Day 20,278 The first painted stone we found since we moved here, probably even about three years ago. I picked it up to photograph it and left it for someone else to discover. #panda #bamboo #weareone @sycamore.station https://www.instagram.com/scottobear/p/C-fyUDdu2dU/?igsh=MWJ5dnZxanJ6NG5oMw==
Day 20,277 A quick little jaunt to #kittycitycatcafe and the #blueridgeindiemarket is just what one needs to have a nice Friday! #kittens #cats #art #fun https://www.instagram.com/scottobear/p/C-ddUo6xxpR/?igsh=ZmNrZnY2aHh0YXI2
Gibbering Mouther
Gibbering Mouther
Climate/Terrain: Any/swamp, underground
Frequency: Very rare
Organization: Solitary
Activity Cycle: Diurnal
Diet: Omnivore
Intelligence: Semi (2-4)
Treasure: Q
Alignment: Neutral
No. Appearing: 1
Armor Class: 1
Movement: 3, Sw 6
Hit Dice: 4+3
THAC0: 17
No. of Attacks: 6+
Damage/Attack: 1(x6)+1/round
Special Attacks: Spit, babble, bite
Special Defenses: Ground control
Magic Resistance: Nil
Size: M
Morale: Very steady (13-14)
XP Value: 4 HD: 650
8 HD: 3,000
The gibbering mouther is an amoeboid form of life composed entirely of mouths and eyes. Its favorite tactic is to lie in wait with its eyes and mouths closed so that it appears to be a lump of earthy material, hoping to surprise creatures stumbling across it. Its only motive is to eat whatever is edible within reach, regardless of whether the food is animal, vegetable, or mineral.
Gibbering mouthers prefer to inhabit swampy or underground regions. They propel themselves by oozing forward, fastening several mouths to the ground and pulling themselves along. A mouther may move faster over fluid and viscous terrains, such as mud and quicksand, by swimming through the muck. Given time, mouthers alter the ground with their special ground control talent to allow this faster form of movement.
Combat: The brain of a mouther is located in its midportion, and its gelatinous body makes it difficult to strike this spot. The mutable nature of the monster gives it a high Armor Class.
The mouther attacks in three ways: babbling, spitting, and biting. When any edible object is sighted by a mouther, it may begin an incoherent gibbering that causes confusion (as per the spell) to all within a 60-foot radius unless a saving throw vs spell is made. For each round that the gibbering is heard, those within range must roll another saving throw. Roll 1d8 for each confused character or being:
1 – wanders aimlessly for one round,
2-5 – stands stunned for one round,
6-7 – attacks the nearest living creature for one round,
8 – runs away in fear for two rounds.
The spittle of a gibbering mouther will hurst into a bright flare if it strikes any hard surface. The resulting flash will blind characters looking at it if they fail to make a saving throw vs. petrification. The blindness lasts 1-3 rounds. The mouther may attempt to bite blinded opponents with a +2 bonus to its attack rolls. Blinded victims make attack rolls with a -4 penalty.
A mouther’s best attack comes from reaching out and biting with six mouths per round. Each mouth that hits on a die roll of 2 more than needed to hit attaches to the victim and drains an additional 1 hit point per round while attached; the next round, six new mouths attack the victim. When 3 or more mouths are attached to a single victim, that character must make a Dexterity ability check each round thereafter or slip. A felled roll indicates the character has fallen. The gibbering mouther will flow over the victim and bite with 12 more mouths, gaining a +4 bonus to strike its prone and held opponent. If given the opportunity, once it has pulled down one victim, a mouther will try to trap other prey.
When victims reach 0 hit points, they are absorbed into the mouther, giving it another mouth and pair of eyes per victim. Each time a victim is absorbed, the mouther also gains 1 hit point permanently, up to the maximum for its HD. Only living flesh can be absorbed like this – dead, unliving, or undead creatures are not affected.
A mouther always liquefies the ground and stone within a 5-foot radius of itself and can control the consistency of this material by changing it to doughy, tarry quicksand. It requires 30 seconds to alter earth to quicksand and a full round to mutate stone to earth.
Habitat/Society: Like other amoehoid life forms, gibbering mouthers reproduce by asexual fission. When a mouther has absorbed enough victims to gain its maximum hit points, it splits into two mouthers. Each mouther is a 4+3 HD monster; one has 17 hit points, the other 18 hit points. Because this process takes about four hours, the mouther usually retreats to some small dark den before the fission begins. When the two new mouthers recover at the end of the dividing process, which takes 7+3dl2 turns, each seeks its own new territory.
Gibbering mouthers not only avoid each other’s hunting territories, they avoid all physical contact with one another and never fight one another over territory or food. It is believed that bringing two mouthers in physical contact forces them to merge, creating a larger creature with twice the size, HD, and number of attacks, but half the already slow movement of the parent monsters. These great beasts strip the land of anything edible so quickly that they generally die of starvation as soon as prey becomes scarce.
