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<blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 9189217" data-attributes="member: 7015707">The Trouble With Teratomas- Call of Cthulhu. I just woke up from a dream like this and thought that with some minor tweaking it would make a passably creepy non-combat(?) encounter in the dreamlands and/or in some haunted sea. The PCs are in a boat that is also carrying a sample of coral or sea sponge or something like that. Something happens to it (the coral sample) though and it begins growing at an unnatural rate and taking on the characteristics of other creatures. It lays - and continues to lay - hundreds of tiny eggs which very quickly hatch and the inexplicably lamprey-mouthed offspring - which hatch out of them already somehow several times larger than the egg they emerged from - quickly merge into the parent mass. It also starts to grow eyes and st the same time to lose one of its dimensions, becoming like a sprite from Doom. The thing isn't actively hostile but it can defend itself and if something isn't done about it it will grow to the point where it will sink the ship with its mass and/or clog up the engines and other essential equipment. Even if it's destroyed or thrown overboard its many eggs must be accounted for or the whole mess will start all over again. Optionally there may be a vague implication that this is what the elder things made the shoggoths out of.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bohandas, post: 9189217, member: 7015707"] [B]The Trouble With Teratomas[/B]- Call of Cthulhu. I just woke up from a dream like this and thought that with some minor tweaking it would make a passably creepy non-combat(?) encounter in the dreamlands and/or in some haunted sea. The PCs are in a boat that is also carrying a sample of coral or sea sponge or something like that. Something happens to it (the coral sample) though and it begins growing at an unnatural rate and taking on the characteristics of other creatures. It lays - and continues to lay - hundreds of tiny eggs which very quickly hatch and the inexplicably lamprey-mouthed offspring - which hatch out of them already somehow several times larger than the egg they emerged from - quickly merge into the parent mass. It also starts to grow eyes and st the same time to lose one of its dimensions, becoming like a sprite from [I]Doom[/I]. The thing isn't actively hostile but it can defend itself and if something isn't done about it it will grow to the point where it will sink the ship with its mass and/or clog up the engines and other essential equipment. Even if it's destroyed or thrown overboard its many eggs must be accounted for or the whole mess will start all over again. Optionally there may be a vague implication that this is what the elder things made the shoggoths out of. [/QUOTE]

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