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SFS Standard Liberoba Midwife Creature 9

Liberoba delivered the Newborn. Many appendages protrude from this creature's bizarre anatomy, each ending in bloody aucturnite shears.

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Elite Weak Liberoba Midwife Creature 9

Source Alien Core pg. 111
Recall Knowledge DC 24 (add +10 if Unique applies) 26 (add +10 if Unique applies) 27 (add +10 if Unique applies) •
Aberration (Occultism)
Perception +16; ultrasonic pulse (imprecise) 100 feet
Languages Aklo, Common
Skills Acrobatics +13, Athletics +20, Aucturn Lore +18, Newborn Lore +18, Occultism +18, Religion +16
Str +7 Dex +4 Con +6 Int +2 Wis +3 Cha +1
AC 29
Fort +21
Ref +15
Will +18
HP 155
Regeneration 20 (deactivated by mental or holy)
Ultrasonic Pulse (aura, divine, mental) 100 feet. Liberoba constantly emits sonic pulses that are disruptive to biomatter. Creatures that enter or begin their turn in the aura must attempt a DC 28 Fortitude save to resist the nauseating pulses. On a failure, a creature is sickened 2 for 1 round; on a critical failure, it's also stunned 1 for 1 round. Liberoba can sense the presence of any creature inside ultrasonic pulse's area. This functions as an imprecise sense. Liberoba treats a creature that fail its save against ultrasonic pulse as though they can always see it, ignoring the effects of any cover, concealment, invisibility, or similar effects, as long as the creature remains inside the aura.
Speed 25 feet, fly 10 feet
Melee [one-action] aucturnite shears +21 (versatile p), Damage 4d12 slashing plus 1d8 persistent bleed
Ranged [one-action] eldritch ray +21 (range 120 feet), Damage 5d8 mental damage
Divine Innate Spells DC 28, attack +20 (+2 damage to cantrips, +4 damage to other spells) (-2 damage to cantrips, -4 damage to other spells); 5th
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Constant (5th)
Breach Delivery [three-actions] Liberoba pulls all enemies within 30 feet up to 30 feet toward them, into an adjacent square if possible; each target can negate this movement with a successful DC 28 Fortitude save. Liberoba then makes an aucturnite shears Strike against each adjacent foe. These attacks count as one Strike for the purposes of calculating their multiple attack penalty, but the multiple attack penalty doesn't increase until after all the attacks. Targets that succeed at their saves are temporarily immune to Breach Delivery for 1 hour.
Cosmic Contractions [free-action] (incapacitation) Trigger Liberoba's turn begins; Effect Liberoba radiates powerful contractions in a 20-foot emanation around them. Each creature in the area takes 3d10 bludgeoning damage with a DC 28 basic Fortitude save. On a critical failure, the creature is also knocked prone.
Return to Aucturn [one-action] (teleportation) Liberoba teleports to the location of any aucturnite fragment within a planetary range. Liberoba automatically uses this ability as a free action when reduced to 0 Hit Points as long as a piece of aucturnite is within range, reforming their body and recovering completely over the next 24 hours.

All Creatures in "Midwife"

Midwife

Thirteen mortal Midwives attended the Newborn's birth and were transformed into eldritch beings by the nascent outer god's awakening. A Midwife always regenerates an identical new form so long as even a single speck of aucturnite—the name for the frozen chunks of planetcenta that once surrounded the Newborn— exists on this plane.

There are 13 types of Midwives, but their true numbers are unknown. Whether their names come from the mortal servants whose souls were the kindling for the Midwives' creation or have some other significance to the Newborn, also remains a mystery. Each Midwife identifies themself by how they cared for the Newborn: if they swaddled, fed, carried, held, watched, warded, blessed, or performed other acts of nurturing for the outer god.

The Midwives are powerful beings capable of transdimensional travel. They might be encountered in liminal spaces, such as the Drift or the Ghost Levels of Absalom Station, or they might be found among the clouds of aucturnite debris in the Gelid Edge. Their incomprehensible actions always advance the Newborn's inscrutable agenda—or their own.

The most well-known encounter the Pact Worlds have had with the Midwives took place in the immediate aftermath of the Newborn's birth. Amnieka, who swaddled the Newborn and has a hood of writhing tentacles around their visage, attacked Absalom Station directly, causing a massive power surge that threatened the lives of everyone on board. Chaos ensued, but a group of adventurers—who happened to be in the right elevator at the right time—found themselves in the station's Ghost Levels, where they thwarted Amnieka and prevented the Midwife from draining the station's reactors. The Midwives haven't acted so directly since that incident, but many suspect it's only a matter of time, and no one knows just how powerful the others might be.

Aucturnite Affinity

The Midwives can't be truly destroyed until every shard of aucturnite is purged from this plane. When a Midwife is defeated, they often reform near a source of the strange mineral— creating dangerous situations for cultists and scavengers alike.

13 Midwives

The cult known as the Midwives were a group of 13 powerful spellcasters who tended the Gravid Mound on Aucturn before it hatched. When the Newborn broke free of the planet, the psychic screams and transdimensional radiation reformed the cultists' bodies into horrible new shapes.