I'm planning an adventure where the party are shrunk down by fey and have to survive a horrible bug infested...

I'm planning an adventure where the party are shrunk down by fey and have to survive a horrible bug infested environment to retrieve a magic item from an ant hill.

Post horrifying bugs.

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youtube.com/watch?v=8iVXvAWyNBM
youtube.com/watch?v=vszY3rQOrQI
youtube.com/results?search_query=brown recluse spider venom
youtube.com/watch?v=xYIUFEQeh3g&list=WL&index=10
youtube.com/watch?v=ICpw9FwYqAs&list=WL&index=25
youtube.com/watch?v=rlMK7vRVa-I
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretarybird
youtube.com/watch?v=1609rCmfVLc
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youtube.com/watch?v=YnAkFoIfuLU
youtube.com/watch?v=dNAk6oIKAjI
youtube.com/watch?v=Mdkz7tZ5lr0
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_(spider)#Hunting_techniques
thebuggeek.com/2012/12/13/poop-not-parasites/
twitter.com/AnonBabble

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Boo

Don't just think about the bugs, think of the enviornmental things. There's a ton of more ways you could twist your parties arms with all sorts of teeny tiny fun.

Acid covered plants for instance, one touch and your hand is caught by a substance as sticky and tough as superglue that starts melting right away and the rest of the plant moves to encase you

youtube.com/watch?v=nxpV9V7lup0
youtube.com/watch?v=nNC8riU4dzQ

The "dragon" at the end of the "dungeon".

Can I also post arachnids?

I feel like maybe bot flies lose their horror somewhat when they can't fuck with you as badly on account of you being their size and as such being unable to get their larvae under your fucking skin.

youtu.be/X5YaihAtnC4

Once had an entire party tpk to a mated pair of these fuckers. We weren't shrunken or anything, and they weren't enlarged or Enchanted or magic in any way. We just didn't bother to check for vermin in the room in the dungeon where we decided to camp. 5 failed perception checks and 5 failed saving throws later, the whole party of second level adventurers was dead. Extreme aggression and one of the most dangerous tissue damaging venoms of any creature on the planet are a dangerous combo.

It's the Fae. They are practically obligated to screw around with the party. I would word the fae's offer as " once you retrieve the item I desire, I will provide you with a Magic Stone which can return any person to their normal size."

Note: *A* stone. Singular. Which can affect *any person*. He just didn't happen to mention that the stone can only be used once. Oh, you want it enough stones to fix the entire party? Well I guess he does have a few other jobs that you could do. For a price.

>Party gets grabbed
>By a fucking Mantis

>Mantis gets grabbed
>By a fucking party

Consider cordyceps.
Consider cordyceps that can infect the players.
Consider it persisting if untreated when they're returned to size.

Reminds me that I need to pray to the mantis

youtube.com/watch?v=7FTMlkBifTo

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It's less scary when you realize it's not drawing blood.

>Brown Recluse
>Aggressive

Senpai it's even in their name.

Oh my god that's terrifying

Underwater spider that hatches eggs underwater. Yes, it breathes with its ass.

Still painful as fuck

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Jesus fuck Mother Nature.

Hope this isn't too much for the blue board

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>tissue damaging venom

Might as well have given them wings and shoot fireballs out of their arse if you were going to go by urban myths rather than what they actually do.

>spiders with wings

I have done this except I froze rather than pulled back and it (a huntsman spider) stopped just above my elbow.

Your bait has gone sour

How about those spiders who lay out their webs outside their nests and wait inside and snap out and grab anything that gets close?

ichneumon wasp, or some other parasitoid

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As somebody who once walked around with a dime-sized rotting hole in the back of their neck because of a brown recluse bite, please go fuck yourself.

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So is the fly's name Brandon?

It's trying so hard!

Mecoptera or Scorpionfly

Scorpionfly, the name alone is enough.

