If encountered in the dark, you always go first and you start the encounter with 2 × LVL temporary hit points.
By default, you have 5 corpses hanging from you. For each extra corpse you acquire, you gain 10 HP and make an additional Floating Head attack.
- •Harvest.
Add a humanoid corpse to your collection.
- •Floating Head (×5).1d4.
Range: 6. On miss: Target is Frightened.
The Walking Gallows is a large beast that resembles a Giraffe without a head. In addition to being headless, it has many rope-like tentacles on its long neck that display the hanging corpses of its victims. It is able to send the heads of its hanging corpses to attack its foes, but is more concerned with acquiring bodies than attacking.
The Walking Gallows is best used as an interruption than as an encounter on its own - maybe it appears as the heroes fight a group of bandits, stealing the corpses of fallen bandits and not attacking the heroes unless one is Dying or attacks it.
If it is used as an encounter, make sure it has corpses to consume, and consider letting it make a single Floating Head attack and Harvest on the same turn.
Inspired by the Light Novel: Otherside Picnic