Monster Monday: Parasitic Kites

I woke from a dream, as I often do, with a fully formed bizarre idea. Like Coleridge from so many years before I have to spew forth my ideas as quickly as I can before my two little "people from Porlock" cause it all to retreat too quickly back to where dreams come from.

That dream was of people flying kites with their tongues. Now this is a rather comical idea and I was not sure why I had felt such dread at seeing it. But that is when I realized the people were not flying the kites, the kites were flying the people.

Parasitic Kites

STR 7, DEX 12 (14 on a windy day), Armor: No, Weapon: humanoid host (2d4), "string"/tongue (1d4, 1d8 on a windy day), HD: Host- 2 (11) Kite- 1 (4)

Movement Rate: As fast as the wind is moving, both kite and host running.

Special ability: Killing the humanoid host does not kill the creature. It flaps its tongue trying to attach it on to a new host creature. If the kite successfully damages a new potential host that potential host must make a successful WILL save or become parasitically controlled by the kite.

Cutting the tongue causes the host to be freed with varying effects depending on how long it has been since the host last had control. The Kite can still attach to someone new.




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