STRAY COMET

STRAY COMET is a rare oddity that turns up on THE RIFT on most runs, anywhere from 2 to 5 at a time.

Something that fell out of a solar system and kept going until the sky ran out. It is still burning off the tail it brought in with it.

The numbers

The monster at its baseline, before a venue has placed it. What it really fields on each difficulty is under “Where you meet it”.

It is placed by hand on THE RIFT and waits at its post until you come close.

THE RIFT rolls one rare monster from a short list on most runs, and this is one of the names on it.

JESUS is the one rung that scales to the hero rather than to an authored number, so it has no fixed figure to state and is left out.
DIFFICULTY	LEVEL	HEALTH	DAMAGE	XP
EASY	22–28	150	24–27	895–2229
MEDIUM	23–30	225	25–28	1052–2935
HARD	26–33	345	26–29	1217–3486
NIGHTMARE	50–55	900	37–39	9771–20100

HOVERSHas no legs and never touches the floor — it drifts over it, casting its shadow down.
RARE MONSTERFields 5× the health, 1.5× the damage and pays 5× the experience of an ordinary monster of its kind.
WHAT IT WAS CARRYINGNothing. It has no pockets, and never had wages — a kill pays in gear, not in coin.
WHEN STRUCKIt sheds light. A blow that overwhelms it bursts it into shards of whatever it was made of, and they go out slowly.