Scribbler (3.5e Monster)

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	Scribbler
Size/Type:	Medium Aberration
Hit Dice:	5d8+10 (32 hp)
Initiative:	+6
Speed:	30 ft, fly (perfect) 30 ft
Armor Class:	18 (+6 armor, +2 dex), touch 12, flat-footed 16
Base Attack/Grapple:	+3/+3
Attack:	Tattooing +3 touch (5d6 nonlethal, 20/x2)
Full Attack:	Tattooing +3 touch (5d6 nonlethal, 20/x2)
Space/Reach:	5 ft/5 ft
Special Attacks:	Scribe Rune, SLAs, Spells, Tattooing
Special Qualities:	Darkvision 60 ft, Erasable, Illuminated Soul, Scribbled Armor, Silent Writer, Written Focus
Saves:	Fort +3, Ref +3, Will +6
Abilities:	Str 10, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 17, Wis 15, Cha 9
Skills:	Autohypnosis +8, Concentration +8, Decipher Script +8, Knowledge Arcana +8, Spellcraft +8
Feats:	Scribe ScrollB, Improved Initiative, Spell Focus (Transmutation)
Environment:	Urban Ruins
Organization:	Solitary
Challenge Rating:	6
Treasure:	Standard
Alignment:	Often True Neutral
Advancement:	By character class
Level Adjustment:	+2

The humanoid figure in front of you looks pale and washed out, it's skin exposing veins of blue and it's hair long and gray, often covering its eyes. It's eyes and mouth glow with a radiant energy, while black lines worm over it's body forming messages.

Strange aberrations from beyond normal reality, it is said that the forms they take are not their true forms but instead the result of possessing humanoid bodies and changing them into something new. Humanoids who have received lethal shocks and somehow survived may begin having multiple personality disorder, hearing voices, and eventually their original personality may be consumed as the scribbler manifests. When the scribbler manifests, the body grows pale, it's eyes and mouth radiates light, and the creature ceases to vocalize entirely. It can only communicate through written language, and can do so by controlling the irregular and erratic black squiggles which worm its way over its bleached skin. Vague black squiggles often extend out from where their bodies touch as well, and slightly behind in in vague an indistinct wings.

In spite of their uncanny appearances and inhuman origin, scribblers do not appear hostile. They have a desire of researching the written word, and enter the realms of destroyed kingdoms, lost and forgotten libraries, and other places of former humanoid activity and delve deep into them for lost tomes, spellbooks, and literature of all kinds. And in some rare cases, they may write their own books as well. These books of their own creation are always strange, disjointed, or anomalous. Text may be written backwards, the book may be composed of some living breathing creature, or objects may vibrate on their own within the presence of the words on the paper. In spite of it all, these effects are entirely extraordinary in nature, and rarely cause direct intentional damage.

Scribblers have the height and weight of an average humanoid creature, and do not speak. They understand and write in Aklo, the language of eldritch abominations, and three other languages but often understand more thanks to their spell-like abilities. They do not eat, sleep, or breath.

Combat

Scribblers generally are pacifistic, and would run rather than stay and fight. However, they are still effectively wizards, and thus have access to the real ultimate power that is arcane spellcasting.

Erasable (Ex): Scribblers are weak to the erase spell, taking 1d6 points of damage per CL from the spell, with a Fortitude save for half.

Illuminated Soul (Ex): Scribblers souls glow brightly, they shed light as a torch, though they can snuff the light by closing their eyes and mouth, or reduce it to the light of a candle by obscuring the light from their eyes with their hair. As a side bonus, they prove to have unusual resistance to soul altering effects such as magic jar and trap the soul, gaining a +5 bonus on the saving throw.

Scribbled Armor (Su): The supernatural runes across a scribbler's body act as a protective ward not unlike mage armor, granting them a +6 armor bonus. This does not stack with actual armor.

Scribe Rune (Su): Scribblers can cast any spell in rune form, acting like a glyph of warding spell. They can have up to their Wisdom modifier in scribed spells at any one time, and can choose to harmlessly discharge any scribed rune they have as a free action. Their Written Focus ability applies to scribed runes.

Silent Writer (Ex): Scribblers are mute, but they ignore the vocal components of all spells, and spells which would create or are words (such as Power Word spells) instead are written briefly on their body.

Spell-Like Abilities (Sp): At will-arcane mark, comprehend languages, inscribe, read in my voice, read magic. The saving throws are Intelligence based.

Tattooing (Su): With a touch the scribbler can establish a tattoo on a surface, or on skin. The process is painful, dealing 1d6 points of non-lethal damage to the creature per HD it possesses. Tattoos last for 1 month and fade away in time, or can be removed by an erase spell.

Spells: Scribblers cast as 5th level wizards. They do not require spellbooks, as they scribe their spells on their bodies themselves. Their "spellbooks" rarely survive their death, and are written in Aklo. This stacks with actual wizard levels. The following is a typical scribbler's spell preparation. The save DC's are Intelligence based.

Typical Wizard Spells Prepared (4/4/3/2; save DC 13 + spell level, +1 DC for transmutation)

0—amanuensis^SpC, azore's speaking tome, detect magic, touch of fatigue; 1st—color spray, magic missile, obscuring mist, silent image; 2nd—blindness/deafness, mark of summoning, web; 3rd—alien limb, summon monster III.

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