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Siphon Of Skill (Alpha 0.1)
🕑 Added 2022-01-16 06:33:59 +0000 UTCWhile many angels are known for their elegance and grace, a Siphon of Skill is a nearly robotic celestial that serves as an extension of the will of another angel, making it incapable of retaining a personality or emotions of its own. Though this angel is capable of speech, it acts entirely in the interest in the angel that created it, toting a personality that is comparable to a simplified version of its creator.
As they serve as extensions of other, more powerful angels, a Siphon of Skill exists to collect the talent and skill of another creature, repurposing it in the name of the angel it serves. While they most often aim to repurpose the strength of demons and other corrupted beings, if a Siphon of Skill finds a being it believes to be misusing its talents, it is common for this angel to attempt to steal power for its superior celestial.
Emitting a faint yellow glow, while the Siphon of Skill possesses a form reminiscent of a female humanoid angel, it's body is simplified and lacking detail, much like a mannequin. Rather than toting wings like many other angels, a Siphon of Skill's back is capable of producing three retractable tentacles that it uses in combat. While these tentacles can be used to restrict and grapple targets, their primary purpose is to magically drain the talent and skill from another creature.
While the Siphon's ability to drain power can be quite dangerous, it is only capable of containing a finite amount of energy at once. Additionally, if a Siphon of Skill sustains substantial damage, all energy it contains is returned to its source.
Siphon Of Skill
Movement: 4
Combat Stats:
HP: 67
Will: 75
MP: 46
Strength: 8
Mind: 4
Defense: 6
Resolve: 5
Finesse: 6
Speed: 6
Utility Stats:
Awareness: 2
Diplomacy: 2
Knowledge: 2
Physicality: 2
Subtlety: 2
Resistances And Weaknesses: The Siphon of Skill is resistant to light and psychic damage. Additionally, the Siphon of Skill cannot be charmed or hypnotized.
Inventory:
None
Angelic Casting: The Siphon of Skill knows three spells from the Priest spell list with a combined MP cost no greater than 18.
Tentacled Form: Through the use of its tentacles, the Siphon of Skill has access to three hands worth of actions on its turn.
Draining Tentacle: As a one-handed action, the Siphon of Skill can attack a creature within three spaces. It's accuracy dice is 1d8 and its damage dice is 1d8 (adding strength). If a creature is dealt damage by this attack, it must roll 1d8, adding its defense. If the total is 10 or less, the Siphon of Skill chooses one of the target's combat stats. That stat is reduced by 1d4. That respective stat of the Siphon of Skill is increased by the result. The Siphon of Skill can increase a single stat by no more than +5 this way and it cannot gain a total of more than a total of more than +15 collectively between each of its stats.
Restricting Tentacle: As a one-handed action, the Siphon of Skill can attempt to restrain a creature within three spaces. It's accuracy dice is 1d8. On a hit, rather than dealing damage, the Siphon of Skill can reduce the target's movement to 0 for as long is it remains restricted this way. The Siphon of Skill has one less action on each of its turns for each creature it's currently restraining this way. If a creature restrained by this ability is targeted by the Draining Tentacle, the Siphon of Skill adds +2 to its roll to hit. If a restrained creature is targeted by the Beguiling Tentacle, the total result needed to ignore the effect increases by +2. At the beginning of a restrained creature's turn, it can roll 1d8, adding their strength to the result. If the total result is greater than the Siphon of Skill's strength, this effect ends.
Beguiling Tentacle: As a one-handed action, the Siphon of Skill can use a tentacle to attempt to temporarily alter the mind of a target. The target must roll 1d8, adding their resolve. If the total is less than 9, the target's mind is overwhelmed by thoughts of adoration towards the Siphon of Skill and the Angel that created it. The target is hypnotized by the Siphon of Skill until the end of the target's next turn. While hypnotized this way, the target cannot attack any angels it can see or target angels with spells or abilities, but it can otherwise control its own actions.
Energy Dispersal: When the Siphon of Skill sustains thirty or more damage from a single source or whenever it is defeated, all stats that were drained via the Siphon's Draining Tentacle attack are returned to their original sources.
