>The suite of plate armour is also a bee hive
>>46529186
bees wouldn't make a hive in a metal enclosure.
wasps might but still i doubt it.
>>46529186
An entire suite of plate armor? Wow, that's a very large room to be filled with plate armor! Where in it is the bee hive, we could probably just throw a mesh over that part and loot the rest.
>>46529186
>The suit of plate armor IS bees
>>46529211
They'll both make hives in derelict vehicles though.
>>46529241
No, that's Bee Mail armor...
>>46529241
>the knight is a bee
>a single giant bee
>wearing a hive
>actually is ladyknight
>and queen of the hive
>looking for wizard responsible for deciding this was a good idea
>always spends her coin on honey and sugar
>keeps singling out the enemy leaders and stabbing them with her venom-tipped spear>the thri-kreen keeps getting weird dreams about that giant egg-filled abdomen
>>46529186
Is it weird that I find bees cute? I would probably still avoid them in real life for fear of being stung, though, but not as much as I would with hornets.
>>46529325
>The knight is actually a sapient swarm of bees inside a suit of armor
>>46529211
If you dip a non-bee appropriate substance in a starter batch of wax, they can use it.
What is more important is the clearance of the armor post-dip. There is a very specific clearance bees need or they will seal a hole, but I can't remember what it was. Like 3/5 of an inch or something.
>>46529260
they don't make hives in the engine block. they make hives in the interior and shit. and that's mostly wasps. i've never heard of actual bees making a hive in a vehicle.
>>46529186
What's this? A steel raiment completely subsumed by bees?
This calls for a TREMENDOUS ADDITION OF BEES!
>Purple Orchid Bee from Guyana
Best bee coming through
>>46529514
I fucking love Dr Bees.
>>46529499
I've used various non-wood hive structures, so it's not that far fetched.
One I like to use is the plastic shaped core dipped in wax. It's re-usable, so I don't have to keep restocking on the wax starters.
>>46529396
>would avoid them in real life
Have you not actually seen a bee IRL? Are you some kind of basement dwelling city rat?
>>46529186
Why not go with hornets so that only the most evil and terrible of people can put it on without dying a painful death from it?
>>46529616
hornets sting evil people.
That's one of the main reasons you keep hornets around, they're dicks, but they kill literally ALL OTHER TYPES OF DICKS.
I miss the BugWorld threads already.
>>46529752
Man, whoever drew this has no idea how bees look.
...I miss my hives. I miss beekeeping.
>>46529643
>but they kill literally ALL OTHER TYPES OF DICKS.
kek
no. centipedes kill all the shit you don't want. hornets and wasps are just assholes that attack everything (except a few species like that mud hornet that generally just leaves you alone).
>>46529856
don't joke about that anon.
I was getting into professional beekeeping when I developed a sudden allergy and it's BULLSHIT.
Sounds like a great idea for cursed armor.
I wouldn't want to wear it without some sort of Command Bees spell. Hell, I wouldn't want to be in a party with it.
Try to move silently -> loud buzzing and constant vibrating of bees occupying hiving around in plate
Enemy hits it with a sword -> Angry goddamned bees that nobody wants
Enemy sits well back and plinks it with a single arrow or a rock while you're at a campsite -> They are out of angry bee range while you and your buds must now abandon your camp.
And shit it doesn't even have to be an enemy. You couldn't ride/dismount a horse or any rough carriage without pissing your armor off.
>>46529913
>hornets are assholes that attack everything
yes, that is what I explicitly said.
>>46529933
you said you keep hornets around because they kill all the other dicks.
they don't, and there's no reason to keep them around.
>>46529186
So what? The party finds this sweet and hella good Plate armour? The Fighter/Paladin tries to put it on, and boom! Death by bees right?
5/8, not bad, would stick on my players given the chance.
>>46529968
>they don't and there is no reason to keep them around
Anon, they are a popular pesticide-free crop eating insect preventer because they DO kill all the other dicks.
Like, they're flying carnivorous swarm insects that don't have picky tastes. Pesticide duty is practically what they were made for.
>>46530003
which type of hornets are we talking about
>>46530030
most types, honestly. The ones that form bigger hives are naturally better for this purpose.
I would never suggest using individualistic wasps as pest control, as that's just not practical on a large scale.
>>46529986
Bees swarm around their hive though anon, it'd be pretty obvious.
>>46530070
Could be something like super-ordinate plate armor with stylized honeycombs of gold and bees made of gems and gold on it that come alive when worn.
>>46530048
wikipedia says it's mostly the parasitic ones that are used as pest control.
not just regular ass bald face hornets or something.
>>46529186
>>46530123
Oh, those are the fancy ones.
I don't usually truck in those, it's mostly local species relocation for the smaller operations.
