## Ectopic Form, Ebony Stinger *Astral constructs you create with this form take on a distinctive spiderlike appearance, with a large hooked tail tipped with a wickedly barbed stinger.* **Prerequisite:** Ectopic Form (any form) **Benefit:** When you create an astral construct using this form, you shape a large hooked tail tipped with a barbed stinger. Each of the creature's attacks is made with this tail, which does piercing damage rather than bludgeoning damage. In addition, an ebony stingers attacks deal 1 point of Constitution damage in addition to their normal damage (Fortitude negates; DC 10 + 1/2 construct's HD). Creatures immune to poison are likewise immune to this effect. An ebony stinger construct is the same base size as an unmodified astral construct fashioned with the astral _construct_ power. Ebony stingers appear as shiny black spiders with a hooked tail that is tipped with a wicked barb, capable of delivering a minor poison.