Huge Outsider (Chaotic)

Hit Dice: 17d8+68 (144 hp)

Initiative: +5

Speed: fly 40 ft. (good)

AC: 24 (+11 Natural, +5 Dex, -2 Size)

Attacks: 6 Slams +22 Melee

Damage: Slam 1d4+5

Face/Reach: 10 ft. by 10 ft. / 20 ft.

Special Attacks: Improved Grab, Mass Grapple, Coital energy Drain, Coital Assimilation, Psionics

Special Qualities: DR 20/+2, SR 25, Tactile Telepathy, fixed shape, archetypical shape

Saves: Fort +14, Ref +15, Will +13

Abilities: Str 20, Dex 21, Con 18, Int 19, Wis 16, Cha 17

Skills: Sexual Technique +30, Diplomacy +26, Listen +26, Search +25, Spot +26, Hide +20, Bluff +24, Intimidate +24, Move Silently +26, Knowledge (any two) +25

Feats: Skills Focus (Sexual Technique), Skill focus (Diplomacy), Alertness, Dodge, Mobility

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Climate/Terrain: Any land or underground

Organization: Solitary, cluster (2-4), or thicket (5-12)

Challenge Rating:

Treasure: None

Alignment: Always Chaotic Neutral

Advancement: 18-22 HD (Huge); 23-28 HD (Gargantuan); 29+ HD (Colossal)

Recondite (also called Mystique) are unnatural tentacled creatures from far off realms of dream. They force themselves on others to further their mysterious causes.

Recondite appear as spheres 10 feet in diameter made of thick, sinuous, curling tentacles that are anywhere from an inch to a foot across. Within this shell is an inner form called an epicenter that is the true body of the Recondite. The epicenter has no true form, and often appears as an extremely attractive member of the species it is currently being viewed by. However, the epicenter can appear as anything - something attractive, like a nymph, to something horrid, like a gibbering mouther, to something odd, like a chair.

The causes of the recondite are mysterious, and unknown to lesser creatures, but for some reason they are advanced by the use of depraved rituals of defilement and rape on physical creatures many species and genders. These rituals leave them twisted perversions of their former selves and slaves to the will of the recondite.

The recondite do not speak a language, but commincate through a vast net of their tactile telepathy. Their webs fill their home dimension like vines and allow any given recondite to contact any other given recondite within minutes.

Combat

In combat, a recondite will attempt to snatch one victim and use their psionic piowers to shift back to their home place and use their Coital Assimilation on the victim. Because of this, it is almost impossible to defeat a recondite as they almost never remain in place long enough to be a victim of any attack. If prevented from leaving by a dimensional anchor spell, they use their Rainbow Pattern ability to distract as many attackers as they can and Energy Drain the rest, snatching up as many as they can for later use. If some how prevented from all of these, they grapple to kill.

Improved Grab: In order to use this ability a recondite must hit an enemy of up to Large size with one of their Slam attacks.

Mass Grapple: For every successful Slam attack against a target in a round, a recondite gains a +1 circumstance bonus to their grapple checks against that target in that round.

Coital Energy Drain: Upon successfullly doing SRP damage to a target that the recondite is penetrating, a recondite may inflict a number of negative levels upon the target equal to half the SRP inflicted, rounded down. The Fortitude save to remove these negative levels is 21. A recondite will not, as a rule, inflict more negative levels than the target has levels, seeking only to reduce the target to an easily manageable opponent.

Coital Assimilation: By, in conjunction with at least three other recondite, bringing a victim to orgasm at least five times within one hour and reducing the victim to 1st level using their Coital Energy Drain, may apply the Recondite Pawn template to the victim if applicable.

Psionics: So far I'm thinking Plane Shift, Dimension Door, Hypnosis, and a form of Rainbow Pattern. No direct damage effects, and probably a few things that allow them to inflict pleasure.

Tactile Telepathy: A recondite can telepathcially communicate with any creature that has a language that it is touching.

Fixed Shape: Recondite cannot polymorph themselves, shapechange themselves, or be changed in shape by others.

Archetypical Shape: No other creatures can polymorph or shapechange themselves (or anyone else) in to a recondites shape, or anything approximating it.

Skirtseeker

Date: 2016-04-22; view: 722