Kiramon defender

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Kiramon defender
Kiramon worker.jpg
Level 46
Family Kiramon family creatures
Body Type Insect
Classification(s) Living
Boss
Area(s) Found Darkstone Castle
Kharam Dzu
Seethe Naedal
Czeroth Labyrinth
BCS Yes
HP 300
Speed 6
Attack Attributes
Physical Attacks
Tongue Strike 256 AS
Charge (attack) 262 AS
Claw 256 AS
Warding Spells
Disease Poison CS
Combat Maneuvers
Hamstring
Special Offensive Abilities
Lunge
Defense Attributes
Armor
Brigandine Armor (natural) ASG 12N
Defensive Strength (DS)
Melee 188
Ranged 205
Bolt 195
Unarmed Defense Factor
UDF 234
Target Defense (TD)
Bard Base 160 - 163
Cleric Base 178
Empath Base
Paladin Base
Ranger Base
Sorcerer Base 177 - 195
Wizard Base
Minor Elemental 198 - 201
Major Elemental
Minor Spiritual 168 - 183
Major Spiritual 177
Minor Mental 177
Treasure Attributes
Coins
Gems Yes
Magic Items
Boxes
Skin a kiramon tongue
Other glowing mineral water
The kiramon defender has a mobile head with huge, bulging, eyes that sparkle in a faceted clustering around a lidless perimeter.  Protruding from his massive head is a vicious-looking snout with insectile mandibles, while the back of his cranium is a distended, two-lobed case.  Remarkably powerful rear legs jut backward from an extremely hard, resilient exoskeleton that seems to be in constant motion.  Though his middle legs have evolved away long ago, his front legs end in strong opposing claws and knobby-jointed fingers.  Stunted wings flap uselessly from his long cylindrical body.

Hunting strategies

  • Have the ability to emit lightning flares on successful melee strikes. An example of these lightning flares:
A kiramon defender charges at you!
AS: +256 vs DS:X with AvD: +31 + d100 roll: +91 = X
... and hits for 6 points of damage!
Thumped your chest.

** White-blue bolts of electrical energy radiate outward from the defender! **

... 50 points of damage!
Electrical shock overloads your nervous system! Quite fatal.
  • On successful tongue strike attacks, a CS based poison attempt will occur every time.
  • Can still stand and attack even if all four of their limbs are removed.
  • Puncture resistance.
  • Fire resistance.
  • Contrary to popular belief, Perception does NOT play a role in searching or looting them.

An example of a kiramon defender's hamstring:

A kiramon defender darts behind you quickly and tries to hamstring you with its pincers!
[Roll result: 52 (open d100: 44)]
The kiramon defender's swing goes wide!

An example of a kiramon defender's lunge attack:

A kiramon defender lunges at you with its open mandibles!
It clamps on to your Rather Large Weapon, wrangling and thrashing with it in its powerful jaws!
 ... 20 points of damage!
 Finger and wrist grappled, twists hand!
 You are knocked to the ground!
 You are stunned for 2 rounds!
  • Kiramon have a chance to cut through webbing from Web (118). Other kiramon can pull them from the web as well.

Examples of kiramon avoiding webbing:

A kiramon defender strains at the webs which bind it. 
The kiramon defender slashes the webs away with its vicious mandibles!
The webs dissolve from around a kiramon defender.
A kiramon defender pulls its fellow defender from some webs!
The webs dissolve from around a kiramon defender.
  • Similarly, kiramon can dispell the spell Calm (201) from fellow kiramon:
A kiramon defender rouses its fellow kiramon defender!
The calmed look leaves a kiramon defender.

Other information

Skinning for kiramon tongues may cause a CS-based poison check.

References

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