Spitting Sawfly
Level 10Attacks
Abilities
A spitting sawfly can smell plants and wood as a precise scent at the listed range.
Requirements The spitting sawfly is adjacent to a creature with the wood trait or to a coiled conifer
The sawfly feasts upon the targeted creature or the coiled conifer's sap, regaining 5d6 healing Hit Points. A targeted creature must attempt a DC 29 fortitude save or become Drained 1 (Drained 2 on a critical failure).
A creature afflicted with creeping sprout is treated by the spitting sawfly as if it has the wood trait Saving Throw DC 29 fortitude; Stage 1 carrier with no ill effect (1d4 days) Stage 2 Drained 1 (1d4 days); Stage 3 12d6 acid damage, creeping cone swarm emerges (disease ends)
The spitting sawfly plants spores in an adjacent creature that's Paralyzed or Unconscious, exposing it to creeping sprout disease.
Saving Throw DC 29 fortitude; Maximum Duration 6 rounds Stage 1 Off-Guard and Slowed 1 (1 round) Stage 2 off-guard and Slowed 2 (1 round) Stage 3 Paralyzed (1 round)
Description
Spitting sawflies are enormous, bloated insects covered in tumor-like knots of spores. These ravenous pests sow disease and spores wherever they go, heralding the infestation of creeping cones.
The Plane of Wood contains many unique ecosystems formed around species of wondrous trees; when Ayrzul's Blight mutates one of these trees rather than killing it, it can have a cascading effect on the tree's biome. Multiple species often mutate in tandem, becoming warped mockeries and a vector for Ayrzul's Blight. These "blight bonded" creature families are parasites and predators and typically form twisted symbiotic relationships.