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 Bloodworm • The giant worm appears at the
end of the worm’s lifecycle,
bonded out of the smaller worms.
Attributes Random Average
Strength 100+10d10 155 Otherwise the worms infect people
Stamina 100+6d10 133 and alter their behaviour, this
Agility 10 10 infection is detailed below.
Perception 10 10
Intelligence 2d10 11
Pain Threshold 10+10d10 155 • The giant worm has five points
Willpower - -
Luck 50 50 of armour against any and all
Movement - 2/6/13/23 attacks, the small worm has no
Actions - 5 such protection.
Damage Bonus - +1d10
Exert Strength - 55
Hear - Sight- - 0/0/7/7/0 • The giant worm will typically
Smell -Taste - attack groups using its bite
Touch
Shock Survival - 115 attacks and individuals by
Toxin Resistance - 120 crushing them with its bulk and
Initiative - -4 then gnawing them. The gnaw
Parry Bonus - -20
Hit Points - 89 attack may only be used after a
Blood Points - 78 successful crush.
Energy Points - 139
Mind Points - -
Hand to Hand - 60 • For every ten hit points that
Melee - - the giant worm inflicts with bite
Thrown - 33
Archaic - - attacks it regains one hit point
Pistol - - and one blood point of its own.
Rifle - -
Heavy - -
• If there are other smaller worms in
Attack Hit Parry Act Dmg Blood Crit the area they can be absorbed into
Bite 60% - 3 2d6+1d10 Blade Bite 1
the giant worm’s bulk, each one
Crush 40% - 1 3d10 Crush Club 2
Gnaw 60% - 5 2d6+1d10 Blade Bite 2 healing it for one hit point and one
blood point.
• The stats above are for the giant
worm. The infectious worms only • The bite of the giant worm has a
need the following statistics – Hit chance of infecting those bitten
Points 3, Movement 1, they can with worm eggs, this is covered
make in Infect attack upon a under the infection rules below.
prone, unconscious or sleeping
target and can bite, once per turn • When a giant worm dies, 1d10
with a skill of 30% doing 1d2 surviving small worms scatter in
damage, Blade, Bite 1. all directions, looking for hosts.

• The giant worm can use its bulk

and speed to hurl cars and heavy
objects around using its Thrown
skill.

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Fear Effect
Being infected by the worm radically alters
a persons behaviour, turning them into
a bloodthirsty cannibal but leaving them
aware of what they are doing and of their
terrible, terrible hunger. The things they’re
driven to do have all the usual effects one
would expect upon their psyche as does
witnessing the aftermath.
The small worms are, themselves, fairly
harmless looking and while gross, aren’t
any more fear inducing than a leech or
other squirming nasty. When they erupt,
mature, from their host, killing them, that’s
another matter altogether. Seeing someone
burst asunder in such a way requires a Will
roll with a penalty of -10% and results in
the loss of 1d10 Mind Points. The, likely,
subsequent formation of the giant worm
requires another Will roll and results in
the loss of 1d6 Mind Points. Realising one
is infected, after having seen the effects on
others, requires the same roll.
The military contained the outbreak and
wiped out the infected, covering the whole
incident up with a ‘tragic aircraft crash
during manoeuvres’ but the worms still
exist in government labs and, perhaps, still
in some way in Trotsleigh or Braymore.
The worms infect the hose either through
bites from the mature organism or through
entering the body as worms. They then take
up residence in the gut and bowel, taking
nutrition from their hosts and secreting
hormones and chemicals that alternately
create feeding frenzy highs and pleasurable,
sleepy lows as a reward for giving in to the
instincts that they induce.
When they have reproduced enough they
burst forth from the infected and fuse,
metamorphosis, into a giant worm, a truly
monstrous and destructive creature that
can further infect more hosts if it doesn’t
simply kill them.

People driven mad are likely to develop

phobias of worms, germs, infection and
dirt and compulsions for self harm and
cannibalism.

Description
In 1990 an experimental biowarfare
weapon, designated PIN-2, was unleashed
upon the unwitting village of Trotsleigh
from the Loxhead military base in
Braymore forest, deliberately released upon
the village by a lab worker from the base
who was staying in Trotsleigh. The worms
subsequently infected the whole village and
grew and multiplied within them, turning
them into frenzied cannibals until things
finally came to a gruesome head.

