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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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[Peering at the wall, aaaah this god is scary and I'm scared :( Takes a deep breath and hesitantly places her hand inside, is it safe to go in here...]

Edited 2012-06-27 14:58 (UTC)

[okay he's been curious about this for a while now and since it is TOO RAINY to go outside much going to stare at this portal for a while and then sigh and walk in]

Yooo, this is Ygin-sama's place, right?

[Following some discussions with another pair of gods, Breeze is approaching the shrine. She'd been putting it off—and maybe it would be better to put this off and come back in the morning . . . But no, she wants to get this taken care of while her thoughts are fresh in her mind.]

[Sticks a hand into the hole, leaning forward juuust slightly to try to make out whether anything's in there or not]

Hello . . . ?

[ It doesn't matter how hard of a battle worn soldier or how brave any of them are, everyone in this room is nervous to blow out their candles one by one. They've noticed the shrine for Ygin wasn't on the 4th Level where the others moved to, and it's too pressing to wait until they can get downstairs. There's a hesitation before the last candle goes out, and each of them has a hand on another don't lose track of each other in the darkness--

Leo is the first to ask, unsure if it'll work.]

Ygin?

[It takes a while but eventually Kida has gathered up all the needed parts from teh dragon hunt earlier that day: red lizagon heart, teeth, eyes, claws, tail, wings, and a long vineconda spine and skin. Everything has been put into urns that he carefully puts inside Ygin's hole before stepping in himself.]

[ SOMETIMES you just have too many feelings and Junji Ito on into a shrine ]

. . . ah? This is . . .

[ He's trudged through the third floor in the water. Whenever he comes across a light, he jumps and smashes the fixture with a rock, then continues to the next one until he reaches the shrine area - mostly abandoned.

Except he's promised to come, and stay awhile as payment for getting them safely to and from Ygin's realm. Still, he hesitates at the opening as if he's not sure this is the right place at all.]

...

[Entering the hole is pretty natural to Yukari, since her primary mode of transportation is, well, stepping into infinite black holes of nothingness. The sudden loss of senses is interesting, though. She reaches out, curious to see if there is anything to feel.]

Ygin, Ygin. Come out and play with me, please?

Edited 2012-08-12 01:27 (UTC)

[Curiously looking at all the shrines and kind of wondering how they all work, having not seen the directory yet. As he's walking around each one, the dark patch of Ygin's shrine catches his eye and he leans to one side to get a better look.]

Eh, a hole...? It actually looks kind of like a tear... I wonder why no one's filled it in or something, what if someone fell in...

[WELP, coming a little closer to see if it's just a trick of the light and there's actually something in there]

[ To say he looks like shit is an understatement. Leo has gone through the ringer today, and hastily applied bandages were all that lets him out of everyone's sight for even five minutes to come to the shrine. He's dragging several pieces of a canopy moss lion: claws, eyes, teeth, and fur, along with its alarmingly beating heart into Ygin's shrine wrapped up in his own red cloak. Cuts and bruises are the least of his worries; There's dried blood on his forehead and his arm has been mauled, and the bones are broken. The concussion he had earlier is mild now in comparison.

Elliot had to pry his sword out of Leo's fingers when they found him. When he thinks about it, a surge of adrenaline pumps through him again, and he has to take a deep breath to calm himself and step forward. The instant darkness is disconcerting and he loses his bearings with the first few rushed steps. Vertigo washes over him until his knuckles turn white gripping the cloak-bag and he has to stop moving. Any sign of the exit is gone. The beating heart is the only thing he can hear at first. When he speaks, it's exhaustive, words drawn out in tired partial sentences.]

Ygin? I'm back..
I brought them..

[ She's exhausted but mostly uninjured when she comes back. She's really only made a cursory attempt as cleaning herself up, so there is still plenty of blood under her nails, in her hair, staining her dress. The bundle she's carrying barely fits in her arms. Inside are the heart, spines, a claw, the jawbone and cloaca/uteran track of a great red worm, all wrapped reverently in the leather of its wings. Even the packaging, however, can not disguised the slow, steady, sucking beat of the heart. It's all seeping blood slowly, which despite her best efforts is falling to the shrine room floor in fat red splatters.

She takes a deep, steadying breath offering her haul into the darkness. ]

I have what it wanted, I think.

[After spending some time examining the newly available priest information, Breeze is making her way over to Ygin's hole and . . . with a bit of hesitation, shoving an arm into it.]

I have another question for you.

[One of your priests is skidding into the shadows on level four at a full run, smearing blood across the floor and furiously scratching at his moss covered forearms with his own claws, growling and snapping, eyes wild and branched spikes sticking a few inches out of his spine. He's just had an encounter with something completely unknown, in fact, he couldn't even describe what it looks like to you.]

[ Hesitating at the. hole. in the wall...

Half-curiously and mostly uncertain, dipping her fingers into it. ]

Edited (got messed up by day numbers :x) 2012-09-11 16:54 (UTC)

[ WELL ME AND THIS MONKEY CORPSE HAVE SHIT TO DO, but it's good to take breaks to explore dark crevices periodically ]

Shh! Shhhhhhh...

[Breeze has returned! She's lugging various bodyparts from a selection of animals with her . . . and an entire plant that bears a disturbing resemblance to a tiny human.

Shoves a hand into the hole to alert it she's there]

I, um. I couldn't figure out how to get a heart from a plant, but . . . I brought everything I need.

[Those reaching out to Ygin's domain have been concentrated in the headquarters, but this rumbling deep within the forest, a good distance away from the second headquarters, has the scent of your domain on it. It's a dark creature, shoulders level with the ground around seven feet tall, and with its head raised, nearly eight. It is undeniably large, claws digging into the ground and vines and leaves, vegetative debris litter its coat, smeared with blood. Broken trees have laid a path of war and waste in the forest, slaughtered remains of creatures and plants alike, and it has come to rest, exhausted, in the rotten remains of this tree, pressed into the decay of dry moss and spilling blood across the soil.]

[TOOK A NAP AND WOKE UP FULL OF POLLEN coming here to yell at Ygin now because WHY NOT. This is certainly not a bad decision at all.]

Ygin-san!

[From here!]

[The directory's down, but as she approaches the wall she thinks she has a pretty good idea of how she's supposed to get this God's attention.]

Walk in, right?

Edited 2012-10-12 01:28 (UTC)

[having recently spent a lot of time in the company of various Weres and feeling it when they shift, it's easy for him to tell that the effects of what Ygin did has been steadily wearing off.

So here he is again, standing in front of the dark hole in the wall, more reluctant than ever, but knowing this is a rare chance to talk to Ygin while he's conscious without worrying about transforming midway through the conversation.

Takes a deep breath...]

[There's a whole pack of weres visiting the shrine today. (Possibly with a couple of stalkers totally stealthily sneaking along with them.) They look pretty serious.]

Ygin . . . ?

[Maybe if Gary cared more about dying and all that crap he would be more hesitant to step into this large black hole, but he's not so...

...stepping inside.]

[this half-deimos commander is visiting several shrines in one go, in effort to persuade gods into nixing the whole 'kidnap dead people' thing. LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS]

I'm supposed to go into there. . .? Strange.

[but he is entering. TOTALLY LEGIT]

[Jiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

[He's always been terrible at letting himself into someone's place normally. He leans in first, but it doesn't take long before he comes barging right into the hole, hi there]

Hellooo?

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Day 57, evening

Day 61, Evening

Day 64, Night

Day 67, Night [ Sigma ]

Day 68, Late afternoon

67 evening backdated

Day 68, Near Midnight