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/------------------------------ The Vlekthid Race ------------------------------\ /------------------------------ The Vlekthid Race ------------------------------\
- | Attributes [[Strength]] 40 to 70 |+ | Attributes [[Strength]] 40 to 70 |
- | [[Intellect]] 90 to 140 |+ | [[Intellect]] 90 to 140 |
- | [[Vitality]] 70 to 100 |+ | [[Vitality]] 70 to 100 |
- | [[Agility]] 70 to 100 |+ | [[Agility]] 70 to 100 |
- | [[Willpower]] 80 to 140 |+ | [[Willpower]] 80 to 140 |
- | [[Ego]] 80 to 140 |+ | [[Ego]] 80 to 140 |
- | [[Perception]] 80 to 100 |+ | [[Perception]] 80 to 100 |
- | [[Size]] 63 to 93 |+ | [[Size]] 63 to 93 |
- |Typical Sexes |+ |Typical Sexes |
- | Neuter |+ | Neuter |
- |Languages |+ |Languages |
- | Native [[Phglek]] | + | Native [[Phglek]] |
- | |+ | |
- |Innate Skills [[Regeneration]] 20 |+ |Innate Skills [[Regeneration]] 20 |
- | [[Subordination]] 10 |+ | [[Subordination]] 10 |
- |Specialty Access [[Regeneration]] available: degree III, |+ |Specialty Access [[Regeneration]] available: degree III, |
- | bonus: degree I |+ | bonus: degree I |
- | |+ | |
- | [[Tissue Softening]] available: degree II, |+ | [[Tissue Softening]] available: degree II, |
- | bonus: degree I |+ | bonus: degree I |
- | |+ | |
- | [[Subordination]] available: degree II |+ | [[Subordination]] available: degree II |
- | [[Swimming]] available: degree III, |+ | [[Swimming]] available: degree III, |
- | bonus: degree I |+ | bonus: degree I |
- | [[Redaction]] and [[Telepathy]] available: degree V, |+ | [[Redaction]] and [[Telepathy]] available: degree V, |
- | bonus: degree I |+ | bonus: degree I |
- | |+ | |
- | Resistances Poison moderate resistance |+ | Resistances Poison moderate resistance |
- | Temporal very strong resistance |+ | Temporal very strong resistance |
- | Disease strong resistance |+ | Disease strong resistance |
- | Fire moderate resistance |+ | Fire moderate resistance |
- | Traits [[Diet]] Neurovore |+ | Traits [[Diet]] Neurovore |
- | [[Respiration]] Membrane |+ | [[Respiration]] Membrane |
- | [[Sentience]] Intellectual |+ | [[Sentience]] Intellectual |
- | [[Speech Pattern]] Impediment |+ | [[Speech Pattern]] Impediment |
- | [[Assimilativity]] -15 |+ | [[Assimilativity]] -15 |
- | [[Regrowth]] 2 |+ | [[Regrowth]] 2 |
- | [[Night Vision]] 2 |+ | [[Night Vision]] 2 |
- | Cultures and Homelands |+ | Cultures and Homelands |
- | Syllyaczl Syllyac |+ | Syllyaczl Syllyac |
- | Physical Characteristics |+ | Physical Characteristics |
- | Anatomy Four-Tentacled Anthropoid|+ | Anatomy Four-Tentacled Anthropoid|
- | Natural Armour Moderate |+ | Natural Armour Moderate |
- | Natural Weaponry Excellent |+ | Natural Weaponry Excellent |
- | Mental Characteristics |+ | Mental Characteristics |
- | Psi Psychic |+ | Psi Psychic |
- | Psychically Alien | + | Psychically Alien |
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Revision as of 23:07, 9 April 2020

The Vlekthid Race

   Rarity: Rare
   Plural: Vlekthid
   Anatomy: Four-Tentacled Anthropoid
   Sexes: Neuter
   Harm Skills:
       Elder Lore    51%
       Intimidation  26%
       Anatomy       13%
       Torture       10%
/------------------------------ The Vlekthid Race ------------------------------\
| Attributes                Strength                   40 to 70                 |
|                           Intellect                  90 to 140                |
|                           Vitality                   70 to 100                |
|                           Agility                    70 to 100                |
|                           Willpower                  80 to 140                |
|                           Ego                        80 to 140                |
|                           Perception                 80 to 100                |
|                           Size                       63 to 93                 |
|Typical Sexes                                                                  |
|                         Neuter                                                |
|Languages                                                                      |
|                         Native                    Phglek                      |           
|                                                                               |
|Innate Skills          Regeneration                20                          |
|                       Subordination               10                          |
|Specialty Access       Regeneration                available: degree III,      |
|                                                       bonus: degree I         |
|                                                                               |
|                       Tissue Softening            available: degree II,       |
|                                                       bonus: degree I         |
|                                                                               |
|                       Subordination               available: degree II        |
|                       Swimming                    available: degree III,      |
|                                                       bonus: degree I         |
|                     Redaction and Telepathy       available: degree V,        |
|                                                       bonus: degree I         |
|                                                                               |
| Resistances             Poison                  moderate resistance           |
|                         Temporal                very strong resistance        |
|                         Disease                 strong resistance             |
|                         Fire                    moderate resistance           |
| Traits                  Diet                    Neurovore                     |
|                         Respiration             Membrane                      |
|                         Sentience               Intellectual                  |
|                         Speech Pattern          Impediment                    |
|                         Assimilativity          -15                           |
|                         Regrowth                 2                            |
|                         Night Vision             2                            |
| Cultures and Homelands                                                        |
|                         Syllyaczl                     Syllyac                 |
| Physical Characteristics                                                      |
|                        Anatomy                       Four-Tentacled Anthropoid|
|                        Natural Armour                Moderate                 |
|                        Natural Weaponry              Excellent                |
| Mental Characteristics                                                        |
|                          Psi                         Psychic                  |
|                                                      Psychically Alien        |              
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The vlekthid are a race of beings with tentacled, squid-like heads and bodies of a weird, rubbery flesh, known for their powers of the mind and their practices of enslaving those of other races and, perhaps most horrifically, feeding on their brains. Among some, these traits earn them the epithet "mind flayers". Their preferred environment is deep underground, where they build cities of strange and imposing architecture. From these, they conduct raids on other subterranean peoples and the surface, capturing slaves to use as labor and food.

Vlekthid appear to be related in some way to the gogtzul, and treat them with unrelenting hostility. Though the gogtzul are more physically powerful than the vlekthid, their psychic capabilities are generally less developed.

Though they speak among themselves only rarely, generally preferring mental communication, the vlekthid have a language, called Phglek, which their slaves are forced to learn for their masters' convenience.

Development Information: The vlekthid race (/def/race/v/vlekthid) was created by Nightmare and Chaos, who wish to credit Gary Gygax as inspiring this work, and is maintained by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Wed May 12 10:37:32 2010.

Description:

This disquieting creature is of anthropoid outline, but having a squid-like head with a mass of tentacles reaching out from the face and a scaly and rubbery-looking body of a dead-looking gray color. It moves with a sinister smoothness, and its two blank gray eyes convey a sense of immense alienness. You recognize this as an vlekthid, one of a species best known for its habit of dining on the fresh brains of other sentient species and for its strange powers of the mind. It has a webwork of sparkling light within and around it. It looks about seventeen dimins tall, six and seven tenths dimins wide and one and thirteen twentieths dimins long. It is in good shape.
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