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<blockquote data-quote="Kesh" data-source="post: 2885027" data-attributes="member: 1308"><p>Borrow heavily from any weird TV show or movie you can find. The snake-bracelet reminds me of something they pulled on the most recent <em>Stargate: SG-1</em> season, so you could have fun that way.</p><p></p><p><em>Stargate: Atlantis</em> has the wraith, a race of human-insect hybrids that feed of the life energy of humans. A form of vampire-aberration could be fun, especially the classic Vampire Illithid. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>The <em>Hellraiser</em> movies are always a good inspiration for Dragon Below worshippers, who are often involved in the affairs of aberrations. They could meet a small group of cultists, heavily self-mutilated and with aberration grafts. (See <em>Lords of Madness</em>... actually that whole book is perfect for what you want. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )</p><p></p><p>Any sci-fi show involving "organic technology" can be modified into aberrant items. Living ships (<em>Farscape</em>), implanted weapons, etc.</p><p></p><p>If you involve mind flayers, you can always use intellect devourers. Play up how they resemble all kinds of nasty little things: headcrabs from <em>Half-Life</em>, facehuggers from <em>Alien</em>, etc. Touches like that can help creep out the players. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>That's going to be the biggest challenge: keeping the players on their toes. After a while, they start to get used to non-Euclidean geometry and weird walls... but throw something they semi-recognize at them, and it becomes scary again. It needs to be weird, but something they can still relate to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kesh, post: 2885027, member: 1308"] Borrow heavily from any weird TV show or movie you can find. The snake-bracelet reminds me of something they pulled on the most recent [i]Stargate: SG-1[/i] season, so you could have fun that way. [i]Stargate: Atlantis[/i] has the wraith, a race of human-insect hybrids that feed of the life energy of humans. A form of vampire-aberration could be fun, especially the classic Vampire Illithid. :D The [i]Hellraiser[/i] movies are always a good inspiration for Dragon Below worshippers, who are often involved in the affairs of aberrations. They could meet a small group of cultists, heavily self-mutilated and with aberration grafts. (See [i]Lords of Madness[/i]... actually that whole book is perfect for what you want. :) ) Any sci-fi show involving "organic technology" can be modified into aberrant items. Living ships ([i]Farscape[/i]), implanted weapons, etc. If you involve mind flayers, you can always use intellect devourers. Play up how they resemble all kinds of nasty little things: headcrabs from [i]Half-Life[/i], facehuggers from [i]Alien[/i], etc. Touches like that can help creep out the players. ;) That's going to be the biggest challenge: keeping the players on their toes. After a while, they start to get used to non-Euclidean geometry and weird walls... but throw something they semi-recognize at them, and it becomes scary again. It needs to be weird, but something they can still relate to. [/QUOTE]
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