Description

Entity 13HRP – 0037 – The Smothered Maw shows as a tall humanoid figure covered by a pale mask, shaped like a crude sleep cover. Unlike cloth, the mask moves on its own. Its folds tighten and loosen in a rhythm like breathing. Witnesses describe the mask as alive, flexing in time with something shifting under the surface. The mask often bulges as if teeth, gums, or muscles press outward, creating the look of mouths trapped beneath a thin skin.

Threat Level: Apex Predator Horror
Height: 7’2”–8’5” (varies with spinal bends)
Weight: Unknown; moves lightly but leaves deep prints
Blood: None found; instead it leaks fibrous threads that resist decay and chemicals
Habitat: Abandoned infirmaries, dorms, bedrooms, psychiatric wards, and other places marked by rot, mildew, and still air.

Oral Ring and Voice

When the mask pulls back, the true horror appears: a ring of fused human jaws forming a full circle. Each jaw comes from a different person, showing variety in age, sex, and health. Some jaws look fresh with working muscles, while others rot and drip spit. When calm, the ring clicks faintly, like teeth grinding in fever. During feeding, the jaws spread wide and release a scream like suffocation. The sound shakes buildings, stirs spores, and makes the space itself feel alive and afraid.

Body Shape

The Smothered Maw walks like a person but with warped movement. Its hips bend too far, its shoulders twist too much, and its stance collapses often. Its arms stretch long, ending in cracked nails that scrape surfaces. Witnesses say the noise sounds like chalk on slate. The shape looks like a broken copy of a sleeping person, both intimate and terrifying.

Behaviours

It stalks in silence and makes sound only when its breath touches the back of a victim’s neck.
It feeds on breath first, sucking the last air from lungs, then consumes the body.
Victims often show blank faces before death, as if expressions are erased.
After feeding, it lies next to victims, mask rising and falling like fake sleep.
Afterward, it sings lullabies in many voices at once. This seems like ritual, not instinct.
If disturbed, it drags bodies away and lays them down as if in bed. This looks symbolic, not for hiding evidence.
It returns to the same places, usually tied to trauma, suggesting memory of locations.

Triggers and Effects

Tilting its head makes mask folds look like eyes, causing fear of being watched.
Its lullabies never sound as one voice; they overlap in dozens of tones that shake listeners.
Attempts to remove the mask fail. It tightens, crushing bone or injuring handlers.
Mirrors near it fog, as if it breathes into them.
Sometimes muffled coughs come from under the mask. These rise into choking sounds from many throats at once, after which it vanishes.
Oxygen drops when it vanishes, suffocating not just people but the whole area.
Long contact makes people breathe shallowly in sync with it, creating panic and chest pain.

Possible Origins

Folklore

Stories from the Hollow Realm speak of caretakers who smothered patients in bed, believing it an act of love. Scholars say the Smothered Maw is a memory of this violence, shaped into a predator. Each jaw in its mouth ring stands for a stolen life, fused into one body repeating suffocation forever.

Mask Meaning

The mask serves as both prison and shroud. It hides the faces of victims while binding them together. The Smothered Maw may not be a single being but a collection of trapped deaths given form.

Cultural Revenant Theory

Some scholars say it is a cultural revenant, born not from one trauma but many. It reflects domestic abuse, neglect, and silencing. Its rituals turn forgotten deaths into myths. Destroying one version only brings another, wherever suffocation hides under care.

Environmental Contagion Theory

Others think it is not a creature but a contagion in memory and place. Each sighting plants seeds for new ones. If true, containment may delay it but cannot erase it, since memory itself spreads it.

Containment Notes

Holding 13HRP – 0037 – The Smothered Maw needs both physical and cultural steps. Staff train with recordings of layered lullabies to resist the sound. It stays in a sealed chamber with reflective metal walls. Even so, mirrors fog often, forcing constant sensor checks. Anyone entering wears full suits with their own oxygen to survive air loss.

Direct combat is not advised. Breach response uses sleep gas and sound disruptors to break its songs. Cleanup after requires mould removal, as spores worsen fear and breathing problems.

The Council debates if true control is possible. Some say it lives more in memory than matter. If so, every record of it makes it stronger. In this view, containment is a trap—trying to hold it only spreads it. Some suggest cultural rituals or rewriting the story may be needed. This remains debated but gains support as standard methods fail.

Conclusion

13HRP – 0037 – The Smothered Maw shows the link between trauma, memory, and monster. It is predator and archive, body and idea. Its nature blurs the line between flesh and story, control and spread. Until its ecology of memory is clear, control stays fragile. Only vigilance and broad study may allow survival against it.

Last modified: 2025/09/08 at 03:07 am

Published: 2025/08/14 at 4:23 pm

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