IX Mythos Bestiary Skills Knowledge (nature) +23, Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher) +20, Perception +28, Sense Motive +25, Stealth +23 (+31 in forests), Survival +28; Racial Modifiers +8 Stealth in forests Languages Aklo, Sylvan SQ freeze, toxic flesh ECO LO GY Environment any forest Organization solitary, pair, or brood (3–10) Treasure standard SPECIAL ABILITIES Disorienting Grapple (Ex) When a mature dark young grapples a creature that is smaller than itself, it tosses and juggles the creature in the air The juggled creature still has the grappled condition during this disorienting juggling, and in fact the nature of the grappling means that any attempt to escape the grapple suffers a –4 penalty to the roll Spells A mature dark young casts spells as a 13th-level sorcerer, and can choose spells from the druid list in addition to those from the sorcerer/wizard spell list All of these spells are arcane spells (and not require divine focus components) when cast Toxic Flesh (Ex) A dark young’s flesh is toxic if eaten Mature Dark Young Flesh—ingested; save Fort DC 27; frequency 1/round for rounds; effect 1d2 Constitution damage and Wisdom drain; cure consecutive saves A creature that eats dark young flesh is ten times as likely to fertilize a partner or become pregnant during intercourse for 24 hours after being affected by eating dark young flesh All children born or sired from such couplings are Mythos satyrs, outer mutants, or other strange horrors The save DC is Constitution-based Unnerving Susurrus (Su) A mature dark young's unnerving susurrus affects creatures at a range of 90 feet victim lands, the dark young swiftly constricts and crushes them, then tosses him again The dark young is a terrifying spawn either of Shub- All but the most mature dark young are found Niggurath herself or one of her daughters The to be mostly if not entirely hollow when killed, their creatures are typically nurtured somewhere outside the shells shriveling in a matter of days Their flesh is normal dimensions of space-time and only unleashed highly poisonous when ingested, but is also a powerful into the normal universe when fully adult aphrodisiac A dark young can attack in any direction easily Each dark young is slightly different, much as each It cannot be surprised or attacked from “behind.” tree has a slightly different shape A given specimen It attacks with numerous tentacles, grasping and has to thick hooved legs supporting it These constricting and crushing It likes to throw people in tentacled horrors can grow quite large From hoof to the air with its tentacles, catch them, then toss them the tips of their tentacles they may be dozens of feet again, playing a macabre juggling act with its victims high, and usually weigh several tons However, due to to disorient them and make it that much harder for their hollowness, immature ones are strangely light and them to break free from their clutches Each time the might weigh less than 1,000 pounds 311