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Aug 20, 2011 -- 9:53PM, philnicau wrote:

I was under the impression that Warforged have Plant-like matter inside them, so maybe its creator used a twig blight or a blood thorn vine.
Thereby creating a construct with a thirst for blood.

Awesome idea.

Sep 1, 2011 -- 10:31PM, Xerkxes wrote:

what interesting flavor in this thread for how too make this work


now makes me wonder about how a Sunsoul Genasi Vampire could be flavored to function >w> 

Well that could be the whole point of his personality.  He was a genasi of the sun that became infected, and now what is essentially his life energy or the core of his being now harms him.  Now he constantly has to work at struggling with it.  Sorta like the yinyang idea Ahrimon had.

Aug 24, 2011 -- 12:27PM, Kaganfindel wrote:

I could see a warforged vampire.

What if it was commissioned to be built by a drow house as the ultimate assassin?  It's a magical construct plated in underdark irradiated adamantite, with motive structures woven out of a high tensile strength, flexible carnivorous fungus and an endoskeleton carved from the stone of a sacrificial altar.  The altar's stone was the perfect substance onto which to graft the fungus, as its pores were saturated with blood and suffering over the course of the hundreds of years it spent installed in the temple.

The result is a construct that requires blood to fuel and repair itself.  The construct's fibrous fungal "muscles" can't withstand exposure to sunlight, which makes it dry and brittle almost instantly.  Another unfortunate side effect of its unique construction materials was that it acquired self awareness - the thousands of souls liberated on the stone altar left traces of themselves behind, and when the thing was animated, the accumulated life essence coalesced and inhabited those structures designed by its creator to receive and process its commands.  The result was something more independant than any normal automaton - it had the capability to improvise in the execution of its orders, but it also had the ability to question those orders.  It had a very intimate understanding of suffering, and thus refused to cause any more on the orders of Lolth's priestesses.

What good is an assassin automaton with a conscience and a will of its own?  The project was considered by the patron house to be a dismal failure.  The construct's creator was tortured to death on the newly installed altar in what would be remembered as one of the longest sacrificial ceremonies in the history of the faith, and the automaton was deactivated with extreme prejudice and thrown into the charnel pit like the corpse of any other disobedient slave.

For a few months it lay in the charnel pit, ignored by the carrion crawlers as they stripped the flesh off the other refuse.  Then one morning, a slave who was dying, but not yet dead was shovelled into the pit along with a pile of corpses.  As the poor soul bled out, the construct was bathed in the blood of a living creature.  It was reawakened, and fed on rats and carrion crawlers until it had the strength to escape the pit and flee the underdark.

It has found its way to the surface, determined never to kill again.  However, it needs blood to sustain itself, and it is built for infiltration and murder, so it works as an adventurer.  It moves from place to place, staying for as long as it can and working with whoever will have it.  It dreams of building a subterranean cattle ranch, where it can trade out its vivisecting attachments for farming tooltips, raising rothe upon which to feed so it can stop preying on thinking creatures.  Maybe it can even find a partner - it would be a shame to let all that meat go to waste, and the underdark is a lonely place.  Even necromechanical infiltration and vivisection devices need friends.

I like this, especially as Drow metals tend to be damaged by exposure to sunlight.

Sep 11, 2011 -- 8:02PM, Salla wrote:

Sep 11, 2011 -- 8:00PM, Shard_of_Suzail wrote:

I like this, especially as Drow metals tend to be damaged by exposure to sunlight.

That hasn't happened in 11 years.

You`ll be telling me next they never lived underground either.

I think it's fairly safe to say that the idea of that metal is still valid in terms of drow history. It's not like, against the law to use older lore about them.