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trikotomy

Trikotomy writes nursery rhymes for children

Apr 22, 2015 23:27

I'm playing an excessively friendly tiefling bard in Pathfinder. And one of the things she does is sing lullabies to the party to help them drift off to sleep in the wilderness. So here's a collection of fun-filled rhymes and alliterations to share with the kids ( Read more... )

gaming, ideas

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_wastrel April 23 2015, 18:53:41 UTC

These are just the right level of gruesomeness for actual nursery rhymes, the more I stop and think about it. :D

Old Dead Bailey reminds me of a horror story Fenris posted a while back - you probably know the one I mean as a matter of fact.

A shrike is apparently either
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Lanius_ludovicianus_-Texas_-USA-8-4c.jpg
or
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/hyperioncantos/images/4/44/The_lord_and_the_colonel_by_abiogenisis-d6zpyow.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140720091200
I'm not sure which would be scarier.

If Morlien can "watch through sheets" he clearly already has eyes of hiw own. There goes all the sympathy I had for him for wanting some because he didn't have any. He's just greedy, not like ( ... )

trikotomy April 23 2015, 21:27:49 UTC

Fact: shrikes or "butcher birds" "are known for their habit of catching insects and small vertebrates and impaling their bodies on thorns, the spikes on barbed-wire fences or any available sharp point. This helps them to tear the flesh into smaller, more conveniently-sized fragments, and serves as a cache so that the shrike can return to the uneaten portions at a later time."

Mr. Morlien is an old straight-razor murderer boogeyman guy I used to run as a Changeling character. He did in fact have eyes but they were invisible, so he appeared to have empty sockets which were hidden behind a pair of glacier glasses. Victims' eyes were swallowed, becoming part of the Breathstealer, an inky black mass living in his stomach. He would expel the monster in combat - which would in turn expel all the eyes as individual monsters to attack or perform other party functions (such as healing allies' wounds... by filling them with their own hideous mass). Yeah. I bought up quite an impressive hive of hidden horribleness but combat was actually pretty ( ... )