Drainberry Bush

Creature 7

uncommon
Large
plant

Perception: +16; lifesense 120 feet
Languages: Aklo, Common, Fey, Can't speak any language, Telepathy 100 feet
Skills: Acrobatics +11, Athletics +17, Diplomacy +13, Nature +17, Stealth +11; Str +6, Dex +2, Con +6, Int −2, Wis +4, Cha +2

Telepathy 100 feet (aura, magical, mental)

Nature Empathy The drainberry bush can use Diplomacy to Make an Impression on and make very simple Requests of animals and plant creatures.

AC: 23; Fort +17, Ref +13, Will +13
HP: 135; Weaknesses fire 10; Resistances void 10

Speed: 25 feet, climb 20 feet

Melee ◆ vine +17 (reach 20 feet), Damage 2d8+10 bludgeoning plus Improved Grab

Blood Berries (healing, primal) The drainberry bush must drain blood from living creatures for sustenance. This causes clusters of bright red berries to grow among its branches.

Each cluster of berries lasts for 1 day, and a drainberry bush typically has 1d6+3 clusters when encountered. When consumed, a cluster restores 2d8+10 healing Hit Points. This effect has the healing, necromancy, and primal traits.

A creature can pluck a cluster of berries with a successful unarmed Strike or Thievery check against the bush's AC.

Consume Berries ◆ (healing, primal, vitality) The bush draws nourishment from one cluster of blood berries, regaining 2d8+10 healing Hit Points. That berry cluster wrinkles and dies.

Drain Blood ◆ Requirements The drainberry bush has at least one living creature Grabbed with one of its vines

Effect The bush squeezes all creatures it has grabbed, its hollow thorns piercing flesh and siphoning blood. Each creature must succeed at a DC 25 Fortitude save or take 2d8+10 piercing damage and become Drained 1 (double damage and Drained 2 on a critical failure). For every creature damaged this way, a cluster of blood berries immediately grows along the bush's branches.

Storm of Vines ◆◆ The drainberry bush makes up to four vine Strikes, each against a different target. These attacks count toward the bush's multiple attack penalty, but the multiple attack penalty doesn't increase until after the bush makes all these attacks.

Improved Grab ◇

Source: Pathfinder Monster Core 2

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