#phasm

I sat there all evening and felt like drawing part of Lenny's family (my oc). This is little Melody. A sweet but unfortunately lonely child who is forced to spend most of her time in her room when she is not at school. She never parts with her unicorn (it simply makes her feel safe)

1. Anti: My father's name is just mine as well, so I'm technically Anti Jr.

Sam: But who comes up when you look up Anti on Google?

Vhamp : That's what I thought!

Sam: One Anti to rule them all!

2. UT: Anti, what are you doing?

Anti: Making chocolate pudding.

UT: It's four in the morning, why are you making chocolate pudding?

Anti: Because I've lost control of my life.

Anti: Here's your pudding, Phasm .

Phasm : Oh that's okay, I'm not hungry anymore.

3. Puff: I told Phasm that their ears turn red when they lie.

Anti: Do they?

Puff: No.

Anti: Then why did you tell them that?

Puff: Because I can do this.

Puff: Hey Phasm! Do you love us?

Phasm, with their hands over their ears: No.

4. Anti: I made tea.

UT: I don't want tea.

Anti: I didn't make you tea. This is my tea.

UT: Then why did you tell me?

Anti: It's a conversation starter.

UT: It's a horrible conversation starter.

image credit: Michael Kaluta from the D&D 3e Monster Manual

The phasm is an intelligent alien creature that looks like nothing more than a human-sized multicolored amoeba. It moves like an ooze and vague sensory organs can be seen suspended beneath its rubbery membrane. Phasms have the ability to not just change their shape, but to completely polymorph into other creatures, taking on their abilities.

Phasms don't require sustenance and do not age. With little to hold them back, most phasms usually lead lives of unbridled exploration and hedonism or else intense philosophical contemplation. A phasm's nature and motives vary greatly from one to the other. The only thing you can rely on a phasm to be is unpredictable.

A phasm can be found just about anywhere, even in places where you wouldn't expect it to be if it was simply having fun in a new form or identity. The creature finds allies in doppelgangers, or else uses them for security.

Phasm

Medium aberration (shapechanger), neutral

Armor Class 15 Hit Points 117 (18d8 + 36) Speed 30 ft.

STR 12; DEX 15; CON 15; INT 16; WIS 15; CHA 14

Saves DEX +5, CON +5, WIS +5 Skills Deception +5, Arcana +6, History +6, Perception +5, Immunities poison Condition Immunities charmed, poisoned, paralyzed, petrified, stunned Senses tremorsense 60 ft., passive Perception 15 Languages Common, telepathy 100 ft. Challenge 7 (2,900 XP)

Amorphous (True Form Only). In its true form, the phasm can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch in diameter without squeezing.

Shapechanger. The phasm can use its action to polymorph (as the true polymorph spell) into any creature of CR 7 or less or any object it has seen before from tiny to large size, or back into its true form. It does not gain or lose hit points in this way and its Intelligence score remains the same regardless of the form it takes. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.

Actions

Multiattack. The phasm makes two attacks with its pseudopod.

1.) The race on the fathiers.  The second I saw them I was like ‘guess what our heroes will end up riding in the next ten minutes?’  Then they did.  Yawn.

2.) The infinite porg-ness.  Am I going to have to see a porg every time the Falcon pulls a dangerous manuver now?  I am NOT here for that.  Once or twice is enough.

3.) Finn, silhouetted by explosions above Phasma, saying, “Rebel scum.”  Too much.  Stop.

4.) BB-8 becoming a killing machine.  It takes out the jail guards AND TIES THEM UP, all on its own?  Then takes over a Walker, ALL ON ITS OWN??  Plot device much?

5.) “God speed rebels.”  Do not say the word ‘god’ in this definitively non-deity universe.  Ever again.

6.) No explanation given for the transition from Massive Projector Snoke to living, normal-sized, in-person Snoke.  One line would have been enough.

7.) No explanation given for Snoke, period.

8.) Ren shooting down the TIE fighters that targeted his mother.  The ones he told to “Follow my lead.”  And they did.  Then he killed them.

9.) The constant jokes.  So many.  All the time.  Hardly a breath in between.

Some of these (porgs, “Rebel scum”, the headlong fathier ride) are what I like to call ‘Disney moments’, and I’m sure I don’t have to explain what I mean by that.  But others will probably be cleared up in the extensive amounts of cut footage Rian promised us in the blu-ray release.

“Day 3: Slime Boy” ©  @poladraws​. Accessed at her tumblr here

[How to make a niche for the unloved phasm, the monster whose only power is to turn into other monsters? Two thoughts. One: make it better at turning into other monsters than anything else. Two: make it a goo boy or girl, a monster type super popular on the internet, but under-served by tabletop RPGs. I chose this image because it seems very transitional.]

Phasm In the blink of an eye, this person collapses into a puddle of greenish slime. A faintly humanoid head, torso and arms rise from the ooze.

Sometimes called “protein polymorphs”, phasms are strange and mercurial creatures that delight in assuming a myriad of forms. They are hedonistic by nature, adopting forms that allow them to experience new sensations or live lives of luxury. They are especially fond of assuming mortal shape and indulging in all manner of vices, then escaping before they have to face any consequences.

Phasms are frequently looking for new information, sensations and forms to assume. Those that offer any of these to a phasm can usually parley their way out of combat. If forced into combat, a phasm will shift effortlessly between shapes designed to terrorize and inflict as much damage as possible. Phasms will not hesitate to flee from a fight, often adopting a flying or swimming form to do so.

The origins of phasms are unknown, and most phasms will gladly weave a dozen contradictory tales if asked. Some sages speculate that they are an advanced form of doppelganger, and phasms do frequently associate with doppelgangers as partners in crime and convenient decoys. Others propose an ooze given life by demonic or protean forces, the spawn of a Great Old One, or even sentient particles of the plane of Limbo.

The average phasm is capable of assuming the forms of humanoids or beasts, but advanced phasms add more variety of shapes to their repertoire. Especially old and powerful phasms can take any form allowed by the shapechange spell, and some wicked phasms can even assume undead form (as per undead anatomy IV)

So...this is happening and I couldn’t be more excited!!!!

http://www.starwars.com/news/swco-2017-marvel-reveals-captain-phasma-miniseries-exclusive

4 issues, out in September. Writing by me. Art by Marco Checchetto, covers by Paul Renaud.

There’s also going to be an amazing YA Novel by Delilah S. Dawson this fall!