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=== Combat ===

The lukatmi wants to be observed, and the smart thing is to avert your eyes or fight blind.  Against those, the lukatmi is most aggressive, wailing and flailing and trying to trigger its hex on beefy opponents who have the most to lose from the curse.

'''Gyration {{Ex}}:'''  The lukatmi never stops moving, twisting, gyrating, and dancing.  As a result, it is under a constant extraordinary ''[[SRD:Freedom of Movement|freedom of movement]]'', and it is immune to any effect that would deny it move actions (such as dazing, but not the slowness of ''[[SRD:Solid Fog|solid fog]]'').

'''Hexing {{Su}}:'''  When a creature is struck by a lukatmi's slam attack it must make a [[Fortitude]] save (DC 20) or half it's maximum hp temporarily cut in half.  This lasts for 1 minute or until ''[[SRD:Remove Curse|remove curse]]'' or other effects that remove curses are applied.  The extra hp you have over half are not lost, but are effectively inaccessible while cursed.  If you drop to -10 hp or less while cursed and you die, you remain dead even if you would gain enough hp to come back to life.  The save DC is [[Charisma]] based.

'''Observational Curse {{Ex}}:'''  To see a lukatmi is to invite a corruption of your very essence.  Treat this as a passive gaze attack for anyone within 100 ft of the lukatmi.  They must make a DC 20 [[Will]] save or take 2d6 vile damage<sup>BoVD</sup> each round at the start of their turn.  A successful save merely makes it normal damage.  Combined with hexing, it can be a very difficult fight to keep one's hit points.

'''Observational Invitation {{Ex}}:'''  A lukatmi cannot approach a target.  In their natural form they are locked in a 100 ft area, ethereal and invisible.  However creatures outside of this range at a minimum distance of 100 ft can make a DC 20 Spot check to see something dancing wildly in the distance, a somehow visible lukatmi.  If they see the lukatmi, it immediately appears adjacent to the first viewer on the material plane and attacks!  This is effectively teleportation, and it can pass through windows and walls to get to its target.  At this point it may move freely until all creatures who viewed it are dead or it has been unobserved for 10 minutes, after which it becomes locked in place and shifted back to the ethereal plane.

'''Surface Bound {{Ex}}:'''  The lukatmi appears to bubble and boil out of surfaces.  They cannot jump, be lifted, nor exist not attached to a surface.  They pass over water and other liquid surfaces as if they were solid.  If forced under a surface such as water, they rise to the surface at 60 ft a round automatically once freed.  A lukatmi can never fly and any force that tears it from the surface immediately shunts it back to the ground, taking 1d6 damage every 5 ft it must travel.

'''Vileflesh {{Ex}}:'''  The silvery miasma that makes up a lukatmi's body is dangerous to the touch.  Creatures in a grapple or striking the lukatmi with a natural weapon or unarmed strike take 1 point of vile damage for the trouble.  When the lukatmi dies it melts into a pile of silvery goo, which retains these vile properties for 11 days before evaporating.  A single lukatmi is enough to coat a weapon 11 times in a "poison" that causes the next strike to do vile damage.

'''Whirling Strikes {{Ex}}:'''  A lukatmi is always in motion, flailing its limbs.  It can choose to make either a single bonus attack at its highest attack modifier (as per ''[[SRD:Haste|haste]]'') against a single target, or make a [[SRD:Whirlwind Attack|Whirlwind Attack]].

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Alignment	Always Chaotic Evil +
Author	Eiji-kun +
Challenge Rating	11 +
Environment	Any +
Identifier	3.5e Monster +
Level Adjustment	— +
Rating	Unrated +
Size	Medium +
Subtype	Chaotic + and Extraplanar +
Title	Lukatmi +
Type	Aberration +