#anyway back to the nighttime levels in unleashed

[tamblerdraws]

Yknow

I heard that the nighttime levels on sonic unleashed sucked

But they are fun. To me (so far) (I've only done windmill isle) (I might regret my words)

[silversiren1101]

Minovae & Ghouls... Or...?

With the divorce from DnD/OGL Paizo has had to abandon a lot of concepts or change them massively since they're pretty much identical lifts from DnD and not irl folklore or myth. The emaciated feral humanoid with lanky limbs, long tongue, jagged fanged maw, claws that paralyze except elves, and carry a disease they proliferate through called 'ghoul fever' known as the Ghoul is one of those.

The new pathfinder Ghoul funny enough I think fits the pathfinder lore re: Kabriri much better; it's no longer a disease but a curse that compels you to eat raw flesh or you suffer horrible necrosis... but if you do give in you're basically damned to come back as a ghoul if you die from the curse. They also now have the Grave Knowledge ability baked in that was introduced in Blood Lords (like Divinity elves, they can absorb knowledge and memories from the humanoid flesh they eat). Ultimately I think it's a change for the better given it fits the Kabriri lore much better (craving and forbidden flesh AND secrets!) and won't be as much of a pain in the ass mechanically to run (double fortitude saves per swing I hate you)... but their new visual appearance really doesn't fit with the savage cannibal undead trauma that serves as the whole impetus for Minovae's story. They're far less feral looking: hair and clothes and straight posture (which makes sense, they looked identical to DnD ghouls lol). Personally not a huge fan of the new art direction but, hey, I understand why.

So I've been looking for a new cannibalistic undead to traumatize her!

Originally, she and her adventuring party were ambushed in the night by a pack of roving ghouls seeking to turn some of them and/or kill them and leave them to rot so they could eat them. Her party (which had been moonlighting as spies against the loyalists in the civil war without her knowing) leave her behind in the attack, the rogue slicing her ankle so she can't run since they'd been looking for a way to get her out of the party anyways (too lawful lol). Obviously they don't get away, and they all perish except for her who manages to fight off the two ghouls that stay to play with her. She survives but at what cost? Horribly injured, diseased to near death, and traumatized with a fear of cannibalistic undead and being eaten alive and of disease. It pushes her to pledge herself to the Hellknights for numerous reasons.

A replacement monster needs to fit the same premise: undead, feral, eats humanoid flesh, overwhelming force, nighttime ambush, and something that leaves her diseased afterward.

Enter the vrykolakas. Just one of them, because it's a hulking brute of a monster. And not even a full one, just a single vrykolakas spawn.

A vampire-kin known for its ferality, brute strength, speed, wolf-like tracking capabilities (and affinity with wargs and werewolves), hunger for blood and flesh that can effortlessly drain living prey dry, difficulty to slay (permanently), and... plague!

A single vrykolakas spawn, a level 6 creature, attacking the camp of 5 level 2 adventurers (at most), in the night, and one of them being cut down purposefully? An easy TPK. Even better, when she's cut down and the others make a run for it, the predator instinct of the vrykolakas kicks in and drives it to go for the fleeing prey rather than the near helpless one.

As for how she makes it out alive? I'm debating whether it simply is satisfied with feeding off the others and returns to its burial site, or if with it bloated and feeding she manages to get the jump on it and drives her spear through it and taking it down - either way it provides a great motive for the Hellknights to get out there and find it; much more than ghouls anyhow.

It's also given me a much better way for her to want to pick up the shield so badly: her arms being mauled as she raised them in front of her face to protect herself as it bore down on her, jaws closing around them effortlessly. Lesson learned: get a real means of defense.