>>46530152
>>46530155
regular ass hornets/wasps mostly feed on nectar, though, so i can't imagine they are that effective unless you have a fucking massive nest of them.
>>46529915
>develop bee sting allergy
Oh ouch. I guess epipens can only go so far, you have my sympathies.
I was only a hobbyist, not doing it as a profession. But a varroa outbreak in the club apiary coupled with EFB meant the hives I was looking after died.
Still got the gear, just need the money and enthusiasm to join the local apiary and start anew.
>>46530182
They use nectar for energy, but quite literally require eating bugs to form new wasps.
>>46529555
Orchid bees ftw. They're tiny alchemists collecting and mixing esters then storing them in pouches for later use
>>46530190
Can you find any wild hives?
It's not uncommon for a honey bee hive to let out a swarm, which are generally legal to collect and restart from.
If you have all the hobby gear, you could even make some money collecting swarms by offering swarm removal services to suburbs. I used to do that on the side.
>>46529186
>suite
what are we talking like a bedroom, bathroom, living room, dining room, +veranda kind deal? and it's all made of plate armor? and it's also full of bees? Like, carpeted wall to wall in bees, or floor to ceiling? Or both? Is it just not a room at all but a solid hive front to back? So like, something in the ballpark of 3750-4300ft^3 of bees How many bees is that, even? A million? 2 million? That's like a bigrig crash worth of bees. That's a good $200,000+ in bee damages. That's almost a thrid of the US apiary industry's annual average loss in bees.
>>46529499
I've seen them make hives on the grille of a car and behind the side mirrors.
>>46529186
Ayyyyyyyyyyy they're playin my song!
>>46530316
wasps or bees?
i can believe wasps, but not actual bees.
>>46529396
No, bees are adorable, and you shouldn't have to avoid honey or bumble bees, as they are docile and just want to do their own thing. If you dint threaten them, or the hive, then you have nothing to be afraid of.
You can actually pick up a swarm of honey bees with your bare hands as long as you dont threaten the queen, since when they swarm, they act less like individuals than usual. I don't advise trying it though.
>>46530347
man, you can totally get bees to live in all sorts of metallic areas if you pre-wax it.
Except for bumblebees, who will live ANY-FUCKING-WHERE.
Goddamn bumblemees. I hate them. I hate that they get into everything. I hate that they make nests, NEVER CLEAN THEM, and abandon them when the season is over rather than cleaning.
They will in fact seal off their old nest and build a new nest on top of it sometimes, such is the laziness and stink of a bumblebee.
>>46530378
>man, you can totally get bees to live in all sorts of metallic areas if you pre-wax it.
do you think people pre-wax their car grills and mirrors?
seems like bees are pretty fucking picky about where they make their hive.
and in the last 2000 years we have not seen any commercial or highly adopted metal enclosures for beehives.
t. wikipedia
>>46530459
anon, metal dipped in wax is more effort and cost than wooden alternatives, of course it would never be highly adopted.
It's hobby-only tech.
And I am assuming people will pre-wax some kind of bee armor, yes.
>>46530483
>It's hobby-only tech.
i just figured bees would get annoyed or dislike metal since their natural nesting sites are in fucking trees.
>And I am assuming people will pre-wax some kind of bee armor, yes.
if you're gonna make cursed bee armor you might as well make it have some kind of pocket dimension in stasis with a nest full of these fuckers.
i'd be scared shitless given what the sting wounds for these things look like and how aggressive they are.
sucks to be japanese.
>>46530548
Bees not only don't have some kind of annoyance to metal, it is extremely common in commercial beekeeping to use metal (or plastic) wiring to reinforce bee frames.
Bees will naturally cover anything that doesn't have proper clearance in their hive with wax anyway, so whatever you put in there after the hive is started will probably be accepted.
Unless, I suppose, it's some nu-age material that resists all sticky things like teflon. I've never actually tried to see if I can get wax to stick to teflon.
>>46530548
Imagine if they were friendly and intelligent.
>>46530548
That is why european bees don't survive in Japan.
>>46530591
>I've never actually tried to see if I can get wax to stick to teflon.
Sounds like you have some science to do anon.
>>46529616
>SIMBAAA
>>46530718
maybe I do.
I'll put "buy some cheap teflon pans" on the "get to it eventually" list.
>>46530598
imagine being stung by one.
apparently it's comparable to a bullet ant sting. i also read some unsubstantiated bullshit about how their stings alert the other hornets to sting the shit out of you, but i assume that's common hornet behavior.
>>46530679
those poor bees have no better defense than to cover these fuckers and overheat them. imagine going to check on your hive and finding 3-4 of those fucks eating everything.
