It horror month, post horror!

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sounds good OP

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>>49918462
Dear god OP my SAN already dropped by 15 points this session alone!

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Love this image a lot even if its not very horror

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>>49918462
Pic is of smoked mummies

Through lots of magically-infused drugs, I bring the terrifying lore of the neckbeards of old.

>How can I make witches a legitimately terrifying threat?
https://warosu.org/tg/thread/30685000

> favorite folklore monsters
>The copper penis owl.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/41729483/

>But his sister’s don’t fare much better, though – within a few short days, they too will have been eaten alive from the inside by their own offspring.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/45778623/

>Mythological creatures that are much more fucked up IRL myths than in the RPGs they appear in.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17057731/

>Vampires I and II
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4847968/
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/18442709/

>werewolves
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/33071790/

>Victorian-era boogeyman-esque monsters that prey on children
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23348526/

>>49918991
>Boogeymen thread
>Modern setting idea
>"At first we were all offended that the age of reason left us all behind, but then people stopped expecting us, stopped hunting us, and stopped teaching their children our weaknesses that their ancestors had taken centuries to work out"
Dear god they were onto something there.

>>49919417
That's pretty fucked.

>>49919465
It's the eyes that does it. Both of it that shall not be named and of the smiling gecko

>>49918991
Just thought about it, I need to have my shadowrunners fight Victorian era boogeymen in 2070
just thinking about >>49919439 this quote sold me on the thought even more now.

>>49919417
Why is the gecko smiling?

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>>49918991
If you're still around. While it doesn'involve on how to make witches scary, I want to know what skills I should use to measure the strengths of my witches. I got broom riding, arcane, necromancy, potion creation, rituals, and so on. I just know if I add more or less.

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>>49919527
Sweet relief of death.

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There we go

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>>49919782
Wendigoes need more love and exposure.

>>49919782
>I was just taking a walk and then it hit me.
>shit am I undead or what?

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anybody got a link to the nighmare on mars session where the players had to wear gasmasks and listen to creepy planetary static?

>>49919546
Measure against who? Each other?

I think you could add control of other beings, be it people, animals or creatures they invoked. From the average person's point of view, being controled by witches, having wolfs and your own horse directed at you, that's scary. And taking a being another witch sent to kill you and sending it against her is the basis of the tupilaq.

I also believe the knowledge of powerful supernatural forces is important. I see witches as people who make pacts with fairies, the devil and so on to gain power. Knowing what to expect, how to call, how to please and barter with those is paramount to define powerful witches from apprentices.

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Fun fact: under the right conditions, a human corpse can become a huge human-shaped lump of wax

Google "human saponification" before eating. If you convince the person to be impaled first, you have the biggest necromantic candle ever.

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>>49920633
Fun fact II: gangrene gas is a thing. It's like popping up a pimple, except it stinks like rotten you and discharges miasma.

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>>49920691
Fun fact III: an undisturbed corpse can leave a precise red print of itself after removed. It's weirdly artistic.

>>49920925
what is going on here

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>>49920744
Fun fact IV: spiders don't need wings to fly or gills to prey underwater. No one is safe.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150818-spiders-animals-science-flying-forests/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_bell_spider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UPUhn9hpTU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z2O289Jemo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hglVqACd1C8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZIHy_US7k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZHO9KugwTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjG47gtMCo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Ln-5E29Vk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBlBtP3-x_w

>>49920951
2001 maybe? Seems monolith shaped.

>>49920951
better if you don't ask

>>49918791
for some reason I laughed when I noticed the little mouth on the knee

>>49919628
>that's my fetish

>>49921152
>back of the knee maybe

>>49920514
Can I recommend reading the Wardstone Chronicles, it's a dark fantasy/horror series with witches as the main enemy and does a pretty good job making them nightmare fuel

>>49920951
Some intergalactic being who was inprisoned eons ago and banished into space to drift through it's endless coldness is found to be caught in earth's orbit by ISS personnel, and later brought to earth, where scientists just HAD TO try and free him from his shackles, thus bringing doom(wink, wink) to the human race.

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Seeing this thread makes me want to share some stuff concerning Javanese's black magic ritual of wealth (Pesugihan)

Each rituals are named after their founder or granter, which is usually a supernatural being or a very powerful black magician who had died or spiritually ascended, becoming a force that can grant prosperity. Almost all rituals had a cost. The most potent ones needs you to sacrifice something dearly to you, be it your children or spouse, and the weakest usually "only" harms other for stealign their mojos for your gain. However, it is universally agreed that all of those who uses them are gone for good in the afterlife, being damned just like their worshipped beings.

Here are some of them I found mentioned, as well as some ways to spot them, but not all of them.

>Backturned-Headed Horse (Jaran Penoreh)
When the user dies, their head turned backwards. Road accidents prone to happen when the user is nearby
>Biting Dog-Wolf (Srengara Nyarap)
>Big Softshelled-Turtle (Bulus Jimbung)
The user's back become discolored and striped, before dying out when the stripes had reach all of their body
>Broken Shed (Kandang Bubrah)
The user's would periodically renovate their home, even when theres nothing wrong with it
>The Drool (Umbel Molor)
One of the relative of the user would have to be sacrificed to become retarded, so much they drool everywhere, hence the name. More than one people can be affected to sate their master
>Blind Cave-Fish (Kutuk Lamur)
>Chirping Quail (Gemak Melung)
>Defecating Bat (Codot Ngising)
>White Crocodile (Bajul Putih)
>Quarrelling Tigers (Macan Kerah)

So, at least now you know why does the Innkeeper managed to strike riches despite the poor condition of his business.. that, and also why does he likes to swim in full moon and had terrible eyesight.

