Fantasy Monster: Tears Of Pain And Sorrow

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Tears Of Pain And Sorrow

A cloud of fine pink mist shimmers and trembles in the still air.

CR 5; XP 1,600
N Fine Ooze (swarm)
Init +0; Senses blindsight 60 ft., sense torment 60 ft.; Perception +0

Defense
AC 18, touch 18, flat-footed 18 (+8 size)
hp 54 (12d8)
Fort +4; Ref +4; Will +4
Defensive Abilities swarm traits; Immune ooze traits, weapon damage

Weakness area damage

Offense
Speed fly 10 ft. (perfect)
Melee swarm (3d6 and numbness)

Space 10 ft.; Reach 0 ft.
Special Attacks numbness (DC 15, 1d4 Dex and Cha damage), shared misery

Statistics
Str 1, Dex 10, Con 10, Int —, Wis 11, Cha 9
Base Atk +8; CMB —; CMD —

Skills Fly +16

Ecology
Environment ruins, underground, urban
Organization solitary, drizzle (2–5 swarms), rain (6–10 swarms), storm (11–20 swarms)
Treasure incidental

Special Abilities

Numbness (Ex) Tears of pain and sorrow draw out the pain and suffering from their victims while they slowly dissolve them alive. Whenever a living creature suffers tears' swarm damage, the victim also suffers 1d4 points of Dexterity and Charisma damage on a failed Fortitude saving throw (DC 15). This has a side effect of suppressing any pain, physical or emotional suffered by the victim (including despair effects). The saving throw DC is Charisma-based.

Sense Torment (Ex) Tears of pain and sorrow can discern which creatures within their blindsight range are capable of feeling pain and which are currently suffering from an effect that causes pain, physical or emotional (including despair effects).

Shared Misery (Ex) Tears of pain and sorrow amplify each others capacity to numb pain. For every two tears swarm within 60 feet of each other, they increase saving throw DC of their numbness ability by 1.

Tears of pain and sorrow are clouds of minute droplets of discarded torment and suffering, or so those who faced them and lived say. These swarming oozes feed on people suffering from pain—physical and emotional, bringing a moment of reprive from the distress, while painlessly dissolving their bodies. While tears hold no actual power over their victims' minds, some of their prey willingly succumbs to their predation seeking relase from other miseries haunting them.