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			Despite its appearance, a '''necrophidius''' is not [[undead]].<ref name="Monstrous Manual p. 170">[[Monstrous Manual]] p. 170</ref><ref name="Fiend Folio p. 126">[[Fiend Folio (3.0)]] p. 126</ref> Rather, it a strange [[construct]] (specifically, a type of [[golem]]<ref name="Monstrous Manual p. 170">[[Monstrous Manual p. 170</ref>, though they seemed to lack the golem's immunity to [[magic]]) comprised of a serpentine skeleton topped with a [[humanoid]], though nonetheless fanged, [[skull]] for a [[head]].<ref name="Monstrous Manual p. 170">[[Monstrous Manual p. 170</ref><ref name="Fiend Folio p. 126">[[Fiend Folio (3.0)]] p. 126</ref> Also known as [[death worm]]s<ref name="Monstrous Manual p. 170">[[Monstrous Manual p. 170</ref>, necrophidius golems have a few special abilities to render their foes [[incapacitated]]. A necrophidius can enter a mesmerizing, writhing motion<ref name="Monstrous Manual p. 170">[[Monstrous Manual p. 170</ref><ref name="Fiend Folio p. 126">[[Fiend Folio (3.0)]] p. 126</ref> that leaves an opponent dazed<ref name="Fiend Folio p. 126">[[Fiend Folio (3.0)]] p. 126</ref> and unable to act<ref name="Monstrous Manual p. 170">[[Monstrous Manual p. 170</ref><ref name="Fiend Folio p. 126">[[Fiend Folio (3.0)]] p. 126</ref>, similarly to a hypnotism spell<ref name="Monstrous Manual p. 170">[[Monstrous Manual p. 170</ref>; this ability is referred to as the [[Dance of Death]] (not to be confused with the [[Dance of the Dead]]).<ref name="Monstrous Manual p. 170">[[Monstrous Manual p. 170</ref><ref name="Fiend Folio p. 126">[[Fiend Folio (3.0)]] p. 126</ref> In addition, the bite of a necrophidus causes [[paralysis]] and [[unconscious]]ness for a brief time.<ref name="Monstrous Manual p. 170">[[Monstrous Manual p. 170</ref><ref name="Fiend Folio p. 126">[[Fiend Folio (3.0)]] p. 126</ref> This [[incapacitation]] comes from a magical<ref name="Monstrous Manual p. 170">[[Monstrous Manual p. 170</ref>, supernatural effect<ref name="Fiend Folio p. 126">[[Fiend Folio (3.0)]] p. 126</ref>, not a [[poison]].<ref name="Monstrous Manual p. 170">[[Monstrous Manual p. 170</ref>

			Although [[mindless]], a necrophidius is highly skilled in stealth and ambush, traditionally preferred tactics.<ref name="Monstrous Manual p. 170">[[Monstrous Manual p. 170</ref><ref name="Fiend Folio p. 126">[[Fiend Folio (3.0)]] p. 126</ref>

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	[[~~Category~~:~~Mindless~~]]		[[category:Ambusher]]
	[[Category:Construct]]		[[Category:Construct]]
			[[category:CR 2]]
			[[category:Golem]]
			[[category:mindless]]]
			[[category:Neutral]]
			[[category:True Neutral]]
	[[Category:Venomous Snake]]		[[Category:Venomous Snake]]
	[[Category:Snake]]		[[Category:Snake]]
	[[Category:Mesmerism]]		[[Category:Mesmerism]]

