Re: The Forever Tree/The rebirth!
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:31 pm
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Bloat wrote:”EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
Infamous Nightmare-Men:Prior to the Green Star’s passage, Bloat was an Italian merchant from Genoa, who even then was of dubious sanity...
Infamous Nightmare-Men:The Dreaming Childe is only nominally a member of the Nightmare-Carnival, but is still nonetheless one of the eleven superbeing members...!
The Briar-King's "son": Kerberus.The Briar-King wrote:"..."
Pumpkinhead, basically, an automaton bent on murder...
Kerberus is not a separate entity, and thus does not technically count as a member of the Nightmare-Carnival.
Infamous Nightmare-Men:Here’s the Briar-King and Kerberus. Every supers setting needs a creepy, horror-themed villain... Or at least I think so!
The Night's Mare wrote:"The strong do as they please. This is the ONLY law."
Infamous Nightmare-Men:Even a Cthulhu-circus needs a big dumb brute...!
The Wither-Man wrote:"All life derives from death. What I do is no more unnatural than any beast of the field! It is as...'God'...intended...!"
Infamous Nightmare-Men:The Wither-Man is the closest thing to a ‘traditional’ vampire Earth-G currently has.
The masks he wears must resemble insects, but can be made from virtually any material. They need not be 'prepared' in any manner.
The Eleven-in-One wrote:"WE ARE MANY. WE ARE ONE."
Infamous Nightmare-Men:The Eleven-in-One is basically a Hellraiser Cenobite in a superhero setting. "We have such sights to show you..." and all that.
Seigfried the Beasttamer wrote:"God is not in Heaven. God is within, and he is hungry! Let us feed him!"
Infamous Nightmare-Men:If a Tzimisce from the old World of Darkness ever became a supervillain, he would be Seigfried the Beasttamer.
What did Sigfried contact, you ask? Well...Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhthaghn!
As is said oftentimes by Francis,my Earth-G Musketeer: "it always feels good to see a familiar road...."Hoid wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2017 12:10 am The Nightmare-Men of the Nightmare-Carnival:
Found in the Scottish moors, the Nightmare-Men are a madcap assembly of freaks, cannibals and quasi-demonic sociopaths. A nest of evil if ever there was one, the Nightmare-Men dwell in the Nightmare-Carnival, a witchlands of the most horrific sort.
The Nightmare-Men are "led" (if that notion even applies to such an anarchic host) by the Briar-King. They hold bizarre and terrifying rituals the first new moon of each month, ceremonies that honor hideous things that may or may not even be real.
The Nightmare-Carnival:
Powers: [38pp.]
The Carnival of Nightmares: Dream Control 6 (Flaws: Limited [nightmares ONLY]). [12pp.] Emotion Control 11 (Flaws: One Emotion Only [fear]), [11pp.] Enhanced Feats: 11 (natural landscape that eerily resembles the layout of a medieval carnival with brightly colored rock ‘walls’ and so forth [HQ]). [11pp.] — [34pp.]
Daemonic Attendents: Enhanced Feats: Minions 4 (devilish thoughtforms masquerading as carnival-workers; each built on PL3/15pp; x3 numbers). [4pp.]
—/>_-This is a completed Nightmare-Carnival witchlands build.
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Infamous Nightmare-Men:
The Briar-King:
Crunch writeup:
PL10/149pp. Not all Starborn are Christian. Not all Starborn are European natives. And most of all...---not all Starborn are benevolent. Some, like the Briar-King, are evil incarnate.
Of unknown origin, the Briar-King is mute and seemingly incapable of any form of communication. Reshaped by the Green Star into a pumpkin-headed, gaunt horror, the Briar-King alone may access "the Briar Patch"---a highly symbolic realm that serves to transport the Briar-King from tree to tree; i.e., his Transmit power.
But the Briar-King's true horror is his ability to strangle an animal to death with his bare hands and reanimate its corpse with a single seed plucked from his own head. These undead beasts serve the Briar-King faithfully, and're nigh-unkillable.
The Briar-King dwells in the moors of Scotland. There, in the strange, non-Euclidian Nightmare-Carnival, the Briar-King and his fellow Nightmare-Men dream up psychedelic terrors to inflict upon Christendom...
The Briar-King wrote:"..."The Briar-King's "son": Kerberus.Every supers setting needs a creepy, horror-themed villain... Or at least I think so!
Though many mistake him as such, Kerberus is not a Starborn; rather, he is an extension of the Briar-King, brought to life by the Protean's warping touch. A 2' tall simulacrum made of mud, sticks and hay, Kerberus is literally an avatar of the Briar-King: they are literally one mind in two bodies.
