Nightmare Fuel / Of Elder Scrolls and Huntsmen: Dragon Rose

• In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, frostbite spiders are low-level enemies for low-level adventures to whet their teeth on and gain experience. While Team RWBY has no more difficulty dealing with them then the average Skyrim beginner, the description of the dark cavern crawling with spiders ranging from the size of a rat to chest high, some on the ceiling above the girls' heads, really taps into most people's primal fear of spiders.
• Weiss trepidatiously opens a coffin, reasoning that, as the cave was once used by criminals, it might contain valuables. Heart pounding and all tense, she opens the coffin to find... nothing. Relieved, she turns to tell her friends and is face-to-face with the vampire that was right behind her.
• The vampire's midden is descriptively and nauseatingly rendered.
• After being bitten by the vampire, Weiss begins to experience nightmares of being pursued by a malevolent entity with multitudinous limbs, her pleas for help unanswered. On the third night of these dreams, she is seized, and, in the real world, her heart stops. Then she wakes, surrounded by her frantic team, but not as she once was.
• Yang takes on the bandits that have established themselves in Embershard Mine and engages in her usual devil-may-care fighting style. She succumbs to her not-unusual berserker rage when the bandit leader manages to harm her hair. The problem is that none of the bandits have Aura unlocked (Aura is completely unknown to the people of Tamriel), and she ends up punching the leader's head off in a gout of blood, an act that horrifies her as much as it does the remaining bandits. A traumatized and nauseated Yang actually throws herself into Embershard's pool to get the blood off.
• The day after her "seizure," Weiss becomes extremely thirsty. She constantly guzzles down water, to the point that that the amount of liquid in her stomach feels uncomfortable, but this does nothing to quench the thirst. As the thirst continues, it strengthens into a "hunger-thirst" and disturbing impulses, such as licking up the spilled blood in Helgen Keep, begin plaguing her. Weiss finally finds what can quench her thirst when she corners the traitorous bandit Arvel in Bleak Falls Barrow and inadvertently draws his blood. Intoxicated by the scent, she begins to drink. And drink. When her friends catch up to her, Arvel is a wrinkled corpse and Weiss is covered in blood with a contented smile on her face. Their horror snaps Weiss back to her normal state of mind, and to what she's just done.
• Yang, Blake, and Weiss stumble upon some hagravens that killed several children to use their hearts in a ritual. They then proceed to utterly slaughter the coven.
• Blake is terrifying when decimating the Dark Brotherhood.
• When dealing with a cannibal cult, one of the members implants Fake Memories of a No Party Like a Donner Party in Blake. When she ends up Spotting the Thread during a sting of said cult, she shows that her actions during the Dark Brotherhood slaying were not a one-off.
• Yang defeats Red Eagle, by once again, decapacitating him with a punch, though this time she was aiming for his neck. His Briarheart actually keeps him alive for a while in this state, long enough for him to tell her to eat it.
• The heroes encounter a dragon trapped in an old Dwemer city that had been suffering from Go Mad from the Isolation for centuries, which is terrifying for multiple reasons.

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