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>In this thread: "Dam nature you scary!!"

oddly enough, since the players in the OP are going to be shrunk down to ant-sized, they're not likely to draw too much attention from these various, parasitizing insects and even mantises.

Parasite impregnators need something... bigger to lay their eggs in. And most predator insects, as I recall, tend to look for bigger meals and not just maybe eight, ant-sized things.

Unless the OP's talking about some big ants.

>akimbo

Bullet ants?

That's a really dumb looking solifuge

youtube.com/watch?v=8iVXvAWyNBM
>Be walking though forest of grass
>This fuck's leg hooks traps whole party under him
>Be forced to watch your party get devoured as it slowly becomes your turn

Make bobbit worms into a freshwater species. Put them in any kind of water shallow enough to wade through.

Depends, if the botfly larvae grows inside you, hollowing you out until you're just this massive larvae shaped load of human skin with flappy empty arms and legs.

>the party sees in the distance what looks like a human figure, spreadeagled on the floor
>it seems to be slowly wriggling along the ground

And then the party gets near and a giant maggot tears out of the "crawling man" and leaps straight at the nearest party member's head, it's vile maggoty beak/mouth spread wide.

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Winrar...I hate those things

>"Gee, Billy, your mom lets you have TWO bees?!"

That's actually more terrifying than a normal bot fly holy fuck.

Just do a plain old cellar spider. Not very scary to us, but to something the size of an ant? Have you ever seen how quickly they warp something up in webbing?

youtube.com/watch?v=vszY3rQOrQI

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those sound-effects are comical

Yeah. I honestly think they were at exactly the wrong level. They should either have toned it down (or removed it entirely), or they should've said "fuck it" and gone all out with cartoon bonks, jackhammers and shit.

including toilet water? Seriously, these'd be the deadliest assassination devices if they were freshwater.

You had a staph infection and a retarded doctor who defaults to "spider bite" when he doesn't know what's going on.

this is a nasty part of an otherwise decent thread. I'd appreciate it if you two both just agreed to disagree? Not trying to roil up more conflict, but let's save posts for more bugs.

It's relatively simple if the entire party is ant sized, but I'm not sure how the quests would work if one of them is human sized.

Antlion - obligatory.

Trapdoor Spider - similar to Antlion.

Titan Beetles - bigger than your fist, can snap pencils in half.

Praying Mantids - grappling action.

it's too bad these things are slower than snails.

Shrikes. Because really bugs are overrated when it comes to terrible things assaulting smaller things.

Wow that is striking

Oh god, this.
I love these guys, but they would be absolutely terrifying from the perspective of anything smaller than them.

Reach grab attack, though?

Nature is edgy as fuck.

>mfw I have no face

I'm not linking any of the videos because the images of them were graphic enough to prove the point.

youtube.com/results?search_query=brown recluse spider venom

That little guy looks...awfully happy about his current predicament.

No, have them all human sized, but they wander into a mario style "Macro world" where everytrhing is fuck huge.

Am I the only one that could see those guys evolving into a drider?

Mantises

Because they melt your face and eat it first while you're still alive to witness it.

OP here. The town all this is happening in actually has a legend called The Black Shrike, a shape shifting devil bird whose is inhabited by the soul of the necromancer shaman who served as a witch doctor to the black magic cannibal clan who inhabited the area the town sat on before an army expedition blasted them to piece with artillery. Because their bodies were destroyed so completely by the sustained bombardment, they couldn't rise as corporal undead and just haunt the town as spirits and bad dreams, but the Black Shrike is their main living agent and will both spy on the party and try to pluck out of the eyes of anyone left alone and unconscious and then impale them on a fence or a wire for them to find.

Posting the most horrifyingly cute spider known to man.

Metal as fuck. There needs to be a book, movie, anything about this.

+++ SUMMONING Fetishes +++
===Right-click the purple portal ONCE and DON'T MOVE===

Human immune systems are far, FAR stronger than insect immune systems.

