Lurker in Light

AC 18, touch 15, flat-footed 14 (+4 Dex, +3 natural, +1 size)

hp 44 (8d6+16)

Fort +4 Ref +10 Will +9

DR 5/cold iron

Immune blindness

Speed 30 ft., fly 30 ft. (average)

Melee 2 claws +9 (1d3+1) or<p class="stat-block-2">dagger +9 (1d3+1/19-20 plus poison)</p>

Special Attacks sneak attack +3d6

CMB +4 CMD 18

Str 13, Dex 18, Con 15, Int 14, Wis 16, Cha 17

Base Atk +4

Feats Alertness, Flyby Attack, Improved Initiative, Weapon Finesse

Skills Acrobatics +15, Escape Artist +15, Fly +17, Knowledge (arcana) +10, Knowledge (planes) +10, Perception +16, Stealth +19, Survival +11

Languages Aklo, Common, Sylvan

SQ daylight door, poison use, ritual gate

Blend With Light (Su) In areas of bright light, lurkers are invisible. As with greater invisibility, they may attack and still remain invisible. In shadowy illumination, a lurker loses this invisibility, though like all creatures in shadows, they have concealment unless the viewer has darkvision. If the lurker is flying, its fluttering wings partially negate this effect, giving it only partial concealment (20%) rather than total concealment.

Daylight Door (Sp) Once per day, a lurker can use dimension door, transporting only itself and up to 50 pounds of material. The start and end points of the teleport must be in areas of bright light; if the destination lacks sufficient light, the teleport fails but does not expend the ability for the day.

Poison (Ex) Lurkers typically coat their daggers with shadow essence poison.

Ritual Gate (Su) By sacrificing one or more humanoid victims, a lurker or group of lurkers can create a gate to the Material Plane, one of the Elemental Planes, or the realm of the fey, either to return home or to conjure allies. Creating a gate for travel requires the sacrifice of five victims—the gate created remains open for 1 minute. Creating a gate to bring allies to the Material Plane requires one sacrifice for every HD of the creature intended to pass through the gate (so five sacrifices can bring a lurker or a Medium air elemental, eight can bring a Large earth elemental, and so on). The sacrifices do not need to be simultaneous; as long all sacrifices occur at some point during the hour-long ritual, the magic continues to build until it reaches the required total.