creepy lines.

[Mystic Muse]

generally I'd put this in Friendly banter but this is for my D&D campaign.

I'm looking for scary/creepy/intimidating lines. I don't care where they're from just so long as they can fit as an inscription. for example in one dungeon I plan of having my players go through is this.

in this most holy of structures let the fery walls baptize themselves in the blood of intruders.

any ideas?

[Paulus]

generally I'd put this in Friendly banter but this is for my D&D campaign.

I'm looking for scary/creepy/intimidating lines. I don't care where they're from just so long as they can fit as an inscription. for example in one dungeon I plan of having my players go through is this.

in this most holy of structures let the fery walls baptize themselves in the blood of intruders.

any ideas?

Tread not the whispers of the doorway, the threshold bleeds(or breathes) thy doom.

or

Harken knocks the doom of all, trespass upon your grave, thou who enter this sacred hall.

or

Beware, heaven has no golden stair, the way is gone... darkness be thy only path.

or

Shiver, clawed hands the curtains reach, upon these walls and gates whomever breach.

or

Footsteps forward, the last footfall, pass not this gateway, here the very floors crawl.

need I go on?

[Mystic Muse]

need I go on?

if it wouldn't be too much trouble yes. although I'd appreciate varied situations for the inscriptions as well. For example an inscription in the shrine of an ancient weapon.

[Temet Nosce]

I can see what you see not—
Vision milky, then eyes rot.
When you turn, they will be gone,
Whispering their hidden song.

Then you see what cannot be—
Shadows move where light should be.
Out of darkness, out of mind,
Cast down into the Halls of the Blind.

[Hadrian_Emrys]

The large, three-paneled mirror in the so-called 'haunted suite' shows both your reflection and that of a non-existent child behind you who is playing with a doll that vaguely resembles the doorman. A sickeningly loud crack, followed by a splash, can be heard coming from where you last saw the man as the child twists the doll's head around and off in a single, careless motion. Seemingly oblivious to her audience, she reaches for a doll that almost looks like you.

[Athaniar]

You want scary? Try Lovecraft.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.

The other gods! The other gods! The gods of the outer hells that guard the feeble gods of earth!... Look away... Go back... Do not see! Do not see! The vengeance of the infinite abysses... That cursed, that damnable pit... Merciful gods of earth, I am falling into the sky!

[One Step Two]

The First inscription on the doorframe reads:

"Only those of whom prophets have sung may enter these doors unhindered"
And at the bottom lays the skeletons of supposedly unworthy

The next reads:

"For only those worthy of prophecy may stand before the Gruesome horrors within."
This doorway is awash with fresh blood

Inscribed on the last door entering the dungeon reads
"Even prophets lie."
And the door slams shut behind them.


An old GM of ours did this to us once, we generated characters under the idea we were chosen ones of prophecy, and with awesome timing and slamming a hardcover book onto the desk, threw us into one of the most fearsome horror campaigns we've ever known.

[Project_Mayhem]

To be fair, the whole fhtagn speech is only really creepy in context. On its own it looks like a phonetic transcription of French with a lisp

[Pharaoh's Fist]

The gold you shall take from this dungeon will depress the price of gold in the region by at least 35%, and create dire economic troubles for large local businesses.

Jerk.

[Kaldrin]

Read Twilight to them...

[industrious]

"Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling." Thank you, Father Anderson.

[minchazo]

Read Twilight to them...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

*curls into fetal position*

[Lycan 01]

"C'mere boy, I wanna lick yer teeth..."

My brother said that the other day when we were throwing creepy lines back and forth to each other. And now I wracking my brain to find a way I can fit this line into a campaign.

"Are you sure? " scares my players more than anything else I can come up with, though.

[Telonius]

"Up the airy mountains, down the rushy Glen, we dare not go a-hunting for fear of little men. Nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out."

Cliche, but: "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate."

[Solaris]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

*curls into fetal position*

And there shall be a great and terrible weeping, for someone has cracked the Dread Book.

[Paulus]

if it wouldn't be too much trouble yes. although I'd appreciate varied situations for the inscriptions as well. For example an inscription in the shrine of an ancient weapon.

