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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I don't know. Their roommates . . . ? A red headed woman and some other people . . .

[More detailed descriptions of Jane and her alien buddies along with Isabella the smoking hot pirate go here]

Edited 2012-10-30 04:01 (UTC)

[There's no answer, no reaction. The shrine room is quiet, terribly quiet and empty.

Instead, there's the tense silence of something listening... There's the itchy feeling between your shoulders, prickling up the back of your neck that something is WATCHING.]

[Someone is coping on his own, dealing with the fact that he's going to be okay. But his memories- and this apparent form- Maybe he should try? ]

...

[Yes he wants to warn the others and he will, but he goes to Leo first, a hand reaching out to touch his shoulder gently]

Leo, are you okay?

I still don't remember, but...

... S-Something is watching us.

You will.. [he has to believe this or he might not be able to be so sane right now]

Yeah.. I'm not that surprised. [But it's such an eerie feeling he still moves closer to Leo, a hand at the small of his back]

[It simply intensifies as you talk, almost as if someone is pressing a finger lightly onto your spine, just under the skin.]

[This doesn't qualify as in danger, but all his discreet pushes are still there, and his fingers are digging against the floor.]

[W-Willing shift!, lowers, staring at the shadows, prowling without moving.]

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[ swallows heavily, animal instincts suddenly alert ]

You feel it too?

[ nods, eyes on the shadows ]

. . . [deep breath]

We'll be alright with everyone here.

[The ground trembles under your feet...

Still the air is saturated with the scent of Ygin.]

Mother . . . he is safe . . . we'll protect him from here . . .

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They were probably just trying to help.

[SAID KIND OF, LOUDER THAN NECESSARY]

Did Leo warn them at all?

If that was helping, then their idea of helping was being completely willing to kill me. I don't really care what they did or didn't know when that's how they want to handle things.

[ was that an angry choking noise? yyyep sure was ]

I'll kill those fuckers myeslf—

[There's an echoing growl, mirroring the octave of your rage perfectly.]

[ I like you a little more now, creepy blob god thing ]

Neither of you are allowed to go after them for me.

[She sounds quite a bit less sure of herself than usual, uneasy about trying to order a god, but the attempt at sounding stern is there.]

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[siiigh]

What actually happened?

You think I don't know when someone's trying to kill me?

They were attacking him. He was fighting back like anyone would while they tried to force his talisman away from him. While they cut him up and crippled him and attacked anyone who was trying to protect him. One woman tried to gut me, and another threatened to shoot me in the head when I tried to check on Leo after they did . . . this.

They even hurt Elliot, and he's not one of us at all.

Not that, just ah... this is going to sound really jaded? But sometimes people try to kill other people. Sometimes if you've been that person it's the obvious solution when a stranger tries to get in the way of you taking away a thing that's turning your friend into a monster.

But we don't have to be those people. At the very least it's not too much to talk to them before we decide on anything else, right?

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[ just watching everything warily for now ]