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<blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 1672626" data-attributes="member: 2072"><p>In my campaign, there is a tiefling mermaid. She was once a tiefling sorceress who was magically "merged" with the essence of a mermaid bard. Now she is a sorceress/bard whose mermaid persona acts as a schizophrenic conscience, of sorts.</p><p></p><p> In my campaign, there is a human. Three thousand years in the past, he was part of an experiment involving grafts, to gain the ability to breathe underwater. The experiment went awry and he was placed in stasis. At the time, he believed the grafts to be those of a locathah. He was wrong. The grafts came from a pseudonatural fish hag, the original shellycoats; a species now long extinct. The personality of the shellycoat has begin to emerge, leaving the human not unlike the mermaid mentioned above. </p><p></p><p> So, while there are two, there are actually four. Following this, so far? Good. It's about to become more confusing.</p><p></p><p> Thanks to a liberal application of the Fins to Feet spell (thank you, Savage Species), the mermaid and human had a chance to spend some quality time together. Now she is newly pregnant - with twins.</p><p></p><p> The possibilities are endless, here. I am tempted to have the subconscious personas of the mermaid and shellycoat manifest in the children, once born. Yet that may leave both parents without the ability to breathe underwater, which is an acknowledged requirement in the campaign.</p><p></p><p> Add to this an additional unborn child. Another PC is an oceanid, daughter of a salt hag and triton. She is hagtouched, a template of my own design for night hag descendants untouched by the blood of additional outsiders.</p><p></p><p> The night hag, having been slain by her sea hag granddaughter, is now a spectral hag who has taken to inhabiting a construct fashioned by her paramour, a shade. As "Grandmother Clock", i.e. the iron hag, was fashioned from bits including clockwork horrors and a marut inevitable, I decided that the miracle of life would once again manifest, this time as a half-hag mechanatrix.</p><p></p><p> To protect her new unborn offspring, the embryo was placed within the emerald hourglass assimilated from the marut and now serving as an external womb of sorts. The oceanid has been charged with the protection of the unborn mechanatrix, who is destined to become one of the most powerful sorcerers of her time.</p><p></p><p> Before the night hag was slain, she had an unborn child "stolen" by a bone hag Body Snatcher (hag PrC I designed). The bone hag was subsequently captured and the child, daughter of a night hag and celestial, will soon be born. As, in my campaigns, succubi and erinyes are the daughters of night hags, by demon and devil fathers respectively, I have decided that this child will be an asura.</p><p></p><p> Now for the fun part. My campaign took a bit of a hiatus. After the birth of my third child, I found some land, made an offer and bought it. Now I'm interviewing architects and builders and am knee-deep in house plans.</p><p></p><p>Spoilers on...my players keep out! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p> [SPOILER] When the story continues, I will take the opportunity to advance the timeline; message-based games do tend to advance at a slower pace. The campaign will be thrust forward three years, while the PCs will age only six months (it's...technical. When I switched from 1e to 3e, the party took a 12-year nap of sorts).</p><p></p><p> The party will then be faced with several impending births. I will be arranging for a safe haven, in the form of a stable demi-plane, and childcare, either by a clockwork nanny or similar caretaker. [/SPOILER]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aeolius, post: 1672626, member: 2072"] In my campaign, there is a tiefling mermaid. She was once a tiefling sorceress who was magically "merged" with the essence of a mermaid bard. Now she is a sorceress/bard whose mermaid persona acts as a schizophrenic conscience, of sorts. In my campaign, there is a human. Three thousand years in the past, he was part of an experiment involving grafts, to gain the ability to breathe underwater. The experiment went awry and he was placed in stasis. At the time, he believed the grafts to be those of a locathah. He was wrong. The grafts came from a pseudonatural fish hag, the original shellycoats; a species now long extinct. The personality of the shellycoat has begin to emerge, leaving the human not unlike the mermaid mentioned above. So, while there are two, there are actually four. Following this, so far? Good. It's about to become more confusing. Thanks to a liberal application of the Fins to Feet spell (thank you, Savage Species), the mermaid and human had a chance to spend some quality time together. Now she is newly pregnant - with twins. The possibilities are endless, here. I am tempted to have the subconscious personas of the mermaid and shellycoat manifest in the children, once born. Yet that may leave both parents without the ability to breathe underwater, which is an acknowledged requirement in the campaign. Add to this an additional unborn child. Another PC is an oceanid, daughter of a salt hag and triton. She is hagtouched, a template of my own design for night hag descendants untouched by the blood of additional outsiders. The night hag, having been slain by her sea hag granddaughter, is now a spectral hag who has taken to inhabiting a construct fashioned by her paramour, a shade. As "Grandmother Clock", i.e. the iron hag, was fashioned from bits including clockwork horrors and a marut inevitable, I decided that the miracle of life would once again manifest, this time as a half-hag mechanatrix. To protect her new unborn offspring, the embryo was placed within the emerald hourglass assimilated from the marut and now serving as an external womb of sorts. The oceanid has been charged with the protection of the unborn mechanatrix, who is destined to become one of the most powerful sorcerers of her time. Before the night hag was slain, she had an unborn child "stolen" by a bone hag Body Snatcher (hag PrC I designed). The bone hag was subsequently captured and the child, daughter of a night hag and celestial, will soon be born. As, in my campaigns, succubi and erinyes are the daughters of night hags, by demon and devil fathers respectively, I have decided that this child will be an asura. Now for the fun part. My campaign took a bit of a hiatus. After the birth of my third child, I found some land, made an offer and bought it. Now I'm interviewing architects and builders and am knee-deep in house plans. Spoilers on...my players keep out! ;) [SPOILER] When the story continues, I will take the opportunity to advance the timeline; message-based games do tend to advance at a slower pace. The campaign will be thrust forward three years, while the PCs will age only six months (it's...technical. When I switched from 1e to 3e, the party took a 12-year nap of sorts). The party will then be faced with several impending births. I will be arranging for a safe haven, in the form of a stable demi-plane, and childcare, either by a clockwork nanny or similar caretaker. [/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]
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