Multiattack: The Carceri Spirit Host uses its Desperate Claws three times and attacks six times with either Spiritual Slam or the Cold Grip of Death.
Desperate Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., 1 target. Hit: 8 (1d6 + 4) slashing damage plus 5 (1d8) acid damage.
Spiritual Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., 1 target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage and the target must make a successful DC15 Dex saving throw or be grappled.
Cold Grip of Death. Melee Weapon Attack: Automatic hit against one target already grappled by the Carceri Spirit Host at the start of its turn. Hit: 10 (1d10 + 4) bludgeoning damage.
Description
The Outer Planes are dangerous places full of rough and tumble cutters looking to make their mark on the multiverse. Some berks, however, are too dangerous to be left to their own devices. When it's time to pay the music, these poor sods are dumped in Carceri and forgotten about.
Carceri is a plane of subtle evil that saps the strength away from those cast down into the Tarterian depths. Bitter red sands and stinging bogs, harsh mountain terrain and poisonous jungles are plentiful here, and before long, most bashers end up in the dead-book. Being that this is a prison plane from which nothing is supposed to escape, though, the spirits of these evil beings linger, unable to leave and translate to their final reward. The bitterness and acidity of the plane suffuses their souls, and they gather in clumps of angry spirits that wander the surface of this nightmarish plane looking for living beings to both cling to for salvation and destroy for spite.
A Carceri Spirit Host is a Large group of undead spirits that draw elements of their form from whichever layer of the plane they are found on. In the swamps of Othrys, they manifest as red-tinged swamp vapors with burning red eyes. Across the shallow seas of Porphatys, they look like red sea foam that twists and contorts as quickly as the eye can follow. To encounter a Spirit Host is to risk becoming yet another member of the restless dead on Carceri.
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