>>46530789
Either that hornet is incapacitated, or that man has titanium balls.
>>46530789
Something that can't really be understated is how big they are.
>>46530843
rip anime
>>46530789
>>46530843
I feel like you use a shovel, and not a fly swatter, here.
I wish I had some intermediary between shovel and fly swatter.
>>46529396
It would be weirder if you didn't find them cute.
>>46530887
What you use are goggles or at least some glasses, because they can spray their venom and will aim for your eyes.
>An individual hornet can kill forty European honey bees in a single minute; a group of 30 hornets can destroy an entire hive containing 30,000 bees in a little more than three hours. The hornets kill and dismember the bees, returning to their nest with the bee thoraxes, which they feed to their larvae, leaving heads and limbs behind. The honey and bee larvae are also taken to feed the hornet larvae.
thank god they're stuck on that island.
>>46530887
>I feel like you use a shovel, and not a fly swatter, here.
you better hope you don't miss because those things are some of the most aggressive hornets.
i bet the bites hurt too.
>>46529211
>wasps might but still i doubt it.
Wasps are cunts. If they thought someone was going to try putting that suit of armour, you'd better believe they'd set up shop in there.
>>46530980
I remember there was a youtube video of hornets attacking a hive of bees with chaos space marine voices for the hornets and guardsmen voices for the bees. I can't quite find it.
>>46530980
>thank god they're stuck on that island.
I remember reading about these things on Cracked long, long ago, and I think they put it well: "Nature is fucking hardcore."
>The catapult's ammo stock is beehives
>>46530980
If you want to talk about unusually bloodthirsty insects stuck on an island, there are also Hawaiian caterpillars that are carnivorous.
>>46531060
i was wrong.
they're all over asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet
>>46529186
If the armor is magical, does a beehive inside it gain the magical benefits?
>animated armor with beehives inside
>bees with fire resist armor
It's actually a lot harder to come with interesting armors for beehives to wear than I thought it'd bee, so I think I'll stop.
I give it to the barbarian so he can beehave for a while.
>>46529714
Don't we allDo not give up yet anon, a new one will rise, PR and the others just need more stuff to jumpstart discussion so they don't die
>>46529186
DID SOMEONE SAY BEE ARMOR!?
>>46530887
Like this?
>>46530887
You use a flamethrower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Bo2ro60ro
>>46531803
THE PAIN HAS TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE IF HE DIDN'T NOBODY COULD HEAR HIM OVER ALL THE HORNETS
>>46529930
druid fighter multiclass armor
>>46530459
>do you think people pre-wax their car grills and mirrors?
I do, in fact think that people wax their cars
>>46530372
Good to know.
>>46529186
>>46529396
>>46530912
I can give or take bees, but Bumblebees are adorable little chubs.
I'd kill for the chance to pay a naive, dumb and fat little bumblebee knight at some point.
>>46530887
A tennis racket works just as well. Used it when carpenter bee's moved into my wooden deck two years ago and there was just something so satisfying about hearing the little "ping" when you splatted a bee on half.
>>46532575
Why do bumblebees gotta be so gosh darn fluffy?
>>46532895
So they get absolutely coated in pollen and thus start pimpin' every flower they come across. And that's why we humans get to eat.
>>46532933
I knew that from second grade but thanks. Here's a never-gonna-see-play-ever magic card.
>>46532053
>>46531093
>Insert Redwall joke here
>>46532895
>>46532933
I bet pollen's like the finest shampoo in the animal kingdom. His hair takes HOURS galpal.
>>46529211
perhaps the suit is made from magically enhanced wood or wax?
i heard this a BEE thread.
Bee civ plz
>>46533298
Bumblebees are the only cute insect.
>>46533406
wait u look at them close up
btw, velvet worm the best
>>46533353
Fuck just call it steel wood and call it a day.
>>46533406
You're lucky I remembered jumping spiders aren't insects. Else we'd be having some works.
>>46529186
I read this as a suite full of plate armor that was full of bees.
Might be a cool idea. A war forged that got infested with bees. The war forged tried to get them out but stopped once he realized the wax was increasing his power output and protecting against rust in his more sensitive gears (or some BS as to why he doesn't just jump in a river to flush them out).
>>46533638
Maybe he doesn't do it because the party druid would murder him? Or he's a cleric/paladin of some nature or farming deity?
Had something similar to this happen once.
>Older brother and I go to a local con
>Big one lots of big names
>WotC sets up huge Learn2Play section for 4E
>Brother wants to give it a go
>He gets a premade Dwarf Fighter
>First combat has them fighting some gobbos
>He sees one shake a bees nest and then hide behind a door
>Succesful STR check
>Door is kicked down, gobbo is flattened
>After combat is finished he looks at the DM and says, "I want to braid the beehive into my beard."
