Mi-Go High Priest

Source: Alien Archive 2

CR: 11 XP: 12,800

NE Medium plant

Init.: +3 Senses: blindsight (vibration) 30 ft., low-light vision Perception: +20

Defense

HP: 155 RP: 5

EAC: 23 KAC: 24

Fort: +12 Ref: +10 Will: +14

Offense

Speed: 30 ft., fly 50 ft. (Su, average)

Melee: claw +19 (2d10+12 S plus grab)

Ranged: mi-go hailstorm-class zero pistol +19 (2d6+13 C; critical staggered [DC 20])

Offensive Abilities: evisceration

Spells Known: Known

Statistics

Str: +1 Dex: +3 Con: +2 Wis: +8 Int: +5 Cha: +1

Skills: Acrobatics +20, Bluff +25, Life Science +20, Medicine +20, Mysticism +25

Languages: Aklo, Common, Mi-Go

Gear: mi-go hailstorm-class zero pistol with 2 mi-go high-capacity batteries (40 charges each)

Ecology

Environment: any

Organization: solitary, cult (1 plus 3.9 mi.go), or invasion (1.4 plus 6.15 mi-go)

Special Abilities

<p><b>Evisceration (Ex)</b> A mi-go is capable of performing swift surgical operations upon targets that are helpless or that the mi-go currently has grappled. Against such a target, any hit with the mi-go’s claw counts as a critical hit that has the severe wound critical hit effect with a save DC of 20. If the mi-go actually scores a critical hit against such a target, the mi-go rolls the damage three times instead of twice, and the save DC increases to 22.<br/><br/> <b>Mi-Go Technology (Ex)</b></p>

Description

Mi-go are scientists, explorers, inventors, and colonists, as well as eerie servitors of the Outer Gods and Great Old Ones. These creatures come from deep space and view the universe as a canvas to be controlled and mastered. Their population on any one planet varies, but when counted across the entire galaxy, their numbers are mind-numbing in scale.

Although a mi-go resembles an arthropod, the creature is actually a highly evolved form of fungus. Mi-go can speak in a buzzing voice, but their own language consists of the complex shifting of color patterns upon their bulbous heads. This communication allows for the dissemination of astounding amounts of information quickly, but for those other than mi-go, speaking the language requires special equipment.

Mi-go meld faith and science, magic and technology, and other themes together into an unsettling whole. Most mi-go serve Nyarlathotep or other entities of the Elder Mythos, and their minds work in a fashion alien to typical humanoid thinking. To migo, their devotion to their gods isn’t admiration, slavery, or worship—it’s akin to the relationship between a student and a professor.

Other minions of the Elder Mythos might be allies, but mi-go consider themselves to be superior to most living things. Gifted with supernatural skill in surgery and biotechnology, mi-go can rework the flesh of those they capture with precision, remaking their victims into forms more appropriate for servitude or for truly alien aesthetics. These alien fungi can also keep creatures alive through the most invasive surgical procedures, so those who fall prey to mi-go don’t retain their sanity for long. Using their technology and ability to squeeze into a tighter shape, mi-go construct cunning disguises, replacing those whose brains they’ve harvested in order to invade societies from within. Only the mi-go know the extent to which they’ve infiltrated societies throughout the galaxy. A mi-go is the size of a human but weighs only 90 pounds.