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I know there's always people trying to kill the tarrasque, so this may come as a bit weird... I am trying to save the life of the tarrasque.

My character here has the ability to Swallow Whole. And the tarrasque has no chance of standing up to her CMB. So I figured if she ever faced it, she would eat it and that would be it. And she might go after it- she's a LE goddess and it wreaks havoc on worlds.

Anyway, after I have swallowed the tarrasque, my stomach automatically does 8d8 + 32 damage... + 32 damage from either acid or my breath weapon. I have a cold breath weapon and can get a negative energy one. I can also raise this amount of damage, which may be wise as it is my main method of dealing damage.

The tarrasque cannot leave my stomach due to my high DR against it, my own fast healing, and the needed damage to tear open a hole in my stomach. The tarrasque has DR 15/epic, which I pass, and regeneration 40. 8d8 damage deals an average of 36 damage per round...

Anyway: if the tarrasque reaches 'death', "it rises from death 3 rounds later with 1 hit point if no further damage is inflicted upon its remains." However, my stomach is constantly 'digesting' whatever is in it...So there is always further damage. The tarrasque's corpse is eventually pulped, digested...and goes through the tubes. Then it will rise again in an unsanitary fashion.

I don't want that to happen. Having a live and angry tarrasque in your stomach makes people not want to be eaten by you, makes a cool legend, and keeps the tarrasque from causing trouble.

So far the only ways I can think of to keep the tarrasque living is to add templates to it or constantly healing it with spells. Making it Eternal would give it a res that does not rely on not having damage dealt to your corpse. Making it undead would mean it could heal with negative energy, and I could supply more negative energy through other means. I am the goddess of the undead, though, and I am a nice evil goddess... So torturing a poor somewhat innocent tarrasque that is a minion of mine anyway would be uncharacteristic... Are there other ways I can save the tarrasque?
Grand Lodge

You can't swallow whole something several size categories larger than yourself. You have to be at least 3 sizes larger than your meal.

And if your character is that freaking large, you're way out of scale for anything we'd discuss.
LazarX wrote:

You can't swallow whole something several size categories larger than yourself. You have to be at least 3 sizes larger than your meal.

And if your character is that freaking large, you're way out of scale for anything we'd discuss.

You only need to be 1 higher to swallow, but it's no good since colossal is the highest size category.

Scarab Sages

The character in question is 70th level and is an actual god. This is so far outside the power scope of pathfinder that anything is going to be house rules.

That said, even with your additional breath weapon damage to the swallow whole damage, you are not doing enough damage to the Tarraquse to kill it, thanks to the 40 regeneration with no means to overcome it. There is no reason to assume you would digest and "pass" it.
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If it were alive in your body, what would stop it from going on a Lemmywinks-style adventure through your entrails to make it's escape in a particularly angry way that your rectum would be sure to remember for years to come?
LazarX wrote:

You can't swallow whole something several size categories larger than yourself. You have to be at least 3 sizes larger than your meal.

And if your character is that freaking large, you're way out of scale for anything we'd discuss.

I have an ability that lets me swallow things 2 sizes smaller than you. Also I AM out of scale of most things- I am four sizes greater than Colossal.

GoatToucher wrote:
If it were alive in your body, what would stop it from going on a Lemmywinks-style adventure through your entrails to make it's escape in a particularly angry way that your rectum would be sure to remember for years to come?

It could, but the ability that I am getting swallow whole from (Evolutionist) says that it needs to cut its way out.

Imbicatus wrote:

The character in question is 70th level and is an actual god. This is so far outside the power scope of pathfinder that anything is going to be house rules.

That said, even with your additional breath weapon damage to the swallow whole damage, you are not doing enough damage to the Tarraquse to kill it, thanks to the 40 regeneration with no means to overcome it. There is no reason to assume you would digest and "pass" it.

I deal an average of 68 damage to it each round (8d8+32) before the elemental/breath weapon. If the elemental/breath weapon heals it for 32, I would not be passing his regeneration on average. But I am trying to see if there is a way without making it undead (as then negative energy would heal it).

Grand Lodge
aylatrigger wrote:
LazarX wrote:

You can't swallow whole something several size categories larger than yourself. You have to be at least 3 sizes larger than your meal.

And if your character is that freaking large, you're way out of scale for anything we'd discuss.

I have an ability that lets me swallow things 2 sizes smaller than you. Also I AM out of scale of most things- I am four sizes greater than Colossal.

You're likely to find that we can't give you advice of much value as your game is so far outside the assumptions of Pathfinder, that any assumptions we'd base that advise on are irrelevant.

Since you can't pass it's regeneration, you will not enjoy that poop. At all. And then if you poop it and it attacks, uou have to swallow it whole again. You'll be known as the goddess that eats her own poop and lose followers, and as such you will lose power and the tarrasque will win.

The end.

Give it an item that makes it resist acid damage?
Scarab Sages
Gaekub wrote:
Give it an item that makes it resist acid damage?

It's already immune to acid.

Just Wish for your divine stomach acid to be able to dissolve anything except for Tarrasques.
GoatToucher wrote:
If it were alive in your body, what would stop it from going on a Lemmywinks-style adventure through your entrails to make it's escape in a particularly angry way that your rectum would be sure to remember for years to come?

Thanks for the BEST laughter i've have in days!

Erm, saving the Tarrasque from some specialized, completely house-ruled, and so far off the Pathfinder RAW is pretty much impossible. What could the community come up with that couldn't just be hand-waved away by a god-level character?

We can:

1) Invent insane templates, etc to counter the insane character template of the OP, who could then proceed to counter these or,

2) Chill out and ask for some of what OP is smoking, because clearly, it appears to be some quality goods...

:-P
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Cavall wrote:

Since you can't pass it's regeneration, you will not enjoy that poop. At all. And then if you poop it and it attacks, uou have to swallow it whole again. You'll be known as the goddess that eats her own poop and lose followers, and as such you will lose power and the tarrasque will win.

The end.

It'll be a hell of a conversation starter, though.

"This is more uncomfortable that the time I pooped the Tarrasque!"

"Man, those clams last night are running right through me worse than when I pooped the Tarrasque!"

"-You're- backed up? I was backed up for two weeks once, and then-"
"Then you pooped the Tarrasque. Yeah, we've heard it before, Gary."

Hmm, swallow and poop a Tarrasque? Maybe we should pass this along to Arbonne. Let'em market it as the ultimate in Arbonne Cleanse products.
GoatToucher wrote:
Cavall wrote:

Since you can't pass it's regeneration, you will not enjoy that poop. At all. And then if you poop it and it attacks, uou have to swallow it whole again. You'll be known as the goddess that eats her own poop and lose followers, and as such you will lose power and the tarrasque will win.

The end.

It'll be a hell of a conversation starter, though.

"This is more uncomfortable that the time I pooped the Tarrasque!"

"Man, those clams last night are running right through me worse than when I pooped the Tarrasque!"

"-You're- backed up? I was backed up for two weeks once, and then-"
"Then you pooped the Tarrasque. Yeah, we've heard it before, Gary."

Or, to continue on that topic, during those God-Level dinner parties...

"Hey Iomedae, betcha can't do this..."

How is this not magical realm?
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