Maybe? Hearing voices in your sleep might be more reassuring than while awake.

>>440985
Eesh, your heart doesn't look so hot. I'm no biologist, but I don't think chest cavities should have light emission sources in em'. Try calling a doctor, by shouting "HELP!"

Maybe you are the heart. Beat! Beat for all you're worth!

Can a heart even be awake? Well whatever, start beating. It´s all you´re worth.

Assuming you're not only a heart, which would probably make this quest kind of boring, starting some kind of life-supporting reflexes like breathing, thinking and digesting would be in most cases really helpful^^
Do you have eyes? Try using them!

Go! Go! Go!
Heart to full output. Let's do this!

Ponders possibility this is a cocoon of some sort.

Give a nice big stretch

yawn. stretch.

>>441005
> which would probably make this quest kind of boring
You would be surprised.

Ivenhaesth 2012/08/09(Thu)14:43 No. 441035 ID: 6a13b9
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>>440986
No...I am certain I am waking now. I have been asleep for a very long time.

>>440993
>>440997
>>441009
I do at last.

>>441013
Would that I had the power of such transformation.

>>440991
>>441005
>>441015
>>441026
...A shame. I do not feel the required pieces. My voice is mute, save to you. My body...absent.


As I wake I am beginning to remember what I was. It is almost unsettling. I believe...I believe I was...fear.

Grow?

You were fear? Or you remember experiencing it? That's a crucial distinction.

How far does your perception reach? Can you feel the fluids pumping through you? Can you follow their path? Is their any difference between the blood in different pathways? (for example, oxygenated and unoxygenated). That could tell you if you are in fact part of a larger system.

Do you wish to be fear again? Or is that something you wish to change?

Continue to beat strongly. You must spread your influence as far as you can. We must know what has changed whilst you slumbered.

Ivenhaesth 2012/08/10(Fri)07:22 No. 441368 ID: 6a13b9
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>>441037
In my weakened state that will take some considerable time, and your aid.

>>441038
No...as it becomes clear in my mind again, I was what you might call the incarnation of fear. It was my life blood then, as it is now. I am not cycling a liquid so much as what little of this essence I have clung to over the centuries.
It would seem this heart is the measure of what is left of me.

>>441039
As my consciousness regains footing, I would say yes. I wish to become fear again. I am beginning to remember how beautiful fear could be.

I continue to beat, stretching my awareness out a little further.
I cannot see, but I can sense my surroundings well enough.

Ah! Yes, that shrine just above us. It took most of my strength to make it in conjuncture with regaining my wakened state. On a subconscious level I knew this was the first step to full revival.

I can only make inanimate objects as of just yet. It would seem I have been gathering the mild unease of passersby over the years to come to this point. The accumulation was so fractional. I am glad I was asleep for it.

However, as you say, the unfortunate drawback is the world will have changed dramatically in my absence. I feel under-prepared.

But fortunate to have the power of voices.

>>441368
That shrine seems completely unassuming. I suggest making it look frightening, preferably by killing the next passerby as messily as you can.

killing doesn't make fear. but we can't have too much, want to become a folk tale, people come by to see if it's true. not call in the paladins to burn the place. could also perhaps wrangle a prophet.

Shrines traditionally need someone to tend them.

You also need fear to survive, it's your lifeblood. It would seem prudent then to set about finding a steady supply. You need worshipers, or perhaps just a local community to feed off of.

Really creepy worshipers are what we need.

Ivenhaesth 2012/08/10(Fri)08:03 No. 441376 ID: 6a13b9
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>>441370
Your enthusiasm mirrors my own. Sadly this sort of feat remains out of my scope for the time being.

>>441372
Ah, there is much wisdom in this. Even if I had the strength to make more of an impact, at this point I would be easily defeated by a fair enough force of local authorities.
I do not believe I would be able to resurrect myself a second time.
So for now we need a delicate touch.

>>441373
None will tend this shrine. In creating it, I have tapped into a memory ripple.
Doing so it what took so much effort. It will influence the minds of those around it to have the vague sense that it was always there. This will prevent investigations that could prove problematic at this stage.

We can't react with the environment as complexly yet as to communicate, but if we do somehow garner any worshipers that would be an excellent boon.

>>441374
I like the way this voice thinks.

Ah! Voices, it would appear I didn't wake merely when the shrine was completed. I can sense two hearts nearby. Mild trepidation because they chose to walk the woods at night. The sort of very mild fear I fed off over the years of slumber. But now the shrine will increase their fear to our advantage.

As you say though, an empty shrine is unassuming. I have just enough strength to make an inanimate object inside the shrine before they arrive.
Again, we should use a delicate touch. What should we make?

Voices, apologies, I forgot to add that this shrine is only waist high.

Such structures are not uncommon. Or..at least it used to be so.

Okay, so we just need to drop a creepy object in the mini-shrine to freak out the mortals when they come across it?

I suggest a knife. A creepy, overly ornate knife obviously meant for ritual violence, completely ill suited to mundane tasks, or even combat.

And it should be wet with fresh blood.

I think we should make a fancy scroll on the edge of the shrine, with "RUN" scrawled on the inside in what looks like blood.

Elephant Guy 2012/08/10(Fri)10:14 No. 441392 ID: ce47da
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I'm thinking very simple crafts of wood, dozens of them, hanging from the trees, appearing very suddenly, all around them.

I will telll you what to do

First create a small ceramic urn. Emblazon it with depictions of two lovers embracing, another figure standing in between them and a fight.

Atop the urn place a small wooden cap, complete with a small stone to weigh the cap down.

In the urn place a puppets head, the size of a human one. Give it extremly long, black hair. So long infact, that it completly covers the head itself.

If that is too hard for now, go for the knife

>>441392
I wonder if Metus is capable of that. As many as we can, I suppose.

Calling him "fear" in Latin for now because I like the way it sounds

A stuffed animal, maybe a bird or small deer or something. As in one that has gone through taxidermy. It is partially burnt, with its face melted and the skeletal frame partially visible. The scorched eyes glisten and reflect light.

I have an idea, make a angel statue. Any size will do have it weep liquid from it's eyes and have it produce a light sobbing noise. When they come to investigate, quiet down the noise and stop the water. Wait juuust until they stop paying direct attention to the statue, then produce a primal, inhuman scream from the statue. Mystery, confusion and surprise can lead to some great fear.

>>441417

This.

>>441421
I like this one... weeping angels are a classic.

Ivenhaesth 2012/08/10(Fri)13:40 No. 441430 ID: 6a13b9
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You have all produced excellent ideas. I hate to part with some of them for this immediate need.
Keep them in mind, I wouldn't mind utilizing them when we have a little more power.

The wood crafts sounded excellent, but the range of my manipulation doesn't extend past the shrine yet.

The scroll and knife, I very nearly decided on. But it might still be a little early for blood.

With the statue, unfortunately I can't make any auditory phenomena of that kind yet. Moving it slightly about is probably all I could muster in the way of noise.

The preserved and decayed animal is simple and very effective. Let's most certainly hang on to that thought.

In the end I decided on the urn and puppet head. Those coming to the shrine will have to turn it to see each depiction, but I believe they will. All the better to build their dread before opening it. As described, the head of the puppet waits in the urn underneath its voluminous hair.

They are nearing...
It will take me a little while to draw the result.