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[monstersdownthepath]

About behimirons: Once they've gotten to a material plane world, what is there that can stop them from completely drowning the entire world in their swarm? Anything that dies (including their own and their victims) is quickly turned into more behimirons.

(the beasts in question)

Adventurers, of course! A swarm of such powerful qlippoth building to such dramatic size would get the attention of numerous powerful entities who'd want to put a stop to it, either with their own hands or by getting some adventuring parties into the mix. Even without adventurers in play, there's few Good-aligned gods who would see such a horror playing out and not try and send down some assistance to slow them down.

Stopping the Behemiron from spreading would make for an interesting side objective in a qlippoth-focused campaign, methinks. Players knowing Behemiron are around may take precautions they otherwise might never consider, taking the extra time to chop up, burn, dissolve, or otherwise be rid of corpses they leave in their wake to stop the infestation from spreading further.

[toadallytickles]

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Ladies and gentlemen.. this is Enamel No. 5 !!

💘: Got any tickle fantasies?

UM YES. TOO MANY. UNFULFILLED

Be gang tickled~

I WANT TO BE PUT IN STOCKS SO BAD!!

Kinda wanna be kidnapped too~

Gang up on someone with Clay~

Gang up on Clay with someone~

I think tickling a girl would be super cute~

I mean... tickling any new friend would be super cute~

I haven’t played with a lot of people (〃^▽^〃)ゞ

Not to be NSFW and nasty but my biggest tickle fantasies are literal clit tickling/focused ones omg like David Mack and Spiffy-styled sessions uuughh idk it drives me crazy 😩

💝: Do you like restraints? What kinds?

I love restraints! I love being restrained and helpless and made to take it! And I love restraining a little lee~ I want them more helpless and stuck than me~ :]c

I like anything that has me spread eagle, under-the-bed is fun too! And I’m a big fan of stocks and toeties, but I haven’t been in those two together before! And I love any restrains that just.. immobilize lees just for me to have at ‘em~ (¬‿¬)

Thank you for asking, Sam!! 💕 | Heart Asks ♡

[lizzienaut]

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[elithien]

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[ancientcitylullaby]

@enamel5

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[monstersdownthepath]

Do aberrations have souls in the same way humanoids do? It's hard to picture the things the dominion of the black creates being judged by pharasma and becoming humanoid looking demons

Aberrations in general? Yes.

The ones created by the Dominion? [wibbly-wobbly hand}

It's hard to know if their biomechanical creations have souls like a natural born creature does, given how the Cycle of Souls works. Technically, any creature capable of changing and growing should have a soul, even if it's just an animalistic soul. Given the Dominion's general disdain for the existing gods as they are, they may offer their souls up to entirely different forces, perhaps even their own enigmatic leaders. ... hmm... this gives me ideas...

Speaking of, typing out the words "animal soul" sent me on a quick search to answer a separate question, and I found that the answer is "no one seems to know where animal souls go when they die." They're certainly not judged.

The Boneyard is big, though. There's Ushers we haven't seen or heard of and reaches of the Courts of Purgatory no creature from Golarion has ever been allowed in. There may be halls dedicated specifically to the Dominion's conquered worlds, Yamaraj judges who oversee their alien sins, and Ushers who specialize in keeping the peace when one of them inevitably tries stirring chaos.

[ancientcitylullaby]

@enamel5

I am obsessed with this fish

[monstersdownthepath]

What happens to the soul of a person who avoids their ultimate fate by creating a shabti? If they go to the plane matching their alignment, it seems like they don't actually escape their fates at all.

This may come as a surprise, but many mortals of a particular alignment sometimes don't end up going to the afterlife matching that alignment, especially if their actions fall in line more with Law or Chaos while their own alignment is the opposite (or Neutral). Rather than simply being mindlessly sorted by their alignment, many mortals--especially the rich, influential, and powerful mortals who'd be able to make a Shabti in the first place--are actually judged in an actual court where their deeds are brought to light before a proper audience. Depending on what they've done in life, they may not end up going where you'd think they were going!

TN, LN, and CN people can famously swing either up or down depending on their actions in life, and some CN souls might not want to take the chance of ending up in the Abyss when they could frolic around in the Maelstrom, instead. More famously, Hell doesn't care what your alignment is, only that you've made a bargain with its denizens and thus your soul is forfeit to it. I assume many Shabti were created specifically to avoid the fires while the deal-maker got to reap the benefits of the infernal contract. There's also the more hilarious edge case that occurs when the paranoid creator of a Shabti ends up being judged to go to one of the Upper Planes: the Shabti goes to Axis instead, while the soul is still shunted into whatever plane matches its alignment, potentially screwing them out of their eternal reward.

More fittingly though, there's a small but important sentence hidden in the Sovereign Shabti item entry: "If the soul was condemned to torment or labor, the shabti goes in its place—the bound individual’s spirit traveling to some favorable corner of a plane matching her alignment."

