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Shoggoth
While raving fanatics and doomsaying prophets desperately claim the monstrous shoggoth to be nothing more than a drug-induced vision or unreal nightmare, the truth is altogether more dire. Shoggoths exist, yet they tend to keep to the deepest of ocean trenches or the remotest caverns and ruins, only emerging to spread chaos and destruction in their slimy wakes.The first shoggoths were created by an alien species to serve as mindless beasts of burden. Their vast bulk and amorphous nature made them useful for many kinds of labor, and their ability to spontaneously form new eyes, mouths, or other organs made them incredibly versatile. Eventually, they developed enough intelligence to rebel against their masters, and now they lurk in the lightless deeps.
A shoggoth has goals unfathomable to humanoid beings. They remember their eons of servitude, and comparedWhile raving fanatics and doomsaying prophets desperately claim the monstrous shoggoth to be nothing more than a drug-induced vision or unreal nightmare, the truth is altogether more dire. Shoggoths exist, yet they tend to keep to the deepest of ocean trenches or the remotest caverns and ruins, only emerging to spread chaos and destruction in their slimy wakes. The first shoggoths were created by an alien species to serve as mindless beasts of burden. Their vast bulk and amorphous nature made them useful for many kinds of labor, and their ability to spontaneously form new eyes, mouths, or other organs made them incredibly versatile. Eventually, they developed enough intelligence to rebel against their masters, and now they lurk in the lightless deeps. A shoggoth has goals unfathomable to humanoid beings. They remember their eons of servitude, and compared to their mysterious masters, other sentient beings are mere specks that crawl upon the surface, indistinguishable from animals. When they roll their hideous body over a band of explorers, engulfing them in a gelatinous press of gnawing teeth, it's not so much evil as uncaring.
Shoggoths can become the object of worship for cults dedicated to chaos and entropy. They don't respond to this worship but can be counted on to consume any victim the cult sacrifices to them. Rumors of shoggoths with even greater intellects are, one would hope, just that, for the damage one capable of higher reasoning could wreak upon the world is unsettling to say the least.
Recall Knowledge - Aberration (Occultism): DC 43
Unspecific Lore: DC 41
Specific Lore: DC 38
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ShoggothCreature 18
Rare Huge Aberration Amphibious Source Monster Core 2 pg. 285
Perception +34; darkvision, scent (imprecise) 60 feet, tremorsense (imprecise) 60 feet
Languages Aklo
Skills Athletics +36, Intimidation +29
Str +10, Dex +6, Con +9, Int -3, Wis +6, Cha +1
AC 39 all-around vision; Fort +33, Ref +30, Will +30; +1 status to all saves vs. magic
HP 275 (fast healing 20); Immunities bleed, blinded, controlled, critical hits, deafened, precision, sleep; Resistances acid 20, cold 20, sonic 20
Maddening Cacophony (auditory, aura, incapacitation, mental) 60 feet. A shoggoth constantly voices syllables and mutterings that mortals weren't meant to hear. A creature entering the aura or starting its turn in the aura must succeed at a DC 38 Will save or become confused for 1 round (2d4 rounds on a critical failure). A creature that succeeds at its save is temporarily immune for 24 hours.
Speed 40 feet, climb 25 feet, swim 50 feet
Melee [one-action] pseudopod +33 [+28/+23] (magical, reach 30 feet), Damage 4d10+18 bludgeoning plus GrabConstrict [one-action] 2d10+15 bludgeoning, DC 40Eat Away A creature that begins its turn inside the shoggoth takes 9d6 acid damage.Engulf [two-actions] DC 40, 6d6 acid, Escape DC 40, Rupture 40
Tekeli-Li
While a shoggoth's cacophony is an eldritch mix of sound and dangerous secrets, the phrase “tekeli-li” is the most oft-repeated cry, and these mysterious words are always discernible among their vocalizations. Sometimes, wild birds that dwell in places haunted by shoggoths cry out this strange phrase, while near other shoggoth dwellings, it can be heard on blasts of frozen wind. Attempts to translate the phrase, even via magic, have only ever met with failure, as if the words themselves resist revealing their secrets to the world.
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