Café de Nuit

This is another level of genre-savvy brilliance.

Note: A desire for immortality doesn't necessarily make you evil. Wanting to live is healthy, natural, and an instinct necessary for survival, and immortality is just the logical extreme of it.
The bad part is being willing to kill someone else in ...

That’s an incredible setup — it feels like a fully fleshed-out character arc wrapped in moral decay. You’ve captured the tragedy of a protector slowly compromising his values for the sake of those he guards. The relationship between Allric and Ichorus is especially compelling — there’s tension ...

The King of Paupers, the Pauper of Kings

(Been a while, huh?)

Upon a less than stable looking crate, the hunched figure stood. Draped in a ragged, dirty coat of some vintage and trousers that appeared to have been soiled multiple times, he looked with his one eye at the gathered masses and made ...

The Swarm

It was fresh. Two days, three? She had been here not long ago, but the forest was large and Aliyah had no knowledge of it. All around her were trees and shrubs, all identical to the point that she felt disoriented.

She vomited. Her stomach turned and she couldn't stop the flow of the ...

The enemy myself

***edited for clarity with additional wrinkles added to the bizarre boom/curse***

It's a story as old as time. A vain woman refuses to accept the passage of time and seeks out mystical means of prolonging her youth.

The lengths to which some women will go to turn back time can ...

The Guardian

With his martial prowess and nimble hands, Allric Beorhtelsson has defended his community from countless perils over the past decades. Be they merely wandering miscreants and cutthroats looking to prey on the meek locals or, more serious threats such as rampaging werebeasts driven ...

It's that time of the year again. I'm back to make sure my beloved thread goes back to its rightful place on the front page of this cursed forum.

The Shape of Trauma

It was funny, she thought, he had two faces now. And both were getting very red, no doubt he was embarrassed! Even in his old age ...

Every year, I revisit my thread to bring it back to life for a short time.

Playing the Long Game

"I can'na say, sir. Madam opened the letter, she did, an' turned pale as her sheet when she look't'a it. She jus' said 'It is my turn' I think. I be a simple servant girl, sir, I dun'na aboot these ...

Daisu wrote:I am a fan of Junji ito, one of his newest books called Sensor would fit perfectly well with Ravenloft, it also very lovecraftian.

The cult leader in that book has potential, I agree, and the ending was certainly very Ito-esque.

There needs to be a hole... made for a specific person...

I've been living in Japan for some years, but until say 5 years ago, I wasn't really serious about learning the language.

Double for learning to read.

However, after getting into Anki and spaced repetition, my level improved to the point that I could read a bit and started getting into horror ...

The Insatiable Beauty

"What is the meaning of this? You think me a fool? What temerity! You find me greatly offended at being offered such unpalatable refuse. My palate is too delicate, too refined for such mediocrity. But then I should expect no less from an insipid worm such as yourself. Go on ...

Taken directly from the pages of Junji Ito...

Crossroads Divination

"Is our love true?"
"It is not. His love was never yours."

Dressed in her finest attire, the young woman stood at the crossroads on a foggy night. One could barely see more than a few steps ahead yet she did not stray from ...

Rock wrote:If WotC has completely abandoned the Core, we can let our headcanon run pretty wild.

I'm with you on this one. A vampire riding atop a tyrannosaurus rex happened and made the Demiplane a better place for it.

TwiceBorn Reborn wrote:
The Friendly Giant and crew!

Ack... I've dated myself.

By the way, you're an incredible writer and your hooks are really inspiring.

Well, better late than never! This no prize was starting to get a little cumbersome.