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[Cheesecake]

To fear the dark is not to fear the darkness itself, but what lurks there.

But what does lurk there? What creeps and crawls, slithers and stalks, watches and waits? Something dangerous? Something frightening? Something more?

Something secret?

On one Sunday night, you found what lurked there. Perhaps it found you. Either way, both of you are now simply two halves of a whole, two sides of a moon, two names of one being.

Where did you find it?

A. Beneath your bed. You saw it in your dreams.
B. Beneath the sea. It sang to you in crashing waves.
C. Above the sky. It wrote in the stars.

When you saw it, it was:

A. Caged. It will be freed.
B. Sleeping. It will be awoken.
C. Dead. It will be reborn.

Spoiler: Mechanics (click to show/hide)

A caged Thing is the easiest to bring into the world, yet the least powerful and among the youngest of the Things.

A sleeping Thing is guaranteed entrance into the world, yet it is the hardest to maintain before it sleeps again.

A dead Thing is from before time, and before the concept of life was created. It is the hardest to convince to live, yet it is akin to a god.

It spoke to you, and it gave you its:

A. Face. One side is frighteningly beautiful, the other beautifully frightening.
B. Voice. Command like a king, whisper like a shadow.
C. Body. Though it becomes twisted and hollow like a gnarled glade, you are unchained by biology.

Now your name is its name, and its name yours. Perhaps they will be sung in worship, or feared forever, or lost in eternity, only found in the deepest, darkest dreams.

What are they?

Mortal Name:
Thing's Title: (Examples: The Hunger Unending, Star-crowned Sleeper, She of the Sunken-Heavens.)

[NRDL]

*Cracks Knuckles*

B. Beneath the sea.  All the scary shit comes from the sea

C.  Dead.  Strange aeons have passed, wakey wakey

C. Tentaclestentaclestentaclestentaclestentaclesplease

Mortal Name: Jeremy Saxton

Thing's Title: That which sleeps One Beneath All

[Maegil]

C. Tentaclestentaclestentaclestentaclestentaclesplease

Mortal Name: Jeremy Saxton

Are you sure? Wasn't it Toshio Maeda or something like that from thereabout?

[TheBiggerFish]

Above the Sky.

Dead, extinguished, left as but dust of a nebula.

Body.  We are but a breath of the solar winds of a forgotten star, or the flame of a solar flare.

Mortal Name:Aeidis Astra
Title:That Of The Stars Of Deep And Gloaming.

[Funk]

*Cracks Knuckles*

B. Beneath the sea.  All the scary shit comes from the sea

C.  Dead.  Strange aeons have passed, wakey wakey

C. Tentaclestentaclestentaclestentaclestentaclesplease

Mortal Name: Jeremy Saxton

Thing's Title: That which sleeps One Beneath All

+1

[TheBiggerFish]

Awwwh, can we not do a Cthulhu expy?

[Maegil]

Above the Sky.

Dead, extinguished, left as but dust of a nebula.

Body.  We are but a breath of the solar winds of a forgotten star, or the flame of a solar flare.

Mortal Name:Aeidis Astra
Title:That Of The Stars Of Deep And Gloaming.

Awwwh, can we not do a Cthulhu expy?

+1

However, if we do end up making one, it absolutely must include a Japanese MC, sushi, hentai, and a giant mecha.

[TheBiggerFish]

I agree with Maegil.

[Gwolfski]

I agree with Maegil.

I agree to Fish's agreement. I also want Cthulu.

[TheBiggerFish]

But
Those are
Kinda contradictory.

[Maegil]

But
Those are
Kinda contradictory.

Nope, he's saying that he wants Cthulhu with a Japanese MC, sushi, hentai, and a giant mecha. That'll work for me, too!

[Yourmaster]

Above the Sky.

Dead, extinguished, left as but dust of a nebula.

Body.  We are but a breath of the solar winds of a forgotten star, or the flame of a solar flare.

Mortal Name:Aeidis Astra
Title:That Of The Stars Of Deep And Gloaming.

Awwwh, can we not do a Cthulhu expy?

+1

+1

[ATHATH]

Above the Sky.

Dead, extinguished, left as but dust of a nebula.

Body.  We are but a breath of the solar winds of a forgotten star, or the flame of a solar flare.

Mortal Name:Aeidis Astra
Title:That Of The Stars Of Deep And Gloaming.

Awwwh, can we not do a Cthulhu expy?

+1

+1

+1

[S34N1C]

C

C

B

Mortal Name: Joshua Graham

Thing's Title: Hope's End

[Prophet]

*Cracks Knuckles*

B. Beneath the sea.  All the scary shit comes from the sea

C.  Dead.  Strange aeons have passed, wakey wakey

C. Tentaclestentaclestentaclestentaclestentaclesplease

Mortal Name: Jeremy Saxton

Thing's Title: That which sleeps One Beneath All

+1

+1