Editing Gallblighter Wasps

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'''Gallblighter Wasps''' are red, insectoid creatures that can grow to the size of a cat.<ref name="fallenlondon.wiki">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_Exceptional_Story:_Tauroktonos|An Exceptional Story: Tauroktonos|Fallen London}}</ref> Like many species of wasp, their swarms produce an unnerving drone,<ref name="fallenlondon.wiki"/> and can be found in secluded, dusty places.<ref name = "gallblighter those eyes!">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Those_eyes!|Those eyes!|Fallen London}}</ref> They violently attack, or even kill, anyone who disturbs their nests, ''also'' like many species of wasp.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Tauroktonos|Tauroktonos|Fallen London}} ''"There was a wasp-nest [...] [...] One of the students disturbed it [...] She didn't last."''</ref>

Gallblighters are most infamous, however, for their tendency to lay their eggs in human eyes. They often sting nearby bystanders with their ovipositors when they're disturbed,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_Exceptional_Story:_Tauroktonos|An Exceptional Story: Tauroktonos|Fallen London}} ''"[...] its ovipositor glinting in the gaslight."''</ref> and they may also infest those who sleep too close to their nests.<ref name = "gallblighter those eyes!"/> The young Gallblighters then gestate in the eyeballs of their victim, turning them reddish-yellow and disturbingly swollen.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Gall-Eyed_Engineer#Speak_to_the_Gall-Eyed_Engineer|What does she want?|Sunless Sea}}</ref> During the gestation process, the host's eyesight is also entirely transformed: they may see visions of past memories,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/%22Cousin%22%3F|"Cousin"?|Fallen London}}</ref> fantastical surroundings,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/%22What_do_you_see%3F%22|"What do you see?"|Fallen London}}</ref> or even hidden secrets, depending on where they look. Once their time is up, however, the newly-hatched gallblighters burst free, killing their host in the process.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Kingeater%27s_Castle#Interactions|Allow the Gall-Eyed Engineer to go ashore|Sunless Sea}}</ref>

 

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