There's a worm living in my abdomen [Archive] - Wizards Community

There's a worm living in my abdomen [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Darkwyng II
07-30-03, 09:00 AM I have this idea for a character, but since I'm DMing, I won't de able to play it. Maybe you?

The char is a Sor, who once lay dying on a battlefield, his stomach split open to reveal his organs. Just before losing consciousness he saw a bluish worm, half a foot in length, wriggling between his bowels.
He awoke days later, partly healed at an inn nearby, where he was nursed back to full health. Survivors had brought him here.
From then on, he has believed that it is the worm that gives him his sourcerous abilities and that he was healed by it, yet he fears that the worm doesn't only do good, he thinks it is using him. He didn't dare go back home with such an ugly secret to be uncovered, he has wandered the lands in search for knowledge about the kind of worm inside him. He wants to know whether any other people have worms living inside them too, so he'll try to get a very close look at bodies. That's why he was in the army for a few more years and also worked as an undertaker.
He is scared by it. He has dreams of the worm bursting out of his body, fully grown and in a killing frenzy, and he thinks that this will probably happen in time...

The rest can be left for the DM to decide:
- Where did he get the worm from? Did he inherit it from his mother? Is it an experiment from the BBEG?
- What will happen when the worm grows older?
- Is there really a worm inside him?
or most of all:
- When the worm bursts out of him years later, will the character notice that he was mistaken: He hadn't a worm inside him, but he IS the worm and now needs a better host to live in.

Feel free to change and add to these ideas. I imagine him being a sorceror with Mage Armor, Shield, Bull's Strength, Endurance, Haste, Fly, Imp. Inv., Tensor's Transformation etc. This would encourage the Sor (he can be anything of course) to believe that the worm was making him stronger, tougher. Fighting with a slashing weapon, so that he can always get a close look on an enemies inside.
hiryuu
07-30-03, 10:59 AM Oohhh......creepy. Maybe he can feel it moving around just a little.....or maybe there's strange whispers in his head. Maybe not from the worm, mind you, but just because he's freakin' himself out.
MindLord
07-30-03, 12:20 PM They talk about parasit monsters in Fiend Folio. Basicly, both enjoy the relation. There's a fiend worm who live in the intestines and gives +2 constitution but the character must eat as twice as much.

-The worm could from any place or any planes.
-He will lay eggs wich will be transported through defecation
-Why not? Idea....

He have no worm inside him. He just think so much he has one and that it makes him stronger that he gains moral bonus to abilities. After all, sometimes peoples belives so hard that they have spiders on theirs hairs that they feel them running down their hairs.

I love the idea that he is the worm. What could it be like if your fellow adventurer friend has a worm who burst out from his stomach and enter the freshly killed necromancer. Than to see the necromancer rise again?
TheDarkestOfAngels
07-30-03, 04:31 PM the worm sounds a lot like that creature living inside one of the characters (I don't get to watch that show often) in the Sci-Fi series Stargate SG-1. It could be a symbiote that chose the char as his master, lying on the battlefield or whatever and nursed him back to health. And now he has a symbiote living inside of him that protects him from certain bodily harm. (fighting disease, both mental and physical, could give bonuses to will and fort saves).
Domni Dalrose
07-30-03, 04:41 PM Boy..talk about a great use for the spell Gutsnake from MoF!!
Darkwyng II
08-01-03, 08:10 AM What does Gutsnake do?
hiryuu
08-01-03, 09:23 AM It causes a giant snake to grow from your, well, your gut, and bite people.
Lord of the Ninth
08-01-03, 07:50 PM This is a really neat idea, I especially like the idea that the sorc actually is the worm (hey anybody ever heard They Might be Giants' "Doctor Worm";) , 'cept he'd be a bard). If he isn't the worm I'd look at the fiendworm from the fiend folio (great book in it's own right). Or if he is the worm I'd use similar statistics but I'd tweak them a bit so it isn't inherently evil.
Barrid
08-01-03, 08:12 PM Ever see the movie, The Hidden?
Edymnion
08-02-03, 01:43 AM Originally posted by TheDarkestOfAngels
the worm sounds a lot like that creature living inside one of the characters (I don't get to watch that show often) in the Sci-Fi series Stargate SG-1. It could be a symbiote that chose the char as his master, lying on the battlefield or whatever and nursed him back to health. And now he has a symbiote living inside of him that protects him from certain bodily harm. (fighting disease, both mental and physical, could give bonuses to will and fort saves). Eh, Star Trek did it first. The Trill are a symbiot race that have worms living inside them that are darn near immortal. When the host dies, the worm gets transplanted into a new host, but retains the memories of the past, meaning the new host knows everything that every previous host did. Most well known Trill in Star Trek was on DS9, the Dax symbiot. Started the series in Jadsia (forgive any mispelling, been ages since I've seen DS9), and later when that character died, got transplanted into the outposts new Trill science officer, who's name escapes me at the moment.

