oky ghost chickens and it’s so fucking stupid.

So they found the Dooms of Tomorrow in B29 and after some experimentation determined that the Annihilation Beams were specifically triggered by creatures passing by rather than having a physical trigger that could be interacted with. Their first plan to disarm the hazards ended with the inventor’s construct companion getting Annihilation Beam’d into lots of tiny little pieces, so they decided to buy some chickens and lob them in. They were hit with beams of pure tsunami, inferno, earthquake, monster, and undead. First two were pretty easy, I went with falling debris for the third, big godzilla hand for the fourth, and void energy for the last. Gonna be real with you, the description is “From Monster” and I just don’t know how that works as a beam.

The thing is, quite apart from the ethical issue of throwing a defenseless animal into something called an annihilation beam, the whole campaign explicitly revolves around a spooky lighthouse that makes undead. I’ve been more subtley referencing it through various random encounters, but the first big event of the story is the lighthouse shooting a giant beam of light that creates undead where it lands. And there are a bunch of haunts and undead inside. Like there’s basically a sign over the entrance saying “Undead made here”. So now the chickens’ ghosts need revenge on their murderers.

Honestly, no idea where I’m gonna go with this, but I’ve made tokens for an undead ghost chicken and a kaiju ghost chicken, so I’ll give them some nightmares next time they go to sleep and see where that takes us.

  • Mindfury [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    yeah you gotta unleash some sort of undead greater raptor on them at some point

    also, consider a zelda-style cucco swarm where they are belted with seemingly unending danger chickies for a set time period

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      6 months ago

      consider a zelda-style cucco swarm where they are belted with seemingly unending danger chickies for a set time period

      yessss absolutely have to do something like this

      OP update us as things progress!

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      6 months ago

      Turns out PF2e ghosts can get a telekinetic assault ability that deals bludgeoning damage in an area around them, so it’s getting reflavoured to chickens.