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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1389039" data-attributes="member: 63">Replies like these are why I love this place.Let me run down the list of suggestions and comments.* 12th level party consists of 5 PCs and 2 NPCs (the fire mage and a bladesinger esque fiancee of one PC).  I don't think they've planned enough for this attack, though, which is why I'm going to be harsh.  They got too eager once they found the Torch, and set to use it before they took the necessary time to learn about Pilus's defenses.  Of course, now they're going to get hands on experience.* I don't plan to make the army useless.  Rather, the party will have to lead them, not just let them sit around.  I mean, a few thousand soldiers taking shovels to the skin of the airship might be effective, but yes, the ship will be able to get rid of them if they don't take action.  I figure it will take a huge thing like the airship a couple of minutes to go through the necessary maneuver.  I once rode on the KC-135 (NASA's zero-gravity simulation plane, and it managed a good parabola once every minute.* Pilus looks like Alan Rickman by the way.  He's a madman, but he needs to have style.  So tentacles are out.  He's more fond of avian creatures for general projects, and large mammals, like bulls and bears, for shock troopers.  So I could just use Ogre stats and say they're beastmen.  I'm not sure about poison.  It would work well, but the party had to fight a group of poison-happy dark Elves to get back the Torch (or at least they were supposed to, grumble grumble stupid hold person grumble grumble).* Freshman projects sound interesting as guards for minorly important areas.  Invisible stalkers, and yes, flesh golems.  I've never actually used a flesh golem before.* What does this thing eat, by the way?  Did they ever explain what the Leviathans ate in Farscape?  Then again, it's a big elemental critter, so maybe it relies on elemental energy to survive, and the party's fire mage could withhold her power.  But I don't want an NPC ally having too much of an impact, unless things go really bad for the party.* The critter is aware in an animalistic sort of way, not very intelligent, but yes, it should know how to defend itself.  I could see its 'skin' twitching or shivering, knocking people off their feet, and yeah, it should have some turbine-esque lungs on the sides, which respirate.  It doesn't have much in the way of limbs, except for the fins/sails, and its long tail, but that's not that useful against smaller threats.  Indoors, it could probably flood passageways, though, akin to, well, coating things with phlegm to make it easier to cough them up.* As for critters keeping it clean, I'm imagining lots of small birds, like ravens, picking at the cracks in its skin, sort of a cross image of remoras keeping it clean and scavenging birds eating it alive.* Polyps and cysts.  Got it.  Ooh, and one thing Pilus has been working on . . .  He captured an unseelie fey who was friends with the party.  This fey could absorb life through her touch, vampirically healing her as she harmed others.  Pilus was just managing the first parts of his experimenting on her when the party rescued her and really pissed off Pilus for the first time.I still need to think of some sort of layout for the insides, and think of the logistics of how it could land if needed, how troops get on and off, who'd be where guarding what, and so on, but so far there've been a lot of great ideas to really add flavor to this monster.  Thank you very very much.</blockquote>

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