Ticktock
Level 16Attacks
Abilities
Ticktock can use his hearing as a precise sense at the listed range.
Ticktock automatically knows whether a creature he hears has any of the Doomed, Dying, or Wounded conditions, as well as the value of those conditions.
30 feet. When a creature ends its turn in the aura, the constant clicking and ticking sounds coming from Ticktock worm into its thoughts and fill the listener with the sense that time is speeding up for everyone but itself. The creature must succeed at a DC 34 will save or become Slowed 1 (or Slowed 2 on a critical failure) until the end of its next turn.
Frequency once per hour
Effect The sacristan opens their mouth to unloose a series of thunderous clicking sounds and mind-twisting darkness of the Shadow Plane. This creates a 30-foot area of darkness and sounds around the sacristan. Creatures with Darkvision can't see through this darkness. The sacristan can Sustain Shadow Scream for up to 1 minute. Non-velstrac creatures in the area when the ability is used, as well as those who enter or start their turn in the area, must attempt a DC 3
Sacristans are failures among the velstracs, creatures whose bodies and minds have been utterly broken by the velstracs' torments. These unfortunates are assembled from scrap metal, nerveless flesh, and bits of darkness into loyal agents who take ecstatic pleasure in serving other velstracs. Sacristans are empowered by a miniature gateway to the Shadow Plane deep in their mouths. By distending their jaws, they can howl with the shrieks and windstorms of that plane. Sacristans vary in appearance but are the size of maimed humans. Their features are redundant or absent and they are wrapped in barbed and rusted chains.