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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormrunner" data-source="post: 1125694" data-attributes="member: 13471">Did no-one do anything with the hobyas?  They can be especially effective if the party camps to rest and heal:Single hobyah approaches and sits up in a begging position.  If a PC tosses it a morsel of food, it squeals excitedly, grabs the food, and runs off.  About ten minutes later three hobyahs appear and go through the same begging process.  If the PCs feed them, they too scamper off.Ten minutes later a dozen hobyahs show up.  About this point the party is having second thoughts about the wisdom of feeding them, but too late.  The hobyahs start running around and around the campsite, squeaking and chittering.  Above the chatter of their voices a rapid, rhythmic thumping grows louder and louder, thumpeta Thumpeta THUMPETA.  Suddenly the PCs realize what the noise is - the hobyahs are running *in time*, all their feet hitting the ground together like marching soldiers.  And their voices are synchronizing too, into a single deep-throated chant of "hob-ya Hob-ya HOB-YA!"  In the red flicker of the firelight their eyes glitter and teeth flash; their grinning little faces no longer look so innocent - in fact they look downright HUNGRY.PCs: "Oh <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />."At this point the fear aura goes off: DC 11 + the number of hobyahs.  With enough hobyahs even a high-level party will be fleeing in panic, each in a different direction of course.  Their mounts will bolt too.  Once the party is seperated each PC will be swarmed in turn - the hobyahs probably will be unable to kill them, but should get in several poisoned bites.  Meanwhile the remaining hobyahs trash the party's camp, stealing anything small enough for them to carry and smashing/ripping/peeing on the remainder.  From then on, constant harassment by the little buggers makes it difficult for the party to rest and recover spells.</blockquote>

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