Curious Aura. Any being within a 20-foot sphere centered on the Boxen and is charmed and must use all of its movement each round to move closer to the monster. The creature can't willingly move away from the Boxen. If the creature is attacked at all, the charm breaks and the creature does not know it was charmed.
False Appearance. When unmoving, it is indistinguishable from a normal crate.
Devour. The Boxen can choose to devour an object or creature. If It has surprise, the creature is devoured immediately. If not, the creature is devoured after three rounds. If it is an object, it is devoured immediately.
Use Weapon. The boxen can use whatever melee weapon it has devoured as an attack. For using it, the Boxen takes 5 slashing damage.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., 1 target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage plus 4 (1d8) acid damage and is grappled (escape DC 17). The grappled target has three rounds to escape the grapple or it is swallowed and contained inside the Boxen. The creature inside of the Boxen takes 2 (1d4) slashing damage plus 3 (1d6) acid damage per round and is restrained. While retrained in this way, the creature can take no actions. The Boxen must be killed to release anything inside.
Absorb. The Boxen can absorb any hit it takes and reapply it to any creature it has devoured. The creature takes half of the damage dealt plus 1 acid damage. The Boxen can only use this three times per round.
Description
Boxen are a subrace of Mimic that look like wooden crates. They live wherever they can convince people that they are just crates. Boxen need to constantly eat to stay alive so they settle in dungeons that have lots of traffic and/or armor. They also settle in ports where there are lots of goods going in or out. An occasional adventurer can sustain a single Boxen for 3 months if it is a medium creature going up or down one month depending on the size. e.g a small creature is worth 2 months of food and a large creature is worth 4 months.
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