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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5006554" data-attributes="member: 58197">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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_cockroach_wasp" target="_blank">emerald cockroach wasp</a> 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...)</blockquote>