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Promise of PlaguesHazard 11

Legacy Content

Unique Complex Environmental 
Source Pathfinder #200: Seven Dooms for Sandpoint pg. 139
Complexity Complex
Stealth +19 (master)
Description Clouds of buzzing flies and a carpet of vermin fill a room strewn with decaying pieces of cast-off body parts and gobbets of rancid meat.
Disable Three DC 33 Arcana or Nature checks to command the vermin to be silent or to cleanse away the filth and decay to make the hazard harmless, a DC 36 Religion check to offer prayers to sever the sacred link to Kabriri, or dispel magic (6th level; counteract DC 29) to render the hazard inert for 10 minutes
AC 34, Fort +18, Ref +26
HP 80 (BT 40); Immunities precision damage, Weaknesses area damage 10, spalsh damage 10, Resistances bludgeoning 14, piercing 14, slashing 7
Swarming Bites [reaction] Trigger A creature moves into the room beyond the northern stairs; Effect A combination of biting flies and ravenous creepy-crawlies swarm the triggering creature. The creature takes 6d6 piercing damage (DC 30 basic Reflex save). If the creature took any damage, it's automatically exposed to ghast fever, but the save DC against this strain of the disease is DC 30. The hazard then rolls initiative.
Routine (2 actions) The clouds of vermin in the room fill the air, rain down from the walls and ceiling, and swarm up from the floor below. All creatures in the room are subjected to Swarming Bites on the hazard's first action. On the second action, the swarming vermin grow particularly dense and eager in their attentions to one randomly determined creature in area J3c. If that creature is suffering from ghast fever and is at stage 4 or lower, they must immediately attempt a DC 30 Fortitude save. On a failure, the stage of their ghast fever advances one step.
Reset The hazard settles back down 1 round after all creatures leave the room and can trigger again at the start of the next round.