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[Bhu]

Pecker
Diminutive Outsider (Lawful, Native)
Hit Dice: 1d8+1 (5 hp)
Initiative: +3
Speed: 5 ft. (1 squares), Fly 40 ft. (Average)
Armor Class: 17 (+4 Size, +3 Dex), touch 17, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +1/-16
Attack: Peck +8 melee (1 point plus Daze)
Full Attack: Peck +8 melee (1 point plus Daze)
Space/Reach: 1 ft./0 ft.
Special Attacks: Insult, Daze
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., Invulnerability 5/-, Divine Protection, SR 11
Saves: Fort +3, Ref +5, Will +4
Abilities: Str 1, Dex 16, Con 12, Int 8, Wis 14, Cha 12
Skills: Listen +4, Performance (Insult) +4, Spot +4
Feats: Weapon Finesse
Environment: Any
Organization: Solitary or Flock (10-40)
Challenge Rating: 1/2
Treasure: None
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Advancement: ---
Level Adjustment: ---

Peckers are agents of the Gawds, and appear as small Wrens. They are sent to bedevil those who have angered the Gawds, insulting, and occasionally, pecking them (hence the name). They are divine trolls who are quite good at their job. Mostly because the Gawds do not allow them to be harmed, and if one is, the Gawds send more...persuasive...agents. Peckers speak Celestial, Common, and the language of whatever their current assigned victim is.

Insult (Su): The Pecker may insult someone as a Standard Action (this is a Sonic, Language Dependent, Mind-Affecting Effect). If the subject of the insult can hear and understand it, it must make a DC 12 Willpower Save (Save DC is Wisdom based) or take a -1 Morale Penalty to all attack rolls and skill or ability Checks for 1 hour. Multiple failed Saves are not cumulative.

Daze (Su): Anything the Pecker pecks must make a DC 12 Willpower Save or be Dazed for 1 round (Save DC is Wis based).

Invulnerability (Ex): Invulnerability is similar to Damage Reduction, but it also blocks damage from energy attacks, spells, spell-like abilities, and supernatural abilities. For example the Pecker has Invulnerability 5. That means it negates the first 5 points of damage from any attack (this includes untyped damage).

Divine Protection (Su): Anything making an attempt to harm the Pecker is subjected to a Bestow Curse spell. They do not get a Saving Throw or Spell Resistance. Removal of this spell requires an Atonement, and then a Miracle.

Combat: Peckers aren't combatants. They peck or insult and fly away. Their job is to harass, not fight, evil.



Peckers
"These are the Peckers. Nothing much to see here."

"AHAHAHA! Tell 'em the truth (beep)!"

Hammers of the Gawds
"Why do you call them that? Surely there is a more imaginative nickname for a bird species."

"They aren't birds, they're divine agents. We call them that because they peck at us, and the Gawds do not allow us to peck back."

Emotional Damage Purveyors
"What did you do to earn that kind of curse?"

"Uncertain, but clearly one of our kind has spit in the divine oatmeal.."

"Tell 'em the truth (beep). How you and (beeeeeeeeeeeeep) the (beep)....hey, who the (beep) keeps censoring us?"

"Not me."

"Sorry, family show and all."

"That was you? I may find it in my heart to like you two after all."