Type: Special
Source: Complete Psionic
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 stinger's 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.