Cold Woman

FREQUENCY: Unique
NO. APPEARING: 1
ARMOR CLASS: -2
MOVE: 9"
HIT DICE: 180 hp
% IN LAIR: 10%
TREASURE TYPE: [U] (x 5)
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 4-40
SPECIAL ATTACKS: See below
SPECIAL DEFENSES: See below
MAGIC RESISTANCE: 25%
INTELLIGENCE: Very
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: L (30' tall)
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: X | 28, 500

This creature is basically a huge white pudding.

Her powers include illusion generation, <as wand of illusion?>
and cold ray with a range of 6" which does 7-70 points of damage if it hits.
(Successful save vs. spells indicates a miss.
Saving throw is adjusted by dexerity modifiers to AC, e.g. 17 dexterity gives a +3).

Cold Woman "bites" for 4-40, attacking as a 16+ HD monster, and those bitten who fail to save are paralyzed.

Chopping or striking Cold Woman has no effect, as severed parts immediately rejoin the creature.
Lightning has the same effect.
Cold, of course, does not bother her in the least.

Her corrosive secretions dissolve metal at the same rate as a black pudding: chainmail is destroyed 1 round, plate mail in 2, with each magical plus of the armor adding a round to the time needed to corrode.

Cold Woman lures persons into her lair with gems and jewelry, which are scattered about her cave.
Shen paralyzes them and inserts one of her eggs into the body.
In a day's time the egg hatches and her spawn (a white pudding) eats the host.
The egg is easily removable and the spawn will die exposed to the air before hatching.

In the wastes, it is said that the excessively evil or greedy fall prey to her power most often.
She always abandons a lair after laying one batch of eggs.
Legend has it that there is only one Cold Woman at a time; all the REST await her death,
and then the strongest one becomes the mother.

Her young are known as Cold Spawn.
 

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