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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psychotic Jim" data-source="post: 5712853" data-attributes="member: 547">Hmmm, the thing with living dolls that I always makes them the creepiest is playing up the <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UncannyValley" target="_blank">Uncanny Valley - Television Tropes & Idioms</a> aspects of it, playing them as disturbingly humanlike but also disturbingly not. Like describing the dolls as having the big, child-like soulful eyes looking at you, but then then describing how the glassy hollowness that seems to be gazing into your very soul sorta thing. Victorian era type porcelain dolls seem to work particularly well with this style. Following this logic, if you can find music that are creepy take offs on children's rhymes, nursery songs, etc, that might help build atmosphere.Also, remember with dolls that can switch bodies you can go into the whole "invasion of the body snatchers" sorta thing. IIRC, all the people of that domain are children, so you can have some of the carrionettes take over some of the children and use them to manipulate the PCs into vulnerable positions.  Then watch as your players get paranoid. Of course, use tact and discretion with this, as usual. Finally, don't forget about false alarms. You can always mix in normal dolls and toys to fake out your players and make trigger happy pcs waste their resources (by calling for initiative prematurely, etc).</blockquote>