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Message: <blockquote data-quote="willows" data-source="post: 4925458" data-attributes="member: 79929">CharybditeSquid peopleThe city Tanelorn stands beside a deep blue bay, and in the centre of the bay, lights can be seen below the waves, green and white and violet. The fearful call them corpse-lanterns, but the learned know that they are the salt-flame fires of Khalam-khor, the charybdite city beneath the sea.Ability Score: +2 Dex, +2 WisSize: MediumSpeed: 6, Swim 4Vision: Low-lightLanguages: Common, Deep SpeechSkill Bonuses: +2 Acrobatics, +2 EnduranceDeep Lungs: For the purposes of calculating Endurance DCs, halve the number of rounds you hold your breath.Squamous Leap: You can use squamous leap as an encounter power.Squamous Leap — Charybdite Racial PowerYou leap improbably into the air, alarming and confusing your enemies.EncounterMove Action, PersonalEffect: Make a long jump as if from a running start. You gain a +5 racial bonus to your Athletics check. If you do not fall, all enemies adjacent to the square you land in grant combat advantage to you.Physical DescriptionCharybdites are air-breathing cephalopods that strongly resemble the nautilus. On land, they hold their brightly-patterned shells at human head height, with their eyes facing forward. Four pairs of arms of different lengths emerge from below the eyes and beak: the shorter pairs, in front, are used for manipulating and grasping, while the two longer pairs are used for locomotion. Hanging just below the beak like a beard is a fringe of short, slender tentacles that look much like coarse hair when at rest. These are used for extremely fine manipulation, and for eating. Bipeds often find this to be an unsettling sight.Charybdite eyes are glossy black orbs. Their skin and shells vary widely, from deep chestnut brown to translucent cream. Some populations from tropical climates even exhibit dazzling colors and patterns like that of the local fish, but unlike most unintelligent cephalopods, they have lost the ability to change color.Living beneath the sea is, for them, merely an affectation and a nutritional convenience, since it is much easier to obtain their preferred diet when it is all around them.</blockquote>

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