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Long story short, this druid had spent hundreds of Spooky Mom Spooky Pumpkin Groovy Retro Halloween Spooky Boo T Shirt learning how to magically influence a creature in such a way that bypasses charm immunity, and used this ability to coax the tarrasque into attacking locations of her choosing. So, the tarrasque wasn’t the boss, the druid was. The goal was to either recruit other metallic dragons to distract the tarrasque while the party took on the druid, or break her hold on it somehow. Mind you, this wasn’t the idiotic 5th edition tarrasque that is nothing more than a bag of hit points. I borrowed the real tarrasque rules, where it cannot actually be killed without at least one wish spell. If I hadn’t, the party could handily have killed it themselves. To me, the tarrasque should never be a “boss” per se. It has no evil plans and is unpredictable. It just shows up sometimes and fucks shit up, then leaves. If a party faces one, the goal should never be to outright defeat it, but rather just make it go away. “Kill the big monster” isn’t a very interesting story. However, if the tarrasque is just a tool in the villain’s toolbox, then you have some story potential. That’s what I tried to do.

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Once upon a Spooky Mom Spooky Pumpkin Groovy Retro Halloween Spooky Boo T Shirt , there was a mom who’d never heard of this elf business, but had moved to CA from ND and had two, nearly three, kids, one of whom was a very precocious three year old. This mom had a mom, we’ll call her grandma, who had an Elf. Grandma gave the mom a rudimentary breakdown of the “Elf” game, and then gave a much more elaborate breakdown of it to the precocious three year old and his one year old brother. And so, the Elf game was begun. The rules in this household (as understood by the mom) were basically that the Elf would arrive on December 1. He’d hide somewhere in the house, watch the children all day, and report back to Santa each night, arriving again before the children awoke, hiding in a new spot, and waiting another day. On December 24, the elf would go home with Santa in his sleigh, his duty done til next year. The Elf wouldn’t be touched, or he’d turn into a doll again and no “extra special Elf gift” would be waiting with Santa’s gift that year. The children (the three year old) named their elf “Holly Jolly.” The game began and was easy, as the family lived with Grandma and Grandpa, who had a very large, very nice house with *very* high ceilings (and therefore lots of high hiding places for the elf, far from reach).

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Oh, and don’t forget: the tentacles of the Mind Flayers leave scars. You don’t face down horrors like these without losing something. Leave a few long-term effects, like a little bit of insanity. Maybe a character who came too close to them forever after has certain phobias. Maybe they have insomnia or recurring nightmares. Or maybe the scars are on a larger level, such as the large blighted area that has now formed around the crashed Mind Flayer ship, or the ruins of their dungeon. Maybe the humans they experimented on have developed mental powers themselves and become villains in the area. Maybe a Mind Flayer or two escaped and now plots its revenge. A great plot point would be if a piece of Mind Flayer consciousness got trapped in one of the PCs or an important NPC, causing changes in personality alongside new abilities.

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The family has moved into their own home now, an older home (still nice, but no high ceilings and not many elf hiding places!), and the children have both multiplied AND grown older, taller, and Spooky Mom Spooky Pumpkin Groovy Retro Halloween Spooky Boo T Shirt. The Elf game is now the bane of the mom’s existence. Hiding it is a task. Several times this year, the Elf hasn’t had to go back to Santa because the kids were SO good the day before, thus explaining why he remained in the exact same hiding spot as the previous day. One evening, the mom is flustered. She finally hands the Elf to the dad and says,  you hide the #%)(#^# elf today, but hide it high, because Big M is testing the waters and going to touch the #%(^#^ thing.” Dad’s answer is less than ideal – not only is the perch precarious, but it’s easily within reach of at least the oldest child, if not the second oldest as well. And it’s possible the elf is also judging the thermostat temp, which is an ongoing passive aggressive battle between mom (who sits at home and freezes all day) and dad (who pays the bills, but also works in his nice warm office all day).