Teh Creepy ...

Xathan · April 19, 2006, 09:43:40 PM

PB: That is going to give me nightmares, thanks. :P

Numinous · April 19, 2006, 09:51:53 PM

That scared you? Damn man, that barely made me blink... That rat thing though... I seriously retched at that...

Xathan · April 19, 2006, 09:56:19 PM

The rat thing made me shrug first time I heard it. Like I said, gross doesn't bother me much. But things like that, stareing eyes and silent screams, get to me on a deep level.

Ishmayl-Retired · April 20, 2006, 07:40:01 AM

Yeah, I agree with Xanthan... I've heard the rat thing before, and sure, it's gross, but it's really not scary... it's just sort of "panicky" more than anything.

Numinous · April 20, 2006, 01:52:15 PM

I should clarify, I was not scared by the rat thing, it just made me ill. The silent screams thing doesn't really bug me, although I suppose it could be done well...

Hibou · May 06, 2006, 03:52:48 PM

Here are a few that are the result of being a bagboy at a grocery store built next to a highway :o

1) A carton of eggs somehow holds 13 eggs instead of 12.

2) Transports drive by towing trailers full of cars for dealerships or scrapheaps. The only problem is that there is no cab. Just the trailer moving at high speeds down the highway...

Xathan · May 06, 2006, 03:54:42 PM

number 2 would be really, really creepy. *shudders slightly*

Everyone stops and looks at the PCs, then begin to scream horribly, before stopping and resuming their normal business. When questioned, they have no recollection of the incident.

beejazz · May 19, 2006, 09:26:16 AM

In the spirit of creepiness that advances the plot:
1) A villain that uses animate objects in a toystore. Because dolls are scary as hell, especially after they've been beat up a little (broken porcelain faces).
2) On the same note, there doesn't even have to be a fight. Have you ever seen one of the workshops where porcelain dolls are made? It's all arms and legs on sticks and grey clay busts of youngish faces and eyes of many colors and sizes neatly organized in tiny drawers. There are those lights with lenses and tiny brushes for the makeup. You can even stash the artist's corpse in the kiln. All this neatly stored in somebody's basement, with all the finished work displayed in glass cabinets upstairs.

Captain Obvious · May 26, 2006, 06:37:56 PM

Arise thread! Arise! (woo necromancy)

All of the faces and physical appearances of all thwe folk in a town keep changinc, but only a little bit and very slowly and subtly. Maybe their freckels are slowly changing places, or their hair gradually changes colour, of people keep switching from right handed to left. This can either be played for creepy or funny, depending on the mood of the rest of the encounter and the way you use it.

Xathan · May 26, 2006, 08:23:32 PM

Everyone one in the town is leaking blood from their eyes, nose, and ears. When questioned, they disbelieve the PCs, and when the PCs wipe up the blood, the cloth comes away clean. Suddenly, the towns people start screaming that the PCs are bleeding, but the PCs can't tell.

OR: the whole bleeding thing with refusal to acknowledge it, and people start dropping dead from blood loss. Everyone just steps over the bodies of those who die this way.

Benicus · May 27, 2006, 03:45:54 AM

OMFG!!! This is AWSOME i was never any good at creepy and some of these will work hella awsome. One that i think would be good would be: When the PC's are in any house in a village they hear a scratching noise on the windows. On inspection they discover nothing, but when they return to the house they discover a beasts hand nailed to a door with a note that says "Your Next".

Captain Obvious · May 27, 2006, 07:31:33 AM

QuoteOne that i think would be good would be: When the PC's are in any house in a village they hear a scratching noise on the windows. On inspection they discover nothing, but when they return to the house they discover a beasts hand nailed to a door with a note that says "Your Next".

That's pretty good, but the "you're next" thing is a bit cliched. What i think could work a lot better would be for the note to say "you're welcome" and then this dead parts with "you're welcome" notes start to turn up all over tha place. Mostly on monsters, but also on anything that may have even made the slightest threat at the PC's (like a shopkeep yells at them and then is later found with a note).

Ishmayl-Retired · May 27, 2006, 09:43:49 AM

Quote from: beejazzIn the spirit of creepiness that advances the plot:
1) A villain that uses animate objects in a toystore. Because dolls are scary as hell, especially after they've been beat up a little (broken porcelain faces).

How about if the faces on the dolls eerily mimic the face of a recently departed loved one in the PCs' lives.

Ishmayl-Retired · May 27, 2006, 09:47:05 AM

Quote from: supadupamanAll of the faces and physical appearances of all thwe folk in a town keep changinc, but only a little bit and very slowly and subtly. Maybe their freckels are slowly changing places, or their hair gradually changes colour, of people keep switching from right handed to left. This can either be played for creepy or funny, depending on the mood of the rest of the encounter and the way you use it.

different[/i]... but they can't tell how they're different. Something just seems askew. Then they finally figure it out; the NPCs in town appear to be mirror images of themselves. A man who parts his hair on the left is now parting on the right; a woman who always had a crippled right leg is now crippled on her left leg; A paladin who had a greusome scar down the right side of his face now has it down the left side. No one in town seems to comprehend it's happening except for the PCs.

DeeL · May 28, 2006, 03:52:23 PM

Quote from: Ishmayl
Quote from: supadupamanAll of the faces and physical appearances of all thwe folk in a town keep changinc, but only a little bit and very slowly and subtly. Maybe their freckels are slowly changing places, or their hair gradually changes colour, of people keep switching from right handed to left. This can either be played for creepy or funny, depending on the mood of the rest of the encounter and the way you use it.

different[/i]... but they can't tell how they're different. Something just seems askew. Then they finally figure it out; the NPCs in town appear to be mirror images of themselves. A man who parts his hair on the left is now parting on the right; a woman who always had a crippled right leg is now crippled on her left leg; A paladin who had a greusome scar down the right side of his face now has it down the left side. No one in town seems to comprehend it's happening except for the PCs.

Reminds me of a Steven Wright joke that could easily inspire all manner of creepiness - "One day I woke up and found that during the night someone had stolen everything in my apartment and replaced it with an exact duplicate. Couldn't believe it. I called up my best friend, I said, 'Look, someone has stolen everything in my apartment and replaced it with a duplicate.' He said, 'Do I know you?'"

Here's a moment which can be modified to be creepy depending on the setting, the ambience, or even the number of people present - walking down the street, the PCs see a dog with three legs hobbling toward them. It looks at them just once, sadly, before lurching out of sight into an alley.

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