Ryslig's Expanded Monster Guide
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waitingforplayer2The Expanded Guide is edited by Chiaki Nanami.
The Expanded Guide begins with a condensed & re-edited version of Spengler's Guide, written several years prior. This contains broad knowledge of the 23 monster types at the time, and largely features the information covered in Ryslig's bestiary.
The new content in the Guide consists entirely of individual monster testomonials.
Submissions to the Guide can be made by anyone at any time, in a drop-off box at the Insert Coin arcade. The form below can be used as a template for any monsters looking for inspiration or structure for their entries. Nanami copies out the entries longhand, and stores the information in several locations, so that the information is never lost.
A copy of the current manuscript may be requested for casual perusal at any time.
As of now, the Expanded Guide has not yet been officially published on the peninsula.
MONSTER ENTRY SUBMISSION TEMPLATE
The Expanded Guide begins with a condensed & re-edited version of Spengler's Guide, written several years prior. This contains broad knowledge of the 23 monster types at the time, and largely features the information covered in Ryslig's bestiary.
The new content in the Guide consists entirely of individual monster testomonials.
Submissions to the Guide can be made by anyone at any time, in a drop-off box at the Insert Coin arcade. The form below can be used as a template for any monsters looking for inspiration or structure for their entries. Nanami copies out the entries longhand, and stores the information in several locations, so that the information is never lost.
A copy of the current manuscript may be requested for casual perusal at any time.
As of now, the Expanded Guide has not yet been officially published on the peninsula.
cw: mentions of dissociation
Date: 2022-11-11 08:18 pm (UTC)Nothing.
Okay, maybe I should elabourate. I honestly can't think of anything that's better as a Shade than it would be if I was literally anything else. I mean, I suppose some people would see it as an advantage that Shades don't feel pain or get cold or hungry or tired or sick, that Shades don't have to wear clothes or bathe or do any other kind of maintenance, but that's not an advantage to me when I look at the big picture. When I look at what it cost me to not have to deal with those things.
What do you dislike about being this monster?
Everything.
Yeah, I guess I should elabourate on that, too. Shades don't have bodies. We're just
just
there. I can see and hear, but I can't taste or smell or feel. I can't touch anyone or anything. I just go right through them. It takes so, so much concentration to make even a part of me solid and I can't maintain it. Think for a moment what that'd be like. You can see and hear. You can be heard and seen if you work at it. But you can't have the taste of food or the smell of a flower or the touch of someone you love or even sunlight.
And anything I can do as a Shade comes at a price. I can "possess" someone. Ride around in their body or even drive it, but I can only do that for maybe an hour at most before it just dissolves and we separate again and I don't have the strength to go back in. I can take someone's pain but only as long as I'm
not so much touching them but
phased into them, I don't know. But the moment I release them, it comes back.
It comes back.
It's cruel. If I'm to take pain from someone it should be taken for good. And I can't do that no matter how hard I try. It's like the Fog is mocking me. And mocking whoever I might try to help.
The Fog knows my past, I'm sure of that. And she gets some kind of satisfaction out of isolating me again. For ten years I was alone. Just watching and listening. I couldn't risk being heard or seen. I couldn't speak to anyone, I couldn't touch anyone, I was gone and nobody was allowed to talk about me and now I'm back in those walls, but this time it wasn't even my choice, it isn't to help anyone or save anyone it's just because the Fog thinks it's amusing or fitting or whatever and
Sorry. I'd type this over again but
maybe I should keep it.
And if I get too emotional, if I get too angry or too sad or even too happy, I end up destroying anything electrical. Those laptops, televisions, radios, even lights. All the electricity goes out. So I smoke a lot. It keeps me mellow enough to communicate.
What is something unique to you about being this monster?
I don't know any other Shades who have green light. I guess that's unique to me.
What types of creatures or beings influenced your monster form?
I don't know, but people have compared me to a banshee. You know, the Irish ghost? Which is funny because I'm not Irish.
What is it like to feed as this monster?
Horrific. You have to consume souls, which is just harrowing if you have any concept of an afterlife. If a person's body is killed, their soul can still go to wherever it is they believe it might go, but if their soul is consumed? What then? If souls are energy, where does that energy go? The Sea of Stars? No-where? Shades don't excrete because, again, we don't have bodies. Are all those souls kept inside of a Shade? Nobody knows. I don't even know. And I don't think anyone's tried to find out.
What are some notable physical features you have as this monster, and what do you like or dislike about them?
I don't have any. I don't have a body. I'm just shadow and a few green lights. And I think I've ranted enough about what I don't like about that.
What are some notable psychological changes you have as this monster, and what do you like or dislike about them?
I'm really vindictive and spiteful, now. Anything that even looks or sounds like a slight or an insult makes me so angry. Makes me want to punish whoever did it and that is not me, that's not who I am. I hate it. I can't do that to people, I just can't. It makes me sick just thinking about it even though I can't actually get sick. I have to fight it. All. The. Time.
But I fought it the wrong way. I gave it a name and told myself "That's just The Shade talking" so much and so hard that it became something separate from me. It talked to me like it was another person. And that scared me. It scared everyone else, too. People told me I was talking to myself. I'd black out and find out later that I'd exploded in a rage.
That didn't happen in Felfri and when I came back here it continued not happening and that's good, but I still have to fight that
that
I don't even know what to call it any more. This change in me that I don't want.
Would you become this monster again?
Never.
Would you become this monster for good?
No. As soon as I have enough coins I'll give them to La Mana and ask her to change me for good. I can't do this.
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