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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

[Oh how disgustingly nostalgic]

Hello. I was wondering if I could talk to you about your priests for a bit?

[Something large brushes across your back.]

y

may

[Doesn't flinch, smile Julia smile :)]

Thank you. Mm, they all made that choice on their own, didn't they? And some of them seem really passionate about it, you've given them something they think precious... But, the ones I've met, they're not very good at controlling themselves.

[The silence stretches out.]

It's true, isn't it? When they use their powers, they forget themselves.

no

no

they learn

themselves

better

learn

discover

find

take

But they don't remember any of it.

[Something slides over your shoulder with the strange, clenching undulations of a snake and drops down your torso.]

not that self

the one

that screams

hides

berates

hates

loathes

tears

no

had no

before

now

voice

[Still not moving]

I'm sorry, but you're going to have to explain to me how that works. I don't have a lot of information on it, you see, I can only guess. So please tell me about the weres before I make any more assumptions.

to

know

want?

Yes, please.

[All contact vanishes, simply evaporates.]

open

open

mouth

This is going to be unpleasant, isn't it.

[Welp LET'S MAKE THIS GOOD DECISION, opens up]

[A human finger, cold and vaguely tangy in taste, settles on your tongue. It feels along the muscle, the inside of your cheek, and finally presses against the roof of your mouth.

Then the tip of it slips up through it. Around metal plates and undead bone... into something else, it wraps and wraps and-]

[A little dolly toddles along, its sewn up of all the parts, horns and fangs, hooves and wings and something formless that just drags.

It toddles with another that is pretty, so pretty. It strides.

They hold hands.]

[But as they walk the pretty one looks at the ugly one and lets go.. it runs ahead.

The horrordoll slithers after.]

[Now the pretty doll is in the light. It walks confidently and talks with other dollies, but the other stays behind.

No one can see it.

It tries to hold the other dolly's hand. It doesn't feel it.

It claws at its back.]

[It shouts and screams.

It pulls on them, but they just shudder.

Every time it stomps, it gets bigger, wronger.

Its drool begins to fill the floor.

It hulks over the other dollies.]

[Finally you can hear it's scream.

It pours itself into the other dolly's mouth.

The pretty dolly collapses in on itself.]

[You see slender shoulders and golden hair. You feel rolling focused terror and defensive pride. I AM NOT HELPLESS! THIS WILL NOT CONTROL ME!]

[You see long frizzy black hair tangled with moss. You feel insecurity, you feel like drowning. I'M HERE! MY VOICE IS HERE! THIS IS MY LIFE!]

[You see auburn hair tangled with flowers and scales spread across delicate shoulders. THIS IS NOT OKAY! I DON'T LIKE THIS! I AM ALLOWED TO CARE!]

[You see pigtails fanning over the base of wings. I CAN HOLD MY OWN GROUND! I AM STRONG! I CAN BE ON MY OWN.]

[You see hunched shoulders, shadows running black over pale skin. I AM NOT A MONSTER! I'M NOT THIS! I DON'T HAVE TO HURT THEM!]

[You feel something claw at your bac-]

[You are standing in the darkness.]

['Standing' is a bit optimistic]

[You splash into something warm as you collapse.]

[Shudders]

Haaaa... haha, so it's like that is it? I get it, I get it. Mm, I knew they had to have their reasons, I understood that, but what you're showing....

[Stands]

They are not monsters. And they deserve everything you've given them a chance to be. But you've given them even more than that, they could hurt people. People could hurt them for things they can't control. That's the fear I'm trying to face here.

fear

is fear

is fear

they

do not run

don't run

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