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Cifal

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The cifal is one of those Fiend Folio monsters I found forgettable at first but there is something here that could work as an interesting encounter, possibly as a summoned creature, something allied to a druid casting creeping doom, or guarding a temple with insectoid and spider demons.  An insect swarm that passes for a humanoid until closer examination, it takes only 1 hp damage from edged weapons but normal damage from blunt strikes.  its own attack represents many simultaneous stings, so you could update this description with some poison effects.  (Looks like a Russ Nicholson, AD&D Fiend Folio, 1981)

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Cifal

“Gamma World Monsters 8″ by Mike Faille, © Wizards of the Coast. Accessed at the artist’s deviantArt gallery here

[The cifal is a monster from the Fiend Folio that gets an awful lot of crap. Which is too bad, because the idea of a swarm of bugs in human shape is a pretty cool concept. Frankly, I’m tempted to give one bard levels and put it in my game.

The mechanics of the original version are baffling even by the standards of 1e’s exception-based design, however. I can see it being awful in actual play, leading to its bad reputation. But not only did a true-blue CIFAL appear in the 4e D&D kitbash of Gamma World, two different fiendish versions of the idea cropped up in that edition as well, the swarm devil and host demon.

BTW, this image contains a pic of another monster that will be posted in this set of conversions. And no, not Chicken Rambo.]

Cifal CR 8 N Aberration This writhing, seething mass is a conglomeration of thousands of insects, centipedes, spiders and other vermin, pushed together into a disturbingly humanoid shape.

Cifals are strange aberrant forms of life, a swarm of writhing vermin compressed into a man-like shape. The name was coined as an acronym (“colonial insect-formed artificial life”) by some sage long ago—they call themselves “the buzzing ones”, in a dialect of Aklo difficult to speak with fleshy lips and throats. Cifals are intelligent, albeit not very sophisticated, and they gather in groups to better hunt prey and to mingle their essences together to create new variety.

A cifal’s body contains many unrelated species of insects, spiders, scorpions and other invertebrates. The core of any cifal is its “nuclear swarm”, a gathering of intelligent flying insects of beetle-like appearance. The nuclear swarm hosts the cifal’s intelligence, and without it the mass collapses into self-devouring violence. With it, the creatures can work among themselves to create a unified body, which devours animal and plant tissue alike with appendages of chewing, squirming hunger. They can temporarily release control of their hosts to create a cloud that tears at all caught in it. When the body is slain, the nuclear swarm can escape, and typically flees to slowly build up a new stable of vermin to create a new body.

Advanced Cifals A cifal with the advanced template is typically one that has incorporated a whole swarm of vermin into its body, as opposed to cobbling together many discrete types. Advanced cifals may have a special attack that they inflict with their slams and bug burst. Some possible attacks include the cling ability of an army ant swarm, the disease of a tick swarm, the poison of a centipede or spider swarm, or the gnaw of a termite swarm. If there is a save DC involved with this attack, use the DC for the cifal’s abilities, not the DC for the original swarm.

Cifal       CR 8 XP 4,200 CN Medium aberration Init +6; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Perception +12, tremorsense 30 ft. Defense AC 21, touch 17, flat-footed 14 (+6 Dex, +1 dodge, +4 natural) hp 95 (10d8+50); fast healing 5 Fort +8, Ref +9, Will +9 DR 10/bludgeoning; Immune mind-influencing effects Defensive Abilities amorphous, ferocity, rejuvenation, swarmlike Offense Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft. Melee 2 slams +13 (1d12+4 plus distraction) Special Attacks bug burst, distraction (DC 20) Statistics Str 18, Dex 22, Con 21, Int 6, Wis 15, Cha 12 Base Atk +7; CMB +11; CMD 28 Feats Dodge, Mobility, Power Attack, Spring Attack, Weapon Finesse Skills Acrobatics +14, Climb +12, Disguise +6, Perception +10, Stealth +14 Languages Aklo SQ compression Ecology Environment underground Organization solitary or hive (2-6) Treasure incidental Special Abilities Bug Burst (Ex) As a standard action once every 1d4 rounds, a cifal can erupt in a fountain of swarming vermin. All creatures within a 15 foot radius of the cifal must succeed a DC 20 Reflex save or take 8d6 points of slashing and piercing damage. Any creature that takes damage must also save against the cifal’s distraction. The save DC is Constitution based. Rejuvenation (Ex) When a cifal is slain, it releases its nuclear swarm. Treat the nuclear swarm as a locust swarm with the aberration type and an Int of 6. If this swarm is not slain, it grows into a new cifal over the course of one week. Swarmlike (Ex) A cifal is composed of thousands of vermin, and has swarm-like characteristics. It is immune to any single target spells, but has vulnerability to any area of effects that deal damage. A strong or stronger wind deals 1d6 points of damage to a cifal each round, plus an additional 1d6 damage for each strength category above strong (no save). A cifal’s slam attacks deal bludgeoning, slashing and piercing damage.

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Primer encuentro con el presidente de Cifal

Integrantes de la Defensoría del Vecino de Centenario se reunieron ayer en Neuquén con el presidente de la Fundación Luciérnaga y el titular de CIFAL argentina, Wálter José Kirby para exponer el proyecto Compromiso Verde y empezar a trabajar en gestiones que apunten a la obtención de un subsidio para la separación de residuos domiciliarios en origen. En el encuentro participaron Pablo Pidarello, como apoderado de la empresa local Patagonia 360; y en representación de la defensoría estuvo Víctor Matelo como responsable del Área de Medio Ambiente. Tras el primer contacto, se establecieron las mínimas pautas para seguir trabajando en los proyectos, ya que también se presentó la iniciativa de Ecohéroes en las escuelas de Centenario.

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CIFAL monster from Famine in Far-Go for D&D Gamma World