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B Movie Monsters: The horror of party beach [Archive] - Wizards Community

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R.M.G.C.L.F.
08-05-04, 04:24 AM Yes, straight from episode 4 of season 8 of Mystery Science Theater 3000, it's the

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/6455/partybeach.jpg

Party Beach Horror
Medium Undead (Aquatic)
HD:2d12+3(16hp)
Initiative:-1
Speed:20ft, swim 30ft
AC:14(-1dex,+5 natural)
Attacks: 2 claws+4 melee
Damage: Claw 1d4+3
Face/Reach: 5ft/5ft
Special Attacks: Snatch fallen, comical visage
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60ft, undead traits, scent, sodium vulnerability, fast healing 1
Saves:Fort+0,Ref-1,Will+2
Abilities:Str17,Dex9,Con-,Wis9,Int3,Cha3
Skills: Search+1, Listen+1, Spot+1
Feats: Toughness
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Climate/Terrain: Water,beach, swamp, or forest
Organization: Solitary, pair, or prowl(3-6)
CR:1
Alignment: Often Chaotic Evil
Treasure: None
Advancement: 3-4hd(medium), 5-6HD(large)

A party beach horror looks like a humanoid designed by a five year old child using only marine organisms and objects found in the garage. It possesses a rigid shiny fin, webbed feet and hands, large, plastic-like scales with cloth-like skin, bulging ping-pong ball eyes, and in place of a mouth it has a cluster of protruding hot dog like feelers.

The horrors of party beach are mutated humanoid skeletons with a new flesh of marine organisms such as sea anemonies and coral, animated by radioactive energy. These creatures are gifted with but a slight spiritual flashback from their original life and now departed soul and therefore act only on residual basic instincts, such as feeding, seeking out members of the race to which they once belonged, and raiding panties.
Unfortunately the majority of these are formed from the skeletons of pirate marauders and outlaws of the ocean, retaining their original menace and thirst for blood but taking it to a far more literal level and making it the central drive of their existance.

combat: Beach horrors slowly lumber up to a target or group of targets, attack vaguely, and then carry off the dead and wounded to the ocean. They vastly prefer targets of the sex opposite of that they had in life.

Snatch Fallen: Whenever a medium or smaller creature of humanoid build falls below 1hp or falls prone within a beach horror's reach, it can pic them up, automatically putting them in a grapple, as a free action.

Comical Visage(ex): A beach horror has a farcicle and silly appearance that is almost impossible to take for anything more than a cheap costume. Creatures encountering one are unable to take its presence seriously and continue to remain flat footed for one extra round.

Sodium vulnerability(ex): Sodium is deadly poison to a party beach horror. One hit by even a handful must make a fortitude save dc:20 or instanty be destroyed. Even those that succeed their saves take 2d6 dehydration damage and 2d8 fire damage.
R.M.G.C.L.F.
08-06-04, 02:42 PM cheesy bump
R.M.G.C.L.F.
08-14-04, 01:13 AM low budget 50s black and white scifi bump
shaga
08-14-04, 07:22 PM cr 1!!!!?!??!?!?!?!
most adventures will laugh at it
R.M.G.C.L.F.
08-14-04, 10:38 PM They're supposed to laugh at it.
*points to the comical visage special quality*
R.M.G.C.L.F.
11-16-04, 03:53 PM bump
Keenath
11-16-04, 05:26 PM Note: I haven't seen this movie, so I may be pointing out the obvious.
How can it be vulnerable to sodium, which is easily found in seawater, where they live? They would find their home environment slightly caustic! (Yes, the chlorine in salt provides some mitigation of this, but when dissolved, the chlorine and sodium disassociate and can have mild reactions.)
Severion
11-16-04, 09:11 PM I have seen this movie, and it wasn't explained very well. I believe i made the same query when i saw it.
R.M.G.C.L.F.
11-16-04, 09:24 PM The whole movie was filled with half-hearted clueless attempts at science.

First, pure sodium explodes and burns in contact with any sort of water, just the moisture in the air would be enough to set it off. You cannot lob large hunks of sodium from the edge of a lake.

