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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mik" data-source="post: 443792" data-attributes="member: 6552">If you do go with the worms being poisoned, weakened, or otherwise inhibited by alcohol, it provides some neat hooks;1) Everyone in a nearby town except the heavy drinkers is under the sway of the hive-mind. Your players may consider the word of the drunks to be a bit suspect, so you can plant 'clues' in their words.2) If your game is set in the 1920's, you have a nice lead in to the growing temperance movement. Maybe old Carrie Nation has a little something tangled up in her medulla oblongata <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/peopleevents/pande4.html" target="_blank">(a short discussion of Carrie N.)</a> 3) Will your investigators start knocking them back to keep themselves free of worms?Of course, for maximum impact, the source of the worms themselves could be either one of the elder races or servitors of an Old One.... Mi-go: possible. If the fungi from Yuggoth need specimens to examine or need to clear an area for mining, they might engineer a little mind control.Yithians: unlikely. While they have a good working knowledge of thought, human minds, and consciousness, they'd probably just possess the humans through mind transfer and make them do whatever they needed.Shaggai: iffy. The Shan have their own very direct ways of getting inside your head.Elder Things: I can't see it. The Elder Things are generally inactive, and they had no interest in humanity. The worms may have been a last ditch attempt to bring the shoggoths under control, one that just escaped its containment and has latched on to the first 'intelligent, non-elder thing' creature it encountered.Perhaps there is a relative of Eihort buried here who is sending out its own brood... Anyone else have more sinister ideas?Good luck with the adventure. I'm planning on putting one of my own together to offer to my current D&D 3e gaming group as a change of pace. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />=Mik</blockquote>

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