Halloween Monster Entries 2018
We have three contestants for this year's Halloween monster competition! The winner will see their creation turned into a real mob in game in the Haunted House. The contestants are listed in alphabetical order.
Winner
Scandal
Gregor Phantasm was among the most impressive of artists to emerge from the Bards Colleges, but he was also one of the most mysterious. It was said that he was born disfigured and throughout his life people were unable to see past his disfigurement, and dismissed the artist’s talented wax sculptures. Gregor is believed to have committed suicide over his lack of success, right there in his Wax Works Studio surrounded by his figures.
A month later, a con man bought the Wax Works Studio and presented Gregor's own creations as his own. Within a short time the man grew rich off the works of Gregor Phantasm, and sought to sell the creations one after the other, to the highest bidders. On the night of his first sale, rumor had that two of the buyers had been found dead within their homes and shops, and that their blood was found pouring from the eyes of figures they had bought. In the wake of the news, the con man orders the Wax Works Studio to make new models, but these were not the same as Gregor's original wax figures. Sales ran low, people were not interest in this poorer quality, they wanted a masterpiece to be sold. And the greedy owner obliged, selling a wax display to a wealthy lady. The newspaper printed her disappearance not a day later. In her home they found plenty of blood, but no body, and only the bloody grimace of the art she had purchased and her blood pouring from its eyes.
Before the rumors could put him out of business, the con man did what he could, and decided to auction off every piece of the original Gregor Phantasm wax figures. That night on the auction floor, screams of every kind of anguish could be heard coming from the place of auction, and then silence. The following morning the Cenril Guard entered to find the place drenched in blood, but not a single body could be found, only the frozen figures of wax. Wax Works Studios was boarded up, and a fence erected to prevent anyone from venturing forth. The wax figures were shipped in a crate out west. To this day that, the studio in Cenril is still considered to be among Cenril’s most haunted. The crate of wax figures had been lost... until now. You see behind you a broken crate, and from it emerges a wax figure with blood pouring out of its eyes. It bloody smiles curls up towards you.
Runner Ups
Chisel
As if to mock one's future attempt of escape. Thick vines began to grow outside the mansion. Rays from the outside was slowly being blocked out by slow moving vines accompanied with the sound of sloshing thick sap sloshing as flora continues to grow upon the building. Walls began to crack as tree growth appears within them. Crawling upon any surface as they find entry from the smallest of spaces. Children's laughter continues to fill the air as the vines soon find themselves strangling upon the dolls... infesting them. As sources of light dies out one after another, those lifeless doll eyes seem to stare upon your very soul. "Come play with us..." they said... the once toys haunted with spirits now brought to life as vines puppeteer them, moving them around.
You decide to turn and make your way for the door, only to have your legs snagged upon the flora crawling upon the ground, silently coiling upon your leg, demanding you to stay.
"Leaving so soon?" A disembodied voice, spoken with charming melody, alluring its audience to stay and listen.
The door was unrecognizable. Thick vines barricades your only exit in place and standing before it was a beautiful marionette. Porcelean like skin and high quality made white gown drapes its flawless form. It would have been perfect if it wasn't dangling from the ceiling. Sharp thorns strangles it in place as its limbs bound at an unnatural angle. Looking down upon you with its head upside down as the sickening sound of wood breaking and sap dripping from the creature as soon as it began to move.
Eventually escaping her prison, the marionette falls onto the ground unceremoniously with bone breaking sounds audible from her landing. Four massive spider like legs was sprouting upon the creature's back, scrambling to force itself to stand. The haunted marionette greet you with a welcome, with an ax at hand.
Elioyahazer
Within the obsidian depths of shadow, a form can be seen, stepping out from the corner as if to reveal a magical trick. Her appearance is haunting and sudden. Her presence fills the room like a miasma of fog. Thick and near choking. She is but a child, who is malformed and depraved. Sickly; near gray and lacking the nutrients of eons gone by. She’s ghastly, and that ghoulish grin which grinds over her ghostly countenance, suggests that she’s here for tasks which have yet to be named. In direct contrast to such pale skin, is a dusty red bedtime dress, embroidered with black roses. Her lips release that strained smirk to reveal a horrifying voice. “Wanna play?” Her tone is more than just jarring. Its ear piercing and prickly. Filled with two distinctly different voices and is only foreshadowing that things are about to get much worse. Dirty fingernails raise and a single digits lifts to point. The house begins to awaken with power, trembling at her call. The outline of an ancient terror reveals itself in a near opaque overlay atop the features of this child's face. It would seem that she is a juvenile possessed and is about to have a -very- good day.
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