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Attributes

Large aberration, chaotic evil

Armor Class: 11 (natural armor)

Hit Points: 34 (4d10 + 12)

Speed: 40 ft., climb 30 ft.

STR: 19 (+4)

DEX: 10 (+0)

CON: 16 (+3)

INT: 2 (-4)

WIS: 13 (+1)

CHA: 7 (-2)

Skills: Perception +8

Senses: passive Perception 18

Languages: none

Challenge: 24 (62,000 XP)

Proficiency Bonus: +7

Special Traits

Keen Smell. The bear has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.

Magic Weapons. The bear's weapon attacks are magical.

Pack Tactics. The bear has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the bear’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn’t incapacitated.

Bears Repeating. Once per world, when the barriers between planes are at their weakest, if someone speaks aloud the phrase "it bears repeating" in normal conversation, the bear is summoned from its slumber in a pocket dimension and appears in a random space within 20 feet of the speaker. This bear is identical in appearance to a brown bear. Upon being summoned, it viciously attacks all non-bear creatures it can see and will not stop fighting until it or the original summoner dies.

Additionally, if the bear takes damage but isn't reduced to 0 hit points, it splits into two new bears repeating with full hit points that share the original bear's aggression.

Actions

Multiattack. The bear makes a number of attacks equal to the total number of bears within 120 feet (including itself), alternating between its bite and its claws for each attack.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) piercing damage.

Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.

Reactions

Endure (1/Bear). When the bear is reduced to 0 hit points, it drops to 1 hit point instead, after which it splits as per its Bears Repeating trait.

[id: monster stat block for bears repeating, depicting a row of identical bears repeating into infinity]

CR 3: This Is Not a Place of Honour - Radiant Waste Repository

Following arcane conflict, former battlefields sometimes hold onto the fallout of arcane energy. Over time, such sites leak radiant energy into the environment that cause disease in the nearby plants, animals, and people. Worse still, mutation gives rise to dangerous new monstrosities whilst other creatures - such as the terrifying kaiju - seem to be born from the radiant energy itself.

The atomic priesthood was established to create so-called radiant waste repositories, guarding such sites until the danger passes. So the atomic priesthood began their watch, and the sites were shunned, left uninhabited, and eventually forgotten, except by folk story.

Creatures native to a radiant waste repository have an intimate connection to their territory. When at least six such creatures defend their territory together, they can call on the environment to aid them. The group must include at least one atomic priest or kaiju. When determining the difficulty of such an encounter, consider the radiant waste repository to be one additional creature of challenge rating 3.

Repositories In Other Worlds

Radiant waste repositories can be found throughtout the D&D multiverse. In Eberron, for example, the Last War left many scars across Khorvaire. A radiant waste repository might represent the testing grounds of a House Cannith weapon, an area of the Mournland, or a manifest zone into the plane of Irian. In the world of Exandria, repositories might be found in the lands of Eiselcross and Blightshore, or in the wastes of Xhorhas as a remnant of the Calamity. In the world-city of Ravnica, the Izzet League's experiments could give rise to a radiant waste repository.

Lair Actions

On initiative count 20 (losing all ties), the group takes a lair action, causing one of the following effects; the group can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row:

Emanation of Energy. Radiant waste erupts in a 20-foot-radius sphere centred on a point on the ground. Each creature in the area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 7 (2d6) radiant damage and 7 (2d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Landscape of Thorns. A mass of many irregularly-sized spikes protrude from the ground in all directions in a 20-foot square. The square becomes difficult terrain for 1 minute or until this action is used again. Each creature in the square when it first appears must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 5 (1d10) piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Menacing Earthworks. Mounds of earth shaped like lightning bolts emanate from the ground in an unoccupied space. The earthwork lasts for 1 minute or until this action is used again, after which it crumbles to dust. Each creature within 5 feet of the earthwork must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of the earthwork until initiative count 20 on the following round. Any creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of the earthwork must also make the saving throw.

Regional Effects

The region containing a radiant waste repository is uninhabitable and unfarmable. A network of enormous slabs of black basalt are arranged in an irregular square grid, through which a series of extremely large spikes emerge from the ground at different angles. These long-time warnings account for the one or more of the following effects in the surrounding region:

Black Hole. Food, including living edible plants, are supernaturally fouled within a mile of the lair. Creatures that eat such food vomit it within minutes.

