Nemissary Revenant Body made form Lunars?

[psychoph]

I am trying to make a medium reaccuring boss for a lunars game.


My idea is that a Deathlord captured 2 lunars to experiment with necrosurgery on.


After she was done she created a body for her favorite nemissary to ride by combinding the two Lunars in their Deadly beastman forms.


Now my question is how do I stat it out?


Originally I was thinking combinding the best attributes of the Lunars DBF and then add some extra modfications.


Next how to i play it out in combat?  Ghosts are still weird for me.  Combat shoudl happen in a shadowland.  I assume that the nemissary could use arconi it has, which shoudl be a lot since it is a fairly powerful old nemissary and favored by the Deathlord.


My idea is once the body is destroyed the Nemissary runs away to lick its wounds and I want the body to be destroyed but challenge the players 5 Lunars with starting char gen.

 

[Hanat-Osul]

Personally, I'd go for a posse of old, elite nemissaries with Artifact 4 or 5 war bodies, rather than mucking about with the corpses of Lunars.  And anyway, don't Lunars shift back to human form when they die? or is that just a Werewolf thing?


If, however, you persist in doing this, I would suggest using a starting nemissary war body as described in Book of Bone and Ebony and "buy" Deadly Beastman for it two or three times.  Then add on nemissary attachments/ option on an as-needed basis to bring it up to the power level where it will challenge your players.


But seriously: for multiple PCs, multiple enemies would be a better strategy, in my opinion.  You could still keep the "harvesting dead Lunars" thing, just say that the bits were spread out among several nemissaries, and give them each a DBT gift or two and a couple extra Attribute dots.  'Cause nemissaries aren't exactly slouches, even compared to Exalts, if their war bodies are built right.

 

[Persell]

I personally think the idea is superb. Just look over your pack of players and make up the attributes it needs to make a challenge.


I suggest you apply lots of signs of necrosurgery to it, like tubes with special liquids in it, artificial enhancements to certain limbs, additional limbs attached to the body etc. Incorporate some artifacts into the body which help with arcanoi, can be targeted and destroyed and make the fight more interesting that way. Devices might regenerate health levels, suppress lunar regeneration gifts and charms and shooting barbs of bone at player characters seems a good idea, too.


For a fighting style I suggest brute strenght, high attributes and some arcanoi. The arcanoi might be reduced to only side effects as a pack of lunar is pretty hard to impress with ghost charms.

 

[psychoph]

But seriously: for multiple PCs, multiple enemies would be a better strategy, in my opinion.  You could still keep the "harvesting dead Lunars" thing, just say that the bits were spread out among several nemissaries, and give them each a DBT gift or two and a couple extra Attribute dots.  'Cause nemissaries aren't exactly slouches, even compared to Exalts, if their war bodies are built right.

That actually sounds liek a better idea i had not thought about.


I definitely want them to be Lunar bodies though due to the Deathlord and her history, and that it shoudl present a certain bit of horror to the players that their dead corpse could be used against them.


I think you are correct that they do revert to natural form when they die, but storywise I am having the Deathlord work around that by creating the bodies while they were still living and then after much failed experimentation has figured out a ritual to not allow Lunars to transform.


Which actualyl brings up a good weakness.  If the spell is countered then the bodies woudl revert to natural form and just be human.

 

[Flagg]

I think you are correct that they do revert to natural form when they die

I don't remember ever reading this. Besides, DBT is considered one of a Lunar's "true" forms, on par with their human and totem animal forms, so it's just as "natural" for them to be a Deadly Beastman as a human.


-S

 

[Hanat-Osul]

DBT is considered one of a Lunar's "true" forms, on par with their human and totem animal forms, so it's just as "natural" for them to be a Deadly Beastman as a human.
-S

Oh, yeah.  Duh.  Right on.