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Limbicate Source Drift Crisis pg. 156 Limbicate CR 6 XP 2,400 CE Medium outsider (extraplanar, incorporeal) Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., blindsight (emotion) 60 ft.; Perception +18 Defense HP 68 EAC 18; KAC 19 Fort +5; Ref +5; Will +11 Defensive Abilities incorporeal, limbicate stealth (DC 16) Offense Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft. (Su, average) Melee nerve lash +13 (3d6 S; critical confuse [DC 16]) Offensive Abilities mortified mitosis, reckless urge (DC 16) Statistics STR -1; DEX +2; CON +1; INT +3; WIS +5; CHA +2 Skills Acrobatics +13, Culture +13, Sense Motive +18, Stealth +18 Ecology Environment any (the Drift) Organization solitary, pair, or riot (3–8) Special Abilities Limbicate Stealth (Su) A limbicate exists on an emotional level and, under most circumstances, it can be perceived only by creatures with emotions. When a creature would sense a limbicate, they must attempt a DC 18 Will save. If they succeed, they can perceive the limbicate normally for 1 minute. If they fail, the creature is unaware of the limbicate for 1 minute. A creature applies the highest of any saving throw bonus it has against emotion or mindaffecting effects to this save DC, making the limbicate harder to detect. A creature immune to emotion or mindaffecting effects automatically fails the save. Blindsense and blindsight that perceive through emotion ignore this ability. Once a limbicate performs a hostile action— anything that would end an invisibility spell—this ability is suppressed for 1d4 rounds. Mortified Mitosis (Ex) Once per hour as a reaction when a creature affected by the limbicate’s reckless urge within 60 feet is either reduced to 0 HP or takes at least 40 damage from one source in a single round, a limbicate can split into two. The second limbicate appears adjacent to the first, has half its maximum Hit Points, and acts immediately after the first limbicate in the initiative order. Reckless Urge (Su) As a standard action, a limbicate can compel a creature within 30 feet to act recklessly (Will DC 16 negates). The next time the target would take damage to which it’s not immune in the next minute, it takes that damage or 6d10 damage of the same type, whichever is greater. If the target isn’t in combat, they’re also compelled to seek and attack a significant enemy within the next minute (or pursue equally dangerous behavior at the GM’s discretion). Once a creature successfully saves against this ability, they become immune to it for 1d6 hours. This is a compulsion, emotion, mind-affecting ability. Description The Ethereal Plane brims with emotional forces, and when Drift engines tear portions of the Ethereal Plane into the Drift, bundles of that unthinking passion often gets dragged along. Limbicates are clusters of fear, hatred, and mischief drawn from the Ethereal Plane by Drift travel and shaped by their new home into sadistic tricksters that feed on emotional distress. Seemingly without scruples, they haunt cityscapes and provoke reckless, violent abandon before fading from sight. The greater the trauma, the more often a limbicate can split and just one can quickly multiply into a plague of criminal activity. Periodically, a well-fed limbicate doesn’t split but instead retreats and cocoons itself to metamorphose. Sometimes the limbicate that emerges has phantasmal limbs, as though the creature’s slowly developing a corporeal body. Other times it transforms into a wholly different creature, suggesting this current form is but one stage in a complex life cycle.

Limbicate

Limbicate CR 6

XP 2,400
CE Medium outsider (extraplanar, incorporeal)
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., blindsight (emotion) 60 ft.; Perception +18

Defense

HP 68
EAC 18; KAC 19
Fort +5; Ref +5; Will +11
Defensive Abilities incorporeal, limbicate stealth (DC 16)

Offense

Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft. (Su, average)
Melee nerve lash +13 (3d6 S; critical confuse [DC 16])
Offensive Abilities mortified mitosis, reckless urge (DC 16)

Statistics

STR -1; DEX +2; CON +1; INT +3; WIS +5; CHA +2
Skills Acrobatics +13, Culture +13, Sense Motive +18, Stealth +18

Ecology

Environment any (the Drift)
Organization solitary, pair, or riot (3–8)

Special Abilities

Limbicate Stealth (Su) A limbicate exists on an emotional level and, under most circumstances, it can be perceived only by creatures with emotions. When a creature would sense a limbicate, they must attempt a DC 18 Will save. If they succeed, they can perceive the limbicate normally for 1 minute. If they fail, the creature is unaware of the limbicate for 1 minute. A creature applies the highest of any saving throw bonus it has against emotion or mindaffecting effects to this save DC, making the limbicate harder to detect. A creature immune to emotion or mindaffecting effects automatically fails the save. Blindsense and blindsight that perceive through emotion ignore this ability. Once a limbicate performs a hostile action— anything that would end an invisibility spell—this ability is suppressed for 1d4 rounds.
Mortified Mitosis (Ex) Once per hour as a reaction when a creature affected by the limbicate’s reckless urge within 60 feet is either reduced to 0 HP or takes at least 40 damage from one source in a single round, a limbicate can split into two. The second limbicate appears adjacent to the first, has half its maximum Hit Points, and acts immediately after the first limbicate in the initiative order.
Reckless Urge (Su) As a standard action, a limbicate can compel a creature within 30 feet to act recklessly (Will DC 16 negates). The next time the target would take damage to which it’s not immune in the next minute, it takes that damage or 6d10 damage of the same type, whichever is greater. If the target isn’t in combat, they’re also compelled to seek and attack a significant enemy within the next minute (or pursue equally dangerous behavior at the GM’s discretion). Once a creature successfully saves against this ability, they become immune to it for 1d6 hours. This is a compulsion, emotion, mind-affecting ability.

Description

The Ethereal Plane brims with emotional forces, and when Drift engines tear portions of the Ethereal Plane into the Drift, bundles of that unthinking passion often gets dragged along. Limbicates are clusters of fear, hatred, and mischief drawn from the Ethereal Plane by Drift travel and shaped by their new home into sadistic tricksters that feed on emotional distress. Seemingly without scruples, they haunt cityscapes and provoke reckless, violent abandon before fading from sight. The greater the trauma, the more often a limbicate can split and just one can quickly multiply into a plague of criminal activity.

Periodically, a well-fed limbicate doesn’t split but instead retreats and cocoons itself to metamorphose. Sometimes the limbicate that emerges has phantasmal limbs, as though the creature’s slowly developing a corporeal body. Other times it transforms into a wholly different creature, suggesting this current form is but one stage in a complex life cycle.

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