journey it was silent and focused inward on stabilization. A new element was added to the unity, but such information was peripheral to Skin's attention. The unity paused once, interacted with another unity, then proceeded further to encounter a third entity seemingly linked to the unity. The seething worm-creature was intriguing enough to draw a substantial portion of Skin's attention; a visibly collective unity that nonetheless clearly possessed a singular, undivided consciousness, and Skin would have delighted in engaging in verbal discourse with the being. But the unity proceeded onward instead, while Skin wrestled internally with its own corporeal shape.<br/><br/>Finally, Skin finished quelling rebellious flesh and refocused itself on the outside world, just in time for another entity to be unceremoniously dumped on the ground in front of it. With primal instincts still roused, it almost attacked, but held back enough for the Marcus-entity to engage and confirm non-hostility. The Dellim-entity, as it identified itself, was judged to be beneficial and absorbed into the unity, to which Skin had no objections and trusted the better judgement of its subcomponents' analysis.<br/><br/>The howling scream that ended a massive clash of two definitively hostile unities, on the other hand, was worth paying attention to. Skin raised a wrapped and gloved hand and pointed in the direction of the Gnoll's tunnel.<em>"Noise-source is live. Great power is there, in great pain, but weakened. Gnoll unity must control the noise-source, or else be unthreatened, for it did not exhibit signs of fear at the cry. Bugbear unity did exhibit fear, but the persistence of the bugbear unity against the gnoll unity despite potential intervention by the noise-source is a strong indication that the bugbear unity controls or is controlled by an entity of similar potency."</em>