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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mik" data-source="post: 444341" data-attributes="member: 6552">Lord Zardoz:Okay, I can better see where you are going with your adventure seed. The idea of seeing people swill down overpriced "LeMontaigne Springs" water in the nearby health club will come back with a crack when the investigators learn of the parasites.Now, this also gives you a nice class-division issue in the distribution area; the worms are taking over the relatively affluent people who can afford overpriced well water in plastic bottles. Soon enough, your more well-off people in town are sick with a bug, then back up and about with a bit of a personality change. They will certainly start recommending the 'refreshing' liquid to others, and they'll tell two friends - and they'll tell to friends, and so on, and so on.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The intensity of the 'flu' worries me though - if it's obviously a painful and dangerous condition, people who can't afford the fancy water are going to start making the connection. Of course, some free samples to the medical community, police, and so forth might go a long way.As to your 'king worm' and the connection to higher powers in the Cthulhu cosmos: Perhaps Thomas Edwards is being used by the worms, tricked into thinking there even *is* such a thing, while the puppetmaster pulls the strings from another location. If there is a lead in the mentality, it could be Nurse Nancy who has it.... This mucks with the excellent double homicide plotted out by Scud-O, but gives a credible reason for Hello Nurse keeping quiet about the surgeries (she's advancing the agenda).If the worms and the parasitic initial forms require water to live, there may be some nice "shockers" you can spring on the investigators...*) maybe the 'spring' isn't a spring at all - it's a pocket of trapped water in a mountain cave. When the water runs out, the worms will all die, unless they can find another location to multiply. Nurse Nancy has been doing some research, however, and has hired a slant drilling operation to come up and see how possible a horizontal bore to the second largest aquifer in the country is.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> ... the source of water for more than five thousand communities...*) perhaps the spring is the melted remnants of an ice meteorite that crashed down and was sealed into the soil of Cambodia millions of years ago by one of the elder beings. How dangerous *are* these things if the likes of Tsathoggua, the Gnoph-Keh, or even the Yithians are willing to devote time to trapping them? Are these things as dangerous as the flying polyps but more subversive because they understand how other creatures think?Of course, we all have to ask if there will be time for a delicious Mike's Hard Lemonade (just kidding).=Mik</blockquote>

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