RPG Menagerie: Talamous Scratch

Torg gives gamers a lot of different monster types because it's really half-a-dozen settings clashing. Here's a unique "Horror" from Orrorsh that I did pit my players against. They almost didn't make it out, and were found in pitiable condition, on a piece of debris, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, later. When your monster is also the ship you're on, and you kill it, and the whole environment starts to dissolve, well... you better have your life jackets handy...

Monster: Talamous Scratch (Cybernetic Flesh Golem)
Game/Product: Torg Eternity/Delphi Missions - Orrorsh

Writing: Shane Lacy Hensley. Art: Torg Eternity team
Origin: Talamous Scratch, though he appears in Eternity as a monster merged with an old sailing ship, actually first appeared in original Torg as an evil Orrorshan sorcerer who made his way to Tharkold and the Cyberpapacy (the new mission pays lip service to this), and the villain of a scenario in When Axioms Collide. The idea for the "sequel" seems to be inspired by the cybernetics of those two other realms, imagining what the equivalent would be in Victorian horror. So he's a big creaky ship with a giant corrupted heart in the hold, able to manifest minor golems from its own matter on other decks.
Fear Level: There are three versions of Scratch in the mission stats, and the above is the ultimate form and the most fearsome (Fear has a +2 difficulty number). It's basically the ship turning against you, at which point you panic.
Danger Level: High. Not only is Scratch tough, and surprises players with uncommon attacks for an Orrorshan creature (things picked up from other realms), not to mention its spawning of other bodies and monsters within itself, popping out of nowhere in flooded compartments, but if you DO defeat the Horror, you're done for. Unless your GM was silly enough to set the scenario with Scratch anchored in a harbor, you'll be left floating in the middle of nowhere (and it's Torg, so there's probably a storm raging).
Famous example: Scratch is unique, but one could imagine similar set-ups where the Flesh Golem has taken the form of a haunted house or some other structure. I might take inspiration from the Japanese horror classic House for this, as an example. Maybe that's the Orrorsh/Pan-Pacifica equivalent. Maybe it's a version of Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart.
I wonder if: I would have played it differently if I'd realized Scratch was a character in oTorg when we played it. I'd probably have adapted the old adventure to introduce him earlier, and "The Three Trials of Talamous Scratch" would have been a cool reveal.