Annals of the Azlanti

[lostsole31]

This is where I, the DM, use a thread entirely devoted to tracking battle conditions or other special issues concerning my Shattered Star campaign.
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The door is opened.

This twenty-foot square domed chamber contains a jury-rigged pair of low operating tables, complete with leather straps at both ends to hold the patients down.

Standing right in front of the doorway when it is opened is a creature with a terrible reek. It is a hideous patchwork made of equal parts troglodyte, duergar, giant spider, and giant rat, but with the lolling head of a half-shaved dwarf bearing a gaping trepanation to the side of its skull. It is alone.

Round One ...

R1T26: Ichibod is sickened by the smell, and thrown off by it, but he does recognize this creature.

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It's a carrion golem, a construct. Constructs are animated materials, and in this case it is an animated group of dead parts of other animals. Carrion golems are the "poor man's flesh golem," the latter of which is a far more powerful monster. Constructs are normally mindless and can't be fooled by any magics which affect the mind, and they are immune to a vast array of physical attacks as well. They do not need to eat, breathe, or sleep.

Constructs have no strength of mind that steels their body, no living animation in that regard. Still, they are very tough, tougher the bigger they get. They are designed to guard or attack and thus are very capable combatants.

As with many golems, carrion golems are resistant to weapons and nearly impervious to most magics.

Ichibod, you are "sickened." What do you do?

Paxre on deck, The Scribe in the hole.

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Ichibod: 26. Sickened.
Paxre: 22.
The Scribe: 19.
Natalya: 17.
Bessel: 16.
Clacky: 15.9.
Carrion Golem: 15.
Dorit: 8.