For your sci-fi horror needs:
D6 | This alien parasite resembles |
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1 | an arachnophobe's nightmare, far too many spindly, chitinous limbs, and a coat of quivering setae. |
2 | an embryo in an indistinct stage of development, where head and feet or mammalian and reptilian can't quite be told one from the other. |
3 | a slick, gossamer web strung with fleshy white tubing. |
4 | an oily black engine made of veins and shell instead of metal. |
5 | a stalk of half-melted wax set with a dozen grasping rat's tails. |
6 | the worst combined features of a slug and a bat. |
D6 | This alien parasite infects its hosts |
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1 | by injecting an egg through a needle-like proboscis, which typically is hidden under the tongue of its current host. |
2 | by releasing clouds of stinking pollen that condense in the lungs and throat into metamorphic protoplasm. |
3 | through a "viral resonance" emitted from its hives - a signal that reshapes the cells of other organisms into its own. |
4 | through egg-laden foam it can evacuate from other hosts' orifices. |
5 | by dissolving a hole through their skin then assimilating into the underlying tissue. |
6 | by paralyzing them with venom then letting its young crawl inside them. |
D6 | This alien parasite's effect on its host(s) |
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1 | is that it drives them to mad works through visions of another world and species. |
2 | is that it causes them to gradually swell up and explode into more parasites. |
3 | is that it pacifies them into its herd to graze off of, incapable of resisting or often even noticing |
4 | is that it compels them to gather together and calcify into unseemly monuments. |
5 | is that it unites them into a hive-mind that's coordinated to infect more people. |
6 | is that it mutates them into a form that facilitates further infections. |
D6 | This alien parasite could be found |
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1 | in a lost colony, a Roanoke of the future. |
2 | in a discreet testing ground for a sketchy corporation's bioweapons program. |
3 | on board a juicy salvage opportunity of a spaceship that's drifting into a no-man's land of the void. |
4 | in the vicinity of a clandestine research lab - an escaped test subject. |
5 | in the trail of planetary scorched earth left by an extinct alien civilization in the wake of an advancing enemy. |
6 | in a cultic habitat that believed the parasite was the key to a utopian evolution. |
D6 | This alien parasite can be treated |
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1 | only through risky, manual surgery - auto-surgeons carry too many safety protocols to pull it off. |
2 | by injecting yourself with an engineered virus that's been targeted to its genome. |
3 | by taking an exotic psychedelic that'll scramble its analogue to a nervous system to the point that it becomes more of a symbiote than a parasite. |
4 | with amplified sound-waves like a weaponized ultrasound. |
5 | by drinking enough to make you sick - that'll kill the parasite before it kills you. |
6 | only through the death of its host - sorry! |
D6 | A sign of infestation by this alien parasite |
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1 | is dilated and skewed pupils. |
2 | is a greenish colouration to the veins. |
3 | is sweat taking on a smell like boiled spinach. |
4 | is skin tearing and beading up with blood at even light pressure. |
5 | is a tottering style of walking. |
6 | is the host being surrounded by magnetic anomalies - electronics going haywire, metal sticking to them, etc. |
These two together make for a very interesting combo:
ReplyDelete"This alien parasite infects its hosts through a "viral resonance" emitted from its hives - a signal that reshapes the cells of other organisms into its own.
This alien parasite's effect on its host(s) is that it compels them to gather together and calcify into unseemly monuments."
I imagine a research team finding this dead planet covered in these bizarre hives and just being near them starts to infect them and then they start becoming more hives as their bodies are left behind by the parasite