If you are looking for monster designs (scary monster designs), pick up a horror Japanese folklore book the next chance you've got. Also, from what you've told me about these monsters, I think they might even be the cores of horror urban legends (Bloody Mary game being a ritual to summon the actual creature called Bloody Mary, etc.).
Or better yet (in the case that you aren't an easily spooked person), go check out You Tube videos of the game Fatal Frame. It's a Japanese game that beats every single scary game ever invented, I should think.
Did you know that in some folklore ghosts can kill with touch? Or if you don't want to go for fancy things, instead simply affective, pick the classic sword-on-fire or the wide range of unique but functional weapons Asia history is so famous for, then add something flashy to it and voila.
For magical attacks, don't forget Medusa. She killed with a look.
It is easier to base off fictional abilities from past records and such, but if you want to be original, take one and twist it all wrong and I guarantee you success. It's simply one of the quirks of having an imagination.
I'm going to use some variation on this
sometime - a strange substance that deforms and broadly enhances a person who eats it, and causes that person to produce a seed; the seed, when planted, sends out roots to assimilate the immediate area into their personal Sanctum Sanctorum - a place that will heal them, where they cannot die, and where anyone else who enters becomes painfully and permanently ill.
The Creepers are the remnants of an ancient, powerful Gouger that rampaged through England in the Middle Ages.
To regular people, they appear to be just another person on a crowded subway. They are average, nondescript; they don’t draw your attention. You see a million like them a day in crowded cities. They’re in your life for two minutes, then gone, never to be seen again.
To their victims, however, their appearance is quite different.
Their face is the most obvious change. They have a nearly completely blank face, except for two slits. One small, thin slit appears to act as a nose. The other slit in their face stretches two hundred and seventy degrees around their faces, and can open to reveal a mouth full of long, needle-thin fangs with acidic saliva.
Their bodies are different in more subtle ways. Their arms bend in three places, for example- they have another joint midway between their elbows and wrists. They are also longer than regular human arms, falling to their knees. Their waists are thin- very thin, thinner than even an anorexic woman’s waist, while their hips and thighs are solid and thick.
They are proportioned similarly to humans, but with differences that make you shudder when you see them.
Feeding Habits: They hunt one victim at a time. This appears to be enough to satisfy a Creeper for several months, in a manner much reminiscent of snakes.
Their method of selecting victims is unknown. What is known is that they tend to frequent busy urban areas, where they are likely to remain unnoticed.
Once they have selected a victim, they will begin the hunting ritual.
A Creeper will stalk their victim wherever they go. Their victim will be able to see their true form at this point, due to selective glamour failure; everyone else will see the same nondescript individual as always.
They do not make a habit of sticking around for long. Rather, they follow their intended victim around, but only occasionally allow their victim to see them- usually, at any point in the victim’s life where they are either feeling very bad emotionally, or are feeling safe and secure.
Once their victim has descended into paranoia, they step up their game. They start appearing more frequently- any time their victim does not expect them to be there. They may attack the victim in their sleep, leaving their victim to discover long, deep gashes in their legs when they wake up. They reveal themselves in photographs of the victim, they start to appear in video recordings while no-one else can see.
It is only when their victim snaps, and attempt violence on either themselves or the Creeper, that the Creeper eats them.
The Creeper is one of the cleanest feeders among the Doppelganger groups.
They physically lift their victims in the air, head facing towards their mouths.
And then they eat their victim whole. Their stomachs grossly distort; and, if an onlooker listens carefully, they may hear the victim screaming in agony as they are dissolved by stomach acids.
In the end, all that is left of the victim is a thick puddle of the victims’ blood- every drop of blood that was in the victim’s body.
We don’t know how the blood gets there from the Creeper’s body.
And frankly, we don’t want to know.
There are too many toasters in my chimney!The Aener is one of the less earthly Gougers. It is low-ranked among them- standing higher in their social order (such as it is) than the Titans, but lower than near everything else.
To the naked human eye, the Aener appear to be a wall of mist, almost. Pure white/silver in colour, it advances slowly, inexorably. It feels moist to the touch, and quite cool. This is the perfect disguise.
To anyone with the Sight, however, it will appear rather different.
The Aener appears to be made up of millions, billions, of tiny orange and/or brown creatures, just large enough so that a human with good eyesight can distinguish them from each other. Silver threads connect all of them- one thread extending from each creature to its' brethren, billions of threads erupting from every single one of them.
Feeding methods:
The Aener hunt differently to any other known Gouger.
They act much like an airborn parasite. They float along in the air, and are inhaled by people as they walk through what they see as mist. A single parasite, one of billions, is enough to infect a human.
From here, it usually takes in the realms of anywhere between thirty minutes to six hours for the parasite to enter the bloodstream through the person's lungs and reach the brain. Once they reach the brain, they settle in, and begin Warping their surroundings.
The Warping takes in the realms of 72 hours to complete.
They begin my removing the pleasure centres in people's heads, rendering them unable to feel pleasure. They remove the capability for happiness next. During this point, there is a high chance of the person potentially injuring themselves and/or committing suicide.
Once these parts of the brain have been destroyed, the Aener begins to influence the rest of the brain.
It reopens the pleasure centre of the brain, allowing their victims to feel pleasure and sexual gratification under very specific circumstances- that is; they can feel happy and pleasurable when thinking about hurting or killing someone, and they are sexually ratified if and when they act upon these thoughts.
Once the Aener has affected the victim this far, the unobtrusively leave via drilling a microscopic hole through the back of their victim's head. The parasite rejoins with the main Aener body, and begins searching for a new victim.
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Much the same as all Gougers, the Aener feeds on Past-Expended Energy; that is, they eat the memories and all traces of their victims lives.
The result is a human, with no trace of their existence within society, who receives pleasure and sexual gratification at the thought of maiming and killing others.
As you can imagine, stopping this Gouger is a high priority.
There are too many toasters in my chimney!Sounds scary O.o
How big are these guys, exactly? A millimeter? Smaller?
I'm just wondering how that will affect their entry and exit of the host. (An interesting point about parasitology that I learnt - the optic nerve is encased in the same membrane as the the brain. So if a person's eye gets infected, it could spread to the brain from there too.)
How do they reproduce? What causes the foggy appearance?
Be not afraid...They're about a quarter of a millimetre each.
The foggy appearance is caused by their Glamour- essentially, the thing that allows regular humans to see them without going insane. Humans with the Sight can see them for what they really are, though.
As for how they reproduce? They don't. And you should be grateful for that.
There are too many toasters in my chimney!Yes, they can be killed. Every Gouger can. It's ridiculously complicated, though- you need to seal this entire Gouger inside a Seal of Solomon (or other relevant symbol to your faith), then burn them alive with a flame lit with sacred oil as you exorcise them.
Belief is a big factor here.
If they don't eat, they are unable to return to the Hereafter and are stuck on Earth.
edited 14th May '11 7:56:48 PM by CyganAngel
There are too many toasters in my chimney!

Oh. Sorry. >_< Let me go back and spoiler-tag that for you.
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