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PFS StandardChouchin-Obake

A chouchin-obake takes the shape of a paper lantern with a horizontal split near the bottom from which a long tongue protrudes. Upon closer inspection, two eyes appear above the split mouth. Chouchin-obake are anomalous in that they don't awaken in the same way other tsukumogami do. Paper lanterns are nearly impossible to maintain for long enough to spawn tsukumogami. Instead, a chouchin-obake is a kind of fire kami that takes the form of a lantern's flame and inhabits a paper lantern when they manifest.

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Chouchin-ObakeCreature 6

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NE Medium Kami 
Source Bestiary 3 pg. 277
Perception +9
Languages Common
Skills Acrobatics +6, Deception +4, Stealth +10
Str +2, Dex +4, Con +4, Int +3, Wis +5, Cha +0
AC 18; Fort +6, Ref +10, Will +9
HP 75; Immunities bleed, death effects, disease, doomed, drained, fatigued, healing, paralyzed, poison, unconscious; Resistances physical 5
Lifewick Candle (aura, divine, necromancy, negative) 15 feet. A ghostly blue flame within the chouchin-obake draws upon the life-force of the living to sustain themself. At the start of the chouchin-obake's turn, each creature in the aura takes 2d6 negative damage (DC 20 basic Fortitude save). The chouchinobake regains an amount of Hit Points equal to the amount of damage taken by the single creature that took the most damage.Shadowbind [reaction] Trigger A creature attempts to leave the chouchinobake's Lifewick Candle aura during a move action; Effect The chouchin-obake attempts to bind the creature using their own shadow. The triggering creature must succeed at a DC 20 Reflex save or become immobilized until its next turn.
Speed fly 20 feet
Melee [one-action] tendril +10 [+5/+0] (finesse, reach 15 feet), Damage 2d8 negative plus 2d6 fire plus GrabRanged [one-action] flame +10 [+5/+0] (range increment 30 feet), Damage 2d4 negative plus 2d6 fireConstrict [one-action] 2d8 negative plus 1d6 fire, DC 20

All Monsters in "Tsukumogami"

NameLevel
Chouchin-Obake6
Ittan-Momen2
Kasa-Obake4

Tsukumogami

Source Bestiary 3 pg. 276
Tsukumogami are intelligent, mobile objects formed from the union between a 100-year-old object and a kami. Tsukumogami range from harmless to malicious, each individual personality a result of how the object was treated before its awakening. Well-cared-for objects tend to birth helpful, friendly tsukumogami, while mistreated or abandoned objects twist into malevolent and violent beings. Most tsukumogami are, by nature, mischievous, and oftentimes want nothing more than to occupy the attention of living creatures.

Tsukumogami can commonly be found in areas with a strong cultural belief in the value of caring for objects, which helps items survive long enough to become tsukumogami. Towns and villages with large tsukumogami populations are referred to as “sleepless towns” due to the nightly tsukumogami celebrations, which can become so raucous that they prevent the living residents from sleeping peacefully.