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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4800445" data-attributes="member: 19675">I'll be your huckleberry...First off, the human(oid) form of the scapegoat is known as a Sin-Eater.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_eater" target="_blank">Sin-eater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>Second, it might be interesting for the undead giant/demon to be consumed by bugs like the ones in The Bone Snatcher. They retained something of the awareness and minds of the creatures they&nbsp; ate. (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343449/" target="_blank">The Bone Snatcher (2003)</a>)Third, to add to the horror, check out the novelet &quot;Adaptogenia&quot; by Wayne Wightman, which appears in the June/July 2009 issue of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction Magazine. As a mini-spoiler, the story revolves around insects that have learned to swarm in such a way as to mimic the forms of other creatures and objects with great accuracy...although they still have a telltale but slight hum from the beating of their myriad wings. (<a href="http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/current.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/current.htm</a>)Put these all together, the swarm consumes the giant/demon, effectively returning to scapegoat status, but the swarm not only retains the knowledge of the giant (and demon), but also the recollection of the physical forms of the people whose sins were consumed...which the hiveminded swarm can then mimic...Imagine, then, being confronted by a buzzing, protean vision of yourself, telling you about your own sins, how you had them eaten...and how its going to eat you.Because of its hivemind nature, to kill it, you need to kill every member of the swarm, including/especially the queen.Because it is not truly undead, Turning and similar clerical powers will be less useful against it, if they work at all.The more creatures it eats, the more knowledge- and shapes- it gains.It can cast spells.&nbsp; It &quot;learns&quot; them by eating spellcasters it defeats.&nbsp; It cannot relearn spells- once a spell is cast, that &quot;memory&quot; is forever lost to the swarm.&nbsp; In a sense, it is like a living Ring of Spell Storing.Name...how about Soul-swarm?&nbsp; Ghost-swarm?&nbsp; The Buzzing Doom?&nbsp; Buzzkill?If you want something a bit more classical sounding...&quot;Lord of the Flies?&quot;&nbsp; or &quot;Legion?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 4800445, member: 19675"] I'll be your huckleberry... [B]First[/B] off, the human(oid) form of the scapegoat is known as a Sin-Eater. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_eater]Sin-eater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] [B]Second,[/B] it might be interesting for the undead giant/demon to be consumed by bugs like the ones in [I]The Bone Snatcher.[/I] They retained something of the awareness and minds of the creatures they ate. ([url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343449/]The Bone Snatcher (2003)[/url]) [B]Third,[/B] to add to the horror, check out the novelet "Adaptogenia" by Wayne Wightman, which appears in the June/July 2009 issue of [B]Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine.[/B] As a mini-spoiler, the story revolves around insects that have learned to swarm in such a way as to mimic the forms of other creatures and objects with great accuracy...although they still have a telltale but slight hum from the beating of their myriad wings. ([url]http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/current.htm[/url]) Put these all together, the swarm consumes the giant/demon, effectively returning to scapegoat status, but the swarm not only retains the knowledge of the giant (and demon), but also the recollection of the physical forms of the people whose sins were consumed...which the hiveminded swarm can then mimic... Imagine, then, being confronted by a buzzing, protean vision of yourself, telling you about your own sins, how you had them eaten...and how its going to eat[I] you.[/I] Because of its hivemind nature, to kill it, you need to kill every member of the swarm, including/especially the queen. Because it is not truly undead, Turning and similar clerical powers will be less useful against it, if they work at all. The more creatures it eats, the more knowledge- and shapes- it gains. It can cast spells. It "learns" them by eating spellcasters it defeats. It cannot relearn spells- once a spell is cast, that "memory" is forever lost to the swarm. In a sense, it is like a living Ring of Spell Storing. Name...how about Soul-swarm? Ghost-swarm? The Buzzing Doom? Buzzkill? If you want something a bit more classical sounding..."Lord of the Flies?" or "Legion?" [/QUOTE]

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