>Dumbfounded looks around the table
>Ends up intimidating and will checking the bees into leaving comfortably in his beard.
>Writes, "BeeBeard" over his name on the laminated character sheet
>Never been more proud
He's playing a CN bard/rogue in a game his friend is running but he's doing all right.
>>46533667
Makes me think of what would happen if a warforged had heat metal cast on it. Would it take the heat damage or would it just be a walking red-hot pile of fuckyourface.
>>46533667
maybe he is a warkeeper. or a hive forged. you know, made to be a beekeeper but with less capacity to feel.
>>46529325
>>46533406
Bumblebee a cute
CUTE!
>>46529186
>the knight is actually a swarm of bees in a suit of armor
>>46533406
Moths are cuter and fluffier.
>>46530190
Good luck sir. We need more bee keepers. And not the big business honey in a plastic bear bullshit either. Real bee keepers.
>>46531058
I saw that. It was hilarious.
>>46530155
>I don't usually truck in those,
>inb4 anon goes the /k/ route like pic related
Is there any possibility that I can worship you as my god now to spare myself agonizing pain later?
>>46533406
I thought Jumping Spiders were
>>46530347
If I recall they were wasps or hornets.
>>46532575
>You will never have a bumblebee knight that tries her hardest to do things right but always manages to adorable fail anything but the most important task
>You will never have a bumblebee knight that still keeps right on trying in order to earn her employer's approval
>You will never teach a bumblebee knight how to do the most minute tasks and wonder why you don't just hire someone else or do it yourself
>You will never watch her goof again and realize that she's too adorable to get rid of
>You will never have a bumblebee knight start to treat you like her queen even if you're a guy
>You will never have a bumblebee knight sting a hornet raider to give you a chance to run despite knowing it would kill her to sting something
>You will never escape with her dying form cradled in your arms
>You will never weep silently as she asks "Are you unharmed, Your Highness?" before slipping away
>You will never bury your bumblebee knight in a flower garden
Why even fucking live man?
>>46535597
Spiders are arachnids. They get their own cute scale.
>>46535712
Bees only die when they sting humans because our skin is so elastic and they're so small. If the bumbleknight were roughly human sized that probably wouldn't be an issue except against remarkably huge things.
Your fantasy is flawed, good sir.
>>46532053
EDF! EDF! EDF!
>scared as fuck from bees, wasps, and hornets
>still extremely intrigued by them
>>46535950
Zaibastu, please return to v
>>46535950
EDF tabletop when?
>>46530877
How the fuck did the person who took this photo not only not flip the fuck out, but remained calm enough to take a picture ?
>>46531058
>>46535465
https://youtu.be/afSOka8UUPY
>>46536334
How about during the process of tying a string around it, eh?
I'd kinda like to play a paladin whose animal companion is actually a swarm of insects that lives in his armor.
>>46530789
>>46530843
>>46530877
>>46529616
FunFact: The Vespa mandarinia, and V.mandarinia japonica's venoms are not the most toxic of the vespoid family. In fact several other wasps and hornets outrank theirs, however none of the more potent venoms belong to species with stingers as large as the V.mandarinia's. It's actually the quarter of an inch long stinger and its ability to inject more venom per sting and deeper into the body that accounts for its high annual kill count across the asian continent and islands of Japan.
>>46531026
Wasps arent more or less cunts than bees.
They are bigger cowards though.
>>46538546
thx pro, but dont forget the amount of attacking bee/wasp and their period of agitation
>>46536334
Because its common fucking knowledge and sense to not flip out around hornets and wasps.
Retard.
>>46536512
What would be the orks of the insects?
Why not make a Treant with a hive living inside him. That could be a great symbiotic relationship
>>46536873
Fun fact: that's how they find the nests. When the local government gets enough complaints to finally do something about a problem hive, they catch one, tie a string or ribbon around it, then release it, and track it with binoculars. When they find where it lives, they eradicate it. Usually guys in bee suits with picks and shovels. Sometimes an excavator, if it's a big'un.
>>46533515
>the mad king has been slain
>now the possibly most dangerous task: clearing his mad castle
>full of weird shit, like the cheese house in room 120 and the candy village in room 288, and that weird machine that rolls blunts and makes you smoke them in room 420
>clearers find a room, open it
>inside, nothing but plate armor, row after row of gleaming suits of armor
>they walk inside
>door closes behind them
>buzzing sound starts
>fuck
>>46533376
Noblebright tyranids. That's it.
>>46533406
Moths.
>>46533406
nigger please
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CvqmD0CZao
>>46539528
Why do I even have this image
>>46539515
Definitely not cute.
>>46539459
Provide me some evidence
