Category:Swarm-Shifter

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A swarm-shifter is a corporeal undead (with an [[Intelligence score, created by applying the Swarm-Shifter Template) that can shapechanger into one or more swarm forms of smaller beings. A Swarm-Shifter can change into one or more of the following undead swarms^[1]:

• bat swarm
• beetle swarm
• body part swarm
• centipede swarm
• fly swarm
• leech swarm
• maggot/worm swarm
• Sand/grave dirt/tomb dust swarm
• scorpion swarm
• spider swarm

Descriptive Text

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Raoul returned from the windy night shrouded in blue flames, a spell upon his lips. Eldritch bands of force whirled forth. Under my very eyes our gracious host, with whom I had been pleasantly engaged in conversation, came apart. And I found before me, retaining for a heartbeat the shape of a man, a cloud of thousands upon thousands of mosquitos buzzing furiously and reeking terribly. Annabel and Salvador, with whom had been in secret communication, sliced through the mass with their blades. Futilely. In the next heartbeat we were engulfed. My flesh crawled, arms, neck, scalp, ears, cheeks, nose, lips, eyelids, all violated repeatedly, unceasingly, my lifeblood pounding out of me. I vomited. And in the moment that I concluded that I had to run for my life, I also realised to my acute terror that I was caught in a perfect darkness that deprived me of the possibility. I actually prayed that Raoul would unleash a cleansing fireball. Instead he dispelled the darkness and called a swarm of ugly white bats to feast upon our foe. And for a brief instant it seemed as if we would escape the Red Oasis only a little less sanguine.

-The Wreck of the Albatross, Juno Lutuem, Darkonese adventurer^[2]

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