Pustulump (5e Creature)

Pustulump

Small monstrosity, unaligned Armor Class 13 (natural armor) Hit Points 32 (5d6 + 15) Speed 10 ft., climb 10 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 13 (+1) 8 (-1) 16 (+3) 5 (-3) 15 (+2) 2 (-4) Skills Perception +4 Senses passive Perception 14 Languages — Challenge 3 (700 XP) Crawl. The pustulump can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check, and ignores difficult terrain. If it doesn't move on its turn, it gains advantage on Strength and Dexterity saving throws made against effects that would knock it prone until the start of its next turn. Keen Smell. The pustulump has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell. ACTIONS Multiattack. The pustulump makes 1d4 pus burst attacks. Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 (1d2) piercing damage. Pus Burst. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 10/30 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (2d4) poison damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw against disease or become poisoned until the disease is cured. Every hour that elapses, the target must repeat the saving throw, reducing its hit point maximum by 5 (2d4) on a failure. The disease is cured on a success. This reduction to the target's hit point maximum lasts until the disease is cured. If the disease reduces the target's hit point maximum to 0, it is stable but unconscious and can't regain hit points except by magical means for 1 hour, after which the disease is cured. If the target of this attack is already diseased, failing the initial saving throw against disease instead increases the hit point maximum reduction from failed saves by 2 (1d4).

Art by Jonathan Wojcik This slimy-skinned mammaloid conceals its fragile body under a fleshy hood swollen with symbiotic bacterial colonies. By flexing a specialized muscular network, the pustulump can rupture one or more of its throbbing abscesses to splatter its surroundings with hot, syrupy pus and sebacious oils, spreading a violent infection to organic matter. Slow but patient, it will follow the rotting smell of diseased prey for miles, gradually catching up as they weaken and collapse. With a single tiny fang, it lances the victim's boils one by one and drinks their contents. The true face of a pustulump is a warped and mangled mass of blisters unique to every individual. It willingly reveals its face only to a pustulump of the opposite sex, during a mating ritual where pus is exchanged via prolonged "kissing." Young are protected under their mother's hood until sixteen weeks of age, nursing on infected milk until their own bacterial colonies are stabilized. Wild pustulump will seal their bodies limpet-like to smooth surfaces, sometimes lying in wait for years before food passes by.

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