Also that whole "giant ameboas" speech was total crap. First of the sea anenome, while simplistic, is multi-celled. So you have several multi-celled organisms, which is the total opposite of an ameboa. Then there's also the part where the bland scientist says that if you were skeletonized and colonized by sea life you would be considered still alive. Give me a friggin break! As soon as a person has no flesh, they are irreconciliably :b: DEAD :b:
Ahnzuul
11-17-04, 03:28 AM I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this one, as I just happened to see this MST3K today.

It's true, it is just about the worst case of Hollywood pseudo-science (and that may be dignifying this movie too much) ever.
Yak of Darkness
11-17-04, 03:50 AM But can you stat out a toenail swarm?
R.M.G.C.L.F.
11-17-04, 05:33 AM I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this one, as I just happened to see this MST3K today.

It's true, it is just about the worst case of Hollywood pseudo-science (and that may be dignifying this movie too much) ever.
Still, it's hard to top Bert. I Gordon's classic assertion that "The heart is a single cell," and his whole explanation for the giant grasshoppers in "the beginning of the end".
Yak of Darkness
11-17-04, 04:24 PM The more I think about this monster (which I really shouldn't be doing at all ;) ), the more I think that it should be an Aberration instead of Undead. Considering the mutations and combination with undersea life (wee . . . science!), the party beach horror screams aberration to me instead.

Plus, if it is, we can petition WotC to put this in Codex Anethma, or at least as a web enhancement. :D
R.M.G.C.L.F.
11-17-04, 05:13 PM Nah, it's undead. The vague, scientifically unsound movie explanation is that a person who is skeletonized is still "alive" in a sense, and the skeleton mutates and is semi-reanimated when exposed to radioactive waste, using the surrounding ocean life as a substitute for flesh.

Granted, these are some of the most wacked-out, type ambiguous monsters I've ever encountered, so there is some leeway for interpretation.
astatine
11-18-04, 04:20 PM ...these are some of the most wacked-out, type ambiguous monsters I've ever encountered...
The sheer wacked-outness seems to be the turning point of the Aberration type, but the skeletal reanimation... argh!

http://www.wizards.com/community/images/boards/smilies/lightbulb.gif How about Aberration (Augmented Undead)?
R.M.G.C.L.F.
11-19-04, 06:20 AM The sheer wacked-outness seems to be the turning point of the Aberration type, but the skeletal reanimation... argh!

http://www.wizards.com/community/images/boards/smilies/lightbulb.gif How about Aberration (Augmented Undead)?
Or would it be Undead (Augmented Aberration)? :confused:

But they were originally human, so then would it be
Undead (Augmented Aberration {Augmented Humanoid})???
Oh the wackiness!
R.M.G.C.L.F.
08-08-05, 01:42 AM Sodium, sodium, sodium, sodiu-um
Soooooooooodium! It's sodium!
S-O-D-I-U-M
It's sooodium sodiuminuminum!
Sodium, sodium, sooooodi-um
blackknightatbay
08-08-05, 11:18 AM So radiation has a sense of humor

This movie also stars the best band ever featured in a B-movie: the Del-Aires!

Say what you will about her, at least she's not doing the Zombie Stomp
robservo96
08-08-05, 01:30 PM Check out the MST3K ep "The Creeping Terror." It's got a great monster. Give it some narural armor and a fear ability and it could be somewhat formidable. Maybe an aura of fear or a gaze attack. Check it out. :D
OamuTheMonk
08-08-05, 01:43 PM Man, I had forgotten these guys were skeletons dressed up in coral and seaweed.

Hey, how about a Craft: Alchemy DC set to create a stable-enough-to-be-thrown-as-a-splash-weapon hunk of Sodium? Call that sucker Solid Fire or something.

I see no problems here, so I'm going to shamelessly recommend some more MST3K monsters to be statted:

Vi, the jilted lover ghost from Tormented.

The Gargan, giant Lobster foodstuff brought to earth by the Teenagers from Outer Space.

How about Glen, the sorry protagonist of Attack of the Colossal Man and mindless and deformed antagonist of War of the Colossal Beast?
RavenDrake
08-09-05, 12:19 AM Heh... I had an idea similar to this... I've been stating out more recent films, though. Late 70's to mid 80's Dive-In Cenima monsters...