Ecology: Gibbering mouthers are unnatural creatures, usually created by foul sorcery and kept as guards by mages or obscene cults. Although they can survive in the wild, they are more scavengers than hunters and rarely establish reproducing populations in any but the lushest swamps.
Day 20,274
More PT today. I’m feeling achy but doing fairly well. I primarily feel it in my lower back, sciatica, and hips. Hopefully, it’s a good vibe, and it will do me a world of good overall.
Watching the women’s hammer throw tonight, we managed to avoid spoilers, so we’re just cheering them all on and groaning at the fouls as they happen. It looks like Canada is the team to beat!
#doodle #cryptid #physicaltherapy #summerolympics2024 #hammerthrow
Happy August 5th! Show your perfect beauty! Day 20,273 https://www.instagram.com/p/C-TvjJTsOrS/?igsh=MWFobXFuYmVjemJqZA==
Day 20,272
I cast Stone to Flesh on the remote viewing wall.
Ugh. What was I thinking? Ah well, lunch is almost ready. Maybe 30–45 minutes, gang!
Hope you like boba meatloaf.
#doodle #magic #stonetoflesh #lunchisalmostready https://www.instagram.com/p/C-RIFqss9do/?igsh=cTUxaHVoMmhxZXdo
One nice thing about the new Time Bandits Apple TV series is that the original version isn’t going anywhere. I will reserve final judgment for later, but if I am going by previews and the judgment of people I’ve talked to whom I trust, the new show looks superfluous and weak. My desire to seek it out and watch it once it finishes its run is pretty heavily dampened. II really loved the 1981 film, and I’m really not sure why anyone thought there was a need to retell that particular story again. I would really like to see a remake of a film that *wasn’t* great the first time and made better the second or third time around. Of course, maybe the new version will impress me after all, and I will be really happy if it does. I would be delighted to be pleasantly surprised.
#timebandits #terrygilliam #taikawaititi
Day 20,270
As I was heading home from physical therapy today, I saw an elderly man casting his line into the Roanoke River. I wondered if he caught anything, or even if getting a meal was his goal. He looked like he was having a nice time just having some alone time on the water, even though it started raining shortly before I drove by. Today, I took a dip in the pool, and it was pretty exhausting, but in a good way. Spending time doing what’s needed to improve flexibility and core strength, and ideally reduce pain.
#doodle #fishing #physicaltherapy #gnome
Day 20,269
It’s more of a scribble than a doodle, I think. There’s no smoothing and just an undercoat of shading. It’s an orc with an overly bendy poleaxe for a walking stick. I’ve been feeling rough this past week, but I’m hoping tomorrow’s pool PT goes well and that I get some relief from the new TENS box. I had to order some new batteries because the thing came with only about 30 minutes of juice. #doodle #scribble #orc #polearm #axe #hiking #poleaxe https://www.instagram.com/p/C-Jtf-JMV19/?igsh=M2I5aWhoZzd3azQ0
So, (aside from sexism, of course), is there any reason only women do uneven bars and balance beam, while men get parallel bars and the other equipment? #doodle #cryptid #gymnastics https://www.instagram.com/p/C9-E3tqsYzg/?igsh=dHZ6dWhnZjVtNmZi
Edit – found this out –
Looks like center of gravity issues and some other build differences
Via elsewhere-
Take Parallel Bars: women are wider at the hips than shoulders *as compared to men.* This causes issues with parallel bars – in order for a woman to to PB, many would need to set them wider than would be optimal.
This is why when women started using the “parallel” bars, they set them asymmetrically – one higher than the other, and developed an entirely different skill set as compared to traditional PB.
Over time, these “asymmetrical parallel bars” got wider until they actually created a new set of equipment that has morphed into the modern day uneven bars.
Day 20,264
I had a lovely outing yesterday with Max the Mermaid. I was quite exhausted at the end and am still feeling it today. We traveled to the Ablenarle Baking Co., Sycamore Station, and a few other places along the way. We have a few places to visit on the agenda today, but I’m not sure my body is up to it. Playing it gently on the heating pad for now, we’ll see how it goes. #doodle #cryptid #roanokeva #nexusofallrealities https://www.instagram.com/p/C98BxwOxArY/?igsh=dWU3anBldWE5bHhk
Jul 25 2024
Day 20,262
Restarted physical therapy today—one day a week on land and one other day a week in the pool! Looking forward to getting back on track. #cryptid #doodle #physicaltherapy https://www.instagram.com/p/C93nD1mNeTW/?igsh=MWpoMjF0eGcyOXJzMw==
Apparently, the patisserie in my old stomping grounds is closed, due to…. SABOTAGE! It can mean only one thing…. https://www.instagram.com/p/C91PzFusNQ5/?igsh=OTJzeGowZWh1b3Nj
Day 20,261 b – supplemental- Some cool weirdness up the road from @misfitbeautyclub , spanky’s gorilla in a wrestling outfit, a t-rex head and arms, and a hippo eating a lady mannikin. https://www.instagram.com/p/C91JmeDsG-s/?igsh=MWR0NDBtbXZucXc4Yw==