Wherever the Briar-King goes, so, too, goes Kerberus, more faithful than any hound.
Infamous Nightmare-Men:Pumpkinhead, basically, an automaton bent on murder...
The Night's Mare:
Crunch writeup:
A horse-headed giantess, originally an Arab Silk Road merchant’s wife dealing in exotic luxury goods, the Night's Mare was transformed into her present state while deeply intoxicated. ("When in Rome...") This led to her brain chemistry forever warping, turning a formerly avaricious coward to a sadist and a warmonger.
Blessed with immense strength, the Night's Mare has a horse's head and bones that cannot break. (She is not otherwise protected from damage.) The Night's Mare has feet instead of hooves, but she does have a very large horsetail.
Having joined the Nightmare-Carnival in the Scottish moors, the Night's Mare is a brute, a primitive sadist and a woman in love with causing misery. The Scottish fear the Night's Mare more than any other Nightmare-Man!
The Night's Mare is extremely good friends with fellow Nightmare-Man the Wither-Man.
The Night's Mare wrote:"The strong do as they please. This is the ONLY law."Infamous Nightmare-Men:Even a Cthulhu-circus needs a big dumb brute...!
The Wither-Man:
Crunch writeup:
Being hanged at the moment of his empowerment, the Wither-Man survived...sort of. Wearing an insect-mask that becomes his face while wearing it, the Irish Wither-Man escaped his dubious fate by slipping the noose and murdering everyone present. Blessed with unnatural flexibility and the living "masks" he dons, the Wither-Man is extremely dangerous.
But....the Wither-Man is dying. The Wither-Man is immortal. For him to live forever, others must die. A living corpse, perpetually at the moment of death, the Wither-Man staves off the inevitable by driving his insect-mask proboscis into a victim's neck, drinking their blood. He must feed hourly, or his own status will kill him.
The Wither-Man was easily recruited to the Nightmare-Men; he and the Night's Mare are extremely close friends.
The Wither-Man wrote:"All life derives from death. What I do is no more unnatural than any beast of the field! It is as...'God'...intended...!"Infamous Nightmare-Men:The Wither-Man is the closest thing to a ‘traditional’ vampire Earth-G currently has.
The masks he wears must resemble insects, but can be made from virtually any material. They need not be 'prepared' in any manner.
The Eleven-in-One:
Crunch writeup:
The Eleven-in-One is a horrifying abomination: 11 men "melted" into one monstrous whole by Sigfreid the Beasttamer, a lunatic "flesh artist" Starborn living in Scotland. The Eleven-in-One is now inseparable even by 21st Century medical standards, am amalgam warped and bent.
But that's only the beginning: the Briar-King caught the Eleven-in-One and became "artistic" with them. By way of gross disfigurement, horrifying "surgery" and cruel torture, the Briar-King made the Eleven-in-One "pleasing" to his eyes.
The Eleven-in-One live every moment in pain, their sanities shattered by the hell they must endure. But, they are NOT helpless wretches, as they allieviate their own suffering by inflicting great cruelties on others.
The Eleven-in-One belong to the Nightmare-Carnival.
The Eleven-in-One wrote:"WE ARE MANY. WE ARE ONE."Infamous Nightmare-Men:The Eleven-in-One is basically a Hellraiser Cenobite in a superhero setting. "We have such sights to show you..." and all that.
Seigfried the Beasttamer:
Crunch writeup:
A corpulent, morbidly obese brick, Seigfried the Beasttamer has a most unusual set of powers. One, his stomach, on the inside, is infinite. Two, he can dislocate both upper and lower jaws. Three, he can eat anything safely and digest it safely, assuming he can swallow it: this includes rocks, dagger and swords, napalm and even plutonium rods. And finally, anything he eats, he can instead choose to vomit it back up into disgusting new configurations. (This is how Seigfried the Beasttamer created the Eleven-in-One.)
Seigfried is one of the few Starborn to have actually been driven insane by his empowerment. He has access to "genetic memories" of every living hing he eats, and, one day, he...made contact. With something inside the DNA of all creatures on Earth. This...something...was so vast and so alien merely acknowledging its existence drove Seigfried mad.
Seigfried the Beasttamer is a member-in-good-standing of the Nightmare-Men.
Seigfried the Beasttamer wrote:"God is not in Heaven. God is within, and he is hungry! Let us feed him!"If a Tzimisce from the old World of Darkness ever became a supervillain, he would be Seigfried the Beasttamer.
What did Sigfried contact, you ask? Well...Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhthaghn!