OK, I just wanted to share a moment here with everyone. I`m writing up a

BR monster, the premise of which is that insects from the Shadow World

called gloomflies (a kind of anti-firefly that exudes a small aura of

darkness) can form themselves into a swarm creating a hive mind. Because

gloomflies lay their eggs in putrefying corpses the big priority of the

swarm is to find dead bodies to "impregnate" with larvae. Once so infested

a corpse can then be animated as a zombie by the hive mind of the swarm

which also controls the maggots. However, the zombies that are so animated

aren`t truly undead, so I need to note that they cannot be turned or

rebuked, nor are they affected by holy water. Therefore, I wrote the

following text in the monster description for a gloomfly zombie:



"Gloomfly zombies are not undead. They are corpses animated by an

infestation of writhing gloomfly maggots under the control of a gloomfly

swarm`s hive mind."



Now, immediately after writing that second sentence I was struck by how...

well, bizarre a thing it is to actually put into words, let alone write

down into a format that I fully intend to share with as many people as

possible.



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