Last time I went to pick up worms were live meal worms, to be fed to unsuspecting players (they chose to, though!) who wanted to be 'evil and/or powerful'.

We had four people eat worms at that LARP. :)

*grin* So I think your reason for buying worms is a bit more normal than mine was. ;)

huh?! wait a sec... i'm missing out on something. you have humans who eat worms???

*grin* Kind of.

I play in community games sometimes on the weekends. They tend to be called Interactive Theater, or LARP (which stands for Live Action Role-Playing).

This particular weekend in November, medieval fantasy adventurers found a gate that opened from their plane (Earth) to Hell (oh noes!) and needed to find a reason as to why it was there, how they could stop all the bad things leaking out of it, save a creature trapped there called Duchess Ophelia, and all the while basically survive the night.

However, there were various bad things and bad guys(tm) like me to entice the adventurers into doing others things instead of the right thing. I was the Queen of Worms, a ruler within Hell, and told players that if truly wanted power and to fight back all the evil that was venturing out, they needed to do a favor for me and 'take one of my children' with them to fight evil.

Since most were into power and wanted to fight the evil, they agreed, and at least four adventurers (honest-to-goodness real people) swallowed live meal worms, which represented the Queen of Worms' "children".

As a note, it turns out they don't taste like crunchy nougat.

Thanks for friending me; hope I haven't creeped you out too much! :)

hahaha! that sounds like fun! i've actually heard of this before... my best pal has a friend who came with us to dinner a coupla years back and he mentioned something like this! fascinating! :D

why would a girl who calls spiders her babies be creeped out by something like this! :D

but....


i would never eat a worm though. :)

For a second I read the last 2 as "pick up worms and buy some herbs". I'm getting dyslexic!! ;)

hehe! i've been getting worse since coming back from melb. :p i think you know why.