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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Simplicity" data-source="post: 2272836" data-attributes="member: 1496">A plague begins to rapidly spread in the city.  Priests can heal the disease, but they are overwhelmed by the number of afflicted.  The priests have sensed some sort of diabolic involvement with the plague, and they ask the players to investigate, if possible.  They worry that some sort of cult may be responsible.The PC with True Seeing notices something unusual in the afflicted areas: some people wear invisible golden badges (triangular, pointing up, with an iridescent line up the middle).  These people never seem to catch the plague, regardless of how many around them catch it.  If asked about the badges, these people reply similarly: "I have no idea what your talking about."  Attempts to remove the badges cause pain to their wearers, and they fight against it.If a badge is actually removed, the person weaing it dies...  The badge sprouts six legs, opens its triangular golden wings to reveal it's iridescent body, and fires a proboscis at the one foolish enough to remove it.  The "badges" are actually plague-bearing beetles from the Abyss.  These creatures attach to the hearts of their unknowing victims for sustenance. Those who are hosts to the beetles are immune to the plague they carry, but unwittingly spread the disease wherever they go.There are various ways to go with this:1) The PCs may be in trouble for "killing" an innocent citizen (perhaps even in public) when they removed the badge.  Witnesses may think the players used black magic to do the victim in.2) A PC may acquire a badge-beetle of their own.  They must discover how to remove it without killing themselves.3) The beetles need to be removed from the city as a whole.  The PCs must track down those who carry them before they reproduce.</blockquote>

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