Leliel
2009-04-12, 06:37 PM
Well, an idea of mine is bringing that most creepy of mist-shrouded villages, Silent Hill into a nWoD game, with supernaturals (OK, I got the idea from a different forum, but meh). Given that the PCs are going to be, shall we say, rather more powerful than the average SH protagonist, I've decided to up the ante and make the Pyramid Head-like nigh-invicible monster a thinking monster, ie, he plans on how to harry/help the protagoist.
Basically, he-who I like to call the Rasping Surgeon-was originally the Silent Hill-manufactured creature representing an abortion clinc bomber's guilt over killing one of the doctors. When the Surgeon sucessfully killed him, the consciousness of the town decided to keep him on as an all-purpose guilt manifestation-this one for punishing acts the current victim(s) is fully aware of and know was wrong (unlike James, who went into denial), but are still trying to consciously rationalize. Unlike many SH monsters, he posesses a fernetic and cunning intellect, although he still can't communicate vocally-as the description "Rasping" suggests, he's missing most of his larynx.
The trouble is, I'm not quite sure how to show a monster who obviously can't speak anything other that "<Hhhhhrrrsszzz *wheeze*>" as an intelligent, cunning creature who has the ability to plan ahead.
So how would you make a Silent Hill-esque monster with a brain?
Basically, he-who I like to call the Rasping Surgeon-was originally the Silent Hill-manufactured creature representing an abortion clinc bomber's guilt over killing one of the doctors. When the Surgeon sucessfully killed him, the consciousness of the town decided to keep him on as an all-purpose guilt manifestation-this one for punishing acts the current victim(s) is fully aware of and know was wrong (unlike James, who went into denial), but are still trying to consciously rationalize. Unlike many SH monsters, he posesses a fernetic and cunning intellect, although he still can't communicate vocally-as the description "Rasping" suggests, he's missing most of his larynx.
The trouble is, I'm not quite sure how to show a monster who obviously can't speak anything other that "<Hhhhhrrrsszzz *wheeze*>" as an intelligent, cunning creature who has the ability to plan ahead.
So how would you make a Silent Hill-esque monster with a brain?