What do Medusababies eat?

[marelion]

You know, even archvillains were cute once

On a more serious note: On the assumption that Medusas do breastfeed their youth*: See if you can get your hands on Everlasting Provisions or any such item and if your DM rules it does not allow you to nurture your Medusababy then get a wizard (preferably the one you hopefully have in your party)to modify it to sth. like "Neverempty Babybottle".

*Which is quite plausible seeing how they have breasts and knowing their mates won`t be able to look at them(afaik, THEY are NOT immune to petrification, so the good, ol, "It`s to attract the males`attention"-reasoning doesn`t work for me).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itv6Kt8M-v4 All there is to say about male medusas nort being immune to petrification

 

[Alzrius]

Medusas have breasts, so I'd say that their babies nurse - until old enough to start a diet of meat.

Whatever you do for that baby medusa, it needs to involve cleavage.

 

[Loonook]

Whatever you do for that baby medusa, it needs to involve cleavage.

Where is your concrete evidence? Just because they have breast they must bear milk? That argument is just a house built on sand... We need some rock-hard conclusions, but if they need stone and milk you can always just get a goat and add some baa-salt.

Slainte,

-Loonook.

 

[Wycen]

I'm glad someone was able to confirm what I thought I remembered, that article about smashing stoned victims to bits to eat. Didn't remember it was maedars though.

 

[blargney the second]

Rock milk | Define Rock milk at Dictionary.com

 

[Dordledum]

just a short update, this upcoming wednesday the campaign continues (we cancelled one session because of a death in the DM's family).

the e-mail discussion we had about what to do with the baby concluded as:

We're going to lock it in a relatively safe room, with plenty of food (per DM's discretion), and hope it's still alive as we return to the surface after we found what we're looking for in undermountain (i.e. Halaster's Library). Then we'll find some goody-2-shoes temple with an orphanage and let them deal with it.

We agreed it was too big a risk to take it with us while adventuring.

 

[Thunderfoot]

I think it's interesting that people assume the snakes eat at all.
While it is generally accepted that the snakes do bite and poison, it was always my understanding that they received nourishment as a whole creature, not individual parts.

And yes, like has been said before, medusae eat meat, but, there is no reason that a mythical creature that is half reptilian, half mammalian couldn't raise on milk and ween on meat, much the way felines, canines and other carnivorous animals do.

My vote would be milk for the baby and as it starts to mature, weened on human flesh (instinctual).

 

[Dordledum]

IMHO our GM could've done more with it, but this is how the situation was concluded in last night's session:

- After long and deliberate and quite vocal discussion between partymembers, we did decide to take it with us for the time being, postponing our final decision what to do with it. We made sure the baby was kept asleep by pouring plenty of alcohol in.

- we found an aasimar enclave in undermountain. They were willing to take the baby out of our hands and promised to try to raise it as a benign being. (again after a long discussion of nature v nurture, this time with the aasimar)

Not longer our problem, the discussion on what we should feed it never even came up.