As for D&D, it might grant Fast Healing 1 as it augments the body's natural repair system, or could give something minor like +2 to Fortitude checks to resist injested poisons?
TheDarkestOfAngels
08-02-03, 01:52 AM DS9 is actually where I first heard of it as well, but Stargate is still airing on television. I like DS9 better, though, and I wish they'd show the reruns, because I didn't see a lot of the series.
Veneficus
08-03-03, 03:44 AM Star Trek did it first?!?!?!?

I may be one of the biggest Trekkies I know, but even I won't go that far. Star Trek TOS made a lot of TV "firsts." But the idea of a worm growing in somebody's gut is ages older than DS9. In the Star Trek universe, Dax was introduced in TNG, well before DS9 anyways. A few years earlier than that, Sigourney Weaver gave us a gut-worm in Alien. And there was a black-and-white Sci-Fi movie back in the late 50s or early 60s that had alien worm symbiots living in people's guts taking over a town. I forget the name of the movie, since I haven't seen it in 15 years or so, but Star Trek definitely did NOT do it first.
Edymnion
08-03-03, 05:20 PM Originally posted by Veneficus
Star Trek did it first?!?!?!?

I may be one of the biggest Trekkies I know, but even I won't go that far. Star Trek TOS made a lot of TV "firsts." But the idea of a worm growing in somebody's gut is ages older than DS9. In the Star Trek universe, Dax was introduced in TNG, well before DS9 anyways. A few years earlier than that, Sigourney Weaver gave us a gut-worm in Alien. And there was a black-and-white Sci-Fi movie back in the late 50s or early 60s that had alien worm symbiots living in people's guts taking over a town. I forget the name of the movie, since I haven't seen it in 15 years or so, but Star Trek definitely did NOT do it first. Yes, Dax was in TNG before DS9, but most people know it from DS9 better.

And I should have said "did it before".
Technically we don't know who did it first, as the idea goes back into the mists of time with demons living inside people's stomaches and heads.

But I wouldn't count the Xenomorph, it didn't live in somebody so much as incubate in them for a short period of time.
Darkwyng II
08-04-03, 06:48 AM I really like Star Trek, Stargate and all those series (and Farscape, I hope they finish the series). When was Dax introduced in TNG? There were Trills, but was Jadzia Dax in it personally?

On our topic: I didn't think the worm should give any advantages (though all the mentioned ones are plausible), because I didn't think the other players in the group ought to know from the beginning. It could be quite a while until the character thrusts them enough to tell them. Also the player shouldn't be absolutely sure there is really a worm, the character might even begin to think he must have imagined it.
This is a great opportunity for the DM to make a campaign out of, that none of the players know the outcome of and only one of the players knows approximatelly what's going on.
Fast Healing or other advantages could come into it later, when the worm has grown (or swapped the host).
Edymnion
08-04-03, 03:16 PM Originally posted by Darkwyng II
I really like Star Trek, Stargate and all those series (and Farscape, I hope they finish the series). When was Dax introduced in TNG? There were Trills, but was Jadzia Dax in it personally? Not Jadzia (Ezerie, that was the name of the replacement girl in DS9, I knew I'd remember it eventually), but the Dax symbiot was in TNG. Remember episode where trill host dies, and Riker has to play host for the Dax symbiot for a little while, but his body ends up being incompatible with it? Yeah, they called that one Dax, and the last name for trills is the name of their symbiot (which is why Jadzia Dax and Ezerie Dax had the same name, but weren't related).