Okay!
Shrine of ancient weapon:

Blood drank for ages, rest now sharpened wind, come not footsteps, for only foe-less can be friend.

or

Sleeping claws, rake the world in nightmare, do not pause, for only the brave may enter here.

or

Ever watching, the great fell foe, seek not thy own rewards, as any fool would know.

or

Be thou wary of the path, there are much twists for the turn, be thou wary of it's wrath, for only good can it's use earn.

or

Toll the treaded dreaded way, the great drinker of blood they say, sleeps not without a gleam, of things past in haunted dream.

or

Silver tongued, teethless cut, jagged jaw, the will to gut!

or

Forward enter mighty ones, backward never but cowardly runs, find your flesh waiting upon your return, only the just may enter and earn.

Need I go on? What more situations are you looking at? Kind of hard for me to nail down all these kind of things to one liners for an inscription without being specifically non-specific. I'm trying to keep them all above door ways or on walls, or such like "Abandon all hope yee who enter here" kind of stuff. I assumed you wanted it in verse or at least prose and also someone holy or intoning a sense of prophesy or warning. If you'd like more can you be bit more specific to what you want? :3

[Telonius]

"Make your choice, adventurous stranger; Strike the bell and bide the danger, or wonder, till it drives you mad, what would have followed if you had."

[Krimm_Blackleaf]

"You Were So Precious. Now You've Ruined It And There Is Only One Option Left Now."

[The J Pizzel]

Here's one I made up:

"The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it. The way is shut."

What?

[Lycan 01]

Oooooh, it has to be scary inscriptions, not statements. My bad...

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."


"Leave no second thoughts behind - banish the fear from your mind - do not falter, do not quake - step forth and accept your fate."

[Rixx]

"All right... what's your will save modifier?"

"...one?"

[Hadrian_Emrys]

Read Twilight to them...

[/thread]

"I just like watching you sleep."

*shudder*

[Keshay]

The gold you shall take from this dungeon will depress the price of gold in the region by at least 35%, and create dire economic troubles for large local businesses.

I think I have a new favorite "cursed gold" description/effect.

I seriously can not stop laughing at this.

[Fluffles]

"Warning! ----- --ead!"

And have that --- be one big chunk bitten out of the sign.

[Ormagoden]

Above the threshold of the door scrawled in black charcoal.

"When I kill you I keep your body."


Nailed to a post outside a dungeon.
A receipt of various weapons, potions, toxins, poisons, and exotic creatures from a local merchant.


I like the idea of an incomplete sign so let me one up the post above.

Scrawled on a wall near the entrance is a few words written in chalk.

"Watch out for the ___________________" The line of chalk goes down the entrance hall and out of sight...There seem to be alot of rusty stains on the floor going down the hall as well...

[Aron Times]

"Don't open it." -Vampire: Bloodlines

[flare'90]

"PER ME SI VA NE LA CITTA’ DOLENTE,

PER ME SI VA NE L’ETERNO DOLORE,

PER ME SI VA TRA LA PERDUTA GENTE.

GIUSTIZIA MOSSE IL MIO ALTO FATTORE:

FECEMI LA DIVINA POTESTATE,

LA SOMMA SAPIENZA E ‘L PRIMO AMORE.

DINANZI A ME NON FUR COSE CREATE

SE NON ETERNE, E IO ETERNA DURO.

LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA, VOI CH’ENTRATE."

If you don't know this wods, they may scare you.

If you know from where are these words, probably it's best to run. Fast.

If you want, I'll post a translation (or PM me)

[Loxagn]

"I saw him today. What does he want? Eliza is gone and her blood is everywhere and it hurts and I don't know what's going on anymore and it hurts oh god it hurts..."
-found in a diary entry of an npc

"It hurts..."
-found in various diary pages from the same person

"ithurtsithurtsithurtsithurtsithurtsithurtsithurts ithurtsit-"
-last page of diary, found completely drenched in blood.

God damn Yahtzee, you know how to scare someone ****less.

[Hadrian_Emrys]

"You've got a purdy mouth..."

[Curmudgeon]

You've got a tasty liver.