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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 3022940" data-attributes="member: 3192">Months ago a meteorite landed with dormant seeds from another planet.  Psionic-empowered, brain-sucking flowers grow from the seeds spread around the crater.  Normal honeybees harvest the alien pollen, kill their own queen, and create psychogenic honey for the monks.  Eating the honey gives one a slight headache afterwards, but brewing it down into mead distills the effect.  Essentially, drinkers are dominated and join the bee's hive.  Imagine attacking dominated commoners covered by swarms of bees they use to attack.  Do the PCs have any friends in town?  :evilgrin:The dominated are used as protectors by the bees to guard the flowers around the hidden crater.  The problem is: the flowers are eating the dominated humans' brains.  So the bees are in constant need of finding more creatures to dominate.  (Perhaps include some small-brain bears who ate enough honey?  Succumbed due to low int / will save?)  The bee hivemind is gaining in intelligence as it is embued with psionic power.  It is currently trying to dominate the monk beekeepers so they can be forced to collect more honey and brew more mead (making them appear mad as they work to exhaustion each day).  Here's the catch.  The true villians aren't the bees at all, they're the non-intelligent flowers.  With such a strong mental bond more bees are being drawn to hive, but can the PCs really kill every single one?  Even if they did would the flowers not be found by other bees?  Ideas:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lots of swarms, flesh-eating plants, and foes you don't want to kill. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Chances of playing a dominated PC is high which can be fun.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can start with a mystery of drunks disappearing, bee attacks, monks in "seeming" religious fervor, etc.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Consider multiple drinks with increasing strengths of effect (ale, mead, liquors, etc.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">And you know, this is the PERFECT game for props.  Mead, honey ale, Drambui... oh yeah!</li> </ul></blockquote>

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