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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 3516719" data-attributes="member: 15651">Psychosis feeds upon psionic emanations, but is very weak without physical minds to inhabit.  Because he is so weak to begin, he starts out taking over the minds of children who have few defenses against him.  He needs to protect these host bodies, so the children are in the woods cleaning out some old ruins to make a home for themselves.  As Psychosis gains more inhabited minds, his power grows and he can begin taking over other, more developed minds.  He can only attack a mind if part of him (a controlled person) is within a short distance of his target and the further his controlled person is from a cluster of others, the weaker his attack, so he begins to send out some of his thralls to other places to get control of more minds and establish new cluster in another location. These clusters again start out with children, moving on to stronger victims as they gain members.Depending upon how you want to set it up, when the PCs encounter the children in the woods, Psychosis can be a weak opponent overall, just starting out, or he can be stronger, but this area is just starting, therefore it is still vey weak.  If the PCs manage to take care of this cluster easily, they may be surprised when the travel to a different region and run into a more established cluster that is much stronger - this of course makes it much easier for you to scale the encounters to the party.  As for how to restore people under Psychosis' control short of killing them, I'm not sure at this point.  One thing could be that each cluster has a single controlling mind, which is then controlled through the lead mind of another cluster.  If you kill that one, the others controlled by it are released, and the power fed to the lead mind in another cluster is weakened (I'm thinking it could be like an Amway sales rep scheme except with psionic power instead of money).  Some leaders may be ambitious and be obvious leaders - easy to target.  Others might be more devious and hide behind another he controls who outwardly appears to be the leader.</blockquote>

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