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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 1176797" data-attributes="member: 3051">Well, there's always the "bait" option.  That is, the hostages are kept uneaten because that puts a time crunch on the Meepites; they'll be motivated to take on the Queen quickly.  If she were to consume them right away, the PCs would no longer have any immediacy in confronting her.  This'd allow them to take their time, whittle away her support structure, gather allies, do stuff with binders, neutralize some of their other enemies... instead, she's forcing them to fight in suboptimal conditions.  They don't have time to prepare, they're worried about all the other nasty things they're ignoring (like Chavram), and so on.Besides, using them as bait gives her a shot at eating some Epic-level characters...</blockquote>