Quickiron Plasm
Level 4Attacks
Abilities
The quickiron plasm can sense magical auras from up to 1 mile away as an imprecise sense.
When a quickiron plasm dies, most of the djezet making up its body becomes inert and useless. However, a skilled alchemist can sometimes extract trace amounts of the valuable skymetal from its remains. This is a 10-minute process that requires the Alchemical Crafting feat, a proficiency rank of expert or better in Crafting, and a successful DC 20 crafting check. A successful attempt produces a single djezet dose that remains potent for 1 hour before breaking down into a foul-smelling goo. The item has no value if sold due to its temporary nature.
The quickiron plasm's conductive properties are dangerous to those in physical contact with it. When a creature Grabbed by a quickiron plasm Casts a Spell, that creature takes 5 force damage per rank of the spell.
Trigger The quickiron plasm succeeds at a saving throw against a spell Effect The quickiron plasm consumes energy from the spell, regaining 5 Hit Points per rank of the spell.
2d6 bludgeoning, DC 22 fortitude The monster deals the listed amount of damage to any number of creatures Grabbed or Restrained by it. Each of those creatures can attempt a basic Fortitude save with the listed DC.
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
Looking much like an ooze, a quickiron plasm is a mass of the rust-red liquid skymetal known as djezet, prized in the Universe for its magic-enhancing properties. Quickiron plasms feed on the residual energies left behind by large expenditures of magical power, which they can detect from miles away.
Metal elementals can manifest in a wide variety of different forms, from shapeless amalgams of different metals to humanoid and beast-like monstrosities.
Metal Forms
Though metal elementals are made almost entirely of metal, most are composed of layers of different metals in tiny fragments, as complex as a body of flesh or plant matter. Many of these metals are rusted or decayed from the natural, slow entropy of the Plane of Metal.