Connects to: 29.14.07.
Deep in the Undercity squirm the dead men’s tongues, strange creatures that look much like enormous half-rotten human tongues. Those that they lick are overcome with the desire to kiss the nearest human or human-like being. If they are able to do so, silk-like filaments begins sprouting out of the afflicted’s tongue, worm their way down the throat of the one they are kissing and eventually erupt out of the skin and envelop the pair in a cocoon. Several days later a new dead man’s tongue will hatch from this cocoon.
The Whispering Sisters once favored these tongues in their sacrifices of newlyweds but these days prefer to roast them alive within albino cows. This has resulted in the dead men’s tongues getting loose and spreading uncontrollably through much of the Undercity.
Hooks:
- How were these tongues created?
- Is it possible to reverse the transformation into a dead man’s tongue? Was anyone able to arrest the process part-way through?
- Why did the Whispering Sisters stop using the tongues in their rituals?