Gem Devorator

In the twilight years of a once-glorious metropolis, desperate industrialists constructed the Gem Devorator as the ultimate solution to their insatiable hunger for wealth—a mechanical marvel engineered to extract and process precious materials with inhuman efficiency. When the city's fortune collapsed and resources dwindled, the machine was left to deteriorate in the industrial wastelands, its creators fleeing to greener territories and abandoning their metallic monument to avarice. Over years of exposure, the Devorator's corroding frame became a conduit for something far more sinister: the city's own curse of decay and infection seeped into its circuits, animating the skeletal scorpion-like construct with a consciousness born entirely from collective human greed and desperation. Now possessed by an insatiable hunger that mirrors and magnifies the very ambition that created it, the creature awakens periodically from hibernation to prowl the urban ruins, its triple excavator-heads devouring both the precious gems embedded in the crumbling architecture and any unfortunate souls who mistake its dormant form for mere scrap metal. The Gem Devorator has become the city's own judgment—a mechanical predator that feeds on the material wealth its inhabitants once murdered for, converting their precious hoardes into the energy that sustains its eternal, ravenous existence. Those who encounter this rust-covered abomination learn too late that it is no abandoned machine, but rather the city's darkest desires made manifest in corroded steel and spinning drills.

Strength

24, modifier 7

Dexterity

14, modifier 2

Constitution

20, modifier 5

Intelligence

6, modifier -2

Wisdom

10, modifier 0

Charisma

1, modifier -5

Multiattack

The Gem Devorator makes three attacks: one with its stinger and two with its pincers.

Pincer Crush

Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 35 (6d10) slashing damage.

Stinger Drill

Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 40 (8d8) piercing damage and target must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute.

Devour

The Gem Devorator can consume a creature it has grappled. The target must succeed on a DC 18 Strength saving throw or take 45 (10d8) necrotic damage and be incapacitated until the end of its next turn.

Awaken from Hibernation

If the Gem Devorator is inactive for 3 days, it regains all hit points and can immediately use its Multiattack action.

Rusting Aura

Any creature that starts its turn within 10 feet takes 10 (3d6) necrotic damage.

Insatiable Hunger

The Gem Devorator regains 10 hit points for every 50 gold pieces consumed.

strength

12

dexterity

7

constitution

10

Poison

Psychic