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	"[[Captain Weathermay]] was to the end, and even beyond, a [[collector]] of curios. A crate arrived for him the very morning of our departure. I had little right and less reason to examine it, so had it stowed in the hull and hoped that its sizable trinket might bring his wife and children some solace. Too late I learned that it had excited the avarice of several crewmen. Three nights out of [[Sri Raji]] they pried it open and set loose the contents. These I encountered when a loud thump brought me out on deck. There the men had sprouted roots, their eyes held by the swaying, indeed the dancing, of a giant [[snake\|serpent]]. Only it was indecently clothed in neither [[skin]] nor even [[flesh]]. The thing was bare [[bone\|bones]], a complete skeleton of a great [[constrictor]], save for the substitution of a [[human]] [[skull]]. Blade wielding men, [[skeleton\|skeletons]] of men that is, accompanied it and were making mincemeat of my deckhands. I rang the general alarm and, at length, we prevailed, albeit by the narrowest of margins. At [[dawn]] we roused ourselves to wipe down the deck. The thing's fanged skull was discovered and I examined it. Judging by the broken and poorly healed jaw bone, the man to whom it had belonged had been a brawler or at least had suffered some terrible accident. Then I thought, like Captain Weathermay had long ago, whose [[cadaver\|body]] we had just left behind, buried in the soil of that fell land . . . ."		"[[Captain Weathermay]] was to the end, and even beyond, a [[collector]] of curios. A crate arrived for him the very morning of our departure. I had little right and less reason to examine it, so had it stowed in the hull and hoped that its sizable trinket might bring his wife and children some solace. Too late I learned that it had excited the avarice of several crewmen. Three nights out of [[Sri Raji]] they pried it open and set loose the contents. These I encountered when a loud thump brought me out on deck. There the men had sprouted roots, their eyes held by the swaying, indeed the dancing, of a giant [[snake\|serpent]]. Only it was indecently clothed in neither [[skin]] nor even [[flesh]]. The thing was bare [[bone\|bones]], a complete skeleton of a great [[constrictor]], save for the substitution of a [[human]] [[skull]]. Blade wielding men, [[skeleton\|skeletons]] of men that is, accompanied it and were making mincemeat of my deckhands. I rang the general alarm and, at length, we prevailed, albeit by the narrowest of margins. At [[dawn]] we roused ourselves to wipe down the deck. The thing's fanged skull was discovered and I examined it. Judging by the broken and poorly healed jaw bone, the man to whom it had belonged had been a brawler or at least had suffered some terrible accident. Then I thought, like Captain Weathermay had long ago, whose [[cadaver\|body]] we had just left behind, buried in the soil of that fell land . . . ."

	-Extract from the testimony of [[Lieutenant Hawthorne Wescote]] of ~~the~~ [[Retriever]]		-Extract from the testimony of [[Lieutenant Hawthorne Wescote]] of [[The Retriever]]

	Descriptive text contributed by '''[[USER:Cure \| cure]]''' to [[John W. Mangrum \| John W. Mangrum's]] [[Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror]] project (posted on the [[Cafe de Nuit\|Fraternity of Shadows message board]]).		Descriptive text contributed by '''[[USER:Cure \| cure]]''' to [[John W. Mangrum \| John W. Mangrum's]] [[Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror]] project (posted on the [[Cafe de Nuit\|Fraternity of Shadows message board]]).

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	"[[Captain Weathermay]] was to the end, and even beyond, a collector of curios. A crate arrived for him the very morning of our departure. I had little right and less reason to examine it, so had it stowed in the hull and hoped that its sizable trinket might bring his wife and children some solace. Too late I learned that it had excited the avarice of several crewmen. Three nights out of [[Sri Raji]] they pried it open and set loose the contents. These I encountered when a loud thump brought me out on deck. There the men had sprouted roots, their eyes held by the swaying, indeed the dancing, of a giant [[snake\|serpent]]. Only it was indecently clothed in neither [[skin]] nor even flesh. The thing was bare [[bone\|bones]], a complete skeleton of a great [[constrictor]], save for the substitution of a [[human]] [[skull]]. Blade wielding men, [[skeleton\|skeletons]] of men that is, accompanied it and were making mincemeat of my deckhands. I rang the general alarm and, at length, we prevailed, albeit by the narrowest of margins. At dawn we roused ourselves to wipe down the deck. The thing's fanged skull was discovered and I examined it. Judging by the broken and poorly healed jaw bone, the man to whom it had belonged had been a brawler or at least had suffered some terrible accident. Then I thought, like Captain Weathermay had long ago, whose [[cadaver\|body]] we had just left behind, buried in the soil of that fell land . . . ."		"[[Captain Weathermay]] was to the end, and even beyond, a [[collector]] of curios. A crate arrived for him the very morning of our departure. I had little right and less reason to examine it, so had it stowed in the hull and hoped that its sizable trinket might bring his wife and children some solace. Too late I learned that it had excited the avarice of several crewmen. Three nights out of [[Sri Raji]] they pried it open and set loose the contents. These I encountered when a loud thump brought me out on deck. There the men had sprouted roots, their eyes held by the swaying, indeed the dancing, of a giant [[snake\|serpent]]. Only it was indecently clothed in neither [[skin]] nor even [[flesh]]. The thing was bare [[bone\|bones]], a complete skeleton of a great [[constrictor]], save for the substitution of a [[human]] [[skull]]. Blade wielding men, [[skeleton\|skeletons]] of men that is, accompanied it and were making mincemeat of my deckhands. I rang the general alarm and, at length, we prevailed, albeit by the narrowest of margins. At [[dawn]] we roused ourselves to wipe down the deck. The thing's fanged skull was discovered and I examined it. Judging by the broken and poorly healed jaw bone, the man to whom it had belonged had been a brawler or at least had suffered some terrible accident. Then I thought, like Captain Weathermay had long ago, whose [[cadaver\|body]] we had just left behind, buried in the soil of that fell land . . . ."

