Illumination. The bulgebug has a bulbous bulge on its back that sheds bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +1 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 2 (1d6 − 1) slashing damage.
Bulge. As a bonus action, the bulgebug is able to apply pressure to its bulge to double the distance of its light to 10-feet of bright light and 10-feet of dim light. It can maintain this bulge as long as it wishes with no additional effort.
Squish. Another creature may spend a bonus action to apply pressure to the bulgebug's bulge, again doubling the distance of the light to 20-feet of bright light and 20-feet of dim. This brightness can only be maintained as long as pressure is applied.
Description
Bulgebugs are strange-looking insects roughly the size of a large house cat. They have bulbous sacs on their backs, filled with glowing fluid, and ribbed with stretchy ligaments that cover the bulge in a semi-hexagonal pattern. When the sac inflates, the glowing fluid bulges out between these ligaments, causing the light to shine brighter. A bulgebug's bulge is very resilient against bludgeoning damage, but makes a particularly memorable mess when pierced.
The Bulgebug was developed as one of a series of "beasts" imagined as warped Far Realm creatures for a spooky Druid in a Halloween Oneshot. The Bulgebug was based off of the Giant Fire Beetle stat block, with the flavor of a squish ball.
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