ability_mods: cha_mod: 2 con_mod: 6 dex_mod: 5 int_mod: 0 str_mod: 6 wis_mod: 3 ac: 30 ac_special: null alignment: LE automatic_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: '30 feet. When a creature ends its turn in the aura, it sees a vision of the sacristan groveling in pitiable servitude. The creature must succeed at a DC 27 Will save or become __stunned 1__.' effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Staggering Servitude range: null raw_description: '**Staggering Servitude** (__aura__, __divine__, __enchantment__, __fear__, __mental__, __visual__) 30 feet. When a creature ends its turn in the aura, it sees a vision of the sacristan groveling in pitiable servitude. The creature must succeed at a DC 27 Will save or become __stunned 1__.' requirements: null success: null traits: - aura - divine - enchantment - fear - mental - visual trigger: null - action_cost: Reaction critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: null effect: You lash out at a foe that leaves an opening. Make a melee Strike against the triggering creature. If your attack is a critical hit and the trigger was a manipulate action, you disrupt that action. This Strike doesn't count toward your multiple attack penalty, and your multiple attack penalty doesn't apply to this Strike. effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Attack of Opportunity range: null raw_description: '**Attack of Opportunity** [Reaction] **Trigger** A creature within your reach uses a manipulate action or a move action, makes a ranged attack, or leaves a square during a move action it''s using. **Effect** You lash out at a foe that leaves an opening. Make a melee Strike against the triggering creature. If your attack is a critical hit and the trigger was a manipulate action, you disrupt that action. This Strike doesn''t count toward your multiple attack penalty, and your multiple attack penalty doesn''t apply to this Strike.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: A creature within your reach uses a manipulate action or a move action, makes a ranged attack, or leaves a square during a move action it's using. description: 'Sacristans are failures among the velstracs, creatures whose bodies and minds have been utterly broken by the velstracs'' torments. These unfortunates are assembled from scrap metal, nerveless flesh, and bits of darkness into loyal agents who take ecstatic pleasure in serving other velstracs. Sacristans are empowered by a miniature gateway to the __Shadow Plane__ deep in their mouths. By distending their jaws, they can howl with the shrieks and windstorms of that plane. Sacristans vary in appearance but are the size of maimed humans. Their features are redundant or absent and they are wrapped in barbed and rusted chains. **__Recall Knowledge - Fiend__ (__Religion__)**: DC 27' hp: 175 hp_misc: regeneration 10 (deactivated by good or silver immunities: - cold items: null knowledge_checks: dc: 27 skills: - Religion languages: - Common - Infernal - Shadowtongue level: 10 melee: - action_cost: One Action damage: formula: 2d8+9 type: piercing name: barbed chain plus_damage: - formula: 1d6 type: evil and 2d6 persistent bleed to_hit: 22 traits: - evil - magical - reach 10 feet - trip - versatile S name: Sacristan perception: 19 proactive_abilities: - action_cost: One Action critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: The sacristan stares at a creature they can see within 30 feet. The creature must immediately attempt a Will save against Staggering Servitude. In addition, if the creature was already __stunned__, on a failed save its revulsion toward the sacristan's presence causes it to be __stupefied 2__ for 1 minute. After attempting this save, the creature is then temporarily immune until the start of the sacristan's next turn. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Focus Gaze range: null raw_description: '**Focus Gaze** (__concentrate__, __divine__, __enchantment__, __fear__, __mental__, __visual__) The sacristan stares at a creature they can see within 30 feet. The creature must immediately attempt a Will save against Staggering Servitude. In addition, if the creature was already __stunned__, on a failed save its revulsion toward the sacristan''s presence causes it to be __stupefied 2__ for 1 minute. After attempting this save, the creature is then temporarily immune until the start of the sacristan''s next turn.' requirements: null success: null traits: - concentrate - divine - enchantment - fear - mental - visual trigger: null - action_cost: Three Actions critical_failure: The creature takes 20 mental damage, and is confused and deafened for 1 round. critical_success: The creature is unaffected and is then temporarily immune for 24 hours. description: null effect: "The sacristan opens their mouth to unloose the wailing howls and mind-twisting\ \ darkness of the __Shadow Plane__. This creates a 30-foot emanation of darkness\ \ and wailing sounds around the sacristan. Creatures with __darkvision__ can't\ \ see through this darkness. The sacristan can Sustain Shadow Scream for up to\ \ 1 minute. Non-velstrac creatures in the area when the ability is used, as well\ \ as those who enter or start their turn in the area, must attempt a DC 28 Will\ \ save. \n\n" effects: null failure: The creature is confused and deafened for 1 round. frequency: once per hour full_description: null generic_description: null name: Shadow Scream range: null raw_description: "**Shadow Scream** [Three Actions] (__aura__, __concentrate__,\ \ __darkness__, __divine__, __evocation__, __mental__, __sonic__) **Frequency**\ \ once per hour; **Effect** The sacristan opens their mouth to unloose the wailing\ \ howls and mind-twisting darkness of the __Shadow Plane__. This creates a 30-foot\ \ emanation of darkness and wailing sounds around the sacristan. Creatures with\ \ __darkvision__ can't see through this darkness. The sacristan can Sustain Shadow\ \ Scream for up to 1 minute. Non-velstrac creatures in the area when the ability\ \ is used, as well as those who enter or start their turn in the area, must attempt\ \ a DC 28 Will save. \n\n**Critical Success** The creature is unaffected and is\ \ then temporarily immune for 24 hours. \n\n**Success** The creature is __deafened__\ \ for 1 round. \n\n**Failure** The creature is __confused__ and deafened for 1\ \ round. \n\n**Critical Failure** The creature takes 20 mental damage, and is\ \ confused and deafened for 1 round." requirements: null success: The creature is deafened for 1 round. traits: - aura - concentrate - darkness - divine - evocation - mental - sonic trigger: null ranged: null rarity: Common resistances: - amount: 10 type: good - amount: 10 type: silver ritual_lists: null saves: fort: 22 fort_misc: null misc: +1 status to all saves vs. magic ref: 19 ref_misc: null will: 17 will_misc: null sense_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: A velstrac automatically knows whether a creature it sees has any of the __doomed__, __dying__, and __wounded__ conditions, as well as the value of those conditions effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Painsight range: null raw_description: '**Painsight** (__divination__, __divine__) A velstrac automatically knows whether a creature it sees has any of the __doomed__, __dying__, and __wounded__ conditions, as well as the value of those conditions' requirements: null success: null traits: - divination - divine trigger: null senses: - Perception +19 - greater darkvision - painsight size: Medium skills: - bonus: 19 misc: null name: 'Acrobatics ' - bonus: 22 misc: null name: 'Athletics ' - bonus: 18 misc: null name: 'Intimidation ' - bonus: 21 misc: null name: 'Stealth ' - bonus: 16 misc: null name: 'Torture Lore ' source: - abbr: Bestiary 2 page_start: 283 page_stop: null speed: - amount: 25 type: Land spell_lists: - dc: 29 misc: null name: Divine Innate Spells spell_groups: - heightened_level: null level: 5 spells: - frequency: null name: chilling darkness requirement: null - heightened_level: null level: 3 spells: - frequency: null name: fear requirement: null to_hit: null traits: - LE - Medium - Fiend - Velstrac type: Creature weaknesses: null