Horror Adventures has several different Tainted paths that one might consider, and might fit with what you're looking for.
Instead of the final stage becoming a cocoon and swarm, cocoon and MI-Go?
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In our last session, two party members were slashed unconscious and spent some quality time with a mi-go. The rest of the party was occupied elsewhere, so the interlude with the mi-go was offscreen, and no one knows exactly what transpired.
I would love to find something thematic and Lovecraftian which the mi-go could have implanted in the party members. I’m looking for something to represent either a larval mi-go or a symbiont, or even a parasite which might have transferred from the mi-go to the unconscious PCs.
I’m open to all official Paizo content, and I’m especially interested in suggestions that are from the Lovecraft mythos or in the same vein. Does Pathfinder have anything that would fit?
Could go with the xenomorph creatures from horror adventures, one of the corruptions is based on the xenomorph. The other option is infestations. Again, horror adventures version of the Xenomorphs causes an infestation that's pretty gnarly and can turn you into one, but you could really look up any of them and use them as built with only some thematic changes and still be good.
Other option is to throw some fleshgrafts on them. These are also in Horror Adventures, so those could work as well. Nothing's quite as terrifying as waking up with a pincer for an arm or antenna for eyes.
Those are good places to start, hope that helps man.
Ohh, Carrion Crown also has some rules for living Brains in a Jar. Check that out if you want to have someone wake up with their gray matter in a glass tube and a tape recorder and video camera for eyes and a mouth.
Seeing as most mi-go worship Shub-Niggurath, a thematic choice would be an implanted slugspawn (moit of Shub-Niggurath), that eventually transforms into a spawning canker. Be aware though that it is a death sentence in 2d6 days unless the players figure it out beforehand... You could have them wake up with a poor NPC who was also abducted, and happens to transform before them to give them a fair chance.
Another option would be that the PCs who wake up aren't actually the PCs, but mi-go in disguise who try to infiltrate the party (they are supposed to be master imitators, in the original story). The real PCs are still captive somewhere (in a brain cylinder if you're mean). I would ask the captured players in private for permission, and so they can play along and fool the others.
As a more benign option, I'd support doc the grey's idea of fleshgrafts. A mysterious gift from a mysterious benefactor with unknown motives...
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