Category:Sea spawn

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The sea spawn is a singular species of foul aquatic monster that has two very different stages of its life cycle. The sea spawn in its mature form, the master sea spawn, controls its immature offspring, the minion sea spawns, telepathically in order to infiltrate coastal communities. The minion sea spawn are tiny, slug like beings with mouths resembling those of lampreys. The bite of a minion sea spawn carries a [[::category:cause of Paralysis|paralytic]] poison that immobilizes its victim and allows the minion sea spawn to burrow into victim's skull and take over the brain. So dominated, the victim turned host waits for its master to burrow more of its kind. Not all of the master's offspring makes it to shore, with a small number swept back into the sea, and a small number of that surviving to maturity.^[1]

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The autopsy is proving...unusual," Dr. Rathburn said, his usually cheerful face grim. "Please follow me. I apologize, by the way; it is more than commonly grisly."

I followed him into the morgue, where the victim's corpse had been laid on the metal dissection table. "Cause of death--the shovel blow from Donahue, of course. But I found this."

Even someone so inexpert in anatomy as I could see immediately that the long gray eel-thing which had entwined itself around the base of the skull and the spinal column was no human organ.

"Then Donahue...?" I muttered, still unbelieving.

"Probably correct about everything," the doctor replied, covering the corpse again. "Veck's actions were quite possibly controlled by this parasite."

"And the 'Master in the Sea' he spoke of?" I asked. "Could it have possibly really use that--thing--to control a human body?"

"At this point we can assume nothing," Rathbone replied. "We had better get Donahue out of the cell...and find a way to learn who is already at the 'Master's' beck and call."

-Between the Tides, from Twelve More Tales of the Macabre, Jean Lafolie^[2]

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