ability_mods: cha_mod: 5 con_mod: 5 dex_mod: 4 int_mod: 2 str_mod: 8 wis_mod: 5 ac: 36 ac_special: null active_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: Upon Striking a creature with its jaws, the grikkitog can extend its barbed teeth, immobilizing the target unless it succeeds at a DC 34 Reflex save. While __immobilized__, the victim takes 3d8 persistent bleed damage and the grikkitog feeds upon its flesh. The creature is immobilized until the grikkitog ends the effect as a free action or the target succeeds at a DC 38 check to Escape. The grikkitog can immobilize any number of creatures with these maws. effect: null failure: null frequency: null maximum_duration: null name: Barbed Maw range: null raw_description: '**Barbed Maw** Upon Striking a creature with its jaws, the grikkitog can extend its barbed teeth, immobilizing the target unless it succeeds at a DC 34 Reflex save. While __immobilized__, the victim takes 3d8 persistent bleed damage and the grikkitog feeds upon its flesh. The creature is immobilized until the grikkitog ends the effect as a free action or the target succeeds at a DC 38 check to Escape. The grikkitog can immobilize any number of creatures with these maws.' requirements: null saving_throw: null stages: null success: null traits: null trigger: null - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: The grikkitog can Burrow through dirt and stone at its full burrow Speed, leaving no tunnels or signs of its passing. effect: null failure: null frequency: null maximum_duration: null name: Earth Glide range: null raw_description: '**Earth Glide** The grikkitog can Burrow through dirt and stone at its full burrow Speed, leaving no tunnels or signs of its passing.' requirements: null saving_throw: null stages: null success: null traits: null trigger: null alignment: NE automatic_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: While its core is implanted, a grikkitog infests all earth and stone within 120 feet, as long as there is a contiguous physical connection between the earth, including stone objects touching on the ground. This effect spreads even if the grikkitog does not have line of effect, though it can affect earth or stone on the surface and exposed to the air only if at least part of its core is exposed as well. Within the aura, it can grow maws and eyes everywhere. It can make jaws attacks against any creature, originating from any earth or stone in the aura adjacent to that creature. Determine cover from the origin point of the attack, not from the grikkitog's core. effect: null failure: null frequency: null maximum_duration: null name: Infestation Aura range: 120 feet raw_description: '**Infestation Aura** (__aura__, __earth__, __occult__) 120 feet. While its core is implanted, a grikkitog infests all earth and stone within 120 feet, as long as there is a contiguous physical connection between the earth, including stone objects touching on the ground. This effect spreads even if the grikkitog does not have line of effect, though it can affect earth or stone on the surface and exposed to the air only if at least part of its core is exposed as well. Within the aura, it can grow maws and eyes everywhere. It can make jaws attacks against any creature, originating from any earth or stone in the aura adjacent to that creature. Determine cover from the origin point of the attack, not from the grikkitog''s core.' requirements: null saving_throw: null stages: null success: null traits: - aura - earth - occult trigger: null description: 'Grikkitogs, also known as “hungry earth,” are strange parasites from the Plane of Earth that infest and possess earth, rock, and stone in order to feed their endless hunger. A young grikkitog is a formless apparition until it corrupts an earth elemental host, forming the grikkitog''s core. A grikkitog can then infest the earth and stone nearby with its voracious essence, forming maws and eyes all around it. These creatures are particularly dangerous to small creatures that lair within gaps and holes among rocks, as well as mountain climbers searching for the perfect handhold. **__Recall Knowledge - Aberration__ (__Occultism__)**: DC 32' hp: 200 hp_misc: null languages: - Terran level: 14 melee_attacks: - action_cost: One Action damage: - formula: 3d12+14 type: piercing - formula: null type: barbed maw name: jaws to_hit: 29 traits: - magical name: Grikkitog perception: 29 ranged_attacks: null resistances: - amount: 10 misc: except adamantine type: null saves: fort: 28 fort_misc: null misc: null ref: 23 ref_misc: null will: 24 will_misc: null sense_abilities: - action_cost: Three Actions critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: The grikkitog implants its core into an adjacent section of earth or stone, melding seamlessly and changing its visual appearance to match the surrounding rock. It's immobilized but automatically succeeds at its Deception check to Impersonate the stone around it; creatures actively searching for it can still attempt Perception checks against its Deception DC as normal. A grikkitog can release its implantation as a free action, which has the manipulate trait. A grikkitog's infestation aura and manifold vision are only active while implanted. effect: null failure: null frequency: null maximum_duration: null name: Implant Core range: null raw_description: '**Implant Core** [Three Actions] (__manipulate__) The grikkitog implants its core into an adjacent section of earth or stone, melding seamlessly and changing its visual appearance to match the surrounding rock. It''s immobilized but automatically succeeds at its Deception check to Impersonate the stone around it; creatures actively searching for it can still attempt Perception checks against its Deception DC as normal. A grikkitog can release its implantation as a free action, which has the manipulate trait. A grikkitog''s infestation aura and manifold vision are only active while implanted.' requirements: null saving_throw: null stages: null success: null traits: - manipulate trigger: null - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: While its core is implanted, the grikkitog can see through the eyes it creates throughout the area of its infestation aura, gaining the benefits of all-around vision. effect: null failure: null frequency: null maximum_duration: null name: Manifold Vision range: null raw_description: '**Manifold Vision** While its core is implanted, the grikkitog can see through the eyes it creates throughout the area of its infestation aura, gaining the benefits of all-around vision.' requirements: null saving_throw: null stages: null success: null traits: null trigger: null senses: - darkvision - manifold vision - tremorsense (imprecise) 30 feet size: Huge skills: - bonus: 28 misc: null name: Athletics - bonus: 27 misc: +31 to imitate stone name: Deception - bonus: 25 misc: null name: Survival sources: - abbr: Bestiary page_start: '195' page_stop: null speed: - amount: 20 misc: null type: Land - amount: 20 misc: null type: burrow spell_lists: null traits: - Aberration - Earth