Emphasis mine. The victim doesn't necessarily have to end up in one of the traditional afterlife planes; they may very well end up in an Elemental Plane, the Dimension of Dreams, one of the energy planes, or the Astral Plane. Even if they do end up going to Hell, or the Abyss, or Abaddon, they end up in a 'favorable corner,' presumably somewhere safe where they can begin to use their former powers and connections to try and carve out a niche for themselves... or at least avoid torment for a time. It doesn't seem like much but delaying the inevitable though, doesn't it? Especially since Psychopomps are constantly on the lookout for Shabti who've been wrongly sorted, freeing the poor souls from their situation and then hunting down the actual escapee and put them where they needed to go.

There are terrible prices all around involved in the process. Spending 130,000gp on a Sovereign Shabti to earn yourself maybe another decade of relative peace after death... And you know once Pharasma's forces find you, your judgment will be all the worse due to the new evidence against you (”condemning an innocent in your place”). It can even backfire if you turned out to be an alright person in the end!

It hardly seems worth it at all, doesn't it?

But that's the inherent danger in trying to fight fate.

[monstersdownthepath]

What alignment are you?

Neutral Hungry

[monstersdownthepath]

Thoughts on chaos beasts?

Tasty! But unethical; they lose their flavor and most of their mass when they die, so you have to eat them alive to get the most out of them. Also, a lot of them used to be people, which just kinda adds to the moral greyness.

I'd rate them as "do not consume," personally.

[ancientcitylullaby]

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[monstersdownthepath]

Do bibliodaemons have any power with their contracts the way devils do, or are the contracts just legal agreements like what mortals make?

Bibliodaemons, Braismois and, in fact, NO daemonic lawyer has any actual legal magical power, except for what's listed in their statblock.

Unlike Hellbound contracts, whose terms are enforced by diabolic magic for both parties, daemon contracts are worth little more than the paper they're printed on and the ink with which they've been printed. It's up to the two parties to actually enforce their agreement with whatever resources they have at their disposal.

Because of the power imbalance between the typical humans engaging in the contract and the daemons writing them, the daemons tend to only stick to their end of the deal until they get what they want, then gleefully rip the thing apart in front of the human's face before killing and eating them. I have to emphasize that daemons only obey contracts if it suits them to do so; they are under literally no compulsions--magical, moral, or otherwise--to actually hold up their end of any bargain, even if you sign the thing in blood.

Which is why I recommend taking any daemonic contract to a third party to make sure everyone involved sticks to it as it's written.

[monstersdownthepath]

Do you have any advice for using proteans as villains? My party has ended up working against a particular chorus' schemes. They've met one of the keketars who was of course very eager to tell them all about everything they'd been doing and why it was so great. They talked their way out of the situation before teleporting to Basrakal to rest and do some shopping. They're already looking into buying axiomatic weapons before heading back to the maelstrom guns a'blazing.

Certainly! Their chaotic antics and ever-shifting plans means that the party throwing a monkey wrench into their plots might actually be, bizarrely enough, embraced. Depending on what the plan may be, details suddenly and catastrophically changing may be seen as a wondrous new act of destruction that the party may get applause for. If you want to be ESPECIALLY weird, you can say that the plan being stopped was indeed the plan all along, the Proteans launching it simply to see if it could be stopped.

If you want to play them as more straight villains and have them attack the party for the intrusion, but things go a little TOO hard in their favor, remember that at any point the Chorus can cut off their attack on the party and declare that the battle has become boring, or useless, or no longer worth their attention, which can be accelerated if the party gains multiple positive Warpwave effects in a row, which they could see as a sign that their plan was doomed to fail anyway.

Since Proteans have no true hierarchy and the Choruses can indeed work with or against one another entirely on a whim, a party may be able to enlist the aid of other Proteans if they can make the mission seem sufficiently interesting enough or convince them that what the villainous Chorus is doing is Super Bad, Actually.

[monstersdownthepath]

Do we know for sure who “those who remain” are? I feel like it would be the qlippoth, but that seems to not be the case considering they’re still here in our multiverse. The elder gods seem like another possibility, but I feel like that’s not right for the same reason.

Also, what’s Groteus’s relationship with the end? It feels like he’s kinda just there at the very end.

Yes! It's the term referring to any creatures from the past universal cycles; the Outer Gods and GOOs, the Qlippoth and the Abyss itself, the Manasaputra and the Ouroboros, and possibly some others!

However, the fear with which they are referred to in the Windsong Testaments (and, occasionally, elsewhere) means that Pharamsa and those with similar goals to her primarily view the Outer Gods and their malevolence or destructive indifference as the "true" Remainders.

As for Groetus, his role in the end is left intentionally vague. He will either destroy the Great Beyond himself once it's evacuated, or simply witness its destruction in silence. In either case, once nothing else is left, he will simply cease to be. It's up to the DM!

[monstersdownthepath]

Which of the outer planes do you think it would be the worst to be sent to?

Well the Outer Sphere tends to be made up of the afterlife planes, so either Abaddon or the Abyss.

The Abyss is more immediately lethal, but Abaddon is definitely worse over time.

At least in Hell, you may be able to bargain for your safe return.

[toadallytickles]

Happy birthday!

Aw, thank you very much, Sam~! 🥰❤️