#Horror Sci-Fi Fantasy

[legionofmyth]

Cha'alt by Venger As'Nas Satanis

🎲🍌Dive into the bizarre and thrilling world of Cha'alt by Venger As'Nas Satanis! 🦑🧟‍♂️This gonzo RPG combines eldritch horror, sci-fi, and fantasy for unforgettable adventures. Ready for a unique gaming experience? #Chaalt #RPG #TabletopGaming #EldritchHorror #SciFiFantasy

Cha’alt What is it? Cha’alt Cha’alt by Venger As’Nas Satanis is a gonzo, post-apocalyptic science-fantasy tabletop role-playing game set in a bizarre and decadent world. The setting combines elements of eldritch horror, alien landscapes, and dark humor, inviting players to explore the ruins of a shattered civilization, face off against monstrous entities, and uncover strange and powerful…

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Xenomorph in wonderland by Mark Skelton

[izzylimon]

Guillermo del Toro on AI

[cant-afford-lobotomy]

Not to post doctor who on main but my theory is that the reason everyone ran away from Ruby is that seeing the woman close up cancelled the perception filter (which was explicitly mentioned) which also allowed them to see through a perception filter on Ruby, which will become relevant in the series finale. Idk what this means tho.

[texaschainsawmascara]

Poor Things / Frankenhooker

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Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000), dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri

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Tom Skerritt and Veronica Cartwright behind the scenes of Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott

[technicallyclassyperfection]

Paul Gulacy

[probablybadrpgideas]

The "I know a Guy" mechanic, but you can't just make up a new npc to help. Instead, you can once per session point at an established npc and say, "aw, shit, that's my ex."

[fickle-fumble-fester]

Oh no, please don’t eat me Mr Xenomorph . . . That’d be a shame . .

[mamangasick]

Blame!

Tsutomu Nihei

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Halo! One of my latest illustrations. Drawn w/ Procreate.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

The Encounter by kolokas

This artist on Instagram

[whereserpentswalk]

Every starship always has a few ice people on board. It's just standard safety protocol. The minimum number is three, one ice person for defense, one ice person for repairs, and one ice person for medical.

Ice people are people who are put into suspended animation for the duration of a trip, only to be taken out in emergencies. They're useful because a ship won't have to deal with another passenger just for something that won't useally happen. It also makes it so that the ice person is the least likely to be harmed in emergencies. They used to use robots for these sorts of things but now that the robots have unionized biological life is cheaper for that kind of labor.

It's a pretty nice job. Nine times out of ten it's falling asleep and waking up a few months later. Doing it once or twice can pay off your college debts pretty quickly. Compared to the other jobs you'll get with that kind of skillset it's a pretty good deal. Most medical students are encouraged to take it as their first job to pay off their student loans.

Of course, there is a weirdness to it, not existing for such a long time. Even a few months will make the way things change weird. You'll come back to your home planet and things will be diffrent. A freind will have gotten married. A child that you're used to being a baby will be a toddler. Someone will have moved away. It's not all bad, hype for movies or video games, arguments that need time to calm down, skipping out on a bad time in politics. But still, it always makes you a bit separate from everything else.

Of course, there is always the fear suspended animation won't work as intended, and your mind will be trapped dreaming, or worse, conscious, during the entire affair. Perhaps things will that lurk in hyperspace will begin to speak to you. Or worse you'll just be alone, with nothing but your thoughts, and no way to cry out.

But that's not the worst of it, at least not for most people. For most people it's the much more mundane reality of needing to be an ice person for more than just one or two trips. You'll fall asleep and wake up months later, ten, twenty, fifty, a hundred times. And you'll find yourself only seeing the world through snapshots, really only having your other ice people to relate to. You'll be from a diffrent time as everyone the same age as you. It's better pay then any alternative, but there is a greater cost. Soon enough you'll be walking through your homeworld and it'll be alien to you, decades in the future from what you were raised to be in, you'll be wearing a diffrent eras clothing, speaking in a dead dialect, like a ghost from the past.

There was a young engineer who recently returned from being an ice person. Poor thing, she was sent out on an ambassador ship to an alien system thinking it would be about six months, but it turned out she was gone for decades as a war between that ship's nation and the alien homeworld broke out. When she came back all three of her spouses had died of old age, and her son who was an infant when she left was older than her when she returned, and her grandchildren she had never met were her peers.

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Meet Ataraxia, the Artifice of Stagnation! After much wrestling with the design I've got something that works for her!

Ataraxia is, essentially, the real BBEG of the campaign we were in. An ancient supercomputer with the power to challenge gods, powered by masses of undead celestial creatures, fused into a mass she deemed more suitable for her purpose. She was created and used, theoretically, in order to protect humanity from vengeful gods. Her purpose was to ensure their safety. However, Ataraxia's idea of safety got very out of hand, and she tried to get full control over every single mortal, considering their free will a bit too risky for their own well-being.

Her body is meant to evoke both, some eldritch horror and the good ol' biblically accurate angel stuff. I went for a more organic look on her mecha parts, almost like the parts of an insect or even spiky conches, as if they were grown from the celestials' remains instead of being simple forged metal. I hope y'all enjoy it, mecha body horror isn't exactly my focus, but I love her all the same- (also, Urion/The Onirist is there, held gently like hamburger : ) )

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new character commission