Creature Seed: Marrowslugs.

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Marrowslugs

Description: a foot-long slug with a circular mouth on one end, with the requisite sawtooth fangs.  Marrowslugs smell hideous, are grey-yellow in color, and constantly exude a somewhat toxic mucus that acts as a powerful sedative and hallucinogen.  Marrowslug attacks are downright disgusting, and easily fatal if the victim isn’t treated in time.

Mad Science never really goes away; it just finds new and exciting fields of study to batten off of.  And it doesn’t matter if the new field seems fairly exotic already. Like, say, genetic engineering; your typical Mad Scientist will just simply go farther into the Febrile Lore for the necessary inspiration.  Mad Science is not really a rigorous scientific discipline, in other words. It’s basically a state of mind.

And thus it is that the world got saddled with Marrowslugs.  The researchers who engineered this species thought that they were working on a low-maintenance way to cheaply convert beef marrow into a growth culture for white blood cells.  Unfortunately, there was a nascent Mad Scientist on the team, and something about the project triggered his insanity. Shortly after that, the growth culture had developed fangs, motility, and a ravenous desire for bone marrow.  And shortly after that, the lab was in flames and the first marrowslugs were in the sewers.

Now, normally Abominations of Science like these have a very short, if typically bloody, run.  Unfortunately, the mucus that Marrowslugs produce can be refined into a very valuable designer drug, which is why there’s now a few underground labs where these things are carefully kept and ‘milked.’  But, remember: to organized crime Marrowslugs are resource-producers whose output is too valuable to be simply thrown away. So, no, they’re not kept in pits, or anything like that.

Except when captives need to be executed in a suitably dramatic fashion, of course.  This is Mad Science, after all. If you don’t respect the traditions, bad things happen.  Well, worse things.

3 thoughts on “Creature Seed: Marrowslugs.”

    1. I think we all know that if Moe were a scientist, he would be of the Mad-kind. As the bard Sir Jonathan of Coulton once sang, “We do what we must (because we can.)” One wonders what the lovely Mrs. Lane is up to in that robotics lab of hers…

      1. I’m fairly certain Moe has been encased in an artificial body. Things like this are his cry for help.

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