HIVE HORROR, TYPE 21 - CR 21

Frightful Presence (Su) The reaper’s presence unsettles its foes. It can activate this ability as part of the action of making an attack or as a move action, but it can activate it only once per round. It has a range of 30 feet. Opponents within the range must succeed at a Will save (DC 25) or be shaken for 5d6 rounds.  Once an opponent has been exposed to a reaper’s frightful presence (whether or not the opponent succeeds at its saving throw), it cannot be affected by the same creature's frightful presence for 24 hours. This is an emotion, fear, mind-affecting, and sense-dependent effect.

Grab (Ex) If the reaper horror hits with a mega claw, it deals the normal damage. If the reaper’s attack roll successfully hits the target's KAC + 4, the creature also automatically grapples the foe as a free action. (If it hits the target's KAC + 13, it instead pin’s the target.) The creature does not need to have a spare limb free to perform this grapple, as long as it can make the listed attack, and it can potentially grapple more than one target if it has more than one attack with the grab ability. The creature can maintain the grab either with another successful grab attack or by performing the grapple combat maneuver normally.

Saprobiont Engulfment (Ex) When the reaper horror pins a creature automatically moves the creature to a saprobiont mass on its back where it will begin engulfing the creature and absorbing its spiritual ghost and physical form into its own.   Unless otherwise specified, a reaper horror can engulf only targets that are at least one size category smaller than itself, and it has room for a single target of that size in its saprobiont mass (doubling the maximum number of creatures it can have swallowed for each additional size category by which these creatures are smaller). Once engulfed, the target takes the listed saprobiont engulfment damage automatically at the beginning its turn every round. The target is considered grappled as long as it is engulfed. The target can attempt to cut its way out (the interior of a creature with saprobiont mass has the same EAC as its exterior and a KAC equal to that of its exterior - 4) by dealing an amount of damage equal to one-quarter the reaper horror’s total Hit Points, though any attack that does not deal slashing damage deals only half its normal damage.

Necromorph Options Although there are common types of hive horrors each is unique.  You can select one of the following abilities or spend 5 Gene Pool points from the mutations presented in the Mutant Menagerie.  Note these options have not been included in the creature’s stat block.