My players have just gotten through the first part of TBWG (although they haven't had a chance to talk to Harliss yet). Anyway, While I was running the session, I decided that having one fairly powerful creature escape would be worth the trouble. So, I created a savage shark which essentially attacked the party and then ran off after it had gotten one of its freaky bite attacks off on each member of the party. Assuming the party was infected, the shark swam off to bite more creatures.
This shark is going to be an insane shark. It will be driven directly by the will to spread the Savage Tide as far as it can. Unfortunately, the rest of the savage tide here seems to have wiped out most of the animal population in hunger. So the shark will be driven elsewhere.
Where should savage creatures show up next? I don't want to put an extremely large amount of them on the isle of dread, because that would just be a very bad idea, but perhaps in the Sarasago? one of the ships could have been attacked by savage beasts, and maybe the players find a large amount of savage fish in their nets every now and again.
Anywhere along the Amedio coast would be good. An Olman fisherman's boat is capsized, and as he makes his way to shore is bitten by Bruce the Savage Shark, but manages to make it to shore alive. His friends heal him, but don't remove the taint of the savage fever. The next night, he succumbs to the fever and attacks those nursing him, becoming Patient Zero of an Olman outbreak.
Some time later, a jungle creature attacks one of the infected, gaining the infection through the wound it inflicts.
If the party has a few of these encounters before Father Feres succumbs to the Blue Slaad egg, it could really enhance that encounter.
Wow... I just had a very disturbing image.
Lets say Bruce the Savage shark is swimming along.
All of a sudden, he runs into an aquatic hydra.
*shudder*
Wow... I just had a very disturbing image.
Lets say Bruce the Savage shark is swimming along.
All of a sudden, he runs into an aquatic hydra.
*shudder*
Delfedd, quit spoilin' my surprises for my players! ^_^
Bruce: " Fish are our friends not food ... ngrk, grrr ... NARFMUNCHCHOMPMASTICATE... oops, I relapsed... "