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>>49919856
I believe this is the one

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>>The Alabaster Theater, an artifact of the great forgotten artist Lucio Baranesco. Said to have been inspired by his travels into the infamous Catacombs of Paris, where he would sometimes spend days. During his less-than-lucid final days in D'ancicco Mental Hospital, he wrote that in the catacombs, he spoke to the dead and learned the secret history of the world, which inspired him to create the piece - contrary to his claim after the piece was made that it was inspired by his own feelings of sadness while exploring the catacombs by himself.

>>Some say that there is a secret to the Alabaster Theater that animates its scenes like an ornate automaton, with rumors that it was shown to private guests of Baranesco's during private parties and receptions.

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>It is said by the Dreamers of Europe that there is a man in the bazaars of the Muslim countries who is as old as dreams themselves. They say he lives disguised as a drug addict laying amid others of his kind, and to find him one must raise their hand in gesture of the Voorish Sign and wait for his reply. If he replies by raising his head and muttering a secret name of MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI, you will rest with him and share amid his dreams, learning great unknowns and seeing sights unseen. If he raises his hand to you in the Sign of Mung, you will fall with him amid the piles of sleepers and drug addicts that surround him and fall into a stupor, only to awaken when you hear the Drums of Skarl cease their playing.

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>>49919030
DELETE THIS

>>49919628
Disquieting.

How to freak my players the fuck out? The fears I'm trying to tap into include fears of mothers, losing your personality, IV drug use and the related illness, powerlessness, etc.

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>Travel between worlds is possibly, but only fragmentarily. A piece of you travels between the borders, and you experience what it does in totality as if you were there. Some people have grown addicted to this travel between the worlds and have allowed many parts of themselves to travel between many worlds, making them terrible sense-addicts, feeling things on many dimensions. Some of them retain their will and gain terrible power from this. Some of them go berserk with their new power before melting down, dying in all dimensions. Some lose track of themselves and go catatonic in one world, their other pieces unaware that they've lost the whole.

>>49926706
Fear of mothers?

>>49927211
Well, to be more precise, the overlap of Oedipal desire, anxiety of birthing/unbirthing, phobia that your mother will kill you in your sleep.
General fun psychological stuff about moms.

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>>49920093

Apollo 18 might've had a mediocre execution, but I adored the concept. The idea of dying alone on a barren rock in space creeps me out to no end.

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>>49927234
Oh! I wasn't sure if it was a typo or not.

As for your original question, depends on how much agency you have to screw with your players and the setting.

Any opportunities for them to come across horrors? Like are they in a situation getting drugged is a viable threat? Where doping themselves might be a better alternative to something else? Can they come across husks of junkies or medical experiments gone wrong, begging for death? Are MOMS a present danger? Any way to inflict them with something that could conflict with their personality?

I'm not sure of your setting but our GM gave one of our players a cursed amulet that would try to coerce one of our party members into going against her nature (violent acts) in exchange for power.

dumpan some art also

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Has anyone here experienced genuine scariness on the tabletop? It happened to me once and only once:

At the end of a long journey into a rich city's booming criminal underworld to solve a brilliant assassination, we discovered the center of the web was the grandfatherly chief of police who'd been an invaluable help and genuine friend to the party. He'd made deals with these creepy fucks to erase his traumatizing memory of watching his mother beaten to death, but kept making more and more deals after his detective abilities would allow him to uncover his mother's death again and again and having the last deal erased with it. The concessions he made multi-able time allowed the Devil to set up a cult to Vecna that committed bloody crimes across the city.

The DM really sold the climatic encounter with a bone chilling vocal impression of a kind old man losing his mind as the memories return and he's torn asunder by the guilt of what he'd allowed and the worst memory of his life playing over and over again. That adventure went on for several more months and when we finally got epilogues and moved on the kindly old police chief was still a distraught lunatic wailing away in a mental asylum.

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>>49919030
Jesus fuck holy shit spoiler that shit or something. I'm not trying to have nightmares.

>>49926706
Are you me? This sounds exactly like some ideas I'm using in a Trail of Cthulhu (80s setting) game.

Drugs come from a conspiracy relating to the mining town setting. Miners trapped in a cave-in ventured deep inside the cave, and discovered something based on the ruins in HPL's Rats in the Walls, and containing an alien ship like The Abyss or Crysis. They return with memory gaps, disturbed sleeps, and hallucinations. A shadowy government group seeks to hush-hush the incident, so they need to hospitalize the miners. The have an agent break into houses and gas them with a lung irritant, so they can be hospitalized under the pretense that it's the black lung, then spirited away for psychic interrogation. The gas agent is based upon this real historical incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Gasser_of_Mattoon

Mothers haven't been employed a lot as a scare tactic, but human/cetacean hybrid fetuses are a plot point and eventual adversary. They're based on the New Age idea that whales have psychic abilities. Humans are grown inside the womb of an orca, with some DNA transfer via unexplained, shitty means because I'm bad at science. They're discovered as fetuses when a whale from this shady government org. breaks out of containment and dies in a frozen lake. One of the huge, humanoid-whale fetus skeletons is found in an ice layer, and hidden away. The players have to cut through the ice and dive to the whale's corpse, then "deliver" the hybrid baby and recover it for study. All while under cover of night, as the site is guarded, on a tight time limit, due to diving in freezing waters.

Loss of personality is only brought up by the "necronauts," a black-ops squad the shadowy government org. is seeking to replace with the psychic whalemen. They were clinically killed together and revived, attached to an occult/scientific mechanism/ritual. They returned as 7 souls sharing 7 bodies. They went rogue, hence the replacement.