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Goblin Coast · area boss LXXXVIII

Ysmene Coilsong, the Half-Heard Note

You Decide How It Resolves

She sings half a phrase and leaves it hanging over the shingle, and then she lets you finish it for her. Hit her hard enough and it snaps; leave it alone and it lands, sweetly, in her favour.

CR 10Humanoid (Monstrous) · Bard 5 / Virtuoso 5resref gc4_ysmenespawn table 182 · always, 12% · count 1

Stat Block

Race / Class
Humanoid (Monstrous) · Bard 5 / Virtuoso 5
Challenge Rating
10
Hit Points
84 (expected ~70)
Natural Armor
3
Str
10
+0
Dex
16
+3
Con
16
+3
Int
14
+2
Wis
12
+1
Cha
22
+6
Feats — Extra Music, Lingering Song, Virtuoso Performance, Skill Focus (Perform), Combat Casting, Spell Focus (Enchantment), Greater Spell Focus (Enchantment), Iron Will, Weapon Finesse
Skills — Perform 13, Concentration 13, Spellcraft 10, Bluff 10, Lore 8
SpellsBard L0 Resistance · Daze · Light · Cure Minor Wounds · L1 Amplify · Sleep · Grease · Charm Person · L2 Silence · Sound Burst · Hold Person · Tasha's Hideous Laughter · L3 Haste · Confusion · Displacement · L4 Dominate Person · Hold Monster

The Fight

End of every round

Hang the Note

She names the exact number out loud — roughly an eighth of her maximum hit points, climbing by one every round, so a party that wants to keep forcing the sour outcome has to keep hitting harder to do it.

Next round, if the party met the threshold

Sour Resolution

4d6+6 sonic in 9m, deafness, and a Fortitude save against being stunned — but she gets nothing at all out of it.

Next round, if the party fell short

Sweet Resolution

Nothing touches the party. Instead she heals a sixth of her maximum, hastes herself for three rounds, and hands every ally within 12m attack and saves. Every other conditional in this bestiary keys off the boss's own state; this one keys off the party's output, and she tells them the rule before it matters.

Why These Numbers

CR10, level with Nabb and Ogruk, one notch above the coast's prior Barknuckle ceiling.

She is the bestiary's first Virtuoso — the bardic-music prestige class, which advances real Bard spellcasting, so Bard 5 / Virtuoso 5 casts as a 10th-level bard and gets a genuine 4th-level list (Dominate Person, Hold Monster) rather than a stub. Goblin Coast already had a divine caster and a druid; a Charisma-driven arcane singer is a third distinct shape rather than a fourth of the same one.

The threshold is derived from her live maximum hit points rather than hardcoded, so the dilemma stays legible whether she is met at level 8 or level 14.

No epic spell: a 10th-level bard casting progression is nowhere near caster level 21.

How It's Wired

pattern
new build — cloned from bele_seahag (already ran real j_ai_* AI)
blueprint
gc4_ysmene.utc
scripts
gc4_ys_inc.nss, gc4_ys_spawn.nss, gc4_ys_round.nss, gc4_ys_death.nss, gc4_ys_damaged.nss
area wiring
goblincoast.git · sparky_variables, enc13 → 182