	-Extract from the testimony of [[Lieutenant Hawthorne Wescote]] of the [[Retriever]]		-Extract from the testimony of [[Lieutenant Hawthorne Wescote]] of the [[Retriever]]

	Descriptive text contributed by '''[[USER:Cure \| cure]]''' to [[John W. Mangrum \| John W. Mangrum's]] [[Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror]] project (posted on the [[Cafe de Nuit\|Fraternity of Shadows message board]]).		Descriptive text contributed by '''[[USER:Cure \| cure]]''' to [[John W. Mangrum \| John W. Mangrum's]] [[Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror]] project (posted on the [[Cafe de Nuit\|Fraternity of Shadows message board]]).


	==[[John W. Mangrum \| John W. Mangrum's]] Necrophidius Lore<ref name=lore>[http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3754&start=105 Mangrum's Monster Lore]</ref>==		==[[John W. Mangrum \| John W. Mangrum's]] Necrophidius Lore<ref name=lore>[http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3754&start=105 Mangrum's Monster Lore]</ref>==

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	Descriptive text contributed by '''[[USER:Cure \| cure]]''' to [[John W. Mangrum \| John W. Mangrum's]] [[Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror]] project (posted on the [[Cafe de Nuit\|Fraternity of Shadows message board]]).		Descriptive text contributed by '''[[USER:Cure \| cure]]''' to [[John W. Mangrum \| John W. Mangrum's]] [[Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror]] project (posted on the [[Cafe de Nuit\|Fraternity of Shadows message board]]).

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	"[[Captain Weathermay]] was to the end, and even beyond, a collector of curios. A crate arrived for him the very morning of our departure. I had little right and less reason to examine it, so had it stowed in the hull and hoped that its sizable trinket might bring his wife and children some solace. Too late I learned that it had excited the avarice of several crewmen. Three nights out of [[Sri Raji]] they pried it open and set loose the contents. These I encountered when a loud thump brought me out on deck. There the men had sprouted roots, their eyes held by the swaying, indeed the dancing, of a giant [[snake\|serpent]]. Only it was indecently clothed in neither [[skin]] nor even flesh. The thing was bare [[bone\|bones]], a complete skeleton of a great [[constrictor]], save for the substitution of a [[human]] [[skull]]. Blade wielding men, [[skeleton\|skeletons]] of men that is, accompanied it and were making mincemeat of my deckhands. I rang the general alarm and, at length, we prevailed, albeit by the narrowest of margins. At dawn we roused ourselves to wipe down the deck. The thing's fanged skull was discovered and I examined it. Judging by the broken and poorly healed jaw bone, the man to whom it had belonged had been a brawler or at least had suffered some terrible accident. Then I thought, like Captain Weathermay had long ago, whose [[cadaver\|body]] we had just left behind, buried in the soil of that fell land . . . ."		"[[Captain Weathermay]] was to the end, and even beyond, a collector of curios. A crate arrived for him the very morning of our departure. I had little right and less reason to examine it, so had it stowed in the hull and hoped that its sizable trinket might bring his wife and children some solace. Too late I learned that it had excited the avarice of several crewmen. Three nights out of [[Sri Raji]] they pried it open and set loose the contents. These I encountered when a loud thump brought me out on deck. There the men had sprouted roots, their eyes held by the swaying, indeed the dancing, of a giant [[snake\|serpent]]. Only it was indecently clothed in neither [[skin]] nor even flesh. The thing was bare [[bone\|bones]], a complete skeleton of a great [[constrictor]], save for the substitution of a [[human]] [[skull]]. Blade wielding men, [[skeleton\|skeletons]] of men that is, accompanied it and were making mincemeat of my deckhands. I rang the general alarm and, at length, we prevailed, albeit by the narrowest of margins. At dawn we roused ourselves to wipe down the deck. The thing's fanged skull was discovered and I examined it. Judging by the broken and poorly healed jaw bone, the man to whom it had belonged had been a brawler or at least had suffered some terrible accident. Then I thought, like Captain Weathermay had long ago, whose [[cadaver\|body]] we had just left behind, buried in the soil of that fell land . . . ."
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	~~{{Potential-canon}}~~

