Guecubu

A skeletal carcass pulls itself from the ground, its body formed as much from earth and soil as from bones and rotting flesh.

Guecubu (CR 8)

Medium Undead (Earth)
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Initiative: +8
Senses: Darkvision 60 feet, Tremorsense 60 feet; Perception +18
Aura: broken ground (30 feet, DC 20)

Speed: 30 feet, Burrow 15 feet ( earth glide)
Space: 5 feet

Defense

Armor Class: 21, touch 15, flat-footed 16 (+4 Dex, +1 dodge, +6 natural)
Hit Points: 104 (11d8+55) Fast Healing 5
Saving Throws: Fort +8, Ref +7, Will +11
Channel Resistance +2
Damage Reduction: 5/bludgeoning
Immunity: electricity, undead traits
Energy Resistance: cold 10

Offense

Melee: bite +14 (1d8+6 plus misfortune), 2 slams +14 (1d6+6 plus misfortune)
Reach: 5 feet

Spell-Like Abilities (CL 8th; Concentration +13):

• At Will- Stone Shape
  
  
• 3/day- Soften Earth and Stone, Spike Growth (DC 18)
  
  
• 1/day- Spike Stones (DC 19), Transmute Mud to Rock (DC 20), Transmute Rock to Mud (DC 20)

Statistics

Str	Dex	Con	Int	Wis	Cha
22 (+6)	18 (+4)	-	13 (+1)	18 (+4)	21 (+5)

Base Attack Bonus: +8
CMB +14
CMD 29

Feats: Dodge, Improved Initiative, Spring Attack, Whirlwind Attack

Skills: Acrobatics +15, Knowledge (nature) +12, Perception +18, Sense Motive +18, Stealth +18

Languages: Abyssal, Common

Special Abilities

Broken Ground (Su)

The ground in a 30-foot radius around a guecubu ripples and shudders unnaturally. This transforms the area surrounding a guecubu into difficult terrain. A guecubu can move through this area with no penalty. Consecrated ground cannot be affected by this ability, nor can any area warded by a magic circle against chaos or a magic circle against evil.

Misfortune (Su)

A creature struck by a guecubu must make a DC 20 Will save or become permanently cursed with misfortune. The victim of this curse takes a -4 penalty on all attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks, and any critical threat against the victim automatically confirms. If a guecubu hits a creature already suffering from this curse, the victim must make a DC 20 Will save or be staggered for 1 round. This is a curse effect. The save DC is Charisma-based.

Ecology

Environment: Any
Organization: solitary
Treasure: standard


Often when a particularly evil criminal is executed, suspicious folk fear that the criminal's remains might rise from death to continue to plague the living. To combat this possibility, many mobs or rural justices take to the practice of burning the bodies, grinding the bones, and scattering the remains in the wild.

Yet in the case of particularly evil criminals, even these steps are in vain, for their will is enough to reassemble a body from earth, stone, roots, and plants drawn from the region into which the remains were scattered. Such an undead horror rises as a guecubu, a harbinger of misfortune and vengeance from beyond the grave.

A newly formed guecubu remembers well how its enemies treated it, and while the undead creature retains none of its previous life's talents, its undead state grants it many new tools to seek revenge with. Typically, a guecubu does not limit its revenge to those directly involved with its execution-entire villages and towns fall victim to its rage.

The guecubu's tactics tend toward the subtle, and it seeks to spread misfortune and death on a person-by-person basis, slaying its enemies one at a time until they flee, so that all that remains is a ghost town. A guecubu is 6 feet tall and weighs 100 pounds.