you read the title, there's pumpkin spice in the drinks and skeletons in the stores, time for some spooky thrills and chills. bear with me, we're gonna create our own domain of dread.
I'm thinking any genera of horror besides occult detective
for the darklord, lets go for something unique. lets make it a creature type never before seen in a darklord. (anything but undead, dragons, humanoids, fey, or constructs)
everything else is up to y'all. lets terrify some players!
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The darklord is a lawful good Flumph that starved his species by helping adventurers kill all the mind flayers on his homeworld. Name is George, and he constantly fights against the mind flayers and is haunted by the ghosts of his people.
The actual domain is a place where everything is skewed or flipped. The mind flayers are good, undead are alive, and paladins are the evilest thing in the area. George acts like everything is normal.
Do keep an eye on the age of the thread you are responding to, but so long as the original poster doesn't mind their prompt being responded to loong after spooky season and more in pastel season, it is an open ended prompt. Maybe we can think of some flower and pastel themed horrors? We're not left with many creature types. Beast, celestial, elemental, ooze, aberration, plant, monstrosity and fiend.
Seeing as most domains are based on tropes and famous horror villains, perhaps a little shop of horrors style darkleige. Maybe Yellow musk flowers, literal 'The trees have ears', druids- everything is nice, and flourishing. You just need to occasionally 'feed' the leige. Or an awakened forest, like the pando forest- where the entire forest is actually one tree, and it's all awake, sentient and aware you're in it.
Perhaps for the beast entry- Rabbit of Caerbannog?
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Ooze? Slow, creeping horror seeping into - and out of - everything. Could be a thing. Maybe that get's old a little fast, eh?
Then again, maybe there's a little more to it than that. Maybe all the oozes are really part of one uber-ooze. There are two things: Anyone killed by an ooze becomes and ooze themselves - and they retain some minimal vestige of who they were. Their face vaguely discernible in the blubber, maybe they have a voice that randomly repeats stuff, like the former inkeeper repeating his favourite greeting over and over again. Gives you something to work with, to make enemies more unique and interesting - and scary and disgusting.
Also, there's the Darklord. Or Darklady? Hm.
I like pain. I mean, not in that way, please don't hurt me! But I like pain as a driver for story. And well, nothing hurts more than love. So there needs to be a love story - there always does.
Once, there was a young woman called Kathlyn, and she fell for just the worst person in the world - a charming bard named Renaud Valcroix. Renaud was a lecher and a rake, but poor Kathlyn didn't know that. She was young and innocent, and full of ideas of romance and true love. So our lovely Renaud convinced her of his great love for her, seduced her, got her pregnant and abandoned her - to die, no less.
It happened like this. Renaud had already rejected Kathlyn, having had his way with her. Kathlyn, despairing, invited Renaud to meet her where they'd had their tryst - at the old abbey. Begged him to come. Here, she told him that she was pregnant, thinking this would melt his cold heart. Quite the opposite: It enraged him, and he pushed her away. They struggled, and the fell, hit her head, bled. Renaud could have helped, but he thought he'd killed her, so he ran in a panic, cursing her for his own mistakes. And so, she really did die. She, and her unborn child. Lying beside the altar, weak and desperate, she slowly bled out, crying both out of her broken heart, and for help that would never come.
Decay and rot settled in, mold grew, the remains slowly dissolved - but they are still there. And still conscious. The broken heart of the mother of an unborn child, and the wild, furious hunger of her child.
Obviously, well ... you know how to resolve this one. Renaud is still out there. The most charming man in the realm. A succesful bard, singing and entertaining, he's made enough money to buy a small keep. He styles himself Count Renaud Valcroix now, and sometimes he invites the most beautiful young ladies in his audience to a private performance at his keep. Players will see him as the obvious Darklord - but he's not, he's just an entirely ordinary villain. Also, of course, he can't really die.
I think that's not half bad for 10 minutes of work. No idea what this realm would be called - Oozetopia seems a little too on the nose, right?
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Sounds like this should be Quebecois folklore-coded, & have a French term accordingly.
What is French for "Throne of slime"?
Apparently it's the same, just Trône =)
How about Mucûsonne?! =D
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you read the title, there's pumpkin spice in the drinks and skeletons in the stores, time for some spooky thrills and chills. bear with me, we're gonna create our own domain of dread.
