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Total Members Voted: 111

[Neonivek]

You know what a parasite is right?

Chestbursters are only one kind.

You know what animal COULD have those? Giant Wasps.

Mosquito Bees.

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Drink yo blood and sting yo face

Those arn't parasites...

[Loud Whispers]

They will be when they fly out of recently buried corpses.

[Neonivek]

They will be when they fly out of recently buried corpses.

Also not a parasite.

[Loud Whispers]

They will be when they fly out of recently buried corpses.

Also not a parasite.

I was implying they made the corpses their host when the host was still alive, it can be assumed the pupae have molted dining on the insides of the corpse

[Wannazzaki]

Which was the origional idea with the antmen. They would paralyze things you pitted and fill them with eggs.

[Loud Whispers]

Which was the origional idea with the antmen. They would paralyze things you pitted and fill them with eggs.

Phorid flies, a unique type of fly being used to combat fire ants, lay their eggs in their host, and the maggot pupae feasts on the ant from the inside out, emerging when the head of the ant falls off and reveals the pupae now molted to fly.
Phorid Antman?

[astaldaran]

trouble with tribbles?

[Wimopy]

New Biome: Infected
Or it could be something like a hive brain function, much like the necro and his zombies, except it uses the corpses to make some... other minions.

[Loud Whispers]

New Biome: Infected
Or it could be something like a hive brain function, much like the necro and his zombies, except it uses the corpses to make some... other minions.

Would have to infect the host before it's dead though, otherwise it wouldn't be a parasite.
It would just be a corpse dwelling critter, like a normal maggot. We want maggots that burrow into YO BRAINZ

[612DwarfAvenue]

I say again: This, anyone?




Seriously, it would be friggin AWESOME to play an Alien mod. Hopefully this sorta thing gets implemented.

[Wimopy]

New Biome: Infected
Or it could be something like a hive brain function, much like the necro and his zombies, except it uses the corpses to make some... other minions.

Would have to infect the host before it's dead though, otherwise it wouldn't be a parasite.
It would just be a corpse dwelling critter, like a normal maggot. We want maggots that burrow into YO BRAINZ

Oops, yeah... Then try making a fort in the infected biome... Or visit a town that was made in the infected region.

Shopkeeper: Welcome to our perfectly normal town. Please ignore our blank eyes and purple skin, they are caused by the special water. Don't drink from the water. And don't go upstream into the cave the water comes from. Have a good day.

Hive Mind bites you in the head!
It injects a parasite into your body.
Your brain has been melted!
You have been struck down.

[Loud Whispers]

Well we have plenty of reasons as to why this should be implemented.... Now can anyone think of reasons against?

[Wimopy]

Well we have plenty of reasons as to why this should be implemented.... Now can anyone think of reasons against?

Do you really want me to give you some?

Right now, it could be an expansion of the necro/werebeast/interactions stuff that's getting added...

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Other than illithids, doubt many ideas could fit the atmosphere, so would mainly be useful for mods only.
More time added to this release if it IS added as part of this one
Balancing issues? Lucky we know that a painful and surprising death is fun, which cancels this one out.
Main problem is how it would fit the atmosphere... I guess mods would answer it, but if it's only for mods, it'll take a looooong time till it's added.

[Loud Whispers]

If parasites were only biome restricted it would solve the problem quite easily, people who want the challenge of quarantining half their zombie fortress can walk into brain maggot land, the other half could settle in a haunted biome instead ;P

[Knight Otu]

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I am a god of awesome ideas, i know.

But yes. Hybrids of parasitic insectoid humanoids and whatever they can catch or whatever you can feed them. Dragons anyone? Reminds me of the Braineater Dragon, which is an illithid tadpole stuck in a dragon. It looks like this.

I certainly didn't expect to be greeted by a creation of mine in this thread.

Anyway, more mundane parasites are on the Animal Sponsorship list to be included. Since they'll presumably use the syndrome/interaction systems, more exotic parasites should become possible to mod in. And once the plan to randomly generate vermin is fulfilled, the exotic "parasites" may well come into play at that point.