The Ivy Heart
Large fey animate (plant)
Level 15 Elite Controller XP 2400

Traits

☼ Tendrils of Thorns (poison) ✦ Aura 2

Squares within the aura are difficult terrain for enemies. Any enemy within the aura that is hit with an attack takes 5 extra poison damage.

Entangling Vine

A creature can attack one of the ivy heart's vines that is grabbing a creature in order to free that creature, but the attack does not harm the ivy heart. The vine uses the ivy heart's defenses.

Standard Actions

(⚔) Winding Vine ✦ At-Will

Requirement: The ivy heart must not have two creatures grabbed.

Attack: Melee 8 (one creature); +18 vs. Reflex

Hit: 2d8 + 10 damage, and the target is grabbed. Until the grab ends, the target is dazed.

(⚔) Slashing Vine (poison) ✦ At-Will

Attack: Melee 8 (one creature); +18 vs. Reflex

Hit: 2d8 + 6 damage, and the target takes ongoing 10 poison damage and is slowed (save ends both).

Miss: The target is slowed until the end of the ivy heart's next turn.

⚔ Twin Vines ✦ At-Will

Effect: The ivy heart uses winding vine and slashing vine, or uses either one twice.

➶ Drain Soul ✦ Encounter

Attack: Ranged 5 (one creature); +18 vs. Fortitude

Hit: The target is dazed and restrained (save ends both).

    First Failed Saving Throw: The target is instead stunned and restrained (save ends both).

    Second Failed Saving Throw: The target dies, and its soul is trapped in the soul gem “eye” atop the ivy heart's central stalk until the ivy heart is destroyed.

Special: This power does not provoke opportunity attacks.

✻ Burst of Brambles (zone) ✦ Recharge ⚅

Attack: Area burst 2 within 12 (creatures in the burst); +18 vs. Reflex

Hit: 3d8 + 11 damage.

Effect: The burst creates a zone of difficult terrain that lasts until the end of the ivy heart's next turn. Any creature that starts its turn within the zone takes 5 damage and is immobilized (save ends). After the zone ends, the area of the burst remains difficult terrain until the end of the encounter.

Minor Actions

⚔ Shoving Vine ✦ At-Will

Attack: Melee 8 (one creature grabbed by the ivy heart); +18 vs. Fortitude

Hit: The ivy heart slides the target 5 squares to a square within 8 squares of the ivy heart.

Skills Arcana +18, History +18, Insight +16
Str 20 (+12)                Dex 11 (+7)                Wis 19 (+11)
Con 18 (+11)                Int 23 (+13)                Cha 22 (+13)

Alignment Evil        Languages Common

Published in Tomb of Horrors, page(s) 38.