What Would Far Realm Creatures Do With 31 Dead Goblins?
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falcarrion
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The brains and spinal cords have been removed. They are animated and are moving all around using there spinal cords for movement leaving a slimey trail. Looking sorta like inch worms. the bodies are animated and walking around as if they are on puppet strings. Once the party is noticed they start moving toward them.
Dance for me puppet!
Dance for me puppet!
The goblins corpses are affected as though gravity is reversed. They now lie on the ceiling and fall upwards if anyone tries to pull them down.
However the blood inside their bodies still falls normally, slowly dripping down from their wounds to the floor like rain.
Oddly enough, they don't seem to be running out of blood no matter how much falls out. If those wounds don't get bandaged the dungeon may eventually flood.
However the blood inside their bodies still falls normally, slowly dripping down from their wounds to the floor like rain.
Oddly enough, they don't seem to be running out of blood no matter how much falls out. If those wounds don't get bandaged the dungeon may eventually flood.
Did you have a particular type of far realm creature in mind?
high-thinking ones might have done experiments (think folk-lore alien abductions) so maybe one of the bodies looks like its leg was sawed off and then reattached. Another has a hole to its gut where its bellybutton should be. Another had its chest opened and then sewed back together with a rib bone removed. Another corpse has its head cut open and brain still partially exposed (or missing entirely). and so on ...
more mindless far realms creatures may have just moved through and feasted on the corpses, leaving more pulpy-slimy messes...
fuzzlewump
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The characters stumble across stacks of Soylent Green, adjacent to a pile of the goblin's equipment.
Merkuri
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The corpses are all found standing precariously on their tiptoes, and the position of the bodies makes it look like they were being lifted up by their necks or heads. Some of them are frozen in the act of grabbing at their necks as a man might grab at a noose. However, their heads are missing with no sign of where they wound up.
When the PCs enter the room, they find the dead goblins sitting up, blank-eyed and staring into space. As soon as the light from the PCs' torches hits them, they start scurrying for cover, trying to hide; they move with jerky, insectlike speed. If the PCs try to catch them, they squirm and struggle to escape but don't fight back.
Examining one of the corpses will reveal a wound on the back of the neck that wasn't there before. A DC 20 Heal check indicates that the wound was made after death. Cutting open the neck reveals a wormlike thing with a proboscis that extends up the goblin's spinal cord and into its brain. It's a Far Realm spawn using the dead goblin as both sustenance and protection - a bit like an emerald cockroach wasp brain-wiping a cockroach to incubate its eggs, only using recently dead bodies instead of living ones.
(Of course, when there aren't enough recently dead bodies available, the Far Realm creature that breeds these spawn is quite happy to produce recently dead bodies from living ones...)
Examining one of the corpses will reveal a wound on the back of the neck that wasn't there before. A DC 20 Heal check indicates that the wound was made after death. Cutting open the neck reveals a wormlike thing with a proboscis that extends up the goblin's spinal cord and into its brain. It's a Far Realm spawn using the dead goblin as both sustenance and protection - a bit like an emerald cockroach wasp brain-wiping a cockroach to incubate its eggs, only using recently dead bodies instead of living ones.
(Of course, when there aren't enough recently dead bodies available, the Far Realm creature that breeds these spawn is quite happy to produce recently dead bodies from living ones...)
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Well, keep it to yourself, but probably some variation on "sitting bolt upright smiling an idiot grin." Possibly headless, possibly brainless, possibly infected with Dausuul's slugs.
I've already got plenty of Dolgrim elsewhere in the Dungeon. And I think I might have to find a place for Vagabundo's flesh machine.
But if anybody else has an idea, keep 'em coming.
