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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Big Mac" data-source="post: 4318678" data-attributes="member: 61182">Continued from last post...Perhaps the mathematics could help us. The "more than half" thing implies that four aruchai can kill three orcs and (something) would hop to the Material Plane. If four (immortal) aruchai arrive on the Material Plane and turn into orcs they would be the original creatures. If three immortal aruchai arrive on the material plane they would be the dead orcs. However, after the original mention of mathematics I don't see it mentioned again.Maybe we could keep an open mind about the "immortal planehopping aruchai" for now. We can probably work through the stats and come back to which creature it should be (original or dead foe) at the end.The same goes for the "form stealing aruchai" or alternatively "restored but changed in alignment dead creature". This would either be the aruchai stealing the form (and perhaps the physical stats) of its foe or the the original creature being reanimated with a new personality.I'm leaning towards the aruchai being form stealers, not because it is what my first guess is (I'm often wrong and willing to admit it). I'm still leaning towards this interpretation because of the implications for restoring creatures that are killed by an aruchai.If an aruchai steals the form of its victim and turns its victim into a new aruchai it could actually force players to defeat two creatures if they want to bring a friend back from the dead:1) There could be someone walking around who looks exactly like their friend and has all of their friend's abilities. Maybe they could even have their friend's memories. Maybe they could actually think they are the person they seem to be.2) The "soul" of their friend could be trapped within a new aruchai on the Plane of Limbo. In order to get it out they could be required to kill, capture, or transform this creature back into its original form.Getting the two creatures together and using some sort of magical process to revert both back to their original form would seem to be an epic quest to me. It could be fairly interesting for players to do. (Especially, if you let the player of the dead PC take over control of the transformed form-stealing aruchai.)The other way, could still have interesting implications. People may still need to kill or "mentally destroy" what appears to be a CN member of a dead PC's race in order to get their friend back.</blockquote>

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