文档介绍：Shadowsponge (“Air Stealer”) SJRl
CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Any space
FREQUENCY: Rare
ORGANIZATION: Solitary or groups
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Any
DIET: Special
INTELLIGENCE: Semi- (2-4)
TREASURE: Nil
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic neutral
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NO. APPEARING: 1-6
ARMOR CLASS: 9
MOVEMENT: FI 13 (C)
HIT DICE: 7+7
THACO: 13
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-4/round (constriction) or 1
(ram)
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Gas effects
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Nil
SIZE: Ci (ovoid, 36’+ long)
MORALE: Steady (11)
VALUE: 1400
These strange monsters are feared by all spacefarers. They single round, it convulsively releases enveloped beings (who
drift in space until they sense the approach of an atmos- suffer damage from the attacks causing their release).
phere, and attack mindlessly, absorbing precious air.
A shadowsponge appears as a greyish sponge. Hundreds Habitat/Society: Shadowsponges are only semi-intelligent,
of rubbery, many-branched air sacs protrude from a central but seem to herd together by instinct and move toward
mass. Studded with small, keen eyes and sensory patches, a atmospheres in space. They avoid the large, stable atmos-
sponge can ‘smell’ air in the void up to three miles away. pheres of worlds. Some sages believe shadowsponges are
The substance of a shddowsponge is inedible. If struck by merely a stage in the lives of more advanced fungoid crea-
fiery or electrical attacks (which do normal damage), it burns tures. This stage, it is thought, ends when a sponge reaches a
with a thick, choking smoke. The smoke expands rapidly to certain inner state by absorbing the nutrients it needs from
fill a 30’ spherical area, and lasts for 2-5 turns, completely absorbed gases. It then enters a world’s atmosphere and falls
blocking normal vision beyond 4’, and turning clean air to the surface, metamorphosing into spores to begin life
within its confines to foul. anew in some other form.
Elminster cautions us that although this theo