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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8846065" data-attributes="member: 6790260">You'd probably appreciate the very excellent <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/237544/The-Gardens-Of-Ynn" target="_blank">The Gardens of Ynn</a> supplement. (For clarity, I get nothing out of these links. I just really liked the author's work.) I gussied it up a bit, extended it in ways appropriate for my campaign and such, but it definitely scratches itches like &quot;this is weird and not just goofy-nonsensical, this is disturbing without being crass or simplistically gross.&quot;One of my favorite additions that I made was the &quot;Organ&quot;ic Art display. The Sidhe (Arabized as &quot;Shi&quot; for my campaign) somehow created a series of sculptures which each feature a single (except the kidneys and the lungs, which were each a pair), perfectly healthy, perfectly functional humanoid organ, floating inside an impregnable glass-like tube seemingly full of water (or a liquid resembling water.) These organs had to have been present there, without maintenance or even cleaning, for centuries without dying or altering in any perceptible way, yet the heart continues to pump even today. (Careful examination reveals that the organs were probably engineered, as they're a little too aesthetically idealized to be real organs--and, more importantly, they don't seem to have come from the same species of being, instead having been chosen from different species to make a more pleasing artistic arrangement, rather than for being anatomically consistent.)The players found it precisely the level of &quot;really, really creepy, but not actually horrifying&quot; that I was angling for.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8846065, member: 6790260"] You'd probably appreciate the very excellent [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/237544/The-Gardens-Of-Ynn']The Gardens of Ynn[/URL] supplement. (For clarity, I get nothing out of these links. I just really liked the author's work.) I gussied it up a bit, extended it in ways appropriate for my campaign and such, but it definitely scratches itches like "this is [I]weird[/I] and not just goofy-nonsensical, this is [I]disturbing[/I] without being crass or simplistically gross." One of my favorite additions that I made was the "Organ"ic Art display. The Sidhe (Arabized as "Shi" for my campaign) somehow created a series of sculptures which each feature a single (except the kidneys and the lungs, which were each a pair), perfectly healthy, perfectly functional humanoid organ, floating inside an impregnable glass-like tube seemingly full of water (or a liquid resembling water.) These organs had to have been present there, without maintenance or even cleaning, for [I]centuries[/I] without dying or altering in any perceptible way, yet the heart continues to pump even today. (Careful examination reveals that the organs were probably engineered, as they're a little too aesthetically idealized to be real organs--and, more importantly, they don't seem to have come from the same species of being, instead having been chosen from different species to make a more pleasing artistic arrangement, rather than for being anatomically consistent.) The players found it precisely the level of "really, really creepy, but not actually [I]horrifying[/I]" that I was angling for. [/QUOTE]

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