Canker Cultist

Requirements The Canker cultist is adjacent to the corpse of a creature that died within the last hour, or is carrying a specially prepared lump of decaying flesh.

Effect The Canker cultist devours a chunk of the corpse or the lump of decaying flesh and regains Hit Points. They regain 1d6 healing Hit Points from consuming the flesh of a creature that died within the last hour, and 2d6 healing Hit Points from the lump.

The cultist can regain Hit Points from any given corpse only once.

Saving Throw DC 20 fortitude

Stage 1 carrier with no ill effect (1 day)

Stage 2 2d6 void damage and regains half as many Hit Points from all healing (1 day)

Stage 3 as stage 2 (1 day)

Stage 4 2d6 void damage and gains no benefit from healing (1 day)

Stage 5 as stage 4 (1 day)

Stage 6 dead, and rises as a Ghoul the next midnight.

Any living, non-elf creature hit by a Canker cultist's attack must succeed at a DC 20 fortitude save or become Paralyzed. It can attempt a new save at the end of each of its turns, and the DC cumulatively decreases by 1 on each such save.

The cultist jumps up to half its Speed. This movement doesn't trigger reactions.