Gutaki
Level 4Attacks
Abilities
A gutaki can see normally through ink clouds produced by gutakis and similar aquatic creatures.
A gutaki can survive out of water for 1 hour without issue. After 1 hour, they become Enfeebled 1 and Fatigued until they fully submerge themself in water. After 2 hours, they begin to suffocate.
Saving Throw DC 21 fortitude Maximum Duration 6 rounds Stage 1 1d6 poison damage and Enfeebled 1 (1 round) Stage 2 1d8 poison damage and Enfeebled 2 (1 round) Stage 3 1d10 poison damage, enfeebled 2, and Fatigued (1 round)
The gutaki releases a cloud of blood-red ink in a 20-foot emanation. This cloud has no effect outside of water. Creatures inside the cloud are undetected and can't use their sense of smell. The cloud dissipates after 1 minute. The gutaki can't use Ink Cloud again for 1d6 rounds.
The gutaki moves up to 120 feet in a straight line through the water without triggering reactions.
Medium, (2d6+3) bludgeoning, Rupture 12 The monster attempts to swallow a creature of the listed size or smaller that it has grabbed or restrained in its jaws or mouth. If a swallowed creature is of the maximum size listed, the monster can't use Swallow Whole again. If the creature is smaller than the maximum, the monster can usually swallow more creatures; the GM determines the maximum. The monster attempts an athletics check opposed by the grabbed creature's Reflex DC. If it succeeds, it swallows the creature. The monster's mouth or jaws no longer grab a creature it has swallowed, so the mon
Requirements The monster's last action was a successful Strike that lists Grab in its damage entry, or the monster has a creature Grabbed or Restrained Effect If used after a Strike, the monster attempts to Grapple the creature using the body part it attacked with. This attempt neither applies nor counts toward the creature's multiple attack penalty. The monster can instead use Grab and choose one creature it's grabbing or restraining with an appendage that has Grab to automatically extend that condition to the end of the monster's next turn.
Description
Gutakis are large aquatic cephalopods, whose malice for other creatures shines through their ice-blue eyes. Their bodies a deep reddish purple, gutakis have fearsome eyes, though even scarier are their seven writhing tentacles, each lined with innumerable barbed hooks. An adult gutaki's body is approximately 10 feet long and weighs, on average, 500 pounds. Due to their size and coloring, gutakis live and hunt in the darker depths of Golarion's oceans, where they can better conceal themselves from their prey. However, they're known to rise to the surface when their habitats are disturbed or overfished. When they do so, these enormous cephalopods boldly climb up onto the decks of ships or empty docks to feast on anything that moves.
These creatures are no mere animals. Gutakis are smart enough to understand several languages and will sometimes even talk to those they're about to devour. However, their speech patterns are unusual enough that any who hear them converse might mistake the sounds for a babbling that only resembles speech. Oceanographers who have studied gutakis know that they tend to mix together words from different languages, and their sentences have no regard for syntax or grammar. With some knowledge and concentration, one can understand the vile threats and declarations of hunger a gutaki spouts... if one isn't already being eaten alive.
The gutakis' intelligence, coloration, and disposition lead many to believe that they're born of fiendish influence, possibly from a long-ago planar breach into Hell or the Outer Rifts. As such, some refer to gutakis as "devilfish," while others just do everything they can to avoid these creatures.