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Well Haunt
Medium Undead (Incorporeal)
Hit Dice: 5d12 (32 hp)
Initiative: +8
Speed: Swim 40 ft. (8 squares)
Armor Class: 15 (+4 Dex, +1 deflection),
touch 15, flat-footed 11
Base Attack/Grapple: +2/+9
Attack: Touch +6 melee (drown)
Full Attack: Touch +6 melee (drown)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Drown
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft.,
incorporeal traits, undead traits, water form
Saves: Fort +1, Ref +5, Will +3
The water of the well swells up into a
vaguely humanoid form that reaches out with
translucent arms.
Combat
Well haunts seek to drown others, or else
they hated the settlement enough in life to haunt
its water supply in death. The well haunt waits in
the well until someone comes by to draw water.
Then the well haunt manifests itself, rising up in a
flood, as a knot of watery tentacles or as a vaguely
human shape suggested by the form of the water.
Regardless, the well haunt envelops the victim
and drags him down into the well. The well haunt
bangs its victim around, knocking the air out of
him and making him easier to drown.
Drown (Ex): A well haunt using its water
form can make a grapple check to draw the
victim into its fluid form and pull the victim into
its well. There, it will hold the victim submerged
and enveloped into its water form until the victim
drowns. The victim is at risk of drowning (see
page 33). A victim that succeeds on a DC 16 Reflex
save when enveloped had time to hold its breath
and doesn’t begin to drown immediately. The save
DC is Dexterity-based.
A trapped victim can attack the well haunt
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Abilities: Str 16, Dex 19, Con —, Int 9, Wis
9, Cha 12
Skills: Escape Artist +12, Hide +12, Listen
+8, Spot +6, Swim +15, Use Rope +4 (+6
bindings)
Feats: Alertness, Improved Grapple B ,
Improved Initiative
Environment: Any land
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 3
Treasure: Triple standard
Alignment: Always neutral evil
Advancement: 6-10 HD (Medium); 11-15
HD (Large)
Level Adjustment: —
or make additional grapple checks to escape
its grasp. The character cannot cast spells with
a verbal component or use any other item or
ability that requires speech. If other characters use
edged weapons to attack the well haunt while it is
holding a victim, those attacks have a 25% chance
of hitting the trapped character. The well haunt
takes no damage from any such attacks, if they
deal damage to the victim.
Water Form (Su): A well haunt can gather
water around itself to assume a physical form as a
free action, which it then uses to envelop a victim.
In this form, the well haunt remains incorporeal
with regard to resisting damage and magic, but
it can act physically upon things in the material
world. Its natural attacks are treated as ghost
touch weapons, and it gains damage reduction
5/bludgeoning and magic.
Skills: A well haunt has a +8 racial bonus on
any Swim check to perform some special action or
avoid a hazard. It can always choose to take 10 on
a Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. It
can use the run action while swimming, provided
it swims in a straight line.
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