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Darkwyng II 07-30-03, 09:00 AM	I have this idea for a character, but since I'm DMing, I won't de able to play it. Maybe you? The char is a Sor, who once lay dying on a battlefield, his stomach split open to reveal his organs. Just before losing consciousness he saw a bluish worm, half a foot in length, wriggling between his bowels. He awoke days later, partly healed at an inn nearby, where he was nursed back to full health. Survivors had brought him here. From then on, he has believed that it is the worm that gives him his sourcerous abilities and that he was healed by it, yet he fears that the worm doesn't only do good, he thinks it is using him. He didn't dare go back home with such an ugly secret to be uncovered, he has wandered the lands in search for knowledge about the kind of worm inside him. He wants to know whether any other people have worms living inside them too, so he'll try to get a very close look at bodies. That's why he was in the army for a few more years and also worked as an undertaker. He is scared by it. He has dreams of the worm bursting out of his body, fully grown and in a killing frenzy, and he thinks that this will probably happen in time... The rest can be left for the DM to decide: - Where did he get the worm from? Did he inherit it from his mother? Is it an experiment from the BBEG? - What will happen when the worm grows older? - Is there really a worm inside him? or most of all: - When the worm bursts out of him years later, will the character notice that he was mistaken: He hadn't a worm inside him, but he IS the worm and now needs a better host to live in. Feel free to change and add to these ideas. I imagine him being a sorceror with Mage Armor, Shield, Bull's Strength, Endurance, Haste, Fly, Imp. Inv., Tensor's Transformation etc. This would encourage the Sor (he can be anything of course) to believe that the worm was making him stronger, tougher. Fighting with a slashing weapon, so that he can always get a close look on an enemies inside.
hiryuu 07-30-03, 10:59 AM	Oohhh......creepy. Maybe he can feel it moving around just a little.....or maybe there's strange whispers in his head. Maybe not from the worm, mind you, but just because he's freakin' himself out.
MindLord 07-30-03, 12:20 PM	They talk about parasit monsters in Fiend Folio. Basicly, both enjoy the relation. There's a fiend worm who live in the intestines and gives +2 constitution but the character must eat as twice as much. -The worm could from any place or any planes. -He will lay eggs wich will be transported through defecation -Why not? Idea.... He have no worm inside him. He just think so much he has one and that it makes him stronger that he gains moral bonus to abilities. After all, sometimes peoples belives so hard that they have spiders on theirs hairs that they feel them running down their hairs. I love the idea that he is the worm. What could it be like if your fellow adventurer friend has a worm who burst out from his stomach and enter the freshly killed necromancer. Than to see the necromancer rise again?
TheDarkestOfAngels 07-30-03, 04:31 PM	the worm sounds a lot like that creature living inside one of the characters (I don't get to watch that show often) in the Sci-Fi series Stargate SG-1. It could be a symbiote that chose the char as his master, lying on the battlefield or whatever and nursed him back to health. And now he has a symbiote living inside of him that protects him from certain bodily harm. (fighting disease, both mental and physical, could give bonuses to will and fort saves).
Domni Dalrose 07-30-03, 04:41 PM	Boy..talk about a great use for the spell Gutsnake from MoF!!
Darkwyng II 08-01-03, 08:10 AM	What does Gutsnake do?
hiryuu 08-01-03, 09:23 AM	It causes a giant snake to grow from your, well, your gut, and bite people.
Lord of the Ninth 08-01-03, 07:50 PM	This is a really neat idea, I especially like the idea that the sorc actually is the worm (hey anybody ever heard They Might be Giants' "Doctor Worm";) , 'cept he'd be a bard). If he isn't the worm I'd look at the fiendworm from the fiend folio (great book in it's own right). Or if he is the worm I'd use similar statistics but I'd tweak them a bit so it isn't inherently evil.
Barrid 08-01-03, 08:12 PM	Ever see the movie, The Hidden?
