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Munin

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Setting: d20 Modern, Shadow Chasers.

The group has been sent to a small town to investigate some unusual happenings that may be related to a shadow event.

Farmyard animals and small pets have been turning up dead, drained of blood, covered in hundreds of nickel-sized bite marks. The culprits are tiny 'blood' faeries, creatures that look in every way like pop-culture Tinkerbell faeries complete with gossamer wings and pixie dust.

Separating them from their cute & cuddly cousins is a slightly elongated mouth and thin, long lips. When attacking, the mouth opens so wide that it covers the entire face, leaving only a circular maw in view, much like that of a lamprey. The creature latches on and furiously drains its victim of blood. Once gorged, it flies off to slumber until another victim happens along.

Another interesting fact about the blood faery is its truly prodigious procreative tendencies. The things breed like rats, and with a gestation period of a little under a day, they can quickly infest and overwhelm an area.

Now, this encounter is meant to be a darkly humorous prelude to a much grimmer encounter later on. My question is this: What kind of havoc do you suggest these randy blood-suckers inflict on my poor little town?
The nastier, the funnier, the bloodier, the better.

Thanks.
 

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Well, the livestock is a start. I suggest the party gets an eventual glimpse of a pair in the midst of... Anyway, I would also withold a direct view of any of these things until as late in the adventure as possible.

Now as for twists... maybe make the first batch of livestock in an area that has recently flooded under two feet of water. Have leeches or something be a good possible culprit at first. Maybe a few can fly around with a bag of their pet leeches and drop them on people. This brings the blood to the surface.

For humor, throw in the angry parents who find their daughter with a bite or two and blame the boyfriend.

DM
 

A fish tank full of them latched on to fish of course, or a bath house or lake where they swim in and their feet are nipped onto by small "fish" and a maybe a rogue one or sect that refuses to feed on living and terrorizes a butcher.


The Seraph of Earth and Stone
 

Excellent ideas so far, but I want to give this a bump to the front page so the day-crew can have a look.

Your thoughts and ideas are appreciated!
 

Well in these situation you always have to have a false climax, where they think they have destroyed the nest only to find an old barn full of hatching eggs.

A flame thrower and fairies sounds like fun too.

Just watch Gremlins a few times, I am sure you can get the idea of dark humor and a town overrun.
 

A flame thrower and fairies sounds like fun too.
The idea of toasting faeries warms(no pun intended) my cold little DM heart.

Gremlins is such a great movie. At some point during this adventure, some old bitty will be catapulted through a second story window.
 

How about some fairies pressing the gas pedal on a vehicle while several others take the wheel together?

Or, fairies taking over the doctor's office. Several are behind the counter with the receptionist and holding a scalpel to some of her tender parts. She continues to send patients into examining rooms to "see the doctor" but the room is FILLED with the bloodsuckers having a party over the dessicated corpses of previous patients.

Maybe they take over the jail? Lots of captive blood there.

DM
 

Or, fairies taking over the doctor's office. Several are behind the counter with the receptionist and holding a scalpel to some of her tender parts. She continues to send patients into examining rooms to "see the doctor" but the room is FILLED with the bloodsuckers having a party over the dessicated corpses of previous patients.

Maybe they take over the jail? Lots of captive blood there.

*snip* *snip*

Thanks!
 

wolf70 said:
How about some fairies pressing the gas pedal on a vehicle while several others take the wheel together?

Or, fairies taking over the doctor's office. Several are behind the counter with the receptionist and holding a scalpel to some of her tender parts. She continues to send patients into examining rooms to "see the doctor" but the room is FILLED with the bloodsuckers having a party over the dessicated corpses of previous patients.

Maybe they take over the jail? Lots of captive blood there.

DM

Gawds, can you imagine them taking over the community blood bank? Taking over several people and going out to malls and churches and movieplexes in the bloodmobiles? The donors check in, but they never check out.
 

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