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<blockquote data-quote="DMH" data-source="post: 2210294" data-attributes="member: 24945"><p>Another thing I was going to use in a modern setting for Masque of the Red Death (which never got off the ground) was a suburban basement full of human faced grubs that pupate into humans. What was creating them, the player would never known.</p><p></p><p>Another location was an alchemist shop that used human bits for condements for the local Burger King (special special sauce). But the creepy bit was that the personality was still tied to the parts and anyone consuming any part would gain memory fragments and a competing mental fragment.</p><p></p><p>Bats twisted by a spellcaster had the ability to transmit a magical disease- one that caused the victim's skin to turn ghastly green and then melt off and leaving a "zombie" that causes fear and horror checks. The magical diseases in the Ravenloft MC III could also be used here. I love most of those, esp the crysallizing one.</p><p></p><p>I don't like or use undead in MRD- living things are much more creepy IMO. But there are always mimics that can be used in their place- oozes that motivate "zombies" (like those mentioned above).</p><p></p><p>No one mentioned plants yet. I wrote up the topiary golem for the Book of S (I think the 3rd one) and had some others in mind- shrubs that grapple and squeeze the prey to death, weeds that grow on the corpses of those who inhaled their seeds and a vine that invade the body much like that new aberration in LoM. Remember that plants are everywhere- use them and the PCs will never leave home again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DMH, post: 2210294, member: 24945"] Another thing I was going to use in a modern setting for Masque of the Red Death (which never got off the ground) was a suburban basement full of human faced grubs that pupate into humans. What was creating them, the player would never known. Another location was an alchemist shop that used human bits for condements for the local Burger King (special special sauce). But the creepy bit was that the personality was still tied to the parts and anyone consuming any part would gain memory fragments and a competing mental fragment. Bats twisted by a spellcaster had the ability to transmit a magical disease- one that caused the victim's skin to turn ghastly green and then melt off and leaving a "zombie" that causes fear and horror checks. The magical diseases in the Ravenloft MC III could also be used here. I love most of those, esp the crysallizing one. I don't like or use undead in MRD- living things are much more creepy IMO. But there are always mimics that can be used in their place- oozes that motivate "zombies" (like those mentioned above). No one mentioned plants yet. I wrote up the topiary golem for the Book of S (I think the 3rd one) and had some others in mind- shrubs that grapple and squeeze the prey to death, weeds that grow on the corpses of those who inhaled their seeds and a vine that invade the body much like that new aberration in LoM. Remember that plants are everywhere- use them and the PCs will never leave home again. [/QUOTE]
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