# Ahu-Nixta Drudge

*Medium* *Aberration* *neutral evil*

- **Armor Class:** 13 (clockwork armor)
- **Hit Points:** 26 (4d8+8)
- **Speed:** fly 30 ft. hover True ft. walk 30 ft.
- **Challenge Rating:** 1/2 (100 XP)
- **Source:** Tome of Beasts 2, page 10

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 15 (+2) | 12 (+1) | 14 (+2) | 12 (+1) | 10 (+0) | 10 (+0) |

- **Skills:** perception +2
- **Damage Immunities:** poison, psychic
- **Condition Immunities:** charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11
- **Languages:** Deep Speech, Void Speech

### Special Abilities

- **Clockwork Encasement:** The creature within the machine is a somewhat shapeless mass, both protected and given concrete manipulators by its armor. The clockwork armor has a few manipulators that the ahu-nixta can use to attack or to interact with objects outside of the armor. Unlike other ahu-nixta, the drudge can't live outside its armor and dies when its armor is reduced to 0 hp.
- **Immutable Form:** The drudge's clockwork armor is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form, as is the creature that controls it as long as the ahu-nixta remains within the armor.
- **Innate Spellcasting:** The ahu-nixta's innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 11, +3 to hit with spell attacks). The ahunixta can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: fire bolt  (1d10)
1/day: fear

### Actions

- **Whirring Blades:** Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d4 + 2) slashing damage.