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Maerok
2007-01-07, 12:54 AM
The Color Out of Space

"What it is, only God knows. In terms of matter I suppose the thing Ammi described would be called a gas, but this gas obeyed the laws that are not of our cosmos. This was no fruit of such worlds and suns as shine on the telescopes and photographic plates of our observatories. This was no breath from the skies whose motions and dimensions our astronomers measure or deem too vast to measure. It was just a colour out of space - a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes."

Size/Type: Small Aberration (Extraplanar, Evil)
Hit Dice: 9d8 (40 hp)
Initiative: +13
Speed: Fly 50 ft. (perfect) (10 squares)
Armor Class: 29 (+1 size, +9 Dex, +9 deflection), touch 29, flat-footed 20
Base Attack/Grapple: +6/-3
Attack: Absorption +16 melee touch (see below)
Full Attack: Absorption +16 melee touch (see below)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Absorption
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., immunity to magic, corruption, return
Saves: Fort +3, Ref +12, Will +9
Abilities: Str 1, Dex 29, Con 10, Int 15, Wis 16, Cha 12
Skills: Bluff +13, Diplomacy +3, Disguise +1 (+3 acting), Intimidate +3, Listen +17, Search +14, Spot +17, Survival +3 (+5 following tracks)
Feats: Alertness, Blind-Fight, Dodge, Improved Initiative, Weapon Finesse
Environment: Area of meteor impact (100 feet)
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: ?
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always chaotic evil
Advancement: 10-13 HD (Small), 14-18 (Medium)

Every so often, from the deepest voids of space, a meteor bearing strange colors will crash to Earth. Inside this spongy comet are small spheres of indescribable color, which act as seeds to creatures only known as Colors. These creatures taint the landscape and absorb moisture in part of their lifecycle. Once they have matured, they will return to the darkness of space in order to continue their species. A Color Out of Space looks like a multicolored Will-'O-Wisp.

Immunity to Magic (Ex)
The Color is immune to most spells or spell-like abilities that allow spell resistance.

Absorption (Su)
The Color makes an absorbing attack as its main weapon. Whenever the Color touches a living creature, it drains the life and moisture from it. This effect is equal to horrid wilting, with a CL equal to its HD (half of the damage is vile damage). The Color is healed by half the damage, and if the creature is killed by the attack, it gains 1 HD. Once a Color has gained 18 HD in this way, it may initiate a Return action 1d3 hours later.

Corruption (Su)
The land where a Color resides after landing becomes tainted by the corruption it spreads. Any creature, animal, and plant within 100 feet of the crash site must make a Fortitude save equal to the Color's HD + 10 every six hours. If they fail, the victims acquire 1d3 points of taint. The land itself is subjected to unhallow and desecrate (CL 20). As time progresses, those who dwell within the area will acquire a strange multicolor hue as well as the plantlife (low corruption). Then they will begin to turn a sickly green (moderate corruption). Finally, they will become blackened and die out along with the land itself (severe corruption).

Return (Ex)
Once it has matured, a Color will reform into a mass much like the meteor that had birthed it and set out into space in order to complete the cycle.