Airtight Seal. The chest weasel doesn’t need to breathe.
Cracked Shell. The first time the chest weasel is reduced to 0 hit points, it drops to 1 hit point instead. Until the end of its next turn, all attacks against the chest weasel have disadvantage and its movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity. The chest weasel can’t use this feature again until it finishes a long rest.
False Appearance (while possessing an object). While the chest weasel remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary object.
New Home. If the chest weasel possesses a new object, it regains half its total HP back.
Object Manipulation. While the chest weasel is possessing an object, the object becomes an extension of itself. It can make the object move as fast as the chest weasel can itself move, and it can change characteristics of the object, such as the material from which it’s made of; its weight (with a maximum weight of 100 pounds and a minimum weight of 10); and its size (making it grow or shrink up to twice its original size).
Multiattack. The chest weasel makes two claw attacks.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.
Object Possession. The chest weasel possesses a non-magical object that isn’t currently worn or carried by a creature within 5 feet of it.
Spellcasting. The chest weasel casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks):
- At will: mending, resistance, guidance, identify
- 3/day each: crown of madness, jump, longstrider, thunderwave, misty step
- 2/day each: confusion, dimension door, invisibility, suggestion
- 1/day: plane shift
Misty Step. The chest weasel can use misty step after another creature takes any action, without consuming the use of a spell.
Description
Chest weasels feed on frustration.
These fey beings find sustenance in annoying those around them, and they do so through their ability to possess objects and bend them to their will. A chest weasel will inhabit any object it thinks it can use to create delectable frustration. When they are young, many chest weasels live in cities, possessing small objects like stones in a cobblestone street that they can raise as people walk by to trip them. When chest weasels reach maturity, they develop a taste for a more sophisticated frustration, and that’s where they get their name.
Chest weasels find that adventurers going through deadly dungeons have very low tolerance for any sort of shenanigans, which means that frustration is bubbling right below the surface, and they just need a push for it to come spewing out. The weasels possess chests, or other containers that an adventurer might look into in search of treasure, and make it their mission to annoy them as much as possible.
They make the chest incorporeal, or shift the position of the jar so that they are unable to actually inspect it, or make it so the chest produces another chest when opened, feasting all the while on the adventurers’ irritation.
But despite what their behavior might lead you to believe, chest weasels are not inherently evil, and many understand that their source of food is not a pleasant experience for those who purvey it. If properly satiated, a chest weasel will pop out of their container and thank the adventurer who has fed it, either by giving it whatever was hidden away in their container, or by helping the adventurer in their trek through the dungeon.
There are even stories of chest weasels striking deals with magic shop owners, or becoming one themselves, so that they may better cater to those they plan on feeding from later.
(Creature and image by Pointy Hat)
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