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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 1593247" data-attributes="member: 16221">Well, I already know where I want to GO with it, it's the rules of getting there that I'm interested.The concept was something I came up with years ago for a story I was writing at the time.  It's of the "Dischordant Voices"... and insane incorporeal monster that is the servant of an evil god, that doesn't damage your flesh, but rather damages your soul.  It consists of numerous "minds" each with a shadowy body, and whenever it kills someone, that person is added to the collective.And then I read the entry on Shadows.  Wow... that's... um... very similar.  Identical almost.  The biggest differences are that the Voices of my story were restricted... only so many bodies could manifest at a time, and they were all forced to stay together within a certain radius... each member couldn't just go off wandering alone.  And they got around their body-forming-at-a-time limitation through the use of illusions... 6 forms attack the hero, one left, one right, one forewards, one behind, one above, one below, but only four are real.  Which do you dodge?But really, the most fun was that all of the voices argued incessantly with each other.To simulate the grouping bit, I think giving the Voice's "Leader" control monster or domination or control undead powers would be necessary.  Also maybe a few levels of wizard to get some illusion powers going.As for CR... I want this to be a recurring monster the PCs encounter, so it should be above their ability to -kill-, though they'll need to be able to survive, run away, or fend it off from its varius targets.  The PCs'll be between lvl8-10 by the time they get to the part of the campaign I'm planning for here...Edit: Oooh, Living Undead... that looks... oooh, quite cool.  Still needs a little more power, as CR8 isn't quite enough at this point, and as I mentioned, needs to be able to control other shadows.  As for backstory...In the distant past, on another plane, we have the story of the evil wizard who wants to become a god.  All kinds of heroic actions are taken to stop him of course, but in the end, he gained the power he wanted, and chose to become a god of chaos.  He started destroying things, big huge war ensued, planets, planes destroyed in the process.  But in the end, some other deities go and seal him off into a single dimension, one he himself ruined by destroying all laws... pure chaos without order.  And there he's stuck, in a hell of his own creation.And pure chaos, when you have nothing to compare it to, is boring.  Esspecially when, by defnition, you yourself have SOME order, if only that much to keep a form for yourself.At any rate, he's looking for a way out of this prison.  Over an indeterminate period of time, in fact, time has no meaning here, he forced a tiny tiny crack open into another plane.  He can't fit through, but he can work some small influence.Now, the seal on his prison is in the form of the life force of certain individuals, or rather, certain mortal bloodlines.  The end of these lines, the complete slaughter of the keyholders, will open the prison once more.  So using the little influence he has, he creates assasin monsters, and beguiles skilled mortals to find these people in exhange for considerable power, etc etc etc.The Dischordant Voices are one of three assasins this god personally made in order to break him out of the prison.</blockquote>

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