Category:Hoard Scarab Swarm

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Hoard scarab swarms have a considerable bonus to hide among when concealed among 10,000 coins or more. Like singular hoard scarabs, they attack by burrowing under the skin of their prey, feasting on the innards and doing massive Constitution damage. Only a Remove Disease or similar effect can remove burrowing hoard scarabs.^[1]

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Out of the darkness loomed a ship, wrecked as improbably as our own, a sand dune claiming its stern. With the fiery heat of the day not far off, we were glad of the shelter. It had been stripped, not only of supplies and materials that might have assisted its crew in escaping the blasted wastes, but pretty much of everything of value. We slept in the relative coolness of the cargo hold and were all visited by the same dream, that of a mound of gold with which we might overfill our pockets. The second watch, and Annabel with it, snuck off in search of the captain’s quarters where the prize supposedly lay. Sand had burst through the portholes and had half filled the cabin. A small skeleton with a twisted neck and perfectly clean bones, in life probably a cabin boy, was the only obvious inhabitant. Just beyond his feet, lying thickly upon the sand, twinkled more gold coins than any of the sailors had ever seen. As in the dream, one threw himself upon the pile. His joy was not long lived. The treasure stirred to life and before the poor fellow could escape it, he was covered by burnished golden beetles that devoured him alive. And between his choked, stifled screams, could be heard the laughter of a child.

-The Wreck of the Albatross, Juno Lutuem, Darkonese adventurer^[2]

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