Swarm

== Attributes ==
 STR: 100 INT: 10
 
 AGL: 70 WLP: 20
 
 DEX: 35 FTH: 10
 
 REF: 55 FOC: 40
 
 FOR: 200 PSY: 10
 
 PER: 10 LCK: 10
 
 FEAR: 100
== Abilities ==
*Disperse Self (effortless)
*Encompass (75)
*Flight (Power) (effortless, 25 feet per turn)
*Hound (75)
*Limited Shapeshifting (effortless)
*Reconstitution (65)
*Swarm Breath (95)
== Characteristics ==
*Ageless
*Hive Mind
*Instant Destruction (death of its master)
*Invulnerable (all but Fire and Cold damage)
*Life Expectancy (until its master releases it)
*Lunar Influence
*Needs Nothing
*Partially Substantial
*Physical Shell
*Rapid Healing
*Servitor
*Single Purpose (do its master's will)
*Spectral Entity
*Superhuman Strength
*Vulnerability (Fire, Cold, and Pesticide)
== Description ==
A Swarm is a creature created by a magician by instilling life in a swarm of insects. It takes on a vaguely humanoid shape and then performs the will of its master. The purpose of a Swarm is usually to destroy the foes of its master.
== Location ==
A Swarm exists wherever its master creates it, usually at or around his lair.
== Modus Operandi ==
The Swarm will attack with reckless abandon, going to whatever lengths to destroy the enemies of its master and protect his domain. It will change its shape using Limited Shapeshifting (the limitation is that whatever shape it may take, the Swarm will always appear as a swirling mass of aerial insects) to take on any necessary shape to defeat its victims. The Swarm will use any method possible to defeat its foes, defending against attacks by momentarily dispersing itself. If its foes begin to flee, it will Hound and then follow them, doing everything it can to destroy them.
== Neutralization ==
A Swarm, being a spectral entity bound in the shell of the insects that make up its physical form, can be destroyed only by magickally expelling the spirit or killing its master. Destroying the physical form will only last a brief time, as the creature will simply find more insects to add to itself using its Reconstitution ability. Large doses of aerosol insect poison acts like fire, and fire can stop both its Reconstitution and Disperse Self abilities.
== Story Seed ==
A young boy is found in the forest, his skin bloated and mottled with millions of insect bites, barely hanging on to life. When he awakens, in his fevered state he mumbles something about stumbling upon a cave where he was attacked by a “bad man made of bugs.” A Swarm, it  seems... but what is it guarding?
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