The Creeps, from night of the Creeps, the Hunters and Crites from Critters, the Ghoulies, Killer clowns form Outer Space, the creature from TerrorVision(bonus points to anyon here who's seen THAT piece of drek)....
R.M.G.C.L.F.
08-09-05, 12:32 AM Glen I don't think is really worth statting. Just a big guy with a heart problem. And Vi didn't seem distinctive enough to call something other than an evil ghost.

The Gargan however I will consider.
robservo96
08-09-05, 12:48 AM If your gonna stat all these MST3K monters you gatta stat Torgo from "Manos: The Hand of Fate". As they explain in wone of the bumps, he is, tecnichally, a monster. Plus, he's hilarious. :D
OamuTheMonk
08-09-05, 01:08 AM ...was meant to be a satyr, or some similar type of goat-legged man. In some of the shots you can sorta make out his cloven hooves. For a satyr, his CHA was pretty ghastly.

In any case, Finger, I guess I can concede Glen, but Vi? She was crazy distinctive--she spoiled foodstuffs wherever she went, she left seaweed-transforming corpse replicas behind to gaslight her ex, she had a great set of pipes, she even pulled an eye-creature-style crawling hand deal...Besides, the whole jilted lover angle is great fodder for an undead monster! How many ghosts would go through the trouble to try and drive their victims insane?
R.M.G.C.L.F.
08-09-05, 01:15 AM Gllllarrrr. I guess you win. =/

I just really loathed that movie. It was gratuitously dark. It swam in its own vile filth. It left a taste in my mouth like second-time-up choked-back vomit. >S
OamuTheMonk
08-09-05, 01:30 AM Gllllarrrr. I guess you win. =/

I just really loathed that movie. It was gratuitously dark. It swam in its own vile filth. It left a taste in my mouth like second-time-up choked-back vomit. >S

What, just cause the protagonist tries to kill off his fiancee's 8 year old sister?

It was pretty dark. I just like it, cause it's a good example of Burt I. working really well on a very limited budget. I thought that the seaweed traces were nice and evocative, like something out of a short story. It's actually a movie I would watch even without the bots. Then again, I pretty much love all B pictures...

