Monster Specification

Medusae

Medusae

Typical Monster Level ("ML"): 3 to 5

Typical Number Encountered: d6/2 FRU

Usual Alignment(s): E/N, E/L, E/C

Description: like human females, but with tresses of writhing snakes as their hair.  Teeth are fanged.  Favour long dresses, often with side slits for freedom of movement (and to show off their legs).

Habitat: Dungeons, Green Areas, Wilderness Areas, Astral & Ethereal Planes, Chaos, Dreams, Madness

Language: local human / orcish tongues

Chars: as human females, but with Bt -3 (to cancel out the usual +3) - unless you happen to like snakes!

Movement: as humans

Fighter Abilities:

ML/3, FRU AMR    D = 25 + (5ML) %    RD = 5 + (5ML) %    5 + (5ML) HP

Cannot be subject to Attacks from Behind or Side, as snake tresses give 360o vision.

Attack Modes:

Weapon as human Ft of FtL = ML

Tresses (may attack in all directions from head, but at very close range only) @ A = 10ML %, DAM = d4 + ML Poison Levels if DAM > 0 inflicted

Bite @ A = 8ML %, DAM = d4+1

HitLoc Table: as human of Sz

ADS: 0 all over.  Rarely use armour or shields.

Effects of Specific Damage: as humans

Thievish Abilities: as human Th of ThL = ML

Cannot be subject to Attacks from Behind or Side, as snake tresses give 360o vision.

Defensive ThL = ML

Other Abilities / Powers / Notes:

  1. Stoning by eye contact with snake tresses: Flesh to Stone @ BTS 30+10ML% (Co).  The effect of Stoning is as per the Elementalist Flesh to Stone Spell (Earth version).
  2. Not immune to Stoning by any means (so can be Stoned by its own reflected gaze, but gets a st).  Can close the eyes of the snake tresses to prevent Stoning others or themselves when so wish.
  3. Have Planewatch as innate ability, enabling them to see onto the Ethereal and Astral Planes.  The Stoning gaze has full effect onto those Planes.  Success in Stoning an Astral or Ethereal target allows the Medusa to Planewalk for ML minutes.
  4. Saving Level = 5ML.
  5. Medusae with appropriate Chars may be MUs of Level = ML in any number of disciplines.
  6. As Monsters, Medusae do not gain Experience, but may have the equivalent training (WS, LoM), SLLs and pluses of a starting character of their Level.
  7. Medusae are vain, and consider themselves superior to human women.  They reproduce by mating with human males, often from Snake Cults, but tend to Stone their mates when they grow tired of them.  They often give birth to twins or triplets, and the sisters stay together into adulthood.

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