I'm thinking any genera of horror besides occult detective
for the darklord, lets go for something unique. lets make it a creature type never before seen in a darklord. (anything but undead, dragons, humanoids, fey, or constructs)
everything else is up to y'all. lets terrify some players!
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Alignment: Lawful Evil
Fun Fact: i gain more power the more you post on my forum threads. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
The darklord is a lawful good Flumph that starved his species by helping adventurers kill all the mind flayers on his homeworld. Name is George, and he constantly fights against the mind flayers and is haunted by the ghosts of his people.
The actual domain is a place where everything is skewed or flipped. The mind flayers are good, undead are alive, and paladins are the evilest thing in the area. George acts like everything is normal.
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ModeratorDo keep an eye on the age of the thread you are responding to, but so long as the original poster doesn't mind their prompt being responded to loong after spooky season and more in pastel season, it is an open ended prompt. Maybe we can think of some flower and pastel themed horrors? We're not left with many creature types. Beast, celestial, elemental, ooze, aberration, plant, monstrosity and fiend.
Seeing as most domains are based on tropes and famous horror villains, perhaps a little shop of horrors style darkleige. Maybe Yellow musk flowers, literal 'The trees have ears', druids- everything is nice, and flourishing. You just need to occasionally 'feed' the leige. Or an awakened forest, like the pando forest- where the entire forest is actually one tree, and it's all awake, sentient and aware you're in it.
Perhaps for the beast entry- Rabbit of Caerbannog?
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Pronouns: Any/All
About Me: Godless monster in human form bent on extending their natural life to unnatural extremes /general of the goose horde /Moderator of Vinstreb School for the Gifted /holder of the evil storyteller badge of no honor /king of madness /The FBI/ The Archmage of I CAST...!
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Fun Fact: i gain more power the more you post on my forum threads. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Ooze? Slow, creeping horror seeping into - and out of - everything. Could be a thing. Maybe that get's old a little fast, eh?
Then again, maybe there's a little more to it than that. Maybe all the oozes are really part of one uber-ooze. There are two things: Anyone killed by an ooze becomes and ooze themselves - and they retain some minimal vestige of who they were. Their face vaguely discernible in the blubber, maybe they have a voice that randomly repeats stuff, like the former inkeeper repeating his favourite greeting over and over again. Gives you something to work with, to make enemies more unique and interesting - and scary and disgusting.
Also, there's the Darklord. Or Darklady? Hm.
I like pain. I mean, not in that way, please don't hurt me! But I like pain as a driver for story. And well, nothing hurts more than love. So there needs to be a love story - there always does.
Once, there was a young woman called Kathlyn, and she fell for just the worst person in the world - a charming bard named Renaud Valcroix. Renaud was a lecher and a rake, but poor Kathlyn didn't know that. She was young and innocent, and full of ideas of romance and true love. So our lovely Renaud convinced her of his great love for her, seduced her, got her pregnant and abandoned her - to die, no less.
It happened like this. Renaud had already rejected Kathlyn, having had his way with her. Kathlyn, despairing, invited Renaud to meet her where they'd had their tryst - at the old abbey. Begged him to come. Here, she told him that she was pregnant, thinking this would melt his cold heart. Quite the opposite: It enraged him, and he pushed her away. They struggled, and the fell, hit her head, bled. Renaud could have helped, but he thought he'd killed her, so he ran in a panic, cursing her for his own mistakes. And so, she really did die. She, and her unborn child. Lying beside the altar, weak and desperate, she slowly bled out, crying both out of her broken heart, and for help that would never come.
Decay and rot settled in, mold grew, the remains slowly dissolved - but they are still there. And still conscious. The broken heart of the mother of an unborn child, and the wild, furious hunger of her child.
Obviously, well ... you know how to resolve this one. Renaud is still out there. The most charming man in the realm. A succesful bard, singing and entertaining, he's made enough money to buy a small keep. He styles himself Count Renaud Valcroix now, and sometimes he invites the most beautiful young ladies in his audience to a private performance at his keep. Players will see him as the obvious Darklord - but he's not, he's just an entirely ordinary villain. Also, of course, he can't really die.
I think that's not half bad for 10 minutes of work. No idea what this realm would be called - Oozetopia seems a little too on the nose, right?
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
Sounds like this should be Quebecois folklore-coded, & have a French term accordingly.
What is French for "Throne of slime"?
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Apparently it's the same, just Trône =)
How about Mucûsonne?! =D
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
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Pinnochio took a dark turn and now rules over Pleasure Island.