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its skill to wrest information from them about other potential
victims or enemies. It is semi-incorporeal, having physical limbs
and weapons but an incorporeal torso. It walks slowly and clumsily
but is able to fly well.
Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, the excrutiator
must hit a Medium or smaller opponent with a claw attack.
It can then attempt to start a grapple as a free action without
provoking an attack of
opportunity. Subdued victims
are usually strapped onto a
nearby torture device.
Lingering Torment (Ex):
Excruciators can opt to make
weapon and bite attacks as
subdual instead of regular
damage with no penalty to hit.
These subdual attacks are particularly
painful; their weapons
are all designed to maximize
pain. Anyone suffering subdual
damage from an excruciator receives
a –4 circumstance penalty to
Concentration or similar skill checks
(which includes reloading a firearm).
Painwrack (Su): If not engaged in
combat and the excruciator has an incapacitated
victim, it can cause projected
pain onto anyone within a 60-foot radius
who fails a Will save (DC 17). The save
DC is Charisma-based. The excruciator
must first succeed on a Profession (torturer)
skill check at a DC of 18 + the Wisdom
modifier of victim. The effect is exactly the
same as the spell symbol of pain within the radius. If the
skill check succeeds by 10 or more, there is a –4 penalty
to resist the effect. This lasts for an additional 2d4 rounds
after the excruciator is interrupted.
Replenishing Sadism (Su): An excruciator can regenerate
half the subdual damage it causes to others by inflicting its lingering
torment ability upon them. Therefore if an excruciator
causes 10 points of subdual damage, it regenerates 5 hp.
Semi-Incorporeal Form (Su): While the excruciator’s torso
is always incorporeal, its limbs and head always remain corporeal.
As a result, excruciator’s are subject to the attacks of both
corporeal and incorporeal creatures. However, since its body
is divided roughly in half between these two states, there is a
20% chance that any attack will miss (positive energy, negative
energy, force effects such as magic missile, and attacks made
with ghost touch weapons are not subject to this miss chance).
In addition, due to the incorporeal nature of the excruciator’s
torso it can move through tiny spaces (2 1⁄2 by 2 1⁄2 feet)
without penalty and squeeze through diminutive spaces (1 by
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Excrutiator
1 foot). While squeezing through a diminutive space its movement
speed is halved, and the excruciator suffers a –4 penalty
to attack rolls and AC.
Treasure
Although not attached to items, excruciators keep and store
possessions owned by victims—which can accumulate into an
impressive horde. Their imaginative torture devices sell well to
certain collectors. The oldest excruciators
may also have valuable weapons
or coins from the Orgoth Empire.
The best treasure of the excruciator is its
journal(s), some of which contain extremely valuable
information to those who can translate them.
Legends
& Lore
CoMMoN: None.
UNCoMMoN: These intelligent
spirits haunt Orgoth ruins
or sometimes relocate to other
abandoned torture facilities. They
choose lairs that have functioning (or
repairable) torture implements.
RARE: Victims killed by excruciators
rise as thralls in service to them.
More powerful undead are also
sometimes enslaved into service.
obSCURE: True excruciators
arise from the evil souls of Orgoth
torture masters, who conducted dark rites
during interrogations. They know innumerable
secrets of causing suffering and are keepers of
much lore that has been lost. Excruciators can cause pain even to
those who are normally immune. It may be possible to bargain
to be spared by an excruciator by promising to bring other victims
who know more valuable information.
Hooks
Adventurers are hired by an influential wizard of Ceryl to
investigate an old Orgoth complex in the Wyrmwall Mountains.
He seeks a number of books kept by the head inquisitor who had
run the prisons. These are actually the journals of an excruciator,
and the wizard is an infernalist seeking lore for dark bargains. Not
only will the adventurers face the excruciator, but they will have to
deal with their employer—once the books are in his hands, he will
try to eliminate them by summoning infernal myrmidons.
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