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[Xvareon]

FAKE EDIT: Do I get a breath weapon since I am a black draconian? If I don't, is it possible I may eventually earn one?

Yep. Everyone around you has the potential for great feats of necromancy and dark magic overall. You can have a breath weapon, just be warned, I'll roll for how it manifests the moment you use it, and RNGesus is a fickle mistress. 

Shouldn't it manifest in a way that fits my chromatic dragon kin? (black dragon)
Or do you mean whether it manifests in a way harmful to myself or not? Since black dragons breathe toxic clouds/acid in most RPGs.

harmful to myself

You aren't alone in the room, you know. 

And if you'd like acid breath, go ahead and roll for it. I agree it's perfectly thematic for black dragons.

[Dustan Hache]

absentmindedly pet Freza while exploring.

[ATHATH]

You know what, screw it, I'm opening one more slot. I plan to run this RP minimalist-like, anyway, and the more I think about it, I do like the idea of the incutilis or w/e it is. Just probably not the Lord variety because those are supposed to be 600 pounds. You might work up to that, though. ^^

Yaaaaaaay!

Question: In the "ecology" section of the incutilis's description, it mentions this:

Spoiler: Spoilered for Length (click to show/hide)

Incutilises’ most remarkable physical process is their ability to invasively take over dead flesh. So long as a body is relatively intact, the aberration can extend the smaller, more delicate tendrils it typically keeps retracted into its shell. These tendrils are covered with myriad tiny barbs and smaller fibrous filaments it can wind into even the finest internal apertures of a living body with shocking speed and ease. Once the tendrils are in place, the strange chemical laboratory that makes up a incutilis’s internal organs allows it to secrete strange chemicals and toxins directly into the body’s muscles, causing deliberate contractions, releases, and convulsions that give freshly dead bodies the semblance of life, while those longer dead appear undead. This process requires the incutilis to be latched onto its victim, directing its every motion. If it retracts its tendrils, its host body collapses back into a pile of dead flesh.

Despite the remarkable nature of incutilises’ corpse animation process, it is far from subtle. An incutilis cannot easily hide its prominent tendrils and gleaming shell, meaning that any corpse looks far from normal in well-lit conditions. In the dark or at a distance, however, the illusion can prove somewhat convincing, though still unnerving as the body twitches and jerks with the spasms caused by its aquatic master. Typically, witnesses who see a corpse animated by an incutilis believe it to be some sort of waterlogged undead, a misidentification that has led to the demise of more than one well-intentioned cleric.

However, the "Puppetmaster" ability in its actual statblock states:

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As a full-round action, an incutilis can drive its lesser tendrils into any helpless Small or Medium creature occupying the same square and pump the victim full of poison and chemicals. The victim is killed instantly, and becomes a zombie-like creature under the incutilis’s control. This zombie isn’t treated as being undead, and is immune to spells and effects that affect only undead (including damage from positive energy). The incutilis is attached to this zombie—typically by the head—occupying the same square and moving along with it. The incutilis can make attacks with its tentacles independently of the zombie’s slam. It can also retract its tendrils as a move action, but doing so causes the zombie to collapse and revert to a normal corpse. The incutilis must retract its tendrils before it can move away from a zombie it’s attached to. Any attack that deals damage to the zombie also deals 1 point of damage to the incutilis, regardless of how much damage is dealt to the zombie. Area-affecting spells affect both the puppeteer and zombie. A character can attempt to attack just the incutilis, but takes a –4 penalty on the attack roll. Killing the incutilis destroys the zombie.

Can I jab my tendrils into a random corpse and animate it, or can I only do that to living creatures? Perhaps I still need all of the body's vital organs and such in order to animate it/keep it animated?

Pick up a gravestone or other appropriate object if I'm able to (I have 15 STR but am tiny) and stick it through the fog-barrier, then pull it back. Did the item that I stuck out there change?

Investigate the pagoda.

[Mallos]

FAKE EDIT: Do I get a breath weapon since I am a black draconian? If I don't, is it possible I may eventually earn one?

Yep. Everyone around you has the potential for great feats of necromancy and dark magic overall. You can have a breath weapon, just be warned, I'll roll for how it manifests the moment you use it, and RNGesus is a fickle mistress. 

Shouldn't it manifest in a way that fits my chromatic dragon kin? (black dragon)
Or do you mean whether it manifests in a way harmful to myself or not? Since black dragons breathe toxic clouds/acid in most RPGs.

harmful to myself

You aren't alone in the room, you know. 

And if you'd like acid breath, go ahead and roll for it. I agree it's perfectly thematic for black dragons.

Thanks for that, GM

[ziizo]

Froza glares at the dwarf then searchs for corpses in the mausoleum.

"Stop that!"

[Bluexdog]

So I'm in??

[~Neri]

"Sooo.. That happened."

"We need actual food. Too few minds to live off of at present and I am preetty sure most of you need solid food."

Zakir goes exploring, food and supplies are at the forefront, corpses and gear would be nice too.

[crazyabe]

Name: Gorgert
Race: ³/₄ troll
Gender: male

[NRDL]

"Solid food would be nice."

Nix joins Zakir in searching for supplies.

[Mallos]

"Ah, while you are searching for food see if you can find anything spoiled for myself. Us Black Dracons have... particular stomachs. We can only digest rotting food."

[ATHATH]

"Sooo.. That happened."

"We need actual food. Too few minds to live off of at present and I am preetty sure most of you need solid food."

Zakir goes exploring, food and supplies are at the forefront, corpses and gear would be nice too.

"I'm more concerned about our water and air supply."

[~Neri]

"I am not worried about water. Six sets of emotions is enough for m- Oh wait. The lot of ya'll die without it. Scratch that. We should find water so you don't die and by proxy I don't die. Add water to the list."

"Air is also a worry. We can hope the entrance'll be open. From there the issue would be removing tainted air. Any o ya'll grasp aeromancy?"

[Mallos]

"I am not worried about water. Six sets of emotions is enough for m- Oh wait. The lot of ya'll die without it. Scratch that. We should find water so you don't die and by proxy I don't die. Add water to the list."

"Air is also a worry. We can hope the entrance'll be open. From there the issue would be removing tainted air. Any o ya'll grasp aeromancy?"

"None of us are magically skilled... that's why we served Lahkmet. A shot at controlling life and death. That's why I did it, anyway."

Victor puffs little black clouds out of his nose.

"Now, he isn't here- and the only one of us who has enough potential to succeed him is me. This is going to be trial after trial, isn't it?"

[~Neri]

"Just keep on believing that. Proper arrogance is annoyingly hard to teach food to feel. Difficult emotion to acquire."

[Mallos]

"Just keep on believing that. Proper arrogance is annoyingly hard to teach food to feel. Difficult emotion to acquire."

"Arrogance? I'm trying to keep this as proper and pragmatic as possible; I am objectively better than the lot of you. You have your own abilities and uses, I'm sure, but I'm still fundamentally superior. Not a matter of opinion, but objective fact."

More smoke is flowing out of the dracon's nostrils than previously.