Vermin

==OOC History==
Vermin is Rhekarid's thirty-seventh character, with a final record of 3-3. The idea of the character was based on a nightmare.
==Character Biography==
The Vermin live deep beneath Bracket Penitentiary, an old and crumbling prison with long financial problems. The prison was built atop a natural cave system that in the past was used to dispose of the bodies of plague victims and witch burnings, and later, executed inmates who could not be properly buried. As lack of funding threatened to shut down the building, the warden quietly allowed various companies to illegally dispose of their waste within the cave.
Within the putrid tomb of the cave, the carrion-eating worms mutated dramatically, and as fewer criminals were sent to Bracket, the worms began to burrow upward in search of food. As the tunneled into the walls of the prison the inmates complained of hearing whispering, but were ignored until it was too late, and all those who were locked inside the building were devoured.
==Powers and Abilities==
The Vermin are large, hideous worms about a foot long, numbering in the millions. The entire surface of their skin is a digestive organ; they amass into the walls and floor and simply tunnel up through the ground and into the feet of someone standing there, digging into their body and quickly eating it from the inside. The ability of the worms to devour from all sides allows them to quickly pour from the walls into a victim, and leave them as nothing but skin within seconds. Corrupted by old, rotten magic, the mucus of the Vermin animates the empty skins with the half-digested remains of souls, and they wrap themselves around the living out of a desire for warmth, holding them down from escape in the process.
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