<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=237173.msg12235384#msg12235384">Quote from: Thorne on 12-04-2016, 19:16:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'll take stirges and ... giant bugs? .. over undead any day of the week.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Yeah, there is that whole "haunted and probably full of necromancers" thing, isn't there?<br/><br/>OTOH, if Andi hadn't been waving his hands in the air and yelling "Get out and do things!" (I kid, I kid!) I would think this sudden accretion of monsters around the isolated chunks of the party was classic GM "This is why you don't break up the party." tactics. Although, I can't speak for whatever bugginess Quentin & Lexi are involved in, but two stirges doesn't feel like it's meant to be a really dangerous "scare you back to the rest of the party" encounter for the elf & kobold.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=237173.msg12235384#msg12235384">Quote from: Thorne on 12-04-2016, 19:16:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Apparently, Stirges are actually birds. I really thought they were giant mosquitos, but ... eh. Learn something new...<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>They what...!? *Googles* Huh. All I'm seeing is gaming notes and references to old Greek and Roman legends of Strix/Strigoi...blood-and-flesh eaters, which apparently were owls. Share what you found?