oi_theoi | Ygin

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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[The air fills with the sound of splintering wood and rustling leaves as the strange plant sits up slowly, mimicking human movements.

It shudders, roots and leaves twitching spastically as its 'hands' seek the ground around it blindly until it comes across the snake's heart.

It lunges forward, and vegetation splits in an imitation of a maw, as the plant devours the flesh of the reptile. It tears and rends it, growing in size with every pronounced, wet swallow.

Covered in its fresh blood, it creaks as it turns to 'look' at the rest of the offerings, one after another.

You feel a cold sweat break across your skin as your own heart shudders, gives a heavy thump against your ribcage... and begins to beat in time with the bird's heart.]

[She presses her mouth tightly shut after first, quickly shifting to bite her lip in an attempt to force herself to remain still. This is what she wanted after all. She has to see it through . . . !]

[It isn't until her heart begins to match the beat of the bird's that she straightens up, fingers grasping tight at the cloth of her skirt and almost—only almost standing entirely and just bolting.]

[She feels the body heat and the strange, discordant slurry sound of an enormous body behind her, slouching inches over her back. A tongue slithers out, brushing across her face, and wrapping gently, almost lovingly around her neck.]

precious

dont run

dontrun

[Tenses up across her shoulders, clutching tightly at her skirt now with a whiteknuckled grip]

I'm not, I'm not. I need this.

good

good

[It bites down into the bird's heart, and you feel your own seize. Seconds tick by as it stays still in your chest. Your vision begins to swim as the now-human sized plant picks up the legs and puts them on like boots...

Stars blossom and threaten to dissolve your vision as you slide to one side, the gasping breaths you take seeming to do no good at all... and are caught by the strange creature chewing on the venom sack.

It tilts its sightless head and it wraps its arms around you...]

[Your heart leaps, surging back to life in a rush of mad adrenaline. Power rushes wildly through your veins, spreading through capillaries like roots, boils up in your stomach like laughter. Your mouth salivates, and the taste is sweet, your skin ripples and itches somehow, and your legs burn a moment, feet stretching, bones breaking and reforming for a single moment of brilliant pain, muscles reknit and you know, you know you could run or tear or run and run and run for ages and nothing could touch you, you could rip them first... and....]

[It's over, you are back in your own skin. You ache all over, from your hair to your toes, but it's a warm, centered feeling. Your lungs burn and your throat feels ragged. Around your neck, a talisman of a humanoid plant wraps around your neck with long, hemp arms.]

[She slumps forward as it begins, gasping out something like laughter that gives way into a pained cry. This really isn't what she was expecting at all, not that she could begin to say what she'd thought was going to happen before now . . .

She continues her forward fall even when it ends, catching herself on her forearms while she gasps to get her breath back, swallowing thickly]

. . . Done?

[The hand that touches her back, and reaches up to stroke her hair is tiny, barely more than a child's size.]

yes

yes

it is yours

you

[She doesn't rise yet, simply reaching up to grasp for that hand]

Thank you.

[It curls around yours, stubby fingers holding your own gently.]

well

welcome

come

Ygin

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