#myiasis

[qadmonster]

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[business-of-a-myriad]

“he tried to choke out some words of affection for it” what a fruity way to say that if i’m being honest..

[thecreaturecodex]

Qlippoth, Ekolid

Image © Wizards of the Coast, by Ted Pendergraft

[Commissioned by @coldbloodassassin. The ekolid was one of the first obyrith published, the primordial demons introduced in 3.5 that were the qlippoth with a slightly different paint job. So converting this into a qlippoth was pretty easy. The biggest change was dialing back its number of attacks--seven attacks a round on a CR 4 creature is definitely not Pathfinder standard.]

Qlippoth, Ekolid CR 4 CE Outsider (extraplanar) This creature is vaguely insect-like, but the resemblance stops at the twitching limbs and membranous wings. Its head resembles several skulls with too many eyes; all of them stacked one atop the other. Its six wings grow from nipple-like cysts running along its back. It is wider in the back than in the front, with pulsing sacs seemingly connected to its six annulated, stinger tipped tails.

Ekolids are qlippoth of parasitism, and swarm through the Abyss like ravenous, dog-sized bot flies. If a mortal is exposed to the horrific appearance of one of these creatures, it hallucinates that its skin and orifices are swarming with minute bugs and worms, but ekolids can inflict such tortures in actuality as well. Their primary motivation is constant reproduction, and they sting any creature they come across in order to fill it with their ravenous maggots. Such maggots are injected as an egg, which rapidly hatches in the skin of its victim and gnaws its way back out. Ekolid maggots grow to adulthood in a matter of hours if left to their own devices, but often turn on and eat each other. In combat, an ekolid will sting as often as possible and as many enemies as it can, and then retreat to watch its young hatch. They rarely fight to the death, as they want to maximize their number of hosts.

Ekolids are of human-like intellect and great mental fortitude, but rarely care enough to develop permanent dwellings or other forms of material culture. They are typically on the move, as demons try to exterminate them whenever possible, and an ekolid’s natural weapons can deal little damage to other fiends. Only if protected by a stronger qlippoth or when escaped to the Material Plane will they settle down, making hive-like dwellings of resin and bone. They prefer warm and dry climates, and are found more frequently in desert and wasteland-like layers of the Abyss than anywhere humid.

An ekolid is about two feet tall, but six feet long including its whipping tails. They weigh around 50 pounds. 

Ekolid     CR 4 XP 1,200 CE Small outsider (chaos, evil, extraplanar, qlippoth) Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Perception +12 Defense AC 17, touch 14, flat-footed 14 (+1 size, +2 Dex, +1 dodge, +3 natural) hp 37 (5d10+10); fast healing 2 Fort +6, Ref +6, Will +5 DR 5/lawful or cold iron; Immune cold, mind-influencing effects, poison; Resist acid 10, electricity 10, fire 10; SR 15 Offense Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft., fly 60 ft. (average) Melee 3 stings +6 (1d4+1 plus infest), bite +6 (1d6+1) Special Attacks horrific appearance (30 ft., Will DC 14) Statistics Str 11, Dex 14, Con 15, Int 11, Wis 18, Cha 15 Base Atk +5; CMB +4; CMD 17 (25 vs. trip) Feats Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Mobility Skills Acrobatics +10, Climb +16, Fly +12, Perception +12, Sense Motive +12, Stealth +14 Languages Abyssal, telepathy 100 ft. SQ speed surge Ecology Environment any land or underground (Abyss) Organization solitary, pair, pack (3-8) or host (9-16) Treasure incidental Special Abilities Horrific Appearance (Su) A creature that succumbs to an ekolid’s horrific appearance suffers from delusional parasitosis for 1 day. During this time, they suffer a -2 penalty on all skill and ability checks, and must succeed a concentration check (DC 15 plus spell’s level) in order to cast a spell. This is a mind-influencing effect. Infest (Ex) A creature struck by an ekolid’s sting must succeed a DC 14 Fortitude save or be implanted with one of the qlippoth’s horrible young. The maggot emerges 1 round later, dealing 1d6 points of piercing and slashing damage and causing the creature to be nauseated for 1 round unless it succeeds another DC 14 Fortitude save. Multiple emergences in 1 round cause additional damage, but a victim that fails their second Fortitude save is only nauseated for 1 round no matter how many maggots emerge from them. Maggots are Diminutive creatures with an AC of 14 and 1 hit point, but are incapable of dealing damage. Implanted maggots can be removed with a remove disease spell automatically, or with a successful DC 15 Heal check made as a standard action. Immunity to disease does not provide immunity to this ability. The save DC is Constitution based. Speed Surge (Ex) Three times per day as a swift action, an ekolid can take an additional move action on its turn.

[heardatmedschool]

Nurse 1: Ugh, what’s that smell?

Nurse 2: Why is someone using ether? We don’t have anyone with myiasis, right?

Other nurses: ...

Nurse 2: Fuck.

[iheartvmt]

Last night I dreamed I had myiasis. It was... not fun.

[cephalo-bot]

Myiasis: The parasitic infestation of the body of a live animal or human by fly larvae (maggots) that grow inside the host while feeding on its tissue.

[bowelfly]

every year at university i give a lecture to the parasitology undergrads about myiasis and i had a post here that i reblog every year to celebrate it but apparently tumblr just straight up deleted it, not even a review or anything. i’m curious if that was because it contained the phrase “dick maggots” or because the fleshy mosaic sets off the No Fun Allowed robots. or i’m just really bad at looking through my archive. anyway here it is again so let’s see of it gets zapped.

[ratprt]

it’s a demon who is trying to reassemble it’s body and locate the missing piece of it’s soul. its called myiasis. it’s body parts can attach themselves to a host, and slowly drives the host to madness in persuit of getting it’s body parts back and generally being a hateful, hateful, mean bastard. i will make an actual nice picture of this shit someday.