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A Haagathga (or "bloodsac"), also known as a star vampire, is a creature from the Spelljammer campaign setting.[1]

Overview[]

Bloodsacs, sometimes known as star-vampires, are parasitic amoeboid predators that silently glide through wildspace looking for blood. Since this usually means spelljamming ships, with their complements of warm-blooded sailors, they are greatly feared by warm-blooded spacefaring beings of all alignments and races.[1]

Description[]

A bloodsac is a shapeless, pulsating sack of fluid in a slightly translucent black-blue membrane, covered in tiny, razor-edged suckers, each with a tiny speck of silver or yellow coloring. Against the darkness of wildspace, a bloodsac resembles a patch of flying night sky. The familiar smell of blood wafts about their bodies.

Bloodsacs travel in swarms, using their natural camouflage to swoop down on unsuspecting ships, surprising the crews, and draining their blood.[1]

Ecology[]

Bloodsacs are space-borne blob-like bloodsucking horrors that reproduce by laying a clutch of up to 36 eggs within the corpse of a victim that has been completely drained of blood. Half of a swarm will consist of egg-laying females, so there is a 50% chance that a victim killed by a bloodsac will burst apart 2 to 12 days later as the eggs hatch, releasing voraciously hungry young.[1]

Combat[]

Bloodsac swarms of up to 12 individuals move silently through space using their infravision to detect warm-blooded victims. They glide noiselessly onto the deck of a spelljamming vessel, probably one in orbit around a planet, and try to surprise the sailors on deck. Due to their coloration, victims usually have difficulty noticing them in time. Bloodsacs prefer to attack victims from behind, if at all possible.

Once attached to a victim, the bloodsac's tiny suckers bore into their skin and begin sucking out blood. A bloodsac does not let go unless forcibly removed, or until it drains the victim completely. Pulling off a bloodsac requires a great deal of strength, and will injure the victim further as the creature's suckers tear out of the victim's flesh. If a bloodsac remains attached to a victim, it will quickly drains their blood, changing color from a dark blue to a sickly violet.

After completely draining a victim of blood, a bloodsac sprouts a tube and uses it to bore into the base of the victim's skull. The space-born horror uses this tube to drain out the victim's brain fluids. This process takes around a minute, after which the bloodsac flies away, sated – for now. The brain fluid a bloodsac collects contains the victim's memories and knowledge. This means that if a victims is raised from the dead, they will have no memory of their past life or their identity and, will in essence be a blank slate. A victim will still retain the basic skills needed to take care of their everyday needs, as well as the ability to speak one language (most likely Common), but nothing else.

A spell such as restoration or a wish can restore a victim's lost memory; as can catching the bloodsac who drained the brain fluid, collecting it and pouring it over the victim before they are raised from the dead (as per the spell).[1]

Habitat[]

Bloodsac swarms have no leader; instead they follow whichever individual has homed in on food. Swarms aimlessly float through wildspace, never sleeping, never setting up a lair or landing on a planet. Bloodsacs hate gravity, because prolonged exposure causes their bodies to collapse into sluggish heaps of protoplasm.

Mind flayers have taken an interest in bloodsacs, especially their ability to drain brain fluids. Some mind flayers even keep trained bloodsacs as pets, a particularly deadly combination.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 John Terra, MC9 Monstrous Compendium Spelljammer Appendix II, 1991, (TSR Inc.), Bloodsac entry
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