The New Argonauts -- Hoobo

(Like all monsters presented in The New Argonauts, this creature has an entry for Knowledge DCs when heroes try to recall what they know about this kind of creature.)

This creature does not appear in The New Argonauts.

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   Hoobo, mechanical owl; CR 1; Tiny construct; HD 2d10; hp 11; Init +2; Spd 10 ft., fly 40 ft. (average); AC 19, touch 14, flat-footed 17; Base Atk +1; Grp -10; Atk +0 melee (1d4-3, talons); Full Atk +0 melee (1d4-3, talons); Space/Reach 2 1/2 ft./0 ft.; SQ DR 5/--, construct traits, living traits, speak with hero; AL N; SV Fort +0, Ref +2, Will +2; Str 4, Dex 15, Con --, Int 8, Wis 14, Cha 4.
   Skills/Feats: Hide +10, Listen +12, Spot +4; Flyby Attack.
   Construct Traits: Immune to mind-influencing effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects), and to poison, sleep, paralysis, stunning, disease, death effects, necromantic effects, and any effect that requires a Fortitude save unless it also works on objects; not subject to critical hits, subdual damage, ability damage, ability drain, or energy drain; not at risk of death from massive damage, but destroyed when reduced to 0 hit points or less; cannot be raised or resurrected; darkvision.
   Living Traits (Ex): Like a living creature, Hoobo must rest for 8 hours each day. Hoobo recovers 2 hit points per day from resting, and suffers fatigue if deprived of rest.
   Skills: Hoobo has a +8 racial bonus to Listen checks and a +8 racial bonus to Spot checks in shadowy illumination.
   Speak With Hero (Ex): Hoobo communicates in whistles and chirps; he can understand (but not speak) Greek. Hoobo's chosen hero can understand him as if he were speaking Greek (similar to a sorcerer or wizard's ability to understand his familiar as if they shared a common language).
   Description: Hoobo is a mechanical owl made of gold and bronze, crafted by Hephaestus in the semblance of a living thing. Its motions appear clumsy compared to a real bird but it is remarkably agile despite its apparent clumsiness.
    Knowledge (history): 10--Athena's favorite animal is the owl. Some legends say that Zeus told Athena to give her owl to a mortal hero to watch over him. 15--Athena was hesitant to give away her precious pet, and asked Hephaestus to craft an owl of living metal to give to the mortal hero.
    Tactics: Rather than attacking an enemy to deal damage, Hoobo normally uses the Aid Another action to give a hero a bonus to AC or attack rolls.

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