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 Adventure Seeds
• The characters are relatives of
people who died in Trotsleigh, on
the twentieth anniversary of the
disaster someone involved in the
cover up offers to reveal some
worrying information to them,
not only some hint of the truth
about the worms but that they’re
planning another test with a new
variant of the parasite.
• Trotsleigh and its surroundings
are now designated as a training
area for the military. They’re
also a secret Black Operations
prison used to hide terrorists and
terrorist suspects off the grid so
that they can be interrogated,
tortured and experimented upon
by scientists and interrogators
based in Loxhead. An investigative
reporter wants to get to the truth
behind both stories and has
planned a break in at the site.
• Survivors from the original
incident, with some immunity,
have been hiding out in Braymore
forest for years and have
developed a psychopathic, siege
mentality towards outsiders and
the military. They’ve reverted
to a primitive, hunter-like state
but their worm infections make
them strong and have given them
a weapon to use on the world,
they’ve started to attack and infect
hikers, wardens and passers by,
trying to build an army of infected
to attack Loxhead.
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Infection
Worm-Ridden
Method: Entry of the worm via the mouth
or anus while the subject is asleep,
unconscious or kept prone. A single worm
infects each host.
Contraction: 95%
Onset: 24 hours.
Duration: Two weeks, approximate.
Effect: During the night the worm excretes
chemicals that induce a craving for blood,
a hunger for flesh that is nigh insatiable
and other chemicals which increase
the Pain Threshold and Strength of the
infected person by ten each. During the
day it releases reward chemicals, making
the infected person dopey, sleepy, relaxed
and high, similar to the effects of opiates.
After two weeks the worm has reproduced
within the host and bursts forth, killing the
subject and releasing 1d6 worms, plus one
for every ten, full, hit points the victim has.
A chemical signal from bursting worms
induces the same bursting in other mature
infections and every hundred worms can
form into a giant worm. If there are less
than a hundred the worms disperse,
looking for more hosts.
Resistance: -90%
Bite Infection
Method: Bite from a giant worm, deliberate
injection or infection.
Contraction: 50%
Onset: One week.
Duration: Two weeks, approximate.
Effect: As worm-ridden above.
Resistance: -80%
The worms can be removed surgically, but
it is a very difficult procedure. They can
also be removed by poisoning, but this
carries significant risk to the host.
Bloodworm OGL
Species Traits:
Damage Reduction (Ex): 5/Fire
Consume (Ex): For every ten hit points of
damage it does to living targets with its bite
attacks the giant worm regains a hit point.
Absorb (Ex): The giant worm can absorb
smaller worms into its bulk, healing/
gaining a hit point for each one.
Infect (Ex): The bite of the giant worm can
infect people with its eggs, rules are given
for infection below.
Gnaw (Ex): The giant worm can follow up a
slam attack with a grapple on the following
turn, if successful in the grapple the giant
worm executes its gnaw attack – 3d6
– automatically.
Blindsight (Ex): The giant worm can ‘sense’
around itself out to a distance of 60 ft.
Note: These statistics are for the giant
worm, the small worms move slowly, have
a single hit point, a Defense of 12 and can
bite for a single hit point of damage.
Disease
Worm Infection
Type: Ingested’ DC 20, Incubation Period:
24 hours, Initial Damage: Blood frenzy,
Secondary Damage: (Two weeks) Burst
asunder.
The Blood Frenzy confers the infected with
a lust for blood and raw meat, psychopathy
in regard to other people and a +2 bonus to
both Strength and Constitution.
The Burst Asunder effect causes the
person to burst open, spraying forth
1d10+Constitution bonus mature,
infectious worms in all directions and
killing the host. A hundred of these worms
can form a giant worm.
Bite Infection
Type: Injury DC 18, Incubation Period:
48 hours, Initial Damage: Blood frenzy,
Secondary Damage: (Two weeks) Burst
asunder.

Giant Worm Bloodworm MRQ

CR 8; Huge Ooze; HD 8d10+52; HP 96; Init Characteristics
-2; Spd 35 ft.; Defense 8 (Tough skin +2), STR 8d6 (28)
Touch 6, Flat-Footed 8; BAB +6/+1; Grap CON 5d6 (18)
+19; Full Atk +11, Melee (bite 2d6+9), Melee DEX 2d6 (7)
+6 (slam 2d6+9), Melee – automatic – (gnaw SIZ 4d6+12 (26)
3d6+9); FS 5 ft. bt 15 ft.; Reach 10 ft.; SQ INT 1 (1)
damage reduction, consume, absorb, infect, POW 1d6 (4)
gnaw, blindsight; AL Neutral; SV Fort +6, CHA 1d6 (4)
Ref +2, Will +2; AP 0; Str 28, Dex 7, Con
18, Int -, Wis 10, Cha 0. Banshee Hit Locations
D20 Hit Location AP/HP
Advancement: By size. 1-20 Body 5/44

Immunities: Mind-affecting effects, Weapons

paralysis, stunning, gaze attacks, visual
Type Skill Damage/AP
effects, illusions, other sight effects, critical
Bite 60% 1d10+1d12
hits, flanking and massive damage.
Crush 40% 1d8+1d12
Gnaw 60% 2d6+1d12

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 Traits Bite Infection
Consume: For every ten hit points of Type: Bite wound
damage it does to living – or once living – Delay: 48 hours
targets with bite or gnaw, the worm regains Potency: 80
a hit point. Full Effect: As with the worm infection given
above.
Absorb: The giant worm can absorb lesser
worms, regaining one hit point for each one
that it absorbs.

Infect: Anyone the worm bites has a chance

of being infected with worm eggs, see below.

Gnaw: The giant worm can follow up a

successful crush attack with a gnaw attack
against the same target on the following
turn.

Special Rules
Combat Actions: 2
Strike Rank: 8
Movement: 4m
Traits: Consume, Absorb, Infect, Gnaw.
Power Points: 4
Mind Points: 5
Fatigue Points: 22
Courage: 15
Horror: Being knowingly infects 1d4,
witnessing worms bursting forth 1d10,
witnessing a giant worm 1d4.

Worm Infection
Type: ‘Ingestion’
Delay: 24 hours
Potency: 90
Full Effect: Once the disease takes hold
the subject gains +2 Str and +2 Con and
becomes a psychopathic cannibal during the
night and docile – unless attacked – during
the day. Two weeks after infection they
burst, release 1d6 + abdomen hit points
mature worms. A hundred of these can form
a giant worm. The infected person is killed
when they burst forth.