Hive Mind

Hive Mind (Major) by Stone Gargoyle

"These thoughts do sting."

The character generates mental holographic bugs which act like the real thing.

1. Honeycomb: The character's head resembles a bees' nest, complete with honey. The honey will give any who eat it a temporary +5% boost to skills based on knowledge for one hour. This is not cumulative, so eating more will not give a greater boost. This gives the head a Natural AR of 10 and adds +10 to the SDC of the head.

2. Mental Buzz: The character radiates a mental buzz which makes him impervious to mind control and psionics. Furthermore, any psionic character trying to attack him will immediately become a target of the bugs.

3. Bees In My Bonnet: The character can generate a swarm of up to his ME attribute numberX100 bees. They can only be destroyed by energy attacks, psionics or magic, and are immune to physical attacks.

Size: 1/2 inch

Hit Points: 1 each

ttacks Per Melee: 2, plus a number of attacks equal to +1 per every +2 points of the character's ME attribute bonus.

Bonuses: +2 to dodge, +2 to strike, plus any ME attribute bonuses add to these.

Natural Abilities: Fly 99%, sense of direction 99%. Stings do 3d6 per 30 individual bees per melee round, plus victims become -2 to save vs. psionics for the melee round stung in addition to losing initiative.

Speed: Equal to the character's MA attribute number. Range is limited to the character's ME numberX100 feet in radius around the character.

Limitations: Range limit listed above, plus the bees only regenerate once per 24 hours. The IQ and ME drop one point per 100 bees killed, and loss of all bees at once will create permanent brain damage.

Other Notes:

The bees can be made to carry mental messages which they can plant directly into a target's brain as long as the target is within their range of flight.

Horror Factor of the bees is 8, with this being 12 for those allergic to insect bites. Psychosomatic reaction to the bees causes anybody with a susceptibility/allergy to insects or specifically bee stings takes say, 1d6 Hit Point damage per melee of being 'swarmed'. At zero HP, the victim collapses, respiration going wild, heartbeat off the chart, flushed, and apparently suffering a full-blown allergic reaction...only no real damage has been done, the damage is all virtual, and the victim is merely unconscious for 1d6 melees(and likely quite panicked when he awakens, not realizing he's all right aside from having just had an adrenaline wringer).

4. Other Abilities and Bonuses:

+2d4 ME

+1d4 MA