The unfinished state of many of the adzes, some neither bruised nor ground, suggests strongly that they were the stock-in-trade of one adze-maker (who may also have been the carpenter), but certainly they appear to be the products of a single craftsman of unusual skill. The two rows of broad-bladed quadrangular adzes above are obviously different in function from the row of long, narrow-bladed, hog-backed, triangular adzes below, while of the four horizontally-placed adzes, the two coffin-shaped ones on the right are different in purpose from the long slender chisel (Pl. In either case one must admire (in Plate A) the interesting variation of types, and the consummate skill with which they were roughly blocked, chipped, bruised, and ground into form. The thirty-one 1 adzes were found together at a depth of three feet in a small sandy area close to his farm, on what was possibly an extension of Lake Ellesmere in the presumably remote period when the adze-heads were deposited.Īn obvious conclusion, from this, as in other caches, is that the adzes comprize either the kit of tools of one carpenter, or the stock-in-trade of a specialist adze-maker. THE chief purpose of this paper is to provide an illustrated record of a remarkable cache of adzes from Motukarara, Banks peninsula, which the Museum has been able to exhibit and describe through the courtesy of the finder, Mr. DUFF, M.A., Ethnologist, Canterbury Museum. The victim of an adze becomes a witch who is possessed by the adze’s spirit.BY R. Its preferred victims are young children.
However, in the insect form, the adze will suck your blood while you sleep and spread disease, which is a possible explanation for outbreaks. This can be dangerous in itself, because in its human form the adze may attack and eat your organs, but it can be defeated. Art Credit:Moth-Bat Hybrid Monster by Homeros-Gilani) The adze is a vampire that takes the form of a firefly, but if you capture one, it will revert to human appearance. (Top image is Adze in firefly form while bottom image is Adze in Vampire form. The exhaustion remains until the creature is subjected to a lesser restoration spell or similar magic. The diseased creature gets headaches, a fever, chills, and immediately takes three levels of exhaustion. Hit: The target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or contract a disease. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one unconscious creature. The effect ends when the adze is killed or the dominated creature is killed.ĭiseased Bite (Firefly Form Only). If the target is reduced to 0 hit points, it instead drops to 1 hit point and is mentally dominated by the adze as though under the effects of the dominate monster spell, without a duration.
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Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) necrotic damage. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Instead of dealing damage, the adze can grapple the target (escape DC 14).īite (Humanoid Form Only).
The adze makes two claw attacks or one claw attack and one bite attack.Ĭlaws (Humanoid Form Only). The adze can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:ģ/day: comprehend languages, disguise self, fear, sleep The adze's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12). If the adze takes radiant damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of the adze's next turn. The adze regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hit point and hasn't taken radiant damage since its last turn. If the adze fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Anything it is wearing transforms with it, but nothing it is carrying does. Its statistics, other than its size and speed, are unchanged. While in firefly form, the adze cannot speak or manipulate objects, and it has a flying speed of 30 feet and can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. The adze can use its action to polymorph into a Tiny firefly, or back into its true form. Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 14
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacksĬondition Immunities charmed, frightened, poisoned
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