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Old 01-05-2019, 05:19 AM   #44
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Default Re: [MH] Vile Vortices and Supernatural Threats

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Originally Posted by Astromancer View Post
Another form of the Cold One could be the Pishtaco a Latin American bogeyman that is a sort of body fat vampire. Clearly, a metaphor for wasting disease but these pale greedy hungry monsters would fit nicely in this setting. The constant greed of the Pishtaco could be about gaining money to buy diamonds. Since the Cold Ones need diamonds. An undead monster obsessed with stealing flesh (to make more shells/bodies) and money (to buy diamonds) fits the narrative.

Any use to you?
Working backwards from the ways and means needed for the antagonists to be in country at all for the PCs to encounter them, I needed connections with orgnised crime somewhere.

Thanks to your excellent suggestion, that will be with a criminal organisation originally from Peru or Bolivia, in Pishtaco-country.
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