Hive Queen

Hight: 5 ft.

Weight: 3,000 lb.

Environment: Shaitan

Population: Majority

Base Features (0 FP)

Spawn Hive (2 FP): A Hive Queen is but the cornerstone of a multi-bodied organism that composes their consciousness. This central body may produce specialized secondary bodies to act as their limbs in the outside world.

Over an hour, they can gestate a secondary body within their central body, after which they may harmlessly birth the secondary body as twelve actions. The secondary body functions as a new creature with its own actions, but shares their awareness as one entity. It also shares all their Features, except for this Feature.

For each body they have beyond the first, their functional Kick Ass, Bad Ass and Smart Ass are reduced by 1. All factors dependent on their Ability Scores reduce accordingly.

If a body gains the Death Damage Condition, the penalty to their Kick Ass, Bad Ass and Smart Ass is not reduced until they take a full rest. If their central body gains the Death Damage Condition, a secondary body of their choice will metamorphosis into their new central body during their next full rest, gaining this Feature.

Regenerative (1 FP): After a full rest, a Hive Queen can remove one Damage Condition only affecting the physical body, not including Death. Whether a given Damage Condition can be removed or altered is at Game Master discretion.

Interspatial Metabolism (0 FP): Hive Queens share bodily resources between their many bodies. This lets them sustain all their bodies as long as any of their bodies ingests enough food, water and air to supply the others.

However, any toxin, pathogen or similar effect affecting one of their bodies affects all of their bodies. If the effect can be resisted by a Check and the body affected is not their central body, the central body may make the Check twice and use the highest result. If the central body succeeds, it is not affected, even if the first Check failed and allowed all secondary bodies to be affected.

Proxy Mate (0 FP): A Hive Queen does not have the ability to mate using their central body. Instead, when a secondary body would be inseminated by a viable mate, a new Hive Queen begins gestating in their central body. This offspring is born an hour later with all base Features of the Hive Queen clan and will reach maturity in 24 years.

Specialized Drone (Varies): When a Hive Queen’s central body eats a dead creature, they learn how to replicate its Features when creating their secondary bodies. They possess a number of Drone Points (DP) equal to twice the FP spent on this Feature.

When gestating a secondary body, they can allocate a number of DP to the secondary body and choose any arrangement of Features with total FP equal to the DP allocated. All the chosen Features must have been possessed by creatures they consumed. The total DP allocated between all secondary bodies cannot exceed their total DP.

They may also choose the anatomy of their secondary bodies, giving them the appearance of any creature they have eaten. This is not sufficient to create a secondary body that can pass for a specific creature, but does allow them to pass off their secondary bodies as specific species.

If they have eaten a creature that can communicate, they can make secondary bodies without the Mute Feature as if giving them a 3 FP Feature negating Mute. Eating creatures with Immortality does not allow them to learn new Features from those creatures. Any amount of FP can be spent on this Feature.

Surgical Conversion (0 FP): While Hive Queens are almost exclusively born and not made, a quirk of their biology makes it possible for the Hive Queen clan to be gained by another creature. If an organ or mass of tissue is successfully transplanted from a Hive Queen’s secondary body to a creature of the species the secondary body is replicating, the recipient will gain the Hive Cells Damage Condition.

A creature with Hive Cells increases its functional Bad Ass by 1 after each full rest. When the increase would exceed 6, the creature loses Hive Cells and metamorphosis into a Hive Queen, gaining all base Features of the Hive Queen clan. Very few realize this is possible.

Mute (-3 FP): Hive Queens have no way to communicate with other creatures.

Optional Features

Myriad (2 FP): The Hive Queen can maintain a secondary body without straining their system. They are treated as having one less secondary body when determining the reduction to their functional Kick Ass, Bad Ass and Smart Ass. This Feature can be purchased repeatedly, letting them qualify as having one less secondary body each time.