Monster Suggestion Post

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Thank you for your interest in helping us create more monsters to haunt the Institute halls! Below you will find a helpful form to use in submitting your monster ideas and some guidelines about how to post. Once submitted, the Monster NPC mods and the Head Mods must approve your suggestion before it is implemented in part or in full. We will answer your suggestions as soon as we are able, but please understand it may take some time for all parties to review and discuss the information.

RULES
1) All monsters must be original creations.
At this time, we are unable to approve any canon monsters. We understand that there has been some interest in bringing in canon-specific monsters, but in the interest of keeping with the current monster roster, they are not allowed for now. However, if there is a sufficient number of requests and interest, this may change at a later date.

2) Questions are allowed in this post with one stipulation.
If you have questions regarding monsters (rather than a suggestion), they are allowed in this post. However, you must put the word QUESTION in the comment title. This is to help the mods distinguish between suggestions and questions, and to help you get your question answered in a timely fashion.

3) Responding to suggestions with suggestions of your own is allowed and encouraged.
We like to get as much input as possible from the players when it comes to creating new monsters, so feel free to step in and talk about the suggestions if you have any constructive input, critique, or additions. Please refrain from writing comments that do not lend any further information toward building the monster, but do let us know if you support the creature as an addition to the current roster!

4) Only players of the game are allowed to post.
Like the rule says, we apologize for any inconvenience, but we are only allowing current players of Damned to post their suggestions here.

If you read and agree to the above, then please proceed to the form below.

<b>Your name/handle:</b> <b>E-Mail:</b> <b>Other Contact Method:</b> (AIM, MSN, Plurk, etc.) <b>Character(s) Played:</b> <b><u>Monster Name:</u></b> (A suggested name for your creature. Leave blank if you do not have one) <b>Physical Description:</b> (Tell us about your creature in as much detail as possible - color, size, how it moves, etc.) <b>Attack Pattern:</b> (Tell us about how your creature attacks, how much damage it can cause, who it would attack, where it would most likely be found or not found, etc.) <b>Weaknesses:</b> (Tell us about any weaknesses or vulnerabilities your creature has.) <b>Abilities and Effects:</b> (What kind of special characteristics or effects does your creature have on people? Give us any extra details you would like to offer.)

Comments

EXAMPLE

[murasaki-kaze.livejournal.com]

Your name/handle: Kaze
E-Mail: doomface4eva@damned.com
Other Contact Method: doomface4eva
Character(s) Played: [Bad username or site: notachick title= @ livejournal.com], [Bad username or site: forgot_it_all title= @ livejournal.com], [Bad username or site: deadlyjuliet title= @ livejournal.com], [Bad username or site: osoreirimasu title= @ livejournal.com], [Bad username or site: iwhipthefool title= @ livejournal.com]

Monster Name: Phantasm
Physical Description: Phantasms are creatures made up of the utter absence of light, a darkness more profound than the depths of hell. They are shapeless and formless, only visible as a lack, an empty space silhouetted against light.

Attack Pattern: They move as shadows move and seek only to suck the light and warmth from the living, for where they go hopelessness and desolation follow. A phantasm is nothing but a void that seeks eternally to be filled, though it seeks always in vain. Their touch does not bring despair or sorrow, for that would be creating something; instead it simply drains away all emotion, thought, hope, or even will to live. They leave behind an utter apathy, an emptiness of spirit deeper than even the phantasm's darkness. They will attack anyone and everyone and can be found wherever there is enough dark in which to hide.

Weaknesses: Phantasms cannot be killed or injured, but they can be driven away with light.

Abilities and Effects: Simply being near a phantasm (roughly ten feet away) can drain away warmth and emotion, leaving a room cold and unpleasant by its mere presence, but the effects will vanish as soon as one steps away from its immediate range. As soon as the victim comes into contact with a phantasm they immediately become cold and their will is drained; this can be dangerous to anyone traveling alone, as they will lack the energy to move away (though if someone is walking through a phantasm the momentum might carry them through, for instance). The longer the victim is in contact with a phantasm the longer the effects will linger: the effects of a brief touch will fade within a few minutes, but seconds or minutes more will cause the effects to linger exponentially longer. Should a victim stay in contact with a phantasm for 7-10 minutes (depending on the victim's strength of will) they will come to lack even the energy to breathe or keep their heart beating.

[a_sin_for_him]

Your name/handle: Fey
E-Mail: red.headed.rapunzel (at) gmail (dot) com!
Other Contact Method: Plurk: crossthesky
Character(s) Played: Tolten (age_of_kings) and Lust (a_sin_for_him)

Monster Name: Clinger
Physical Description: At first glance, tucked into ceiling corners and other high, out of the way places, these creatures appear almost as giant, pale spiders. But their spindly, bonelike legs number six rather than eight. Averaging the size of a man's torso, the body of the beast thin and wide, almost as though two great books crushed it between. Its skin is a sallow whitish color and spongy, like the underbelly of a subterranean mushroom. Their heads are bulbous. Their faces are lacking definition, only large dark smudges where eyes would be and a shadow of a mouth behind a thin membrane.

Sickly and revolting as the thing's body is, the appendages are the true fright. Three to four feet long and knobby with a multitude of joints, they end in wide, flat three fingered hands. The fingers themselves are the same as the appendages, long and knobbed with joints. The same spongy membrane that covers its mouth webs between its fingers, thick and malleable. They twitch and jerk and move with speed.

Attack Pattern: It lays in wait in corners and tree branches, any high place it can tuck itself into. When the unsuspecting walk close enough, it drops down and wraps its spindled legs around its victim, gripping them from behind and holding tightly while it attempts to suffocate its prey with its membranous webbed hands. It's appendages are strong, but not strong enough to crush a person - unless they were particularly fragile/frail. It seeks to suffocate with its palms and flesh webbing rather than crush.


Weaknesses: Despite its strength, its spongy skin is easily pierced and its organs are quite delicate. There are no bones protecting its fragile insides. Even if grabbed, a strong and quick victim stands a good chance of besting the beast. The appendages are the only part its body that offer resistance, some sort of hardness beneath the spongey, moist skin.

Abilities and Effects: Other than speed, the clinger has no special abilities and causes no effects other than attempting to suffocate. It's a low-to-medium level monster.