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Devouring SerpentsHazard 15

Unique Complex Haunt 
Source Five Hundred Feet to Freedom pg. 56
Complexity Complex
Stealth +27 (expert)
Description Spectral serpents emerge from the ground to devour living creatures.
Disable DC 38 Occultism (expert) or Religion (expert) to placate Yig, or DC 41 Athletics (master) to force the serpents’ jaws closed; three successes total to disable the haunt
AC 34; Fort +28, Ref +23, Will +30
HP 98 (BT 49); Resistances all damage 15 (except force, ghost touch, or vitality; double resistance to non-magical)
Spectral Snakebites [reaction] Trigger A creature touches Jazali’s religious symbol. Effect Puncture wounds appear across the flesh of the triggering creature, who must attempt a DC 39 Fortitude save. The hazard then rolls initiative.
Critical SuccessThe creature is unaffected.
SuccessThe creature takes 3d12+17 piercing damage.
FailureAs failure, except the creature also takes 2d6 persistent bleed damage as their blood fails to clot.
Critical FailureAs failure, except the persistent bleed damage is 4d6.

Routine (2 actions) The haunt makes a jaws Strike against each creature in the chamber as its first action. As its second action, it forces each creature hit by its jaws Strike to attempt a DC 34 Reflex save. On a failure, the creature is grabbed until it Escapes (DC 36). On a critical failure, or if the creature was already grabbed by the haunt, it becomes restrained instead.
Melee jaws +30, Damage 3d12+17 piercing; no multiple attack penalty

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