| Diminutive Magical Beast (Swarm) | |
|---|---|
| Hit Dice: | 3d10 (16 hp) |
| Initiative: | +4 (Dex) |
| Speed: | 10 ft. (2 squares), Fly 40 ft. (good) |
| Armour Class: | 18 (+4 size, +4 Dex), touch 18, flat-footed 14 |
| Base Attack / Grapple: | +3/— |
| Attack: | Swarm (1d4 plus disease) |
| Full Attack: | Swarm (1d4 plus disease) |
| Space/Reach: | 10 ft./0 ft. |
| Special Attacks: | Create spawn, disease, distraction |
| Special Qualities: | Darkvision 60 ft., immune to weapon damage, swarm traits |
| Saves: | Fort +3, Ref +7, Will +1 |
| Abilities: | Str 1, Dex 18, Con 10, Int 2, Wis 10, Cha 2. |
| Skills: | Hide +19, Move Silently +7, Spot +9. |
| Feats: | Ability Focus (disease, distraction) |
| Environment: | Any land or underground |
| Organisation: | Solitary, cloud (2–7 swarms), or plague (11–20 swarms) |
| Challenge Rating: | 3 |
| Treasure: | None |
| Alignment: | Always neutral evil |
| Advancement: | — |
| Level Adjustment: | — |
The servants of Fultadig, the lord of corruption, bred addle-flies for the twin purposes of spreading disease and transforming cadavers into undead.
Each addle-fly in a swarm resembles a bloated bluebottle, swollen to the size of a mouse. Their compound eyes, ocelli and antennae are large and overdeveloped, allowing them to pinpoint the location of a ripe cadaver within two hundred feet, while their proboscises are atrophied to the point of non-existence. Addle-flies only eat in their larval stage, and can survive for a week on stored food reserves. All addle-flies are hermaphrodite, self-fertilising, and are ready to lay eggs at any given time. The strain of flight, eating several times their body weight and near-constant egg-laying takes a constant strain on addle-flies’ bodies; they drop dead of exhaustion within a few days.
Addle-flies do not speak.
Combat
Addle-flies fight with little regard for their safety, and are repelled only by fire or high wind.
Create Spawn (Su): Addle-flies lay their eggs in humanoid cadavers, causing them to animate as addle-wraths. The flies lay their eggs in any creatures killed by the swarm attack.
Disease (Su): Addle fever—swarm attack, Fortitude DC 13, incubation period 1d3 days, damage 1d3 Con and 1d3 Wis. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Distraction (Ex): Any living creature that begins its turn with a swarm of addle-flies in its space must succeed on a DC 13 Fortitude save or be nauseated for 1 round. The save DC is Constitution-based.