Edymnion 08-02-03, 01:43 AM	Originally posted by TheDarkestOfAngels the worm sounds a lot like that creature living inside one of the characters (I don't get to watch that show often) in the Sci-Fi series Stargate SG-1. It could be a symbiote that chose the char as his master, lying on the battlefield or whatever and nursed him back to health. And now he has a symbiote living inside of him that protects him from certain bodily harm. (fighting disease, both mental and physical, could give bonuses to will and fort saves). Eh, Star Trek did it first. The Trill are a symbiot race that have worms living inside them that are darn near immortal. When the host dies, the worm gets transplanted into a new host, but retains the memories of the past, meaning the new host knows everything that every previous host did. Most well known Trill in Star Trek was on DS9, the Dax symbiot. Started the series in Jadsia (forgive any mispelling, been ages since I've seen DS9), and later when that character died, got transplanted into the outposts new Trill science officer, who's name escapes me at the moment. As for D&D, it might grant Fast Healing 1 as it augments the body's natural repair system, or could give something minor like +2 to Fortitude checks to resist injested poisons?
TheDarkestOfAngels 08-02-03, 01:52 AM	DS9 is actually where I first heard of it as well, but Stargate is still airing on television. I like DS9 better, though, and I wish they'd show the reruns, because I didn't see a lot of the series.
Veneficus 08-03-03, 03:44 AM	Star Trek did it first?!?!?!? I may be one of the biggest Trekkies I know, but even I won't go that far. Star Trek TOS made a lot of TV "firsts." But the idea of a worm growing in somebody's gut is ages older than DS9. In the Star Trek universe, Dax was introduced in TNG, well before DS9 anyways. A few years earlier than that, Sigourney Weaver gave us a gut-worm in Alien. And there was a black-and-white Sci-Fi movie back in the late 50s or early 60s that had alien worm symbiots living in people's guts taking over a town. I forget the name of the movie, since I haven't seen it in 15 years or so, but Star Trek definitely did NOT do it first.
Edymnion 08-03-03, 05:20 PM	Originally posted by Veneficus Star Trek did it first?!?!?!? I may be one of the biggest Trekkies I know, but even I won't go that far. Star Trek TOS made a lot of TV "firsts." But the idea of a worm growing in somebody's gut is ages older than DS9. In the Star Trek universe, Dax was introduced in TNG, well before DS9 anyways. A few years earlier than that, Sigourney Weaver gave us a gut-worm in Alien. And there was a black-and-white Sci-Fi movie back in the late 50s or early 60s that had alien worm symbiots living in people's guts taking over a town. I forget the name of the movie, since I haven't seen it in 15 years or so, but Star Trek definitely did NOT do it first. Yes, Dax was in TNG before DS9, but most people know it from DS9 better. And I should have said "did it before". Technically we don't know who did it first, as the idea goes back into the mists of time with demons living inside people's stomaches and heads. But I wouldn't count the Xenomorph, it didn't live in somebody so much as incubate in them for a short period of time.
Darkwyng II 08-04-03, 06:48 AM	I really like Star Trek, Stargate and all those series (and Farscape, I hope they finish the series). When was Dax introduced in TNG? There were Trills, but was Jadzia Dax in it personally? On our topic: I didn't think the worm should give any advantages (though all the mentioned ones are plausible), because I didn't think the other players in the group ought to know from the beginning. It could be quite a while until the character thrusts them enough to tell them. Also the player shouldn't be absolutely sure there is really a worm, the character might even begin to think he must have imagined it. This is a great opportunity for the DM to make a campaign out of, that none of the players know the outcome of and only one of the players knows approximatelly what's going on. Fast Healing or other advantages could come into it later, when the worm has grown (or swapped the host).
Edymnion 08-04-03, 03:16 PM	Originally posted by Darkwyng II I really like Star Trek, Stargate and all those series (and Farscape, I hope they finish the series). When was Dax introduced in TNG? There were Trills, but was Jadzia Dax in it personally? Not Jadzia (Ezerie, that was the name of the replacement girl in DS9, I knew I'd remember it eventually), but the Dax symbiot was in TNG. Remember episode where trill host dies, and Riker has to play host for the Dax symbiot for a little while, but his body ends up being incompatible with it? Yeah, they called that one Dax, and the last name for trills is the name of their symbiot (which is why Jadzia Dax and Ezerie Dax had the same name, but weren't related).