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Gug ECO LO GY Environment any underground Organization solitary, pair, or cult (3–10) Treasure standard What You See SPECIAL ABILITIES This giant, black-furred humanoid's forearms split into two hands per arm It has a vertical-slice of a mouth filled with fangs and is utterly silent CR 11 XP 12,800 CE Large monstrous humanoid Init +5; Senses scent, see in darkness; Perception +24 DEFENSE AC 23, touch 15, flat-footed 17 (+5 Dex, +1 dodge, +8 natural, –1 size) hp 152 (16d10+64) Fort +9, Ref +15, Will +15 Immune disease, poison OFFENSE Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft Melee bite +22 (2d6+7/19–20x3), claws +22 (1d6+7) Space 10 ft.; Reach 15 ft Special Attacks curse foe Spell-Like Abilities (CL 11th; concentration +16; save DCs are Wis-based) At will—bestow curse (DC 18) 1/day—explosive runes (DC 19), glyph of warding (DC 19), sepia snake sigil (DC 19), symbol of fear (DC 22) Cleric Spells Prepared (CL 11st; concentration +16) 4th—unholy blight (DC 19) 3rd—bestow curse (DC 18), cure serious wounds 2nd—hold person (DC 17), silence (DC 17) 1st—cure light wounds, divine favor S TAT I S T I C S 346 Str 25, Dex 20, Con 18, Int 17, Wis 20, Cha 13 Base Atk +16; CMB +24; CMD 40 Feats Blind-Fight, Combat Casting, Dodge, Improved Critical (bite), Mobility, Power Attack, Skill Focus (Stealth), Vital Strike Skills Climb +34, Intimidate +20, Knowledge (arcana) +11, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +11, Knowledge (religion) +19, Perception +24, Spellcraft +19, Stealth +34; Racial Modifiers +8 Stealth Languages Gug SQ compression, divine spellcasting, glyph mastery, savage maw, silent casting Curse Foe (Su) A gug’s spell-like ability to use bestow curse can be used at a range of 30 feet up to three times per day, but it must still make a successful ranged touch attack to potentially affect a foe Once per day, a gug can use its bestow curse spell-like ability as a swift action on a creature that it has successfully dealt damage to via a critical hit with a bite or claw attack In addition to the normal curse options available from bestow curse, a gug’s curse can also strip from a creature the ability to speak Divine Spellcasting All gugs can cast a limited number of cleric spells, but not have the full capabilities of an actual cleric A gug’s caster level for its cleric spells is equal to its Hit Dice – (maximum caster level 20th) The typical gug can cast one 4th-level cleric spell and each of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level cleric spells each day A gug with at least 20 Hit Dice can cast one 7th-level cleric spell and each of levels through each day A gug with at least 24 Hit Dice can cast one 9th-level cleric spell and each of levels through each day When a gug casts a spell with a divine focus component, it may opt to utilize a held amount of viscera or mutilated flesh or an adjacent magical rune or glyph as the divine focus Gugs typically never gain actual levels as clerics, but in the rare cases that they do, their cleric levels not stack with their innate spellcasting ability Glyph Mastery (Ex) A gug always modifies the save DC of any writing-based spell or spell-like ability with its Wisdom modifier, and increases the save DC of any such effect it creates by +1 A gug never triggers a magical trap created by such a spell or spell-like ability unless it chooses to trigger the trap Savage Maw (Ex) A gug’s bite inflicts triple damage on a successful critical hit Silent Casting (Ex) All cleric spells cast by a gug are automatically enhanced as if by the Silent Spell metamagic feat, with no increase to the spell’s effective level Spell-Like Abilities While a gug can create several magical written traps each day with its spell-like abilities, it can only maintain one of each of these magical traps at a time If a gug uses one of its spell-like abilities to create a written magical trap, any previously placed magical trap vanishes without discharging Gugs are creatures so evil that even the Mythos gods once banned them from the surface world Their legends remind them of the tasty nature of surfacedwellers, driving their lust to return An attempt by the