An Irresponsible Oath

This is sort of a DnD / PnP RPG campaign prompt:

When you all were children, you were playing in an forgotten shrine you found in the forest.  Through your play, you accidentally freed a demon from where it was sealed by speaking.  Laughing, it flew away to do harm unto the world.

For reasons best known to the minds of 10-year-olds, you all swore an oath to never tell anyone else about the demon or about releasing it.  You even followed the stories and bound it in blood with the help of a small knife.

And lo, it worked - one of you tried to tell your mom about what happened, but, as described to the rest of the group, the words wouldn't come out of your mouth.


It is now over a decade later, and you are all adults, starying careers.  Freeing the demon is long since forgotten by most of you - it flew away and never came back.

Except... a messenger brings a report of a growing darkness to the north, and when you try to share the gossip with a friend... the words don't come out of your mouth.

It's the same demon.

You're older now.  You understand responsibility.  You gather your friends, the only ones you can speak to about the demon.  You all released the demon unto the world.  Isn't it your responsiblity to try and do something about it?

Horrible little creatures.

So there are a few thought on creating little monsters, more for a modern horror setting.

What is scary? In this case, it's things that may-or-may-not exist, but you wouldn't be able to tell either way. The objective is to have the fear be related to something that people experience in their lives, so they are reminded of it. I guess.

These are some old things.

---From a chat---

A demon.

It starts as a little shadow - almost nothing to it.

It finds someone with nervous tendencies, and then plays with the person.

It flutters and moves near the shadows in the corner of the person's sight.

But hides and vanishes whenever the person looks.

The person is wonders what it is, but doesn't know.

But it continues.

Soon, the curiousity turns to fear - there must be something out there, for the person keeps seeing it.

And then the demon can grow, for as the person imagines it to be something horrible, something horrible it becomes - a reflection of the victim's thoughts.

As the fear and paranoia grows, so does the demon, until finally it does not need to hide in shadows for the person to fear it.

Instead, it lures the victim to some dark spot, and uses the strength the victim gave it to devour the victim.

And then, with no mind giving it shape, it dissolves back into so many bits of shadow, all made of the victim's fear.

And each little bit of fear goes out to torment some new victim.

---End---

The next one was made to illustrate differences between physical horror, rather than mental horror. I prefer the demon above, somewhat unsurprisingly. Again, the thought is that you don't know whether it happened to you.

---Chat---

Imagine a demon-creature who slithers around in the water pipes.

It slithers until it finds a shower head, and when a woman takes a shower there, it mixes sleepiness-inducing chemical into the water.

The woman feels tired, and then falls asleep.

The demon then slithers out, and lays its eggs within the woman.

And then she wakes up, none the wiser.

Until they start to grow.

My friend asked: Where exactly does this demon lay its eggs?

Me: *shrugs*

Me: Any orifice would work, though the mouth or vagina/uterus are the traditional ones.

---End---

Those two for now, maybe more later when I figure out where other old designs are.