Earth Scrambler
 
 
 
CLIMATE/TERRAIN                Any temperated  
FREQUENCY                            Rare  
ACTIVITY CYCLE                    Any  
DIET                                        Gemstones  
INTELLIGENCE                       Low ( 5 )  
TREASURE                              Q * 3  
ALIGNMENT                           Neutral  
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NO.APPEARING                      1-2  
ARMOR CLASS                       3  
MOVEMENT                            9 br 6  
HIT DICE                                11  
THAC0                                    13  
NO. OF ATTACKS                   2  
DAMAGE/ATTACK                 1d12/1d12  
SPECIAL ATTACKS                Earth Blast  
SPECIAL DEFENSE                 Immune to piercing and edged weapons  
MAGIC RESISTANCE             20 %  
SIZE                                        L ( 8-9' )  
MORALE 15-16                       ( champion )  
XP VALUE                               5400 XP 
 
From a distance it looks like an ordinary Earth Elemental, and indeed the Earth Scrambler resembles its sometimes greater cousin.
The Earth Scrambler has the form of a very big humanoid creature, but is made completely from earth and clay. Its eyes are two gemlike objects that glow with an eerie light in darkness. Its mouth is just a hole in the 'head', and all facial chararistics are missing. All Earth Scramblers have a telepathic link in which they are communicating with each other, including all creatures native to the Elemental Plane of Earth and the Quasi-Elemental Plane of Minerals.

COMBAT
Normally the Earth Scrambler attacks with its two stone-hard fists, causing 1d12 in damage with each, but if it is very serious threatened, it will use its Earth Blast.
The Earth Blast is a cone of earth, which the Earth Scrambler can spew from its mouth. The cone is 20 feet long, and about 8 feet wide at the end. The Earth Blast hits for 3d10 in damage to everyone caught in it, a saving throw versus Paralyzation for half damage is allowed. Because the body of the Earth Scrambler is made entirely out of earth and soft clay, piercing and slashing weapons pass right through it, as the earth-wounds close immediatly afterwards. Strangely enough, bludgeoning weapons seems to shatter the earth, causing normal damage.

HABITAT/SOCIETY
Normally Earth Scramblers only appears in the Prime Material Plane when they have been summoned. Since an Earth Scrambler can't be controlled like their cousins ( because of their telepathic link which prevents control ) they are most often summoned by a mistake. Each time a Mage is trying to summon an Earth Elemental, there is a 5 % chance that he has caught an Earth Scrambler instead, which won't obey him ( an Earth Elementarist knows when he has caught an Earth Scrambler and can stop the summoning if he wants to do so ). Those Earth Scramblers that end on the Prime Material Plane, often dwell near great gem-resources, making them an abomination to Dwarves, but a great help to gem-hunters.

ECOLOGY
Nobody has yet found a use for parts from this denizen from the Plane of Earth.
 

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