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[alexseanchai]

I really wish Miraculous Ladybug had gone where we thought they were going with the Goat and Rooster superheroes, namely Marc Anciel as the Goat and Nathaniel Kurtzberg as the Rooster

because that would have avoided the thing where the character with red hair, a given name derived from one in the Torah, and a Yiddish surname—

(remember Miraculous wielders' superhero outfits reflect their subconscious desires unless they consciously put in effort otherwise, a fact that also has fun implications when noticing how much thinner Rena Rouge is than Alya is and how much paler Rena Rouge and Pegasus are than Alya and Max are)

—has, as a superhero, goat horns.

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[thecreaturecodex]

Cifal

“Gamma World Monsters 8″ by Mike Faille, © Wizards of the Coast. Accessed at the artist’s deviantArt gallery here

[The cifal is a monster from the Fiend Folio that gets an awful lot of crap. Which is too bad, because the idea of a swarm of bugs in human shape is a pretty cool concept. Frankly, I’m tempted to give one bard levels and put it in my game.

The mechanics of the original version are baffling even by the standards of 1e’s exception-based design, however. I can see it being awful in actual play, leading to its bad reputation. But not only did a true-blue CIFAL appear in the 4e D&D kitbash of Gamma World, two different fiendish versions of the idea cropped up in that edition as well, the swarm devil and host demon.

BTW, this image contains a pic of another monster that will be posted in this set of conversions. And no, not Chicken Rambo.]

Cifal CR 8 N Aberration This writhing, seething mass is a conglomeration of thousands of insects, centipedes, spiders and other vermin, pushed together into a disturbingly humanoid shape.

Cifals are strange aberrant forms of life, a swarm of writhing vermin compressed into a man-like shape. The name was coined as an acronym (“colonial insect-formed artificial life”) by some sage long ago—they call themselves “the buzzing ones”, in a dialect of Aklo difficult to speak with fleshy lips and throats. Cifals are intelligent, albeit not very sophisticated, and they gather in groups to better hunt prey and to mingle their essences together to create new variety.

A cifal’s body contains many unrelated species of insects, spiders, scorpions and other invertebrates. The core of any cifal is its “nuclear swarm”, a gathering of intelligent flying insects of beetle-like appearance. The nuclear swarm hosts the cifal’s intelligence, and without it the mass collapses into self-devouring violence. With it, the creatures can work among themselves to create a unified body, which devours animal and plant tissue alike with appendages of chewing, squirming hunger. They can temporarily release control of their hosts to create a cloud that tears at all caught in it. When the body is slain, the nuclear swarm can escape, and typically flees to slowly build up a new stable of vermin to create a new body.

Advanced Cifals A cifal with the advanced template is typically one that has incorporated a whole swarm of vermin into its body, as opposed to cobbling together many discrete types. Advanced cifals may have a special attack that they inflict with their slams and bug burst. Some possible attacks include the cling ability of an army ant swarm, the disease of a tick swarm, the poison of a centipede or spider swarm, or the gnaw of a termite swarm. If there is a save DC involved with this attack, use the DC for the cifal’s abilities, not the DC for the original swarm.

Cifal       CR 8 XP 4,200 CN Medium aberration Init +6; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Perception +12, tremorsense 30 ft. Defense AC 21, touch 17, flat-footed 14 (+6 Dex, +1 dodge, +4 natural) hp 95 (10d8+50); fast healing 5 Fort +8, Ref +9, Will +9 DR 10/bludgeoning; Immune mind-influencing effects Defensive Abilities amorphous, ferocity, rejuvenation, swarmlike Offense Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft. Melee 2 slams +13 (1d12+4 plus distraction) Special Attacks bug burst, distraction (DC 20) Statistics Str 18, Dex 22, Con 21, Int 6, Wis 15, Cha 12 Base Atk +7; CMB +11; CMD 28 Feats Dodge, Mobility, Power Attack, Spring Attack, Weapon Finesse Skills Acrobatics +14, Climb +12, Disguise +6, Perception +10, Stealth +14 Languages Aklo SQ compression Ecology Environment underground Organization solitary or hive (2-6) Treasure incidental Special Abilities Bug Burst (Ex) As a standard action once every 1d4 rounds, a cifal can erupt in a fountain of swarming vermin. All creatures within a 15 foot radius of the cifal must succeed a DC 20 Reflex save or take 8d6 points of slashing and piercing damage. Any creature that takes damage must also save against the cifal’s distraction. The save DC is Constitution based. Rejuvenation (Ex) When a cifal is slain, it releases its nuclear swarm. Treat the nuclear swarm as a locust swarm with the aberration type and an Int of 6. If this swarm is not slain, it grows into a new cifal over the course of one week. Swarmlike (Ex) A cifal is composed of thousands of vermin, and has swarm-like characteristics. It is immune to any single target spells, but has vulnerability to any area of effects that deal damage. A strong or stronger wind deals 1d6 points of damage to a cifal each round, plus an additional 1d6 damage for each strength category above strong (no save). A cifal’s slam attacks deal bludgeoning, slashing and piercing damage.

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[alexseanchai]

BRO that post about drawing butts also absolutely boils my piss as someone who has a wavy, flat butt shape due to hip dips and genetic fat distribution. Like one of those graphics supposedly shows eight "different butt shapes" and they are ALL a ridiculous hourglass shape with an itty bitty waist, with the tiniest little dip for a pelvis, and have the nerve to call that representing different body types. We do not have to look like that. We are enough. <3

truth!

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[alexseanchai]

not cowed

It's only Camembert de Normandie if it comes from Camembert in Normandy. Otherwise, it's just sparkling soft cheesiness.

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Adrien flops face-first onto his bed and growls into his pillow; once the sound of Nathalie's heels has changed from staccato on the staircase to andante across the floor, he rolls over and tells Plagg, "I'm moving to Normandy to work on a dairy farm."

"I don't know, I don't think you have the muscle for that," Plagg says, laughing, "or the right sort of nose."

"Ha, ha," deadpans Adrien (amused more than annoyed, if only because Plagg understands why Adrien will not, in fact, be reducing his physical activity in order to make his clothes need less tailoring), "but just think: so much less bullshit."

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[alexseanchai]

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