April is a special kind of alraune, one who possesses both a flower and a completely unconnected body, both of which are massive. However, to receive enough nutrients for herself and her flower, she is forced to populated areas to dry the population dry of their sexual liquids and energy.
Appearance:
On the outside, it’s just a gigantic pink flower which is somewhere around 20 feet tall, and although it is beautiful, the real beauty appears once it blooms.
Inside is a woman of amazon height, towering around 8 feet, who has green skin and long red hair that resembles vines. All parts of her body, ranging from her breasts to her feet are perfectly sized and toned, and her lips are a natural rose red and glisten from some sort of nectar/honey on them. Any person who sees her can tell all of this since she is always, and always will be, completely nude.
Passive Mechanic: Boss Battle
April is meant to be fought as a boss battle, so she will have increased health and/or extra actions per turn depending on the amount of players fighting her and on the DM’s preference. She is not meant to be fought one on one and is not balanced for that.
Passive Mechanic: Roots
As the players fight her, they will realize she is passively recovering during the fight. This is because she has roots spread out through the area, which have captured people and began draining them of their energy. A number of roots spawn at the beginning of the fight, equal two time the number of players, rounded down if it is a decimal. For every two roots, April is healed 1 stamina a turn.
Roots are able to be destroyed, however that would require a player(s) to use their turn to go search for them and destroy them, which requires a roll, before spending a turn returning to the fight, not requiring a roll (DMs are advised to give the roll for searching and destroy advantage if the player has a valid reason, such as a way to track the routes or if their character is really fast) However, not all the players can go searching for the roots at once, as if April is left completely alone, she will automatically create 1 root a turn and roll to make another.
Passive Mechanic: Stages of the Bloom
In order to fight, April must bloom her flower, allowing players to directly attack her body, however this flower may not always be bloomed. The first time she is at 66% of her maximum stamina and the first time she is at 33% of her maximum stamina, she pulls her flower back up to protect herself from harm for a little bit. In this state, she takes 0 damage from all attacks and status and has the number of roots she has returned to its starting value, unless the current value is higher. Players are forced to attack the flower, with all attacks automatically hitting, in hopes of forcing it to bloom again, requiring a roll per attack (DMs are advised to give this roll advantage for things such as fire or ice based attacks, and disadvantage or automatically failures for things such as seduction).
If a player is on the flower when it closes, or in other words used a melee attack on the turn her stamina drops to the threshold, they must make a roll or be trapped in an inescapable bind which deals 1 damage per turn plus any weaknesses until the flower opens up. If all players are trapped, have the flower bloom once the player with the lowest willpower is at half or below what their willpower was before being trapped.
Moves: To be added
Here’s my interpretation of PieForPi’s alruane idea, although I didn’t include the passive of losing stamina after being bloomed for a period of time and instead included a passive around healing stamina. While she isn’t finished yet, I posted her to see what everyone thought of her passive mechanics. Reminder, she is meant to be a boss fight so she isn’t going to be that balanced at first until she is finished and tested.
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