Juvenile Cave Worm (Glacial)
Level 8Attacks
Abilities
When a juvenile cave worm gains the Paralyzed, Slowed, or Stunned condition, reduce the duration by half, to a minimum of 1 round. It also recovers from penalties to its Speeds and the Immobilized condition at the end of its turn. Finally, it ignores non-magical difficult terrain and treats greater difficult terrain like difficult terrain.
Frequency once per day
Trigger The juvenile cave worm would be affected by a condition or adverse effect (such as Cursed Metamorphosis)
Effect The juvenile cave worm negates the triggering condition or effect. Effects from artifacts, deities, or a similarly powerful source can't be avoided in this way.
The cave worm flings its body, Leaping 30 feet. If it lands next to a creature, it can Strike that creature with its jaws. If the jaws Strike fails, it can Strike with its body using the same multiple attack penalty as the failed jaws Strike, but it becomes Off-Guard until the start of its next turn.
Requirements The juvenile cave worm has a Medium or smaller creature Grabbed
Effect The juvenile cave Juvenile Cave Worm worm shakes the creature back and forth quickly, tearing flesh with its multiple rows of teeth. The target takes (2d12+9)[slashing] damage and is knocked Prone. If the creature is adjacent to a solid surface, such as a stone wall, it takes an additional 2d6 bludgeoning damage. The creature attempts a DC 23 reflex save against all damage; if the creature succeeds, it isn
A juvenile cave worm can burrow through solid stone at a Speed of 10 feet. It can leave a tunnel if it desires, and it usually does.
Medium, (1d8+10)[bludgeoning], Rupture 18
A juvenile cave worm has left its brood or eaten them, and has started to establish its own territory, hunting in regular intervals. These young worms tend to be more aggressive towards other life forms than their relatively mellow adult kin.
Cave worms are gigantic scavengers who shape their environment as they bore through rock, ice, or other substances on their search for food. These behemoths consume everything in their path. Though they usually prefer soil, minerals, and occasionally constructed buildings, they will also eat living creatures, plants, and other organic materials. There are numerous species of cave worms, each a different color and perfectly adapted to their surrounding environment. Cave worms rarely exceed a typical animal's intelligence. They're also poor parents that lay a clutch of eggs sealed in a protein shell before abandoning them. After a short incubation period, the young hatch, forming a swarming mass of ravenous larval cave worms. When nearing maturity or when starved of sufficiently rich soil, these larval worms turn on one another. They fight for dominance or flee until only a few remain. The survivors grow quickly, rapidly becoming juvenile cave worms.
Brood Variance
The cave worms presented here are typical of standard rock worms. For crimson worms, use the elite adjustment and add immunity to fire. For azure worms, increase their swim Speed to 40. Gray worms gain void healing and a weakness to vitality energy 5. Glacial worms gain immunity to cold.
Early Hatchling
A single cave worm egg can produce several thousand larval cave worms when it slowly matures over a millennia. However, if a cave worm egg is disturbed or damaged before its natural cycle completes, the egg enters a rapid stage of maturation. Only a few hundred worms survive this process, creating significantly fewer offspring than when allowed to mature slowly.