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in reverse: creatures within 60 feet attempting to move away from it are prevented from doing so, wasting their move actions (Reflex DC 31 negates) Lawful creatures beginning their turn within 60 feet of an active strange attractor are nauseated for round (Will DC 31 negates) Nausea caused by a strange attractor is a mind-affecting effect Creatures with the chaotic subtype are immune to all effects of the strange attractor The save DCs are Charisma-based A strange attractor can’t be attacked or harmed by physical attacks, but disintegrate, mage’s disjunction, a sphere of annihilation, or a rod of cancellation affect it A strange attractor’s touch AC is 18 (+8 deflection), and attacks against it suffer a 20% miss chance If a hundun’s strange attractor is destroyed, the hundun can create a new one after 1d8 hours of uninterrupted meditation If a hundun is slain, its strange attractor disappears Unarmed Strikes (Ex) A hundun’s unarmed strikes deal 4d8 points of damage, and function as chaotic, magic, and adamantine weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction A hundun can make a flurry of blows attack with its unarmed strikes as a 20th-level monk, without increasing its base attack bonus or taking the -2 penalty on attack rolls This ability also grants the hundun the Befuddling Strike rogue talent and the Punishing Kick hungry ghost monk class feature In the nightmare dimensions of unreality beyond space and time, the power of alien Gods is sufficient to give life to intention Hunduns are the incarnation of the desire to reduce the multiverse to a space filled with nothing but randomly fluctuating energy fields and gravitic curvatures Hunduns are primordial alien monks who embody aspects of the gaping, formless void that preceded the creation of the multiverse They are out of step with reality, which accommodates their individual existences as intractable errors that must be continually accounted for yet that can never fully be corrected These bizarre aberrations of life are sustained by negative energy—life’s antithetical force—yet they are not undead, nor they differentiate between the living and the unliving in the pursuit of their purpose Few beings can exist on the Negative Energy Plane for long, making the hunduns, who often make their homes there, something of an anomaly Some scholars 460 speculate that early hunduns came to the Negative Energy Plane as explorers, and remained there, addicted to the mixture of pain and euphoric release caused by the effects of negative energy on their skin Hunduns are tireless antagonists of archons, asuras, axiomites, devils, inevitables, kytons, and other exemplars of law They oppose any effort to impose or maintain discipline, structure, or regulation They loathe and undermine the prospect of peace or tranquility, and relish confusion, disorder, and destruction Though these attitudes would seem to make them ideological allies of the proteans, hunduns hold those creatures in contempt, caring nothing for that race’s strange religion, nor the spontaneous, ephemeral acts of creation in which proteans delight Hunduns believe that the freedom and truth of pure entropy are preferable to the artificial illusions of structure, and they seek to spread this brand of enlightenment to others as part of their goal to free all creation from order’s fetters Hunduns appear as gigantic humanoids with faces hidden by voluminous, hooded robes made out of their own wrinkled skin In truth, their faces are not hidden, for they are faceless; the interiors of their hoods are just filled with more folds of skin They carry staff-like objects known as strange attractors, which appear as different things to different observers but always as something that causes some form of revulsion or nausea: a shaft of knotted intestines and vital organs, studded with colored, weeping eyes; a polished metallic rod on which distorted reflections of the observer indulge in extreme self-harm; a column of darkness in which worlds spiral toward a black heart that snuffs out the life on them These implements are not artificial objects, but part of a hundun’s body As well as being weapons and snares, they are methods of reproduction Two hunduns can bring their strange attractors together, causing them to merge into an eggshaped object under the control of one of the parents;