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Ing
2006-12-10, 01:40 AM
Long ago, when mortals first learned to harness the winds and sail the sea there lived a sailor nammed Jonah. Some say he was an earlier merchant, others claim he was a cut throat murrarder, pirate and reaver. He probably was both. All agree that he was a stern spirited and hard nosed captian of his vessel, strict and forceful with his crew and with his "buisness" dealings. They say that when he was born he thrashed and screamed upon feeling the touch of the soft covers and spat and kicked when tried to be comforted, the only way to calm him was the cold wet embrace of a tub of water. They say that no one, not even his long lost parents, had ever seen a glint of tenderness or compassion in him, save for one woman. This woman, so the story goes, he loved more than life itself and she was the only one he ever let know him. He would do anything for her. On one fateful voyage, some say in a desperate attempt to gain the needed capital for marriage he chartered a dangerous merchant course around a trecherous bay. On the return voyage his vessel found itself stricken by tragedy and crisis. Some stories claim he was caught inbetween a series of squals, a trio of storms and whirlpools threatning to tear his ship appart. others say that his crew contracted plague while ashore and disease and rats ran rampent. Whatever the cause, his crew begged him to make port, as land was still in sight, but he refused...nothing would stop him from returning to his love, not even the inevitable deaths of his own crewmen. They say that on the twelth day of the unending trials of the ship far out at sea he climbed the main mast and shouted up to the sky, offering eternal servitude to any god or fiend that guide him back to his love. Eventually his battered, half scuttled ship made it to shore, drenched and coated in the sea's vegitation, most of his crew perished to waves or disease. overjoyed to be home he stumbled into his beloved's home to find her with another man. His life shattered before his eyes, the sailor found himself wretched with pain. Unable to stand it he stumbled to the shore, found a sharp conch shell and with its pointed end, cut out his own heart to free himself from his torment. now he sails the sea, ruling and terrorising it mercilessly and savagly. Perhaps his transformation into an undying abberition was fueled by his desire to punish the world for his pain, or perhaps it was the payment for whatever dark sea god brought him to safe harbor...either way he lives forever more for the soul purpose of destroying lives and enslaving lost souls.


Devil Jonah

Creating a Devil Jonna

Devil Jonna (also known as a Sea Lich) is a aquired template that can be placed on any humanoid intelligent creature hence forth known as the base creature. It retains all abilities and stats of its base unless otherwise noted


Size and Type
The creature's type changes to abberition with a subtype of undead

Hit Dice
Increase all current and future Hit Dice to d12s if higher.

DEVIL JONAH TRAITS
Devil Jonah's morph into a horrible preversion of the humanoid form, taking on characteristics of the worst and most heartless creatures to swim or scuttle the seas. They become immune to critical hits, death from and massive damage. Roll 1d6 for their random characteristics. reroll for contradictory results.

D100 Characteristic Effect
1-10 Crab claw on one arm nattural 1d6 attack (blugon) and improved grapple
11-20 Squid face tentacle attacks like an Mind Flayer, minus extraction ability
21-30 Shark Scales grappling deals 1d2 damage per round to the terget
31-40 blubbery skin natural armor 4
41-50 slime coating +5 to escape artist
51-60 tentacle arm 1d6 slam attack with improved trip and weapon finese
61-70 clam shell chest +5 natural armor, can store things inside chest
71-80 skin of coral +2 natural armor and deals 1d4 damage on every round a grapple is held
81-90 poisonous sacks bite or natural attack deals a lethal poison (DC 10+hd, 1d6 strength initial, 1d4 con per hour secondary)
91-95: shark skin and teeth: gains blind sight in water, bite attack dealing 1d4
96-100: barbed tail: gains a tail attack that deals 1d6 peircing damage and can inflict poison.

Special Qualities
A Devil Jonah has the following qualities

Immortal
Devil Jonahs are immortal and cannot be killed as long as their severed heart remains intact. The heart can be stored anywhere the Sea Lich desires (including its own chest if it has clam chest feature) it has a hardness of 1 and an Hp of 5. Destroying it causes the Devil Jonah to die instantly and crumble into a pile of sea water, kelp, and various parts of chum

Spell like abilities

cast as if an arcane caster of HD level
as follows
once per week: storm of vengence, summon creature 6
once per day: animal shapes (only sea creatures or water fowl), summon creature 5
3 times per day: animate plants (sea plants only), control weather, rusting grasp, telekenisis summon creature 4
5 times per day: black tentacles, control winds, creeping doom, giant vermin (water creatures only), sleet storm, summon creature 3
8 times per day: Dimension door (only to wet or waterly areas), gust of wind, levitate, quench summon creature 2
at will: entangle (sea weeds only), acid splash, chill touch, control water, curse water, grease, obscuring mist, speak with animals (watery critters only), water walk, summon creature 1

Ability adjustment
A Devil Jonah gets the following ability adjustments
Str+4
Wis+4
Cha+4



That's the general idea but will update later

Mewtarthio
2006-12-10, 07:02 PM
I'm beginning to realize that not only are hearts unnecessary for life but actually detrimental. Ah, DnD.

Is there any way to incapacitate the Sea Lich? Currently, there's nothing to prevent the guy from just Secret Chesting the heart away and destroying the miniature chest model, leaving the heart forevermore irretrievable. Or, if the heart is unable to leave the plane, he could simply put it in a lead chest and drop it into the depths of the ocean where it can never be recovered.

Krimm_Blackleaf
2006-12-10, 07:42 PM
Shouldn't it be undead with possibly the augmented abberation subtype?

Ing
2006-12-10, 07:50 PM
I'm beginning to realize that not only are hearts unnecessary for life but actually detrimental. Ah, DnD.

Is there any way to incapacitate the Sea Lich? Currently, there's nothing to prevent the guy from just Secret Chesting the heart away and destroying the miniature chest model, leaving the heart forevermore irretrievable. Or, if the heart is unable to leave the plane, he could simply put it in a lead chest and drop it into the depths of the ocean where it can never be recovered.

The heart must stay on the material plane. Depths of the ocean is a good idea but of course with all the sea elves, gnome subs and druids how safe is it really?

Mewtarthio
2006-12-10, 09:29 PM
The heart must stay on the material plane. Depths of the ocean is a good idea but of course with all the sea elves, gnome subs and druids how safe is it really?

...Good point. I keep thinking about what I'd do with a phylactery/removed heart/one weakness if this were real life.