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This happening to humans would make for a hell world. Factory original humans are farmed and treated like wild animals. The bonding creates a new creature but with a few lingering facets of the host to make for frightening reminders to those that knew them.
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Not really. Those are simply parasite controlled intact people.
My guys are literally permanent amalgamations with higher cognitive functions performed by what was the invading organism but lower functions by the original tissue. Blurring of identity assuming the parasite could exist alone which they can't past their larval stage.
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There are a bunch of microscopic parasites that cause changes in behavior through infecting the brain, so it is quite possible. A possible variation of the hell parallel would be the following:
Fungus-7 Within Fungus-7, a weaponized fungus was developed during World War Two by the Nazis that transformed its victims into raving lunatics. When the Nazis used the weaponized fungus against the Allies during the Normandy Invasion, the weaponized fungus quickly went out of control and, fifty years later, the human species is extinct except for isolated tribes within the Amazon and the Congo and within the isolated islands of Oceania. Fungus-7 was discovered by the Chinese government ten years ago and the resulting accidental fungal infection required the Chinese government to sterilize the research facility (located within Inner Mongolia) with a one megaton hydrogen bomb. The weaponized fungus is a virulent pathogen passed through coughing after the incubation period and during spore formation after the death of the victim (it requires a successful HT-6 roll to resist infection under normal circumstance and antibiotics and antivirals are ineffective). After infection, the victim does not manifest any symptoms until after one week, when the coughing starts. After one week, the coughing passes as the fungus penetrates the blood brain barrier and starts to infect the emotional control centers of the brain. With each passing week, the victim must succeed on a HT roll or take Bad Temper (15) and Berserk (15). With each failure, the Bad Temper and Berserk get one stage worse, until the fifth failure, when the victim always fails the control roll for Bad Temper and Berserk. When the victim inevitably dies, the fungus consumes the body within one day and releases spores that remain viable for decades. |
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WWII Japan was the one conducting all sorts of biowarfare, not so much Germany, as far as I know.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 Japan is a more likely power to develop such a fungus, likely based on something found in the tropical parts of their attempted empire.
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The USA actually seemed to have had the largest bioweapon research group during WW2. I think the USA was planning on using bioweapons against the Axis if the Manhattan Project did not work out. By the way, the Germans invested heavily in bioweapons under the guidance of Kurt Blome.
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I don't know much about Traveler. Few original ideas in the world though, eh?
I need to check it out to see how (dis)similar they are to my idea. Oh wait, that's literally the only Gurps Traveler book I own other than the basic. I love the Bwap. Huh, my idea predates my buying it though Funny how I can't find it but ran into my Stargate RPG. I assume they're meant as a reason for The Thing/Body Snatchers type paranoia, while mine were more realistic in that they can only "infect" one species. Of course others may still get paranoid about the possibility.
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