Human immune system is one of the strongest on the fucking planet, mostly because our hobbies include Plague.

I pet a huntsman once.
It sat on top of my CRT monitor for warmth.
It was placid.
I offered it a bug.
It ran away.

youtube.com/watch?v=xYIUFEQeh3g&list=WL&index=10

youtube.com/watch?v=ICpw9FwYqAs&list=WL&index=25

youtube.com/watch?v=rlMK7vRVa-I

Two Champions both alike in bravery,
In fair Erebus were we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break new mutiny,
Were civil hemolymph makes civil pedipalp unclean.

>Party finds a Peacock Spider and makes it a party mascot

>it has a few levels in Bard

I didn't even read the rest of the thread... just stopped y to say i'm definitely stealing this for my next campaign

Imagination!

Too thick?

That and our digestive tract doesn't go right through our brains.

Include all Arthropods my man, like big crustaceans along with insects and arachnids

You want birds? How bout this cool as hell one.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretarybird

Best animal. Seriously this is my favorite one of them all aside from squids. They just look so cool and adorable.

Those spiders are such cunts. They follow drag lines util they reach another spider's web, trip the web from the edge until the spider comes out then pounce forward trapping them in the fangs.

I've seen staph infections, thank you. Because that's what those videos are, staph infections.

Jesus fucking Christ that second clip. How is that poor creature not dead?

>youtube.com/watch?v=1609rCmfVLc

>youtube.com/watch?v=0fGGz6d3vC4

>youtube.com/watch?v=YnAkFoIfuLU

>youtube.com/watch?v=dNAk6oIKAjI

There's also some worm like thing that bursts out of a praying mantis, but I don't have the video. I'd look for it, but I have trypophobia and there are too many botfly videos when I search for "worm like thing comes out of..."

>youtube.com/watch?v=Mdkz7tZ5lr0
skip to 13:51 for a pulsating yellow jacket hive. And yes, I want to die whenever I watch this.

>itstimetostop.gif

This guy knows what's up Fucking antlions man.

Scorpionflies are innocent, innocent little darlings! Their tails are actually part of their reproductive organs.

Parasitoids, of all shapes and sizes. The fact that so many insects implant their larvae inside others is absurd. Shit gets so crazy that you have some parasitoids that lay their eggs within the larvae of other parasitoids, so you get a weird nesting doll of flesh-devouring creatures within each other.

Not so much horrifying as really interesting. There's a genus of jumping spider that's extremely intelligent by spider standards and uses this and its superior vision to hunt other spiders.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_(spider)#Hunting_techniques
>When stalking web-building spiders, Portia try to make different patterns of vibrations in the web that aggressively mimic the struggle of a trapped insect or the courtship signals of a male spider, repeating any pattern that induces the intended prey to move towards the Portia.
>Other jumping spiders take detours, but Portia is unusual in its readiness to use long detours that break visual contact.
>Laboratory studies show that Portia learns very quickly how to overcome web-building spiders that neither it nor its ancestors would have met in the wild. For example, in one part of the Philippines, local Portia spiders attack from the rear against the very dangerous spitting spiders, which themselves hunt jumping spiders [...] [E]xperiments that pitted Portia against "convincing" artificial spiders with arbitrary but consistent behavior patterns showed that Portia's instinctive tactics are only starting points for a trial-and-error approach from which these spiders learn very quickly.
>Against other jumping spiders, which also have excellent vision, Portia may mimic fragments of leaf litter detritus. When close to biting range, Portia use different combat tactics against different prey spiders. On the other hand, when attacking unarmed prey, such as flies, they simply stalk and rush

Reminds me of cobras. Good vision, mentally agile, eats "its own kind".

that's poop

thebuggeek.com/2012/12/13/poop-not-parasites/

Could be fun. You'd have your full sized party member doing the talking and walking, while the tiny party members hide in his-her sleeve, ready to be deployed for sneaky purposes.

Basically just do Ant-man shit.