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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#26: Apr 14th 2011 at 8:39:04 PM

Concerning nightmare fuel... first, do your protagonists have any fears that can be capitalised on?

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#27: Apr 14th 2011 at 10:10:29 PM

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.

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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#28: Apr 14th 2011 at 10:40:24 PM

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.

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#29: Apr 14th 2011 at 11:03:03 PM

Ooooh, nice and creepy.

How would it affect, say, televisions, though? Things made up of hundreds of thousands of fast-flashing pictures?

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Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
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#30: Apr 14th 2011 at 11:05:27 PM

A 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?

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#31: Apr 14th 2011 at 11:19:10 PM

Which would lead into giving the creature either prescience, reality warping abilities or...

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Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
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#32: Apr 14th 2011 at 11:20:28 PM

Or? I'm really not good at horror, so I don't think I can help much in this aspect.

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#33: Apr 15th 2011 at 1:29:16 AM

Or... I dunno, I had a thought but it's gone >_>

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Temassasin Since: Dec, 1969
#34: Apr 15th 2011 at 1:28:47 PM

Or 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

[down] 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

CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#35: Apr 15th 2011 at 4:37:46 PM

See regarding the Reality Warping effect mentioned above.

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Diamonnes In Riastrad from Ulster Since: Nov, 2009
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#36: Apr 15th 2011 at 4:52:28 PM

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...

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Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
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#37: Apr 15th 2011 at 5:13:10 PM

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.

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#38: Apr 15th 2011 at 7:01:39 PM

That one could potentially be very useful, Enkufka...

@ Diamonnes: Hmmm... No :/ It would't last for very long before a mage noticed it and killed it.

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Temassasin Since: Dec, 1969
#39: Apr 15th 2011 at 7:10:41 PM

a weapon which was made of thousands of blades which cut at once (like in bleach)

i mean i slice with 1 blade then a hundred others comes out of thin air to also slice

edited 15th Apr '11 10:25:57 PM by Temassasin

CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#40: Apr 15th 2011 at 7:12:10 PM

Hello, completely implausible weapon.

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#42: Apr 16th 2011 at 7:30:26 AM

No, it needs to be something logical...how about a sword that can channel magic or something?

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#43: Apr 16th 2011 at 8:36:36 AM

Magic can be channeled through anything.

Magic is set through a bunch of, well, several billion pre-determined spells along a 'wavelength' of sorts. Every mage is given access to a small number of these- a couple hundred.

Will explain further later.

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#44: Apr 20th 2011 at 3:31:52 AM

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.

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#45: Apr 20th 2011 at 3:55:37 AM

~shver~

Imagining that, for someone who isn't a Mage... Nice.

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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#46: Apr 20th 2011 at 9:27:33 AM

...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.

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#47: Apr 20th 2011 at 9:56:57 AM

Have them be squishy. Able to slip between small cracks. Fit beneath the tiniest slits in walls and doors.

Yes.

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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#48: Apr 20th 2011 at 10:38:45 AM

The 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. :)

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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#49: Apr 29th 2011 at 7:10:58 PM

Butterfly-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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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#50: Apr 30th 2011 at 4:49:11 AM

Gah! Trypophobia alert!

Great idea, Noaqiyeum. Not one I'd be able to write without throwing up DX

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