I know what you mean, I think.
Bekein magic comes from... Well, it's kind of an innate power, but it needs a trigger. You need to want it to be unlocked; and then you need to set yourself through a rigorous physical training program that, eventually, unlocks it.
Valeniun magic... It's an external force. It comes from... elsewhere >_> And its channeled through the Valeniuns into you, at which point you are changed to accomodate it.
@ Noa: She overcame the crippling ones previously.
There are too many toasters in my chimney!I'll take that as carte blanche, then. :)
First thought... a gallery of paintings whose appearance changes, but keeping a constant motif of some kind. The "flock" moves from place to place, slowly growing by accumulating other pictures that it passes, often stalking a person for a period of time before either their prey vanishes or it "decides" to follow someone else. In direct confrontation, the paintings themselves are basically harmless distractions, but nearby doors, windows, drawers, and so forth tend to open into pulsating organic passageways and intestinal labyrinths or to vomit out hungry otherworldly creatures.
ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NOA television which will show flashes of a person's death? when someone watches the tv, every time the watcher changes the channel, the tv shows them the last 20 seconds before the watcher dies, and it actually happens as a result of watching it?
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen FryOr? I'm really not good at horror, so I don't think I can help much in this aspect.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen FryOr it follows them making sure that pretty much the exact type of death though obviously they can't control everything and deaths which are to different would be stopped and if you had a lot following you you would be protected from a lot of things
this isn't reality warping this is them following you around using there own magic to make sure you die as they want you to like thwarting other ways for you to die
example: it wants you to die from being burned alive so when you fall off a cliff it would put a feather fall on you or something
edited 15th Apr '11 4:52:42 PM by Temassasin
One of them could be in a mirror.
Every mirror. That little thing you see, sometimes, that chills your spine because it shouldn't be there in the corner of the mirror. Just waiting for you to look a bit too closely...
My name is Cu Chulainn. Beside the raging sea I am left to moan. Sorrow I am, for I brought down my only son.I've got another weapon idea, though I don't know how useful it would be: A grappling hook with infinite cable, which can be attached to two points on anything. Using it to get around would not hurt you either, due to... well, magic.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen FryI counter the suggestion two posts above by way of the fractal-edged blade
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Quickie monster to get my thoughts warmed up:
Human. Head turns slowly round, no limit to how far it can turn. To attack, human screams "KILL ME" in a ferocious voice. Might grab protagonist, only for it to actually be the creature trying to hug. No one within the canon would realize this, though.
It's like cannon fodder, something that only the particularly fearful characters would actually realize the sheer unnervingness of. Never offer an explanation if used. Creatures like this are best done as almost BLAMs.
Will think of more.
have not forgotten...was trying to put this together with something else, but I'm not coming up with anything - there's a group of momentary antagonists in Something from the Nightside who are basically MIBs, but they have (a) no faces, and (b) no bones. They can be knocked out and killed, but they don't bleed or break. Just squish.
ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NOThe originals - they're called the Harrowing - were sort of more like... person-shaped bags, filled with a dense fluid of some kind. Drawing mostly on the Uncanny Valley factor of grabbing someone's arm - or, worse, trying to grapple with them or punch them - when they just cave in at any place you touch, instead of staying rigid beyond the joints like normal, bony people should.
But yes, the squishiness was the element I was trying to draw out to make something new from. :)
ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NOButterfly-like winged crustaceans that live in hornet-like hives. Newborn larvae destined to become a new hive are carried by a drone and implanted in a human, where they burrow toward the brain stem. The first larva to reach it becomes the queen, severs it, and integrates itself in place, as the others metamorphose into drones and begin the process of reconfiguring the rest of the body into the new nest - covering the body cavity and parts of the skin with the hexagonal holes trademark of a beehive.
The rest of the original brain remains mostly intact throughout this process, as it is reserved as food for the growing queen and only slowly consumed, but due to being disconnected from the brain stem is no longer in control of the body.
edited 30th Apr '11 1:21:47 PM by Noaqiyeum
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Concerning nightmare fuel... first, do your protagonists have any fears that can be capitalised on?
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