Burrowing Horror

Technique

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Description	Calling a burrowing creature from the depths
Chain	4
Type	Etheric
Attribute	Will
Special	Base Damage 6 with your tome

Attack Summary

Condition	Base Damage	Notes
Normally	—
You chitter at the ground.
With a binding tome	6
You chitter a passage from your tome aloud. A ghostly creature, all legs and chitin, strikes at <opponent> with its appendages, dealing x damage.
With a binding tome while underground	12
You chitter a passage from your tome aloud. Ghostly creatures, all legs and chitin, crawl from the walls, surrounding <opponent> and scratching at it for <x> damage.
With a binding tome, unopposed	10
You chitter a passage from your tome aloud. A ghostly creature, all legs and chitin, crawls over the <opponent>. Its passage leaves innumerable punctures for <x> etheric damage.
With a binding tome, unopposed, while underground	16
You chitter a passage from your tome aloud. Ghostly creatures, all legs and chitin, swarm over the walls and <opponents>, dealing it <x> etheric damage.

Sources

Defeating a Burrowing Centipede with a binding tome equipped.

Notes

Enhances Scraping Summons.

In the Squatly Mole / Pincer Pit encounters, you can feed an instance of this technique to the mole to make it happy until you attack it - see Titanic Mole for details.

History

During Halloween 2012 events, this could be lost if you release a burrower to rescue a buried student.