Swarm
Swarm
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Some kinds of bees are attuned enough to Pink energies that their many miniscule souls connect to form a single individual. The oversized queen bee at the heart of the swarm is the locus for these Pink energies, and no bee in the swarm can travel more than a meter from it. The bees typically stay touching one another, using their links to share muscle power.
Any given swarm of such bees has a particular pair of stripe colors, but no two swarms have quite the same pair of colors.
Base Stats
| Swarm (Creature Form) Common — 3 points
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| AD 3 GD 3 Will 0 HP 1 Toughness 3 | |
| Muscle 0 Accuracy 0 Save DC 4 Magic Power 0 | |
| Stealth 0 Perception 0 Agility 0 | |
| Descriptors [ Blooded ], [ Bony ], [ Living ], [ Pink ] | |
| Movement 10 meter land with 4 meter jump. | |
| Size 1 meter Reach 1 meter | |
| Carrying Capacity 10 kilograms Weight 30-45 Kilograms | |
| Race Swarm |
| Swarm (Cloud Form) Common — 3 points
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| AD 3 GD 3 Will 0 HP 1 Toughness 3 | |
| Muscle 0 Accuracy 0 Save DC 4 Magic Power 0 | |
| Stealth 0 Perception 0 Agility 0 | |
| Descriptors [ Blooded ], [ Bony ], [ Living ], [ Pink ] | |
| Movement 10 meter fly with 4 meter aerobatics. | |
| Size 2 meters Reach 1 meter | |
| Carrying Capacity 10 kilograms Weight 30-45 Kilograms | |
| Race Swarm |
Switching between Creature Form and Cloud Form is a move action.
The expendable nature of most of the bees in the Swarm reduces any damage taken by 1.
Being a cloud of bees makes the swarm immune to inserted and wound-based poison and disease transfer. They can also safely test things for ingested poisons by having only one bee eat a bit of the poisoned object.
While in Cloud Form, single-target attacks against the Swarm may take a -2 penalty to the attack roll in order to deal +4 Damage, by targeting the queen bee precisely. Also while in Cloud Form, the Swarm can squeeze through spaces as small as 1 centimeter wide.
When the Swarm inflicts a wound using an unarmed attack, it may inflict a wound on itself to inflict another wound on the victim, by having its members sting them.
Implanted gems merge with a small cluster of bees, since Swarms do not have faces and such per se.
Swarms are somewhat attuned with Pink energies to the point that a predominance of other colors can impair their motions. If they have more non-Pink gems implanted than Pink ones, they move at half speed.
