Dracona

Thank you @g33k and @EricW I think combining your two ideas would make for great fun. With medicine anyone can get the enzyms needed for the babies inside them and making it an injected parasite means anyone can be a target. one question @g33k If i do the dream thing does that tend to give too much away of the end plot? or in a horor setting do you find it easier to show the players what they need to prevent makes it scarier?

Hay my writing buddies. I'm in a bit of a pickle. I want to run a Call of Cathulu Game with my friends but my mate wants it to be western themed. I thought "oh that's unique, could have fun with that" So I have a plot and a wicked bad-y but I'm really struggling on how to make it scarier in the town. Like the Bad-y's layer is super scary and deadly but everything else feels meh. If any scary writers wanna help out it would be greatly appreciated. Also should mention this is my first time running COC and I'll be using 7e Plot: The town of Pleasant Valley is well rooted near a rich coal filled hill. Already hooked up to the railway that runs every week on Tuesday, the town also has all the classic needs of a western town such as a saloon, brothel, doctor, bank and even an ice-creme parlor. Miners set up camp along the hill, they come and they go making their money from the town owner Mr. Hank Trudy to mine at the coal. One day a miner digs up a strange silver seed pod, he takes it to his tent secretly hoping its worth something big. In the middle of the night the seed pod whispers to him about riches if he follows its orders. The man plants the seed in an abandoned mine shaft and it grows. Major Points- -Seed pod is stationary and spreads as it grows. Its purple, slimy, pulsating, vein-y and smells flowery. -The seed pod creates eggs that when inserted into a female human grow into Brood -The miner helps infect three women, three brothel workers. They get pregnant and just think it part of the job. when its close to their time they are kidnapped and taken to the cave to be devoured by the babies inside. -Now the new brood can enter the town on their own and impregnate more women without them knowing. Using sleeping gas -I was playing with the idea that the big plant also makes more seed pods. these seed pods look like silver cases holding a slime covered glass ball. This slime when applied to the skin makes it soft and smell of flowers. This slime is actually enzymes that help the eggs inside the women but the miner has begun selling these seed pods as a cosmetic item. The pregnant women get their enzymes without knowing it and the miner gets money as promised. END Game- at the start of the week the three brothel workers go missing and the town doesn't know whats going on. One missing sure but three at the same time. On top of that Mrs. Kitty take good care of her girls and knows they are not the types to run away. The players have one week to figure out whats going on before the train arrives on Tuesday, once it does there will be enough seed pods disguised as cosmetic creme and brood babies to send on the train to hundreds of town just like this one to plant more and more seeds.