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Quest Backstory
My group is currently playing the Dead Suns Adventure Path and is docked on Eox. This quest happens after the events of the third book while they're waiting for the Starfinder Society to send in some mechanics to fix up their ship.
The group is greeted by an animated skeleton dressed in middle-class finery. He tells the party that he was granted un-life about 20 years ago, but thanks to someone going to a lot of trouble to preserve his body and paying for him to be granted sentience in his next life, he's pretty well-off for a grunt un-dead. He wanted to know who was responsible for his state of life. He can't remember anything from when he was alive, so he did a bit of research.
He learned that in life, he died of a sickness that he struggled with for over a dozen years before eventually passing away. His wife cared for him, and put a great deal of credits toward ensuring that his un-life was much more comfortable than his living years. His research led him to find out that her health suffered and she no longer had the money to take herself. His wife passed away a couple years ago, and as a part of the deal to get grant him middle class, she volunteered her body for menial labor here on Eox as a mindless factory zombie.Factory zombies never last very long, only a decade or so, before the magic holding their bodies together crumbles.
She may not be sentient and he may not remember the sacrifice that she made to help him, but he desperately wants to repay her dedication to him. He wants the party to help him get the rights to her contract, so that he can take care of HER for once. He doesn't know WHY it's so important to him, but he needs to help her.
Main Quest:
Getting the wife's contract is actually pretty straight forward. The Bonesage that created the skeleton's wife is looking for someone to take care of a monster for him. In exchange, the BoneSage is willing to negotiate for the wife's contract, as well as adding in some tasty extras to incentivize the deal. The monster is particularly dangerous to undead. The aura it releases absorbs undead energy... but since the party is living, they shouldn't have a problem.
If the party does particularly well with diplomacy, the Bone Sage reveals that the reason he wants the monster dead so badly is that his electroencephalon is hidden in a bunker near the creature's lair. It's aura is weakening the device, and in turn, is weakening him. He understands that the party has caught the attention of several Bone Sages in their recent dealings in fighting the corpse fleet. The party will need someone on their side and he doesn't care one way or the other about the fleet.He adds one further incentive: a favor. If he catches wind from the other bonesages that the Corpse Fleet is up to something, he will contact them.
The Monster
The group will have 4 party members, all around level 7. The alien I'm looking for would be around CR10. For plot's sake, I would need a really nasty, OP aura that heals it by absorbing HP from undead. Go nuts making this aura stupidly, insanely strong against undead. It would need to be strong to warrant a Bonesage offering a high reward for it.
Aside from the aura, I want it to be big and nasty, but with no other surprises. Large/Huge size category LOTS of HP, average to med-high AC and hits like a truck, but nothing else super fancy. Their fort saves are abysmal, so I want to avoid diseases/radiation/paralysis. I'd also like to avoid anything involving will saves, because I find that it just sucks the fun out of combat (Srsly, who ACTUALLY enjoys having their fighter spend the entire fight punching themselves in the face from confusion instead of getting to describe their character doing cool stuff?)
A special ability/ attack that requires reflex saves might be a good choice. Maybe a tail swipe that deals damage and gives the monster a free bull-rush attempt. Coupled with combat reflexes, it would make for a nasty combat strategy for the monster: Bull rush enemies back using a tail attack, provoking AoO when they move back in to engage.
Final Notes: I've literally never built a monster from scratch before, so even a base stat block would help me out a lot. I also need names for the animated skeleton, his wife and for the Bonesage, if folks want to deliberate. :) If it helps, our party has 2 Operatives, a Mechanic (exo-cortex) and a Technomancer.
TLDR: I want the party to have something that they can go all out on and use all their new level 7 abilities on and have it last a couple rounds but without penalties from diseases/paralysis/confusion etc.