Xia: Hungry Giant Snake Demon

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Xia: Main Page -> Xia: Foes and Allies -> Xia: Hungry Giant Snake Demon

Description

Its hundreds of feet long, has a snake-head and snake body and tail, but three pairs of arms in which it wields giant swords. In other nations it has been known as the Nagah and as the Scion of Apep. Here in the Middle Kingdom, its just a Hungry Giant Snake Demon.

This demon isn't one that messes around with hiding in human form - its a sheer force of nature, and a living engine of destruction. There's no subtlety here - just massive power.

Traits

  • Physical 3
  • Mental 1
  • Social 1

Demon Trigrams

  • Hell 4 (equivalent to Heaven)
  • Chaos 6 (equivalent to Fire)
  • Storm 1 (equivalent to Wind)
  • Lightning 1 (equivalent to Thunder)
  • Mud 2 (equivalent to Earth)
  • Blood 5 (equivalent to Water)
  • Smoke 1 (equivalent to Mist)
  • Bone 8 (equivalent to Mountain)

Chi Pools

  • Demon Chi 25

Resilience Pools

  • Physical Resilience 34
  • Mental Resilience 18
  • Social Resilience 18

Kung Fu Secrets

  • Amphibious

The Snake Demon function equally well in and out of water.

  • Demonscale armour

Whenever the Hungry Giant Snake Demon takes physical damage he can choose to spend 1 Demon Chi. If he does so, he can reduce the damage received by 5 points. This can reduce it to zero.

  • Point of Weakness

Each Snake Demon has a specific weakness to one material (such as hong-mu rosewood, or green jade). If attacked with this material then he cannot use his demonscale armour power, and cannot use demonic regeneration on those injuries. Defeating the Snake Demon in mental conflict will allow a studious Xia to discover this weakness.

  • Demonic Regeneration

Spend X Demon Chi and an action to regenerate X Physical Resilience. X may not exceed Bone trigram. Cannot use if reduced to 0 physical resiliences.

  • Superb Demonic Confidence

Spend X Demon Chi and an action to regenerate 2X Mental or Social Resilience. X may not exceed Hell trigram. Cannot use if reduced to 0 of either of above resiliences.

  • Croaked

On death (physical defeat) a Snake Demon vomits out a swarm of frogs - D6 for each point of Demon Chi he has left. The vast majority of these will die within a few days, but up to D6 will mature into Merciless Frog Warriors and D6-3 into Hungry Giant Snake Demons. The newborn/newly-vomited frogs burst and die if struck with weapons, of if a naked flame touches their skin.

Credits

Asklepios 03:58, 13 January 2009 (PST)

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