Bestiary 3 | Monsters | Berbalang | Special Abilities | Projection
Once per day as a full-round action, a
berbalang can enter a
trance that separates the creature's
spirit from its body. This splits the
berbalang's current hit points in half between its body and its
spirit. The
berbalang's
spirit body gains the
incorporeal subtype and special ability; otherwise, it retains the same statistics as its physical self with the following changes: AC 19, touch 19, flat-footed 14 (+4 Dex, +4
deflection, +1
dodge), single
incorporeal touch attack that deals 1d4 Constitution damage on a hit as its sole attack. This
spirit projection can
travel no more than 1 mile away from the
berbalang's body. Because the creature is only partially in existence when in this state, its body gains
displacement as the spell. When separated in this way, the
berbalang's body is
unconscious and
helpless. If the
berbalang's body is injured while in this state, the separated
projection immediately returns to its body, and the body loses
displacement. If the physical body is slain, the
spirit body immediately dies as well. If the
spirit is reduced to 0 or fewer hit points, it returns to the body immediately. A
berbalang in
spirit form can end the effect at any time as a standard action, at which point the
spirit immediately returns to the body. When a
berbalang's
spirit form returns to the body, add both the
spirit body's hit points and the physical body's hit points back together to determine the creature's current hit point total.
