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Nightshade, Nightcrawler

CR 18.00 Undead CE Gargantuan
This immense worm is covered with plates of dead-black, chitinous armor. Its toothy maw yawns like a cave.

Although the nightcrawler might appear to be little more than an immense and frightening vermin, with its centipede-like body and numerous glowing eyes, it is actually incredibly intelligent. When not cleansing the deep caverns of life, the nightcrawler spends its time plotting how best to carry out its own private stages of the overall nightshade plan to expunge life from all worlds, conferring with its undead minions and, when necessary, observing living creatures from afar while invisible to learn about hidden enclaves that its depredations might otherwise have missed.

It would be one thing if the nightcrawlers remained in the deep caverns, for these regions are rife with foul life the world is better off without. Yet unfortunately for those who dwell upon the surface, nightcrawlers often crawl up through the tunnels to bring their devastation to the night above. Although they always retreat underground before the first tentative rays of dawn color the eastern skies, they can spread an incredible amount of ruin in the span of a few short hours each night.

A nightcrawler is 60 feet long and weighs 10,000 pounds.

STR
41
DEX
10
CON
-
INT
20
WIS
21
CHA
23
HP
312 (25d8+200)
AC
33, touch 6, flat-footed 33 (+27 natural, -4 size)
Speed
30 ft., burrow 60 ft.
Init
+4
Melee
bite +32 (4d10+18/19-20 plus 4d6 cold and grab), sting +32 (4d6+18/19-20 plus 4d6 cold and poison)
Space
20 ft.
Reach
20 ft.
BAB
+18
CMB
+37 (+41 grapple)
CMD
47 (can't be tripped)
Fort
+16
Ref
+10
Will
+23
DR
15/good and silver
SR
29
Racial Modifiers
+8 Stealth in dim light and darkness

channel negative energy (9d6, DC 31, 9/day)

Energy Drain — A creature that has been swallowed whole by a nightcrawler gains 1 negative level each round.

swallow whole (4d10+22 bludgeoning plus energy drain, AC 23, 31 hp)

Intimidate +34, Knowledge (arcana) +33, Knowledge (planes) +30, Knowledge (religion) +33, Perception +33, Sense Motive +33, Spellcraft +33, Stealth +16 (+24 in darkness), Swim +40

spell-like abilities:
Constant—Air Walk, Constant—Detect Magic, Constant—Magic Fang, At will—Contagion, At will—Deeper Darkness, At will—Dispel Magic, Greater, At will—Invisibility, At will—Unholy Blight, 3/day—Cone Of Cold, 3/day—Confusion, 3/day—Haste, 3/day—Hold Monster, 1/day—Finger Of Death, 1/day—Hold Monster, Mass, 1/day—Plane Shift
Details
Type
Undead
Alignment
CE
Size
Gargantuan
Environment
any (Negative Energy Plane)
Organization
solitary or pair
Treasure
standard
Senses
darksense, darkvision 120 ft., detect magic, low-light vision, tremorsense 120 ft.; Perception +33
Languages
Abyssal, Common, Infernal; telepathy 100 ft.
Source
Bestiary 2
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