FREQUENCY: Rare <(usu. found underground but are occasionally seen in ruined/abandoned buildings)>
FREQUENCY: Rare ([Dungeon Level VI])
NO. APPEARING: 1
ARMOR CLASS: 4
MOVE: 12" (MC: D)
HIT DICE: 5
% IN LAIR: Nil
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
NO. OF ATTACKS: 11
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 10 x 1-4 / 1-6
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Paralysation
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Immune to lightning
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard
INTELLIGENCE: Average
ALIGNMENT: Neutral evil (vicious) <>
SIZE: M
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: VI | 840 + 5

The appearance of this dreadful creature is fearsome indeed -- a body
like a giant exposed brain approximately 5' in diameter and with a
frontal beak, below which trail ten 6' long tentacles.
The beast 'flies' by a levitation process, small inflections of the tentacles controlling horizontal movement. <>

Grell are usu. found underground but are occasionally seen in
ruined/abandoned buildings. They are particularly dangerous and
vicious, dropping on their victims from above whenever circumstances permit.

All ten tentacles are brought to bear on a single victim. Each inflicts 1-4
HP of damage and carries small spines which can inject a
venom into the victim; this will paralyse the victim unless he makes
his save vs. Paralysation at +4. If any one of the tentacles
succeeds in paralysing a victim, each melee round thereafter two
tentacles will remain anchored on his body, the grell lashing with the
other eight tentacles (for 1-4 HP of damage each) and rending
with its beak for 1-6 HP of damage. None of these attacks,
after the initial paralysation, requires a 'to hit' roll -- once the grell
has grasped its victim, lucky is he who escapes alive.

Any hit on a tentacle will render it inoperative (though if the creature
survives, the tentacle will regenerate in 1-2 days) but the damage is
not subtracted from the creature's HP -- only by hitting the
body can the grell be damaged in the usual way. The body and
tentacles all have AC4.

Grell are immune to lightning but otherwise have standard resistance
to normal and magickal attacks.

Description: The body of the grell is a drab olive colour streaked with white; the
tentacles are pale olive-green. <LJM>
 

    by Ian Livingstone

<MEAT: grell pineal gland>
<is that safe to eat? is that a food or a 'drug'?>
<note: i define drug as something man-made>