As the hole among the rocks widens, you see a slender shape emerge... what looks, at first glance, like a hand of bone, but which glints too brightly. It pulls back in, but for only a moment. Another loud crash, and a full, tall form extends outward from the stone opening.
It is best described as a skinny metal man, a calamity of bronze rods which twist and hinge about one another in patterns resembling muscle and bone. It stands nine feet tall; its left arm is missing below the elbow; and its face is an eyeless plate, which pivots about the tiny node of its skull. It surveys the situation in a serious of quick, twitching motions, as you react...