XILL
Evil and alien, these flame-red humanoids are a strange mix of insect and reptile, with four arms and fanged mandibles. Xills have only one purpose: to perpetuate themselves at the expense of others. All xills are female and capable of fertilizing their own eggs, but they require living hosts as incubators. A xill injects eggs into paralyzed victims via a grotesque ovipositor behind their mandibles. They prefer phase spiders as hosts. Xills are the scourge of the Ethereal Plane. These plane-shifters possess impressive intelligence and a totalitarian, militaristic culture all their own. They sometimes come to the Material Plane to find hosts.
Type: Evil Outsider (Xill)
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d6, Spirit d6, Strength d10, Vigor d6
Skills: Athletics d10, Common Knowledge d6, Fighting d8, Intimi- date d8, Notice d8, Occult d8, Shooting d8, Stealth d10, Survival d6
Pace: 7; Parry: 6 or 8 (shield); Toughness: 7 (2)
Edges: Ambidextrous, Quick, Two-Weapon Fighting
Gear: 2x short sword (Str+d6), longbow (Range 15/30/60, Damage 2d6, AP 1), medium shield.
Special Abilities:
-Armor +2: Chitinous hide.
-Bite: Str+d4.
-Darkvision: Xills ignore penalties for Illumination up to 10”.
-Extra Arms: Xills may ignore 2 points of Multi-Action penalties each turn.
-Implant: As a limited action, a xill can lay a clutch of eggs in a helpless living creature. The eggs hatch in 24 hours, at which point they begin to consume the host, causing Energy Drain (Vigor) once per hour. A successful healing with Remove Disease kills all of the eggs. A Healing roll at –2 removes the eggs. Failure causes Fatigue. A critical failure causes a Wound.
-Innate Powers: Major plane shift (self, Ethereal plane only).
-Paralysis: Anyone Shaken or Wounded by a xill's bite must succeed at a Vigor roll or be paralyzed.
Languages: Common, Infernal.