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R.M.G.C.L.F. 08-05-04, 04:24 AM	Yes, straight from episode 4 of season 8 of Mystery Science Theater 3000, it's the http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/6455/partybeach.jpg Party Beach Horror Medium Undead (Aquatic) HD:2d12+3(16hp) Initiative:-1 Speed:20ft, swim 30ft AC:14(-1dex,+5 natural) Attacks: 2 claws+4 melee Damage: Claw 1d4+3 Face/Reach: 5ft/5ft Special Attacks: Snatch fallen, comical visage Special Qualities: Darkvision 60ft, undead traits, scent, sodium vulnerability, fast healing 1 Saves:Fort+0,Ref-1,Will+2 Abilities:Str17,Dex9,Con-,Wis9,Int3,Cha3 Skills: Search+1, Listen+1, Spot+1 Feats: Toughness ________________ Climate/Terrain: Water,beach, swamp, or forest Organization: Solitary, pair, or prowl(3-6) CR:1 Alignment: Often Chaotic Evil Treasure: None Advancement: 3-4hd(medium), 5-6HD(large) A party beach horror looks like a humanoid designed by a five year old child using only marine organisms and objects found in the garage. It possesses a rigid shiny fin, webbed feet and hands, large, plastic-like scales with cloth-like skin, bulging ping-pong ball eyes, and in place of a mouth it has a cluster of protruding hot dog like feelers. The horrors of party beach are mutated humanoid skeletons with a new flesh of marine organisms such as sea anemonies and coral, animated by radioactive energy. These creatures are gifted with but a slight spiritual flashback from their original life and now departed soul and therefore act only on residual basic instincts, such as feeding, seeking out members of the race to which they once belonged, and raiding panties. Unfortunately the majority of these are formed from the skeletons of pirate marauders and outlaws of the ocean, retaining their original menace and thirst for blood but taking it to a far more literal level and making it the central drive of their existance. combat: Beach horrors slowly lumber up to a target or group of targets, attack vaguely, and then carry off the dead and wounded to the ocean. They vastly prefer targets of the sex opposite of that they had in life. Snatch Fallen: Whenever a medium or smaller creature of humanoid build falls below 1hp or falls prone within a beach horror's reach, it can pic them up, automatically putting them in a grapple, as a free action. Comical Visage(ex): A beach horror has a farcicle and silly appearance that is almost impossible to take for anything more than a cheap costume. Creatures encountering one are unable to take its presence seriously and continue to remain flat footed for one extra round. Sodium vulnerability(ex): Sodium is deadly poison to a party beach horror. One hit by even a handful must make a fortitude save dc:20 or instanty be destroyed. Even those that succeed their saves take 2d6 dehydration damage and 2d8 fire damage.
R.M.G.C.L.F. 08-06-04, 02:42 PM	cheesy bump
R.M.G.C.L.F. 08-14-04, 01:13 AM	low budget 50s black and white scifi bump
shaga 08-14-04, 07:22 PM	cr 1!!!!?!??!?!?!?! most adventures will laugh at it
R.M.G.C.L.F. 08-14-04, 10:38 PM	They're supposed to laugh at it. points to the comical visage special quality
R.M.G.C.L.F. 11-16-04, 03:53 PM	bump
Keenath 11-16-04, 05:26 PM	Note: I haven't seen this movie, so I may be pointing out the obvious. How can it be vulnerable to sodium, which is easily found in seawater, where they live? They would find their home environment slightly caustic! (Yes, the chlorine in salt provides some mitigation of this, but when dissolved, the chlorine and sodium disassociate and can have mild reactions.)
Severion 11-16-04, 09:11 PM	I have seen this movie, and it wasn't explained very well. I believe i made the same query when i saw it.
R.M.G.C.L.F. 11-16-04, 09:24 PM	The whole movie was filled with half-hearted clueless attempts at science. First, pure sodium explodes and burns in contact with any sort of water, just the moisture in the air would be enough to set it off. You cannot lob large hunks of sodium from the edge of a lake. Also that whole "giant ameboas" speech was total crap. First of the sea anenome, while simplistic, is multi-celled. So you have several multi-celled organisms, which is the total opposite of an ameboa. Then there's also the part where the bland scientist says that if you were skeletonized and colonized by sea life you would be considered still alive. Give me a friggin break! As soon as a person has no flesh, they are irreconciliably :b: DEAD :b:
Ahnzuul 11-17-04, 03:28 AM	I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this one, as I just happened to see this MST3K today. It's true, it is just about the worst case of Hollywood pseudo-science (and that may be dignifying this movie too much) ever.
Yak of Darkness 11-17-04, 03:50 AM	But can you stat out a toenail swarm?
R.M.G.C.L.F. 11-17-04, 05:33 AM	I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this one, as I just happened to see this MST3K today. It's true, it is just about the worst case of Hollywood pseudo-science (and that may be dignifying this movie too much) ever. Still, it's hard to top Bert. I Gordon's classic assertion that "The heart is a single cell," and his whole explanation for the giant grasshoppers in "the beginning of the end".
