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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8176227" data-attributes="member: 20564">I've described some horrid abominations, but sometimes it's the everyday, taken up a notch, that gets to you.  The party was in the rough equivalent of the Underdark, and the cave they were following brings the out pretty high up in the wall of a cavern.  Earlier they had been dealing with mutliple sets of purple-decayed creatures working together in eirie silent coordination like some sort of hive mind.The have a ledge up here they can observe from and can make out giant albino-white worms or snakes down there among the giant fungi forest, as well as the underground river they were looking for and needed to follow downwards.  The party works out they will build canoes from the stalks of some of the fungi, but need to beware of the white worms they might be hostile.They have their plan, start down, and one throws a torch down not near where them to see if it will distract the worms.At which point I describe as the almost-solid carpet of purple cockroaches spread in perfect coordination away from the flame, how they are a a living mass that covers everything to a depth of several inches - except the worms.The worms were not hostile and in fact the only safe place to be.  Tense issue with makign a fire barrier to hastily hollow out canoes with the purple hivemind swarms tried to engulf them.One player told me next session he had nightmares.  I dialed back on real bugs after that.</blockquote>

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