Fantasy NPC: Five-Stone-Yellows Of The Hidden Bay

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Five-Stone-Yellows Of The Hidden Bay

This bundle of dark purplish spines wears a top hat and somehow appear happy to see you.

CR 1; 400 XP

NG Small Aberration (aquatic)

Init +0; Senses darkvision 60 ft., blindsense 60 ft.; Perception +7

Defense
AC 12, touch 11, flat-footed 12 (+1 natural, +1 size)
hp 16 (3d8+3)
Fort +1, Ref +1, Will +6

Defensive Abilities all-around vision, spiny ball

Offense
Speed 10 ft., climb 10 ft., swim 10 ft.

Melee spine slam +3 (2d4)

Statistics
Str 10, Dex 10, Con 10, Int 13, Wis 13, Cha 15

Base Atk +2; CMB +1; CMD 11 (can't be tripped)
Feats Iron Will, Toughness

Skills Climb +8, Diplomacy +5, Knowledge (nature) +7, Perception +7, Stealth +10, Survival +7, Swim +8

Language understands Aklo and Aquan; telepathy 100 ft.

SQ semi-amphibious

Semi-Amphibious (Ex) Five-Stone-Yellows can survive up to twelve hours out of water before they start suffocating.

Spiny Ball (Ex) Anyone striking Five-Stones-Yellows with an unarmed strike or a natural attack suffers 1d4 points of piercing damage. When Five-Stone-Yellows takes a total defense acting, this damage is increased to 2d4 points.

Notable Gear some sea jewelry made of shells and pieces of amber, and a mildly magical top hat received as a present from a thankful magician (the hat magic makes it immune to water and salt, and prevents it from being lost or carried away by currents or winds)

Five-Stone-Yellows is a member of a community of sapient urchins that lives in the warm waters of the Hidden Bay.

The life of Five-Stone-Yellows was peacefully slow, until one day a castaway from far away lands nearly drowned within the Bay—after helping him to the nearest islet, Five-Stone-Yellows ventured onto the land and towards the nearest village to inform the land-dwellers there of the trapped two-leg.

After the man was saved, the life seemingly returned to norm... Until some time later when the land-dwellers sought Five-Stone-Yellows and asked them for help in finding missing boat. And then negotiate fishing rights between the landfolk and local fishfolk, and then another, and another... Five-Stone-Yellows somehow, somewhen, and really without their own input or intent became sort of informal ambassador and mediator between the water and land-dwelling peoples of the Bay.

Five-Stone-Yellows is a honest and modest individual who just happens to end in the wrong place at the wrong time (or the right time and place, depending on point of view), and doesn't have heart to not aid those in need when possible, within their humble means.