*nodnod* i've had MANY a night just sitting with friend while on break dreaming up mimic ideas.. like...<br/><br/>Adventure party is invited to lords manor, thinks its haunted.<br/>Lord was avid hunter and has Hundreds of taxidermied animals lining his halls.<br/>But a couple nights he has heard what sounds like hooves on the floor of the halls... and swears he has seen some up and moving around.. Suspects magical shenanigans, maybe local magical trickster using animate object to make them move around and such..<br/>But then servants started disappearing, just up and gone, all their belongings left behind..<br/>Now, possibly ghosts? Necromancer out to get him, ghost of rivals or dissidents. Or maybe even the ghosts of the animals themselves...<br/><span class="bbc_u"><em><strong>PSYCH!!!</strong></em></span>Congrats you just found a new mimic species that disguises itself as taxidermied animals!<br/>big battle ending with some Uber creature, like a fantasy t-rex or something (original displays they consumed, or "infected" the thing style, so they dont get noticed).<br/>... and to fuck with the party later on, they are invited to a different lords manor. guy was also a hunter.. make them make perception rolls when walking by the animals... Tell them they notice the animals moving.<br/><br/>They murderhobo the displays... But rather then squishy mimic guts, they have weird gnomish clockworks inside..<br/>manor lord paid a fortune for the best clockworks to make the animals occasionally move in the most realistic and life like way possible. And now he wants reparations for his destroyed figures.