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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4701185" data-attributes="member: 18280">Flavour Text for the Gibbering Ghost (Allip re-write)A gibbering ghost is sometimes created when an intelligent being dies in terror and madness.&nbsp; Usually, the circumstances that can create a gibbering ghost only affect a single creature.&nbsp; For instance, a gibbering ghost may be created by a creature that survives a fall into a pit or well, but thereafter starves, unable to escape, or from some unfortunate soul unlucky enough to have been mistaken for dead and buried alive.&nbsp; Sometimes a natural disaster, a collapsing building or bridge, or similar set of circumstances creates several gibbering ghosts at once.&nbsp; These ghosts have also arisen from those who die in prisons or sanatoriums.&nbsp; Gibbering ghosts are often heard as a faint – but persistent – babbling, while remaining incorporeal and invisible.&nbsp; When a gibbering ghost is visible, it might appear as it did in life, except for the evident madness in its gaze, or it might appear like a roiling cloud of shadows.&nbsp; A gibbering ghost that manages to possess another creature often has a specific goal in mind.&nbsp; This goal might even have been a rational one, given the circumstances of the ghost’s life or death, but the means by which the ghost attempts to achieve its goals are insane.&nbsp; Thus a gibbering ghost might wish to escape the cell it died in, but will ignore the open cell door – instead trying to complete the tunnel it was digging in the wall when it died.&nbsp; Any attempt to coerce the possessed creature into another course of action is resisted with manic intensity...and equally manic violence.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 4701185, member: 18280"] [b]Flavour Text for the Gibbering Ghost (Allip re-write)[/b] A gibbering ghost is sometimes created when an intelligent being dies in terror and madness. Usually, the circumstances that can create a gibbering ghost only affect a single creature. For instance, a gibbering ghost may be created by a creature that survives a fall into a pit or well, but thereafter starves, unable to escape, or from some unfortunate soul unlucky enough to have been mistaken for dead and buried alive. Sometimes a natural disaster, a collapsing building or bridge, or similar set of circumstances creates several gibbering ghosts at once. These ghosts have also arisen from those who die in prisons or sanatoriums. Gibbering ghosts are often heard as a faint – but persistent – babbling, while remaining incorporeal and invisible. When a gibbering ghost is visible, it might appear as it did in life, except for the evident madness in its gaze, or it might appear like a roiling cloud of shadows. A gibbering ghost that manages to possess another creature often has a specific goal in mind. This goal might even have been a rational one, given the circumstances of the ghost’s life or death, but the means by which the ghost attempts to achieve its goals are insane. Thus a gibbering ghost might wish to escape the cell it died in, but will ignore the open cell door – instead trying to complete the tunnel it was digging in the wall when it died. Any attempt to coerce the possessed creature into another course of action is resisted with manic intensity...and equally manic violence. [/QUOTE]

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