Colour out of Space (3pp) – Starjammer SRD

Colour Out of Space CR 10

An eerie radiance, a glow unlike anything else, suddenly suffuses the area, bringing with it a stifling sense of latent malignancy.

XP 9,600
CN Huge ooze (incorporeal)
Init +12; Senses blindsense (life) 120 ft.; Perception +24
Aura lassitude (300 ft., DC 17)

DEFENSE HP 165

EAC 23; KAC 25
Fort +14, Ref +10, Will +9
Defensive Abilities amorphous, incorporeal; Immunities acid, cold, fire, mind-affecting effects, ooze immunities, poison, sonic; SR 15
Weaknesses susceptible to force effects

OFFENSE

Speed 30 ft., fly 50 ft. (Su, perfect)
Melee disintegrating touch +22 (6d6; DC 17)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Offensive Abilities feed

STATISTICS

Str —, Dex +8, Con +5, Int +3, Wis +6, Cha +3
Skills Acrobatics +19, Life Science +19, Stealth +24
Languages Aklo (can’t speak)

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Aura of Lassitude (Su)

A creature within 300 feet of a colour out of space (even when the colour is hiding within a solid object) must succeed at a DC 17 Will save or become overwhelmed with listlessness and ennui. While under this effect, the creature takes a –4 penalty on all Will saving throws, and doesn’t willingly travel farther than a mile from the area where it failed its saving throw against that colour’s aura of lassitude. A break enchantment spell (DC 17) ends the effect, as does removing the victim from the aura’s area of effect. Every 24 hours, a creature affected by an aura of lassitude can attempt a new DC 17 Will save to cast off the effects of the aura. A creature that succeeds at this saving throw is immune to that colour’s aura of lassitude for 24 hours. A creature that is under the effects of an aura of lassitude from a colour out of space can’t be further affected by this ability from other colours. This is a mind-affecting effect.

Disintegrating Touch (Su)

A colour’s touch causes a terrible disintegration of flesh, bone, and plant life. This touch attack targets EAC.

A successful DC 17 Fortitude save halves the damage caused by a colour out of space’s touch attack. A creature reduced to 0 hit points by a colour out of space’s touch attack must succeed at a DC 17 Fortitude save or be immediately slain and reduced to a pile of fine ash.

Feed (Su)

A colour can attempt to feed on any living creature or a region of plant life as a full action. If it feeds on a single creature, the colour must have Line_of_Sight”>line of sight and be within 300 feet of the target. If it feeds on a region of plant and animal life, it only needs to be within that region.

It can attempt to feed on a region once per week, and upon a living creature at will (but only once per day per living creature). Feeding on a region of plant life is automatically successful, blighting that region of plant life and causing it to grow increasingly pale, wither, and die over the course of 2d4 days.

A creature can resist being fed upon by a colour out of space by succeeding at a DC 17 Will save, in which case the colour must wait 24 hours before attempting to feed on that creature again. If this saving throw fails, the victim takes 1d4 points of Charisma drain and Constitution drain.

A creature whose Constitution score is drained to 0 by a colour out of space’s feed attack immediately dies, crumbling into a mass of desiccated tissue.

A creature whose Charisma score is drained to 0 by a colour out of space’s feed attack gains the colour-blighted simple template graft. Every time a colour successfully feeds on a creature, it gains 1 growth point. A colour out of space can never have more than 100 growth points— it can expend 100 growth points after spending 24 hours concentrating on its growth, and in so doing gains 10 permanent Hit Points.

Susceptible to Force Effects (Ex)

A colour out of space takes half again as much damage (+50%) from force effects and takes a –4 penalty on all saving throws to resist force effects. A colour out of space can’t damage force effects with its disintegrating touch. Its aura of lassitude and feed ability is blocked if the colour is completely entrapped by force effects.

ECOLOGY

Environment any
Organization solitary

The deepest, strangest parts of space hold truly alien beings—and of those, few are more notorious than the colour out of space. The lack of a physical body does little to impede this deadly alien life form’s ability to cause incredible devastation to other life it encounters. A colour out of space’s life cycle requires periodic visits to the deepest reaches of space for the creature to gestate and grow in the vicinity of powerful gravitational fields (such as those created by planets), and this custom only increases the monster’s opportunities to bring ruin to countless worlds.

The colour out of space is just that—a mobile radiance. Its glow is unlike any seen in nature.

The few who encounter one of these creatures and survive sometimes describe the radiance or portrayed it in art as a sinister, green-gray illumination, but these depictions are flawed reproductions. To witness the colour out of space is to know there are things no humanoid mind can fully comprehend, describe, or explain.

Very little is known about the life cycle of a colour that dwells in the depths of space, for it is only when it comes to a planet to grow and reproduce that other life forms encounter it. A colour’s arrival upon a world is typically via a small meteorite strike—the colour itself infuses a meteoroid, and shortly after the falling star’s arrival, the rock crumbles away to expose the semisolid mass of a larval colour that seeps into the surrounding landscape. Although a colour is incorporeal, and thus able to move through solid objects, it can also exist as a free-floating, eerie radiance. Natural sunlight doesn’t particularly harm colours out of space, but they prefer to dwell in darkened areas like deep caves or abandoned wells where their own radiance is the only light.

Over the course of several weeks, months, or even years, the colour feeds upon the surrounding plant and animal life—the act of being fed upon is weirdly addictive to its victims, who develop a self-destructive lassitude that prevents them from fleeing the region. When a colour has absorbed enough life to grow to full maturity, it gathers its strength and erupts from its den, coruscating into the sky as it launches the majority of itself back into space. Sometimes, enough remains of the parent colour to survive on its own, and in these cases the life cycle repeats again and again. Areas blighted by a colour out of space are singularly recognizable, not only for the eerie pallor of local plant life and large swaths of blasted, barren landscape, but also by the presence of those the colour has fed on. These unfortunate, deformed individuals, known as colour-blighted creatures, never live for long, but while they do, their madness often drives them to violent behavior, be they people or beasts.

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