Forbidding Blocks. Slabs of black basalt render the land within a mile of the lair uninhabitable. Creatures that rest in the region cannot gain the benefits of a long rest.

Rubble Landscape. A network of house-sized stone blocks suggest a network of “streets” which feel ominous and lead nowhere. Large square-shaped piles of blasted rock give a sense of something having been destroyed. Creatures within a mile of the lair sometimes feel ill at ease, lost, or hopeless.

The effects that deter intrusion at radiant waste repositories are designed to last into the far future. Even if all creatures in the lair die, the regional effects do not fade for 10,000 years.

Other Inhabitants of Repositories

Not many creatures can survive in a region containing a radiant waste repository. Native creatures such as atomic priests and kaiju are sustained by the ambient arcane energy, though the latter also preys on other creatures. Wild ray cats typically range in and out of such regions, acquiring food outside of the region but returning for protection from larger predators that are unwilling to follow.

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Summary: Pumpkin soda with a lot of spices mixed in sold around the time autumn happens in the Feywild. It's sold year round in elven cities surrounding where pumpkins are grown in Nov, but extremely expensive outside of harvesting season. 

Item Type: Drinks (soda), Drink Powder Mix (“spice”)

Value: 5 sp (low end 1sp, high end 5gp)

Eatability: Fey, Kuo-toa, illithids, Myconids, Stoneling, Thri-kreen - can't consume it, mostly cause of the carbonation or inability to consume any elixir.

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Description:  A carbonated drink of pumpkin puree. Tastes more like pumpkin soup that is fizzy with cinnamon, unless you get a coffee variant then its most fizzy black coffee with a hint of pumpkin flavoring and a butt load of cinnamon.

Most come in simple cylinder glass bottles, however some manufacturers will make pumpkin shaped bottles and tint the glass orange. Autumn soda competition will often make extremely detailed containers for prize winners.

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Vague Recipe - this is a generic recipe; elixir bars, MAM variants, and personal recipes may differ drastically. This is the closest to what you'd probably get from a vending machine.

Water

Sugar or Corn Syrup

Pumpkin Puree and/or Pumpkin Flavoring Syrup 

Spice Mix: Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg, Cloves, Allspice

Sparkling Water

Whipped Cream

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Available - Pumpkin Spice Elixir can be found at most vending machines during Fall and within the first two weeks of winter. 

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MAM (Magic Amedity Market) variants:

1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 Ice Cube Tray 

Pure vial of the syrup

Thick liquid variant 

Dry powder mix spice bag

Drink memory brain pastry 

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History-

Create Minor Monstrosity

3rd-level transmutation (ritual)

Casters: warlock (pact of the chain)

Casting Time: 1 minute

Range: Touch

Components: V, S, M (a fly, bone ashes, two silver rings worth at least 200 GP)

Duration: 3 days or permanent

You put a ring on your own finger and one on your target's, springing them with bone ashes while chanting the spell's words. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw. If they fail, they are turned into a fly (see The Fly). They can do the test again after a long rest, but if they fail two more times the transmutation becomes permanent. After that, you can use the spell Find Familiar to turn the creature in your familiar.

The Fly

Tiny monstrosity, any alignment

Armor Class 13

Hit Points 5 (2d4)

Speed 15 ft, fly 40 ft.

STR 03 (-4) || DEX 17 (+3) || CON 10 (+0)

INT 16 (+3) || WIS 12 (+1) || CHAR 0 (-5)

Skills Arcana +5, Perception +3, Stealth +6

Senses passive Perception 11

Languages Any language known before transformation

Challenge 1 (200 XP)

Fly By. The Fly doesn't provoke an opportunity attack when it flies out of an enemy's reach.

Innate Spellcsting. The Fly's spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 13). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

At will: prestidigitation, poison spray, acid splash.

1/day: create minor monstrosity.

Magic Resistance. The Fly has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Spider Climb. The Fly can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Actions

Toxic Spit. Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 10/20 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) acid damage.