Corpsebug

== Attributes ==
 STR: 5-185 INT: 5-25
 
 AGL: 5-65 WLP: 5-60
 
 DEX: 5-50 FTH: 5-15
 
 REF: 5-45 FOC: 5-30
 
 FOR: 5-170 PSY: 5
 
 PER: 5 LCK: 5
 
 FEAR:
== Abilities ==
*Alter Proportions (80, self)
*Assimilate (75, target must be dead or nearly dead)
*Call For Help (100, while nesting in a body)
*Disperse Self
*Encompass (60)
*Engulf (45)
*Reconstitution (45)
*Reconstruction (75)
*Shell Possession (85)
*Swarm Breath (55)
== Characteristics ==
*Calling (other Corpsebugs only)
*Life Expectancy (three months)
*Nightvision
*Rapid Healing
*Superhuman Strength
== Description ==
Corpsebugs are small wormlike beetles that crawl around on their own, looking very inconspicuous. However, in their prime, they look like a human body swarming with these little insects.
== Location ==
Corpsebugs can normally be found in deep swamp country, like the Bayou or the Everglades, normally in North America.
== Modus Operandi ==
When a Corpsebug finds a bloated body in the swamp, they give out a call that sounds like a child screaming “Despair!” Other Corpsebugs follow the sound until they too encounter the body, and join the call until there are enough to cover it completely. They then use a unique form of Shell Possession (requiring them to all be outside the body instead of inside of it) to lift it up and take control of it. They use the body to go in search of other human bodies (or living humans they can make into bodies) which they can lay their eggs into. The larvae will, when they hatch, take control of the new body.
== Neutralization ==
Corpsebugs can be destroyed using regular physical means.
== Story Seed ==
Deep in the Bayou, a witchdoctor of the Vodun tradition is tasked with finding the spirits of little children who seem to be announcing to the world nightly that they are in Hell. The witchdoctor goes looking for them to set their spirits free, but when he returns, covered in terrible insects that swarm in and out of his body, himself now screaming “Despair” in the voice of millions of suffering children, the community is torn apart. One half forms a cult, worshipping their new leader like a deity, while the other become very religious and hole themselves up in the local church praying for the souls of these poor, trapped people. Neither side will listen to reason, and the inter-community war and killing has only just begun.
Category:ESPER
Category:Creatures