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Monster Trove: Things Others Swore They Saw

Kuchisake-onna

Medium

About

She waits where the lamplight gutters, a cloth mask held to her face, and asks whether she is beautiful. Say yes and she lowers the mask to show the smile cut ear to ear, then asks again. Say no and the shears answer. The ones who live say the same thing afterward: she is not hunting meat, she is hunting a verdict. Give her an answer she has never received - hedge, flatter her badly, ask her a question back - and she stops, genuinely puzzled, for one full round. She has heard every yes and every no there is.

Stats

HP 38
AC 13
DR 0
Attacks 1
Attack: 1d8+2 (2d8+2 vs a creature that has answered)

Save Rolls

Quick 2
Tough 0
Mind 3
Default Save TN (based on HP): 15

Traits

Alignment: Orderly Vile (Tyrant)
Intelligence: Average (8-10)
Magic Resistance: Her question is not a spell. It cannot be counterspelled, dispelled, or silenced, and every creature able to hear at all hears it in its own tongue.
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Special Attack

The Question: 30 ft, the first creature she addresses answers aloud whether it wishes to or not. There is no save against speaking. Save Wis Mind against the asking itself; on a failure, roll 1d6+2 psychic and that creature cannot speak a lie to her for the rest of the encounter. Shears: slashing, melee 5 ft, +3 to hit, 1d8+2. Against a creature that has already answered her, 2d8+2 - she knows now exactly where the mouth should go.

Special Defense

Behind the Mask: any creature that sees her unmasked face must save Wis Mind or be Repelled. Unheard Answer: a reply she has never received staggers her and she loses her next turn. The DN decides what counts as original. Once per creature, and never twice with the same trick.

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