Ygin

[oi_theoi]

Ygin The Unknown, Madness, Fear, Night	❧ Played by Nishi
Appearance: It is impossible to get a clear picture of Ygin all at once. It has feminine hands, but a clenched, lantern jaw. You might see the line of a cloak, hunched and stooped, but you might also see flowing, black hair. It has a long, lizagon-like tail, and the presence of it is most often the only consistent sign it is openly in the area. The voice is a low, genderless whisper, directly in the person’s right or left ear, inaudible to anyone else. You might sometimes hear feathers, or the rasp of scales, gurgles or scrapes. The smell is dry and papery, or wet and fetid. Whenever Ygin is around, people will feel a tight feeling between their shoulder blades, as if something is watching them. Characteristics: Childlike, insatiably curious, sadistic, inquisitive, ponderous, demanding, fickle, irrational and sometimes outright gibberingly insane. Likes: Courage, terror, chimeras, were creatures, shape shifters who lose control by nature, self-awareness, emotional vulnerability, hallucination-prone people, scrying or dreaming powers, phobias, playing mind games Dislikes: Bravado, rhetoric, scholarly learning, order, science, machinery, unflappable people, people without curiosity, obtuse people, bright lights, restrictions.
Shrine: The shrine presents itself as a dark opening in the wall. It’s large enough to walk into, but you cannot see, hear or sense anything inside. Ritual: Getting its attention can be as simple as putting a hand in the opening, but walking entirely in is guaranteed to get an answer and quite a bit more favor.
❧ Will Take	❧ Will Give
Nightmares Fear Insomnia Confessions of dangerous/shameful secrets Maps of uncleared areas Accounts of previously unknown animals (it doesn't have to be real as long as the character is convinced it is) Spider silk Porcumonkey quills Alcohol Spirit draining powder Furbies (successfully caged) Pieces of your sanity (temporarily or permanently) A single sense (temporarily or permanently) Destruction of lights in the dorm areas	Restoration of a single sense Mirrors Hand lanterns Incense Scented candles Candy (Hallucinogens) Curse removal or status effect removal Obscuring cloaks, cowls or form/gender/identity hiding clothes Soft-soled shoes Mental healing I - Can give two talismans, one will restore sanity: soothe, comfort and calm. The other will sap sanity from someone else in any way the player chooses. The second talisman can be shared between multiple people in order to keep the cost low. Mental healing II - Can devour your insanity. It's delicious. Information on flora and fauna in explored areas Understanding of the world (Hallucinations)
❧ Exchange Rate
Items to Units Worth Offering 1 Unit Fear (a shock or start) Confession of a phobia Accounts of new animals/plants Spidersilk (per handful) 2 Units Fear (challenging a phobia) Confession of a shameful secret Small map of an uncleared area Alcohol 3 Units Fear (Panic attack or fight or flight terror) Insomnia Vivid nightmares Spirit draining powder Destruction of lights in the dorm area 5 Units Fear (Paralyzing or phobia CAUSING terror) A piece of your sanity One of your senses Units to Items Cost Reward 1 Unit A small hand lantern Scented candles/Incense Candy (hallucinogenic) 2 Units Hand or vanity mirrors Gender/form obscuring clothing Soft soled shoes Information on animals/plants in explored areas 3 Units Curse or status effect removal Full length or wall mirrors Understanding of the world~ 5 Units Mental Health (either method) Restoration of one sense
❧ The Were
Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Expectations and Powers of the Were

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Re: 67 evening backdated

[thevineintervention]

[ she tilts her head, willing her senses to stop trying to make sense of it ]

Cold, quiet, noisy?

Re: 67 evening backdated

[oi_theoi]

yes

[The answer is simple, as if the contradictions don't actually exist, or if they do, they don't mean anything at all.]

Re: 67 evening backdated

[thevineintervention]

I am . . . glad, then. That's It's here . . .

Re: 67 evening backdated

[oi_theoi]

are you

interesting

smell

fear

roots deep

uprooted

flowers

you

but you come

empty direction

Re: 67 evening backdated

[thevineintervention]

[ "uprooted" ( '-') pauses a bit to collect herself before speaking again ]


I . . . am, yes.

Re: 67 evening backdated

[oi_theoi]

want

what do you want

seek

do

who are you

[Her feet sink gently into the mud, and she can feel the squirm and slide of insects and worms within.]

Re: 67 evening backdated

[thevineintervention]

[ not even trippin' about how she was wearing shoes a minute ago ]


I- roots. I want roots. [ her voice gets more steady as she tastes the mud ] I want to bear fruit.


We want to grow.

Re: 67 evening backdated

[oi_theoi]

can

but bound to it

within it

again

can you

can you

choose

Re: 67 evening backdated

[thevineintervention]

It offers me . . . a place to lay them?


[ wriggles her toes, stretching the fibers down a bit ]

Re: 67 evening backdated

[oi_theoi]

she

many things

one



yes

Re: 67 evening backdated

[thevineintervention]

I think... I think I understand.


We can be this? Something of this land, right? Something of it's secrets...

Re: 67 evening backdated

[oi_theoi]

[The fibers as they spread through the mud reach a mysterious slurry of tastes. Little of it makes sense and none of it familiar. Though it brings again that slow, fizzy rush of true, earthbound nutrients, the 'tastes' are strange.]

be

part of

deep

rooted

changed



seek

take the heart of

what you fearlove most

bring

i will give it roots

you

Re: 67 evening backdated

[thevineintervention]

[ her eyes roll back as she pushes down human senses- ignore the darkness, ignore the strangeness of the voice. what she tastes tells her "this is not your soil," "this is not your home," but the feel of it is also true- it is not home, but it is a place to grown ]


Its offer is generous. May we ask what its favor costs?

Re: 67 evening backdated

[oi_theoi]

become

change

overcome

grow

spread


mine

Re: 67 evening backdated

[thevineintervention]

I see.

Re: 67 evening backdated

[oi_theoi]

if you

are you

you

decide


seek out

fear

hope

attract


take its heart

what makes it

what gives it

strength

power

fear

return

return

or do not

Re: 67 evening backdated

[thevineintervention]

I will bring you its heart and I shall become rooted in it?

Re: 67 evening backdated

[oi_theoi]

[For a moment, you feel as if the ground was racing up INTO you through your roots and spreading their own, for everything that was accepted, something was taken... until it's hard to tell what was you and what was it anymore.


And then, the feeling is gone.]

and it in you

yours

your truth

Re: 67 evening backdated

[thevineintervention]

[ oh wow ]

Re: 67 evening backdated

[oi_theoi]

that is

that is

to know

to be

this

Re: 67 evening backdated

[thevineintervention]

[ just. nods. ]

Re: 67 evening backdated

[oi_theoi]

good



good

[Slowly, light begins to drift into the area around you, lifting the darkness in slow waves until you are standing again, outside of the shrine.]