Yak of Darkness 11-17-04, 04:24 PM	The more I think about this monster (which I really shouldn't be doing at all ;) ), the more I think that it should be an Aberration instead of Undead. Considering the mutations and combination with undersea life (wee . . . science!), the party beach horror screams aberration to me instead. Plus, if it is, we can petition WotC to put this in Codex Anethma, or at least as a web enhancement. :D
R.M.G.C.L.F. 11-17-04, 05:13 PM	Nah, it's undead. The vague, scientifically unsound movie explanation is that a person who is skeletonized is still "alive" in a sense, and the skeleton mutates and is semi-reanimated when exposed to radioactive waste, using the surrounding ocean life as a substitute for flesh. Granted, these are some of the most wacked-out, type ambiguous monsters I've ever encountered, so there is some leeway for interpretation.
astatine 11-18-04, 04:20 PM	...these are some of the most wacked-out, type ambiguous monsters I've ever encountered... The sheer wacked-outness seems to be the turning point of the Aberration type, but the skeletal reanimation... argh! http://www.wizards.com/community/images/boards/smilies/lightbulb.gif How about Aberration (Augmented Undead)?
R.M.G.C.L.F. 11-19-04, 06:20 AM	The sheer wacked-outness seems to be the turning point of the Aberration type, but the skeletal reanimation... argh! http://www.wizards.com/community/images/boards/smilies/lightbulb.gif How about Aberration (Augmented Undead)? Or would it be Undead (Augmented Aberration)? :confused: But they were originally human, so then would it be Undead (Augmented Aberration {Augmented Humanoid})??? Oh the wackiness!
R.M.G.C.L.F. 08-08-05, 01:42 AM	Sodium, sodium, sodium, sodiu-um Soooooooooodium! It's sodium! S-O-D-I-U-M It's sooodium sodiuminuminum! Sodium, sodium, sooooodi-um
blackknightatbay 08-08-05, 11:18 AM	So radiation has a sense of humor This movie also stars the best band ever featured in a B-movie: the Del-Aires! Say what you will about her, at least she's not doing the Zombie Stomp
robservo96 08-08-05, 01:30 PM	Check out the MST3K ep "The Creeping Terror." It's got a great monster. Give it some narural armor and a fear ability and it could be somewhat formidable. Maybe an aura of fear or a gaze attack. Check it out. :D
OamuTheMonk 08-08-05, 01:43 PM	Man, I had forgotten these guys were skeletons dressed up in coral and seaweed. Hey, how about a Craft: Alchemy DC set to create a stable-enough-to-be-thrown-as-a-splash-weapon hunk of Sodium? Call that sucker Solid Fire or something. I see no problems here, so I'm going to shamelessly recommend some more MST3K monsters to be statted: Vi, the jilted lover ghost from Tormented. The Gargan, giant Lobster foodstuff brought to earth by the Teenagers from Outer Space. How about Glen, the sorry protagonist of Attack of the Colossal Man and mindless and deformed antagonist of War of the Colossal Beast?
RavenDrake 08-09-05, 12:19 AM	Heh... I had an idea similar to this... I've been stating out more recent films, though. Late 70's to mid 80's Dive-In Cenima monsters... The Creeps, from night of the Creeps, the Hunters and Crites from Critters, the Ghoulies, Killer clowns form Outer Space, the creature from TerrorVision(bonus points to anyon here who's seen THAT piece of drek)....
R.M.G.C.L.F. 08-09-05, 12:32 AM	Glen I don't think is really worth statting. Just a big guy with a heart problem. And Vi didn't seem distinctive enough to call something other than an evil ghost. The Gargan however I will consider.
robservo96 08-09-05, 12:48 AM	If your gonna stat all these MST3K monters you gatta stat Torgo from "Manos: The Hand of Fate". As they explain in wone of the bumps, he is, tecnichally, a monster. Plus, he's hilarious. :D
OamuTheMonk 08-09-05, 01:08 AM	...was meant to be a satyr, or some similar type of goat-legged man. In some of the shots you can sorta make out his cloven hooves. For a satyr, his CHA was pretty ghastly. In any case, Finger, I guess I can concede Glen, but Vi? She was crazy distinctive--she spoiled foodstuffs wherever she went, she left seaweed-transforming corpse replicas behind to gaslight her ex, she had a great set of pipes, she even pulled an eye-creature-style crawling hand deal...Besides, the whole jilted lover angle is great fodder for an undead monster! How many ghosts would go through the trouble to try and drive their victims insane?
R.M.G.C.L.F. 08-09-05, 01:15 AM	Gllllarrrr. I guess you win. =/ I just really loathed that movie. It was gratuitously dark. It swam in its own vile filth. It left a taste in my mouth like second-time-up choked-back vomit. >S
OamuTheMonk 08-09-05, 01:30 AM	Gllllarrrr. I guess you win. =/ I just really loathed that movie. It was gratuitously dark. It swam in its own vile filth. It left a taste in my mouth like second-time-up choked-back vomit. >S What, just cause the protagonist tries to kill off his fiancee's 8 year old sister? It was pretty dark. I just like it, cause it's a good example of Burt I. working really well on a very limited budget. I thought that the seaweed traces were nice and evocative, like something out of a short story. It's actually a movie I would watch even without the bots. Then again, I pretty much love all B pictures...