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Pickled Punk

CR 1.00 Undead NE Tiny
Barely contained in thick glass, this deformed humanoid creature wriggles in its jar.

Grotesque curiosities, pickled punks are deformed, often-humanoid fetuses raised by necromancers and stored in jars of embalming fluid. Every pickled punk is different and the level of deformity spans a spectrum between the mildly lopsided to the utterly unfathomable. Though they seem harmless at first—even laughable—pickled punks are hungry creatures that attack without provocation when freed from their jars. Some pickled punks rock and wriggle in their jars in hopes of falling off a shelf or table and shattering their glass prison (such jars typically have hardness 1 and 2 hit points). Once freed, a pickled punk pulls itself across the ground with its malformed limbs in search of sustenance. Unless weaned from its taste for blood or constantly controlled, pickled punks become a danger to their creators.

Some necromancers (especially those on the edge of sanity) and some intelligent undead cultivate a fondness for pickled punks and regard them as their children. They talk to their various jars in cooing tones and are known to even carry around favored specimens on outings and social calls, often granting them names and imagined personalities.

STR
3
DEX
13
CON
-
INT
4
WIS
12
CHA
13
HP
11 (2d8+2)
AC
13, touch 13, flat-footed 12 (+1 Dex, +2 size)
Speed
15 ft.
Init
+1
Melee
bite +4 (1d3–4 plus attach)
BAB
+1
CMB
+0
CMD
6
Fort
+1
Ref
+1
Will
+4
DR
5/bludgeoning

attach, death throes, irritant

opportune

Bluff +2 (+10 when playing dead), Stealth +13

Details
Type
Undead
Alignment
NE
Size
Tiny
Environment
any
Senses
darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +1
Languages
Common
Source
Bestiary 4