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Melding Presents: How to Kill Some Monsters
Melding
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Many of us everyday come face to face with the unexplained, be it ghosts, goblins, zombies, dragons, or giants. However, not everyoen knows everyone knows how to deal with this happenings. Well, No More!
Int his thread we will be discussing monsters, strange creatures, their disposal, and their habitats.
Got a question? Want to hear about a specific creature? Do i keep using liar instead of lair? let's discuss it!
First up
The Hag
Hags are a moderately powerful fey creature, reminiscent of elderly human women with powerful shape shifting abilities and magic. Confused with witches Hags are actually alien beings who feast on human flesh, the younger the better. Despite a frail looking frame they are remarkably durable and infused with magic making them deadly foes to an unsuspecting monster slayer. Typical enviroments include swamps, dense forests, and most other place far away from civilization where people are prone to getting lost, and have a source of water.
The typical Hag ploy is to lure in young humans into their lair, with a mix of illusions, lies, physical roughness. Traps might include houses made of candy, free food, well kept parks, basically anything that to a wiser person would seem out of place but seem too good to be true. Once lured, Hag subdues their prey and then depending on the individual either kills them immediately or forces them into labour until they are more ripe for eating. After that, the details become grizzly and not worth explaining further.
When hunting a Hag it's important to remember that as a fey magic user they can be making nay of your senses lie to you. remembering meditations to see through illusions and hypnosis is important. If you aren't trained in that, remember that touch is the hardest basic sense to fool, so even when it might be gross, make sure to use touch to confirm something it real. Hags are very intelligent, even by fey standards, and will do just about anything to get you off their trail, a favoured tactic is to disguise themselves as a young beautiful woman to either lure you into a trap, or simply lead you astray until you are so confused you're no longer a threat. As fey they are more easily harmed by iron, and this can be used to test any woman you might find in your quest to destroy the hag as they will often express discomfort when touched by iron.
When forced into combat with a Hag it is important to remember they are both fey and a magic user, tactics that work against either work here. Iron weapons, disorientation, and wounds to appendages can weaken them to a point where they are easily slain. That is not to say they are an easy foe, as you're likely not actually fighting the real hag, and even if you are they are expects at faking their death. Always remember to decapitate a defeated Hag, if they were faking their death, well, they're dead now and if it was a fake it will disappear letting you know your job is not over just yet.
Keep this in mind while hunting down your next Hag, and you should be in the clear. Happy Hunting.
D. Melding, Head Of Community Outreach and Readiness, MRE
Next up: Probably the Gnoll. I don't think i've done that yet.
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Research suggests that Hags are entirely female. We have not yet found with what, if anything, they reproduce with. It is possible they convert some of the girls they kidnap, or they could mate with a male fey and the female offspring is a hag.
They fey are strange, and not entirely bound to how our reality works.
I've recently moved and found out that the basement has a lot of medusas in it by a series of strange accidents, is it best to leave a Medusa Party alone? They're smart enough to, like, talk to and reason with?
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Why'd It Have to Be Snakes In Detroit
Can you give any advice on dealing with dinosaur hunters? They are a nuisance and hinder my stomping. I have tried eating them but I am worried about what it's doing to my cholesterol.
How does a bee like me find love? My shiny body drives other bees away instead of bringing them closer. If there is a bright spot, at least it doesn't hurt when the other bees throw rocks at me for being 'different'.
Dear Snakes,
Believe the proper term is gorgons, but either way yes they are when compared to humans as intelligent. Though a bit violent and have no hard feelings about using their glare to turn people into stone. Getting them to leave might not be the easiest thing, and if necessary remember to wear mirrored glasses or a large shiny shield, to turn their attacks against them.
That never works for non monsters, why would it work for monsters? likely we'd just get a case of them working together or attempting to use guile to trick people into killing the other but ultimately thwarting each other's plans, sorta like Spy vs Spy.
Typically speaking we don't advise people on how to deal with humans. Even dangerous spell casters our general advice is "Try Murder" or "Shoot them in the face." What might work is getting the local nature society to acknowledge your existence and put you on protected status, so then the state is also helping to prevent attacks on your person.
Can you recommend any professionals for removal of a hecatonchires infestation
Gnomes are fey creatures, even when assuming different forms so the best course of action is to blast one with an iron bullet. Probably best before it takes the shape of a different animal, as to do the most bodily harm.
Sadly I am neither an expert on love or bees. Best advice i got at th emoment is keep trying and eventually you might succeed.
I am troubled how one can have an infestation of giants. That, seems like it should be getting more attention. Are you sure you aren't mistaking another creature for a hecatonchire?
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you certainly can but that seems, rather, grizzly considering how much like human bones they would look like. People will keep thinking you're wearing human bones and you'll have to be like "No no, they're the bones of a magic fey person." And that's how you end up in a psych ward for 15 years.
No. Not ever.
Except for video streams.
I dunno how it happened though
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that's my specialty
is single monster expertise enough to apply for an MRE position???
About 7 feet tall, composed of a skeleton, a bunch of little crabs acting as muscles, and various giant crab stitched together to make my carparace
Approximately how long must I leave a kobold in my chest cavity to properly enhance the flavor
In D&D 3.5 they were the reason why I started playing a sorcerer. I never looked back.
Do Gnomes really puke rainbows?
Well, I would recommend calling your local giant hunter. They will likely have an ad in your local public library. failing that, ask your librarian for the number of the local MRE branch and they will hopefully send someone over to deal with the matter.
We tend to hire from freelancers we have built a relationship with. Start taking out them ogre magis making a name for yourself and the rest will fall into place.
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Gnomes are super gross, so probably.
They puke a whole buncha stuff.
asking for a friend
Have you considered offering an alternative advice column on how to date monsters instead of how to kill them
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lich far as i know isn't tied to any gender. Plus Lichess sounds kinda silly. Lichet how something though.
This would require me to know anything about dating. Which I don't. At all.
ever.
Also, that'd be super gross. you realize most monsters are just like souped up animals right?
do you want a guide on how to date a dog? I think that's illegal.
My team is currently dealing with a class VI chaotic daemon with energy rejuvenating powers. Our traps are useless against a non-spirit based power form and we are forced to use our positron beams to disperse the creature.
To what power level should we set our Proton Packs?
Time is slightly of the essence as our insurance rates only cover the first $50,000 in damages.
Sadly I am not up to date on protonic devices for removing entities, as i tend to focus on more magic based devices. It being a class six however, i would recommend just juicing the sucker until you can hold it. Then instead of attempting to dissipate it have the team member best versed in the occult make a simple binding circle with a leather bound book in the circle and once it is completed use your capture streams to force it into the book. That should contain it long enough to do some proper research, and act as a neat party trick.
Right, one of my team has a paranormal research degree and there is a library in this mansion so we should be able to try.
Once it is done destroying the upstairs bathroom that is.
I will report back.
Typical. Expect you to kill ogres for free for "exposure".
The answer to both of these is the European Red Back Dragon.
They're huge, rare, shoot fire hotter than hot, and look damn fine mounted.
Hey, i got my start burning down a grave yard and fighting an ettin controlled farm. We all gotta start somewhere. Going after monsters with bounties is also a good idea because then you also get paid.