Form of desire. The spider can use its action to polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid, or back into its true form. Without its natural form, the spider loses its spider climb trait. Other than its size and speed, its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
The changes wrought by this effect fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, the spider could appear to have smooth skin, but someone touching her would feel her hairy legs. Otherwise, a creature must take an action to visually inspect the illusion and succeed on a DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that the hag is disguised.
Spider Climb. The drider can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Web Walker. The drider ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.
Multiattack. The chichusei makes three bite attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 2 (1d4) piercing damage plus 20 (5d8) poison damage.
Kempu. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 15 ft., one creature. The spider can throw with their mouths a sticky substance that they use to build their webs. When a creature is hit by this attack it gets retrained until the chichusei next turn.
Description
Desire is the doom of many adventures, blind by the beauty of a lonely widow in the woods, a beautiful innkeeper in the mountains or a witty witch in the swamps, they find their end in their lips... teared appart by a Chichusei. These creatures are spiders with limited polymorphing abilities, abilities that they use to lure their pray into their nests where they kill adventurers.
The spider ladies live hidden far from the cities as young females with a false persona crafted to deceive to whoever enters their lairs. They are experts artisans as they usually craft huts, inns and even large thermal baths to give credibility to their facade. Some of them prefer to be more loud as they found that some adventurers prefer women with strong personalities. They usually dont interact with each other to not meddle with the hunting grounds of other chichusei, as it would raise suspicion if there were a forest full of lonely beautiful widows where adventurers go missing constantly.
Behaviour. The spider ladies use their charms to trap their victims and finish the job with their fangs and venom. They usually have several hideouts in case their facades are blown. If they are forced to fight they will try to lure their enemies to their nests, where they will be retrained.
In combat they are actually pretty weak as they mostly rely on their honey trap to kill their enemies. Many chichusei known this fact and will try to charm adventurers to keep them as bodyguards with sweet words or trying to appeal to their humanity "Please, i was forced to kill. I need to eat humans or i will die but i swear i never killed anyone who didnt deserve it and from now i wont kill other human because... i love you" . There is no limit to the fools that fall for corny lines like this and they know it.
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