Boreworm from Splatterhouse (2010)

I'm not a fan of the horror genre; I find the vast majority of it greatly disturbing... There are scant exceptions, however, the classic Splatterhouse trilogy being three of them. Here's what the music from the first game might sound like if it were on the NES, though it's definitely nowhere as creepy as the original arcade OST.

Original music © Katsuro Tajima, Yoshinori Kawamoto, Yuichiro Komoriya, Bandai Namco

DM: Alright you've got a giant worm rushing straight at you--

Farhomless Warlock: Shai-Hulud!

Paladin: Gesundheit.

Monk: Initiative?

DM: No, it's a Boreworm boring down on you like a freight train what do you do?

Fathomless: I can, after clearing 10 ft and getting out of range of the rest of the party, Thunderstep away with one other person. ...And now all of Undermountain knows we're here.

DM: Don't worry they already did.

Celestial Warlock: ...And I can Misty Step, is that enough to get away?

DM: Yes.

Celestial: Do you have a teleport spell Wizard?

Wizard: Yes but I thought I'd try something else... what does everyone weigh?

[Party is Lizardfolk Wizard, two Dragonborn, a big human guy, and a slender half-drow.]

(Half-Drow) Celestial Warlock: My character weighs the least as we established in the catacombs when you guys sent me over those very unstable rock bridges into the den of that giant slime monster alone. But again, I can Misty Step.

Wizard: Alright Fathomless, you take Paladin, I'll take Monk because she weighs less.

Monk: Mind telling us what you have in mind?

Wizard: I'm gonna use Tensers Floating Disk to avoid the Boreworm... wait. Can I ride on my own Floating Disk? *Checks rules.*

Fathomless: Dude, even if you could, wouldn't you just float there and get crushed unless Monk can carry you along when she makes a Step of the Wind?

Wizard: Awwwww, surfing on the floating disk would have been so cool though! [sighs] Fine I use a higher level spell slot to cast Dimension Door on me and Monk.

DM: Alright, you all arrive safely on the ledge above. You are safe... for now.

Mimics

A lot of fantasy settings have the iconic mimic, a creature that disguises itself as a treasure chest or some other container of fortune and wealth routinely and inexplicably stumbled across during a common adventurer's work.

My fantasy setting has mimics, too. But they are NOT like that. Instead, the Aurusian Mimic is a mass of amorphous muscle tissue, approximately the size of a bowling ball when in a relaxed state. It has the ability to freely reconfigure the shape of its body mass into whatever it wishes - albeit not with exact precision. It has complete control over its pigmentation and the surface texture of its outermost skin layer. It constantly secretes sticky, slimy grey mucus from every part of its body that, if it contacts other organic matter, acts like a digestive acid, creating rashes and irritations while being SUPER adhesive.

As beings of pure muscle mass, a Mimic can deliver a tremendous amount of force if it launches itself at something, despite its small size. A mimic snapping to attack a human face will cave in the victim's skull with relative ease, then wrap its formless body around the brain to start digesting.

As a result, most mimics are ambush predators that hide in seemingly innocuous spaces in their homes in deep underground caverns. They will disguise themselves as part of the wall, or as an edible piece of fungus that another cave dweller might eat. Or, in some cases, the particularly clever Mimic may disguise itself as a newborn or infant of another species. With its amorphous body, it can - to some extent - replicate the sounds of other creatures by fabricating vocal cords. The most terrifying example of this known to Aurusian scholars is when a Mimic will emulate the cries of a human infant, a sound the mimics have learned over generations spent living in close proximity to settlements of humans and humanoids that live in the world's subterranean tunnel network. Mamallian instinct drives us to find and defend our young - even if it is not our own flesh and blood - with fervor unmatched. As such, crying babies are often the perfect bait for the unprepared.

The first recorded instance of this saw a man stumbling across the disguised mimic. It is said that the mimic resembled a human baby only vaguely. There were no facial features on its smooth, white, moist head. There were no fingers or toes on its hands or feet. Its head was too big for its body, and it vaguely resembled twitching half-melted candle wax. Then it launched itself at the poor man who found it. He was dead in seconds.

Despite the terrifying nature of the mimic, however, the deepfolk who dwell underground have found ways to exploit their properties to their own advantage. Mimics are dangerous to consume since they can just eat their predator from the inside out. As such, deepfolk have taken to capturing mimics, bathing them in pots and vats filled with residual grease-fat from other hunted creatures, and then using these mimics as bait for some of the more enormous monstrosities that call the underworld home. Such as the notorious Boreworm, a carnivorous earthworm up to 30 feet in length. By luring a boreworm to try and eat a mimic, the deepfolk will barely have to lift a finger after the initial mimic toss to get an enormous haul of muscle-dense, protein-rich meat to feed their communities on.