	==[[John W. Mangrum \| John W. Mangrum's]] Necrophidius Lore<ref name=lore>[http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3754&start=105 Mangrum's Monster Lore]</ref>==		==[[John W. Mangrum \| John W. Mangrum's]] Necrophidius Lore<ref name=lore>[http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3754&start=105 Mangrum's Monster Lore]</ref>==
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	[[Category:Mindless]][[Category:Construct]][[Category:Snake]][[Category:Mesmerism]]		[[Category:Mindless]]
			[[Category:Construct]]
			[[Category:Venomous Snake]]
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	12 This skeletal serpent with the humanoid skull is not undead; rather, it is a [[construct]] called a necrophidius. This result reveals all construct traits.		12 This skeletal [[serpent]] with the [[humanoid]] [[skull]] is not [[undead]]; rather, it is a [[construct]] called a necrophidius. This result reveals all construct traits.

	17 A necrophidius can paralyze creatures for several minutes with its bite. Necrophidia are created by [[spellcasters\|spellcaster]], which they then serve. These creatures are often found in the service of [[necromancer\|necromancers]] or undead spellcasters, such as [[lich\|liches]].		17 A necrophidius can paralyze creatures for several minutes with its bite. Necrophidia are created by [[spellcasters\|spellcaster]], which they then serve. These creatures are often found in the service of [[necromancer\|necromancers]] or undead spellcasters, such as [[lich\|liches]].

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	[[Category:~~Hypnotist~~]][[Category:~~Mindless~~]][[Category:~~Construct~~]]		[[Category:Mindless]][[Category:Construct]][[Category:Mesmerism]]

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"[[Captain Weathermay]] was to the end, and even beyond, a collector of curios. A crate arrived for him the very morning of our departure. I had little right and less reason to examine it, so had it stowed in the hull and hoped that its sizable trinket might bring his wife and children some solace. Too late I learned that it had excited the avarice of several crewmen. Three nights out of [[Sri Raji]] they pried it open and set loose the contents. These I encountered when a loud thump brought me out on deck. There the men had sprouted roots, their eyes held by the swaying, indeed the dancing, of a giant [[snake|serpent]]. Only it was indecently clothed in neither [[skin]] nor even flesh. The thing was bare [[bone|bones]], a complete skeleton of a great [[constrictor]], save for the substitution of a [[human]] [[skull]]. Blade wielding men, [[skeleton|skeletons]] of men that is, accompanied it and were making mincemeat of my deckhands. I rang the general alarm and, at length, we prevailed, albeit by the narrowest of margins. At dawn we roused ourselves to wipe down the deck. The thing's fanged skull was discovered and I examined it. Judging by the broken and poorly healed jaw bone, the man to whom it had belonged had been a brawler or at least had suffered some terrible accident. Then I thought, like Captain Weathermay had long ago, whose [[cadaver|body]] we had just left behind, buried in the soil of that fell land . . . ."

-Extract from the testimony of [[Lieutenant Hawthorne Wescote]] of the [[Retriever]]

Descriptive text contributed by '''[[USER:Cure | cure]]''' to [[John W. Mangrum | John W. Mangrum's]] [[Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror]] project (posted on the [[Cafe de Nuit|Fraternity of Shadows message board]]).

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==[[John W. Mangrum | John W. Mangrum's]] Necrophidius Lore<ref name=lore>[http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3754&start=105 Mangrum's Monster Lore]</ref>==

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Characters with ranks in [[Knowledge (arcana)]] can learn more about necrophidia. When a character makes a successful skill check, the following lore is revealed, including the information from lower DCs.

DC Result
12 This skeletal serpent with the humanoid skull is not undead; rather, it is a [[construct]] called a necrophidius. This result reveals all construct traits.

17 A necrophidius can paralyze creatures for several minutes with its bite. Necrophidia are created by [[spellcasters|spellcaster]], which they then serve. These creatures are often found in the service of [[necromancer|necromancers]] or undead spellcasters, such as [[lich|liches]].

22 Although it is [[mindless]], a necrophidius is an instinctually stealthy combatant and prefers to attack when its foes drop their defenses. Despite its sinister demeanor, creating a necrophidius does not call upon any particularly malign magical forces.

27 A necrophidius can [[mesmerism|mesmerize]] creatures that watch its hypnotic, swaying dance. Those who succumb to the sight are dazed, giving the necrophidius the drop on them.

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[[Category:Construct]][[Category:Hypnotist]]