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Murderoids are aggresive, living asteroids that have their own gravity planes
and atmospheres. They are perhaps the largest denizens of wildspace, ranging
in size from several hundred feet to several hundred miles in size—most are
over 100 miles along their longest axis.
Most muderoids range in color from dark brown to dark gray, but they
sometimes take on other colors to match the surrounding asteroids. Their
sensory organs appear as craters and small hills. They communicate with other
murderoids by changing the color of their skin.
These aberrations live to eat. They attack prey—which includes ships, kindori,
and radiant dragons—by attracting it with illusions and then creating
"mouths" on their rocky surface to bite and chew when the target is within
reach. When food is not available, murderoids hybernate and drift slowely at
non-spelljamming speeds.
Murderoids can alter their basic body shape and project simple illusions. This
is equivalent to them having the following spell-like abilities, cast at a 13th-
level: grease, dig, hallucinatory terrain, stone shape, and earthquake. All
these abilities are treated as extraordinary instead of spell-like, except
for hallucinatory terrain, which is treated as supernatural. Each of these
abilities can be used up to three times per day.
Once their prey is immobilized, a murderoid will spawn mouths to consume it.
It can spawn up to three mouths in a one square mile area, and up to twelve
mouths total over its entire body. Though the murderoid is itself an aberration,
the maws are treated as semi-autonamous constructs. Spawning or absorbing a
maw is a standard action. The maws can move and attack as creatures (see
below for statistics of the murderoid maws). If a maw is "slain", it cannot
reform for one month's time.
Murderoid Maw
Hit Dice: 24d10+40 (172 hp)
Initiative: -1 (Dex)
Base Attack/Grapple: +18 / +37
Skills: —
AttackB
Environment: Murderoid
Organization: Frenzy (1-3)
Challenge Rating: 12
Treasure: None
Level Adjustment: —
The hill moves in your direction, its craterous mouth rotating to face you.
Combat
Murderoid maws attempt to bite and swallow everything in sight.
Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, a murderoid maw must hit with its
bite attack. It can then attempt to start a grapple as a free action without
provoking an attack of opportunity. If it wins the grapple check, it establishes
a hold and can attempt to swallow the foe the following around.