BOREWORM-ESOTERIC

Amazing technical, progressive death that still manages to bring the brutal.

Boreworm, The Breathing Process, Bog Wraith, and more! Playing at The Sanctuary, Detroit, MI (06/21/19)

“Jennifer has become a mindless beast.

Deformed by the Boreworm, even Rick couldn’t recognize her now.

She is changed.......forever.”

Jesus, Namco, did you really need to punish us with that imagery?

Spooktober day 28: Rick Taylor (Splatterhouse)

What do you do when you die in a haunted mansion and brought back to life by a Mayan Jason mask? You go on a rampage and kick monster ass, that’s what.

BOREWORM: Michigan Progressive Death Hive Release New Video For "Drone"

Michigan progressive death hive BOREWORM are proud to unearth their first-ever music video "Drone," streaming now via Metal Injection.

Prepare for insectile death with the new video for "Drone" here

Formed near Detroit in 2013 by guitarist Michael Bielenda (ex-The Yellow Sign) and conceptualized by a palatial arching science fiction mythos and the brutal atmosphere of cosmic horror, BOREWORM paints an aggressive, yet hauntingly melodic, musical soundscape. The band's music weaves its apocalyptic storyline through a modern death metal exoskeleton, leading to quite a growing fanbase—and its inclusion as the only unsigned band to be a part of Summer Slaughter Festival, where BOREWORM blazed a path of destruction across the US in 2014. Persevering through various strife and personnel changes, the Midwestern death unit holds strong to its unique prophetic vision. After recording their second EP, Entomophobia, with former The Contortionist frontman David Hoffman, the band welcomed original vocalist Nathan Wittock back into the fold in 2019 to resume the legacy forged on BOREWORM's debut album The Black Path. The evolution continues as the band is currently writing and recording the next chapter in the BOREWORM narrative, Predatory Bilocation.

FFO: Fallujah, Rivers of Nihil, Decrepit Birth, Cannibal Corpse

BOREWORM is: Nathan Wittock – vocals Michael Bielenda – guitar Cameron Eubanks – guitar Sam Fraser – bass Cody McCoy – drums https://www.facebook.com/boreworm https://www.instagram.com/boreworm https://borewormmusic.bandcamp.com https://twitter.com/boreworm https://youtube.com/borewormdeath

Dear Drunk Doc, Name a movie/TV you've seen that was so bad it was actually funny.

FLASH!!! WHOA OOOOHHHHH!!! HE’LL SAVE EVERY ONE OF US!!!!

PLease watch Flash Gordon, it is the best. holy shit, it is so bad OH NO NOT THE BOREWORMS but it sso bad that it is amazing. 

So last session we fought a boreworm and we are all about level 8 at this point and we just got a level nine goblins barbarian. He immediately takes away half of its health. The battle ended pretty quickly. For loot some of them got these tattoos that were basically power ups. One just made tentacles shoot out of you body, I can’t remember what the other did. Another got an immovable rod. Then it came to me, the artificer, I got an automatic rifle with 100 shots.

The dm was just thinking this would be a cool thing to give me and it would have limited uses, but I can put infusions on it. So I showed him the infusion repeating shot, He said that even if it was auto loading I would still run out of ammo, but then I showed him the part about how if it has nothing loaded into it it will make its own ammo. He then realized that I now have an auto reloading, AK-47 with infinite ammo.

Mindflayer Dreadnaught Carrier and Boreworms | 2 New Ships for Fifth Edition

Mindflayer Dreadnaught Carrier and Boreworms | 2 New Ships for Fifth Edition

The mindflayer dreadnaught is a colossal ship used to carry its smaller boreworm vessels. Even without its boreworm fleet, these heavily armed ships are capable of destroying entire armadas by themselves. A carrier can hold 10 boreworms in its hull and is capable of deploying all 10 at once. Boreworm. A boreworm is piloted by […]Mindflayer Dreadnaught Carrier and Boreworms | 2 New Ships for Fifth…

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Near pandemonium on Ballaugh Beach today as Smudge inadvertently stumbled upon the legendary ‘Northern Giant Beach Bore Worm’, or ‘Septentrionalem Giganticus Litore Boriculum Vermis’......to give it its clever scientific name. Previously thought to be only a mythical beast of nightmares.....this is the first ever glimpse of this oversized sand-loving Boreworm. Fortunately for us.....its stone-like white eyes are piss-poor above ground. 🐶🏖🐛😱

Almost finished the initial basecoat and general outline of my ambull model. Im going for a lore earthy colour scheme, as i dont think the oastel blue on the box art fits the look of a real animal. Im painting the little boreworm swarms in the same way, to make them all fit nicely together as one big happy family💕 #warhammer #paintingwarhammer #blackstonefortress #ambull https://www.instagram.com/p/BvDQcWgng4c/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j23j68z11kh0

BOREWORM-BLACK PATH