Actions

Psuedopod:

+6 to hit, 1d8+3 damage, 15' Range Upon hitting its enemy, the creature and its prey must make a contested strength check, with the prey being pulled 15' toward the Octopod on a failure. If the prey is pulled into the Octopod's space, it will constrict its prey until it becomes pliant enough to eat.  

Constrict:

Str saving throw, DC 16 The Octopod will lash strands of itself around its prey, and begin to squeaze the life out of it, in order to more easily consume it. Unless it succeeds on a DC 16 strength saving throw to break free of the octopod's slimy embrace, the Octopod's prey will take 2d6 points of bludgeoning damage.  

Ink Spray:

Dex saving throw, DC 16 The Octopod will spray a stream of concentrated, blinding ink at a spot within 30' of it, splashing it in a 10' radius hemisphere. Unless a dexterity saving throw of 16 is successfully rolled, anyone in the area of effect will be blinded for one minute.

Comprised of a hole, or basin, of some sort, usually within a cave or other moist depression near the sea. Ideally, it will find an abandoned eel burrow, or otter den, that it can figure out a way to keep warm. Their lairs are littered with the bones of its victims, bleached white by the octopod's digestive mucous.

Suggested Environments

Damp caves near the ocean, subterranean lairs.