Languid Isqulug
Level 10Attacks
Abilities
An isqulug can precisely sense any creature infected with isqulugia within 30 feet, and knows the current stage of the disease.
The isqulug expels larvae from the hivemind in its head in a 30-foot area. Creatures in this area take 5d10 piercing damage as the swarm feeds on their flesh (DC 28 reflex save). Any creature that takes damage is exposed to isqulugia.
The isqulug becomes Stupefied 1 for , during which it can't Expel Infestation.
Isqulugia's Sickened, Slowed, and Paralyzed conditions can't be removed until this affliction is removed
Saving Throw DC 28 fortitude
Stage 1 Sickened 1 (1 hour)
Stage 2 Fatigued and Sickened 2 (1 day)
Stage 3 fatigued and Slowed 1 (1 day)
Stage 4 Paralyzed (1 day)
Stage 5 the creature dies, and its body violently transforms into a new isqulug. Wish, similar magic, or a 9th-rank Resurrect ritual can return the victim to life. The new isqulug remains even if the victim is brought back
The isqulug can Squeeze through tight spaces as if it were a Small creature. While Squeezing, it can move at its full Speed. The isqulug can even Squeeze through spaces that typically fit only a Tiny creature, but does so at the standard speed for Squeezing.
An isqulug ignores difficult terrain that's caused by typical features of swamps.
The isqulug's appearance, though unsettling, might be its least awful aspect. The creature resembles a bipedal amphibian with tentacles instead of arms and a head composed of an undulant mass of what appear to be shifting, slimy transparent eggs filled with writhing larvae. In truth, these larvae constitute the mind and consciousness of the isqulug-its "body" is little more than an organic suit manufactured from the flesh of those it has consumed, analogous to the complex web of a spider or the hive of a colony of bees, but fully capable of movement and violence.