Giant Constrictor Snake (Basic Lore)

Giant Constrictor Snake (CR 10)
Neutral - Huge - Magical Beast
Despite their incredible size (easily stretching ten paces long, and sometimes much bigger) giant constrictor snakes travel in packs. They are aggressive predators who rely on their massive size, colossal strength, and scaly hides to protect them from any prey that tries to defend itself against being eaten. Their dark scales, mottled with greens, greys, browns, even black and dull red, make them hard to spot, and they are readily mistaken for logs, branches, tree stumps, mossy columns, and other terrain features. Like all constrictor snakes, giant constrictor snakes crush their prey to death and then swallow them whole. Giant constrictor snakes are not poisonous, but don't really need to be. They are surprisingly fast, given how large they are, easily able to chase down prey that evades their initial assault. Watching a giant constrictor whip its mass across open ground by literally throwing massive loops of its huge body ahead and then pulling itself forward is eerily unnatural, and frankly, dangerous. Giant constrictor snakes can use their flickering tongues, which give them Keen Scent ability, to hunt prey even when line of sight is restricted, though they also use their normal vision and hearing to ignore the miss chances that using Keen Scent alone would give them. Giant constrictors usually fight heaped up in a loose, coiling mass the size of a haystack, but can shoot out their bodies in incredible speed, crawl and loop their way up walls and across ceilings with ridiculous speed, and if they manage to throw a loop around you, they can coil and drag you into their heaped mass of muscular loops and squeeze you to death faster than seems possible.