Multiattack. The Cho-Ja makes 3 slash attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it must make a successful DC 13 con save or become poisoned for 1d4 rounds.
Slash. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) slashing damage.
Description
Cho-Ja: They are shiny black, with six jointed limbs and bodies segmented like those of insects. A larger rear thorax has four three-jointed legs and then a smaller upper thorax, with two human-like arms that can handle tools and weapons. Their faces are oval, with large multifaceted jelly-like sensitive eyes above two slits. Their jaws and mouths are human in appearance. They have chitin exoskeletons.
Queen: A young queen is lithe, delicately formed, and has a deep maroon color. Within a matter of weeks she is big enough to rule and a few months later starts reproduction. She grows to an immense size - 30 feet long from her head to the end of the second thorax - and her color blackens while her legs wither from lack of use.
Lair and Lair Actions
Cho-ja hives are built in meadows or valleys. Each hive is ruled by a Cho-Ja queen and has around 20,000 members.
The queen rests in her chamber for the rest of her life upon a mound of earth, and she is fed by Cho-Ja Workers.
A dozen females stay with her and lay eggs which the queen swallows and passes through a chamber where they are fertilized by selection, even in the gender. The breeders service her constantly. Each mates with her for hours until exhausted and replaced by another. The eggs are then laid in a creche to hatch.
Soldier Cho-Ja are hatched and hastened to maturity, and protect her chamber at all times, there is never less than 15 of these soldiers guarding her chamber at any time. Due to the circumstances of their birth, they are more aggressive and unpredictable than the seasoned warriors.
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