argh! it's...the bee people! (new critter for UA)

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Bee people

one day you will step outside your apartment and feel that things aren't quite
right. your neighbors are clean and polite, but you've never really talked to
them...in fact, the only way you even know their last name is from their
mailbox. when you go to work, everything seems strange. you feel
uncomfortable...your co-workers too busy, too quiet. do you even know who
these
people are? chances are, you don't. chances are, they're not even human. 

the creatures known only as "bee people" look just like you and me but that's
where the similarity ends. bee people are humorless creatures that plant
themselves in human society and gradually take over. they are not violent
(unless provoked)...subtlety and relentlessness are their weapons. any
structure that houses or employs more than a few hundred people becomes a
prime
target for their "cause." first, a lone female (the queen) is sent to
establish
herself in an apartment or office. she will pay her bills on time, keep to
herself, work hard, arrive early and stay late. she will appear to be the
model
worker and the model tenant. soon after, another woman will be hired. another
man will move into the building. they too are model citizens: never
complaining, never loud, always busy and hard-working. this will continue for
some time, more and more strange people (who all bear a certain resemblence to
one another) will get hired at the office building. the queen will have moved
up in the company thanks to the efforts of her newly hired "associates."
eventually, the other tenants or workers will leave, either through their own
volition or through subtle "pushes" by the other residents. the colony will
have been established and the queen will leave to create a new hive for her
people. 

bee people always closely resemble one another -- hair, eye and skin color are
the same as the queen in charge of that hive. bee people, especially the
queen,
tend to be pleasant-looking, even attractive, and all are in good physical
health. they are quiet and can work for long stretches of time without eating
or resting. they keep to themselves, need no obvious managing and perform
tasks
with a high degree of skill and competence. in short, the perfect worker. in
housing situations, the will try to situate themselves at the top of the
building and slowly work their way down. their rent is always paid in full,
usually early, and they never complain or give reason for others to complain
about them. the perfect tenant. 

bee queens give off scents called pheromones that they use to communicate with
workers. using these pheromones, queens can call workers to the new hive from
distant locales, as well as silently direct their activities once they are
within the colony. because of this olfactory communication, their plans to
take
over are difficult to detect. in fact, because of their generally pleasant and
hard-working nature, managers tend to let them go about their business and
promote them with greater frequency than their human colleagues. 
bee people are usually non-aggressive, preferring things such as office
gossip,
sabotage and rumor-mongering to help establish a "pure" colony. however if the
need arises, the normally peaceful bee people can turn violent and brutal,
using whatever is at hand to maim and kill their enemies. bee people are as
efficient at removing threats to the colony as they are in securing their
place
within in. such violent action is always instigated by the bee queen and will
cease if she is slain or otherwise removed from the hive. killing a bee queen
will render her workers confused and disoriented for awhile but eventually
they
will catch the scent of another queen and move on to be with her. 

bee people (minor) 
you're not the strange one here... 

queens 
body: 60  
speed: 60  
mind: 90  
soul: 60
  
note: queens can use their pheromones to call workers, as well as for other
non-verbal communication. they may make all social interaction rolls at a +30%
shift (as long as their target is talking to them face to face). these
phermones are absorbed through the skin as well as through breathing so the
only way to nullify the queen's seductive scent is by wearing a full biohazard
suit (not normally thought to be office attire). 

workers 
(all workers have the same stats )
body: 80  
speed: 50  
mind: 50  
soul: 50  


Jared A. Sorensen
http://www.memento-mori.com

"I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some
stupid things that people shouldn't do. "
- David Cronenberg
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