>>21970316
Zero gravity. And no air.

Failing that, space horror general?

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>>21970386
If they ever open a air lock or get a good look outside they hear whispers.

Have the PCs take off their helmet in space if they spend too much time out there.

>>21970316
Having them actually be untethered in space is always interesting. If the ship is small Tyranids. If the ship is large Tyranids and orks and Kriegers having siege warfare in the giant tunnels while the warp fucks with everythings mind.

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>>21970411
Have strange transmissions come from over their microbeads.

They can't turn them off without taking off their helmet.

>>21970442
Have you read this?

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12130366/

Enslavers.
Make it look like something else, but actually be enslavers.
Total party kill/dominate. Laughter of thirsting gods.

>>21970477
That thing scared the shit out me just reading it.

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>>21970477
Why yes, I have.
I mainly say it because of Eclipse Phase however.

...There the radio is built into your brain.
Dnd death is not the end.

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>>21970316
Tell us about the party, OP.
Any Tech-priests? Does any one have cybernetic limbs? Void Borns? Psykers!?

>>21970510
Damn dude, I'm loving the art.

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>>21970411

I'll be honest, a fair bit of the campaign is blatant plagiarism from pic related. That said, there's a short story that involves the characters hearing the stars "whisper" to them. Once they get far out in the rim stars, I'm planning on slipping them notes saying that a voice in their head either demands they serve them or tells them they're weak and will die at their fellow players' hands. Oh, and crew members writing things in blood on the walls.

As long as I'm ripping it off, I should probably at least say the book is good.

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>>21970563

Aha, wrong photo.

A group of orks that inexplicably believe themselves to be space marines.

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>>21970563
Oh no, servitude is not what the stars want.
They just want the party to join them is all.

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Read these.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12180900/
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12189134/

fill it with genestealers

>>21970614

No. My friend already has a character lying around who's an orc disguised as a sister of battle. That's Deffwotch's fault.

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>>21970477
>>21970638

Good stuff, thanks

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>>21970638
Damn it, now I'm distracted by reading these.
Damn it /tg/.
Making me want to space horror, which I never will. T_T

>>21970638
i want more of that commic

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>>21970922
You're in luck. There's one whole other page. Here it is.

And as one of the many people whose ideas came to life with these comics, I would pay a lot of money to see a series.

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>>21970638
2SPOOKY

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>>21970896
Anyone have any Space Horror Music/ambient/sound effects?

Minus the ones from >>21970477 naturally.
(I already got those)

>>21971021
Honestly I wouldn't mind a refresher for those. I know some of those youtube videos have been taken down in the meantime.

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>>21970579
I can't seem to find this. You got a download link?

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Why is scary shit so much scarier in space, /tg/?

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>>21971117
Because, Anon, there is no air in space.
There is no gravity.
There is no help.
No escape.

Only the Unending Void, the Eternal Silence.

>Captcha: And Chingbe
And Chingbe too! Don't forget about the Chingbe!

Go watch Event Horizon

>>21970316

Okay
Okay.

Weird.
I was planning on writing a fungeon for my AD&D group that was basically an ancient, plane hopping ship that has been picking up monsters and shit for many centuries.
And the plot hook was going to be that they wake up one day and there's this big ass obelisk sticking out of the ground outside of the city (part of the ship; it's big and spikey).
Are we hivemind, OP?
Also, the ship is ruled by a hilariously crazy lich in a flying coffin. He mocks the PCs constantly and just generally fucks with them.

Also, cryogenically frozen crew members, ghosts of past characters (miniplot of fungeon), gravity reversal puzzles and mimics. Tons of mimics.

>>21971178

Ah yes, the Chingbe! The terrifying Space Chupacabra that steals all your Shuttle Goats

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>>21971178

Don't even get me started about Chingbe.

>>21971178
I think it has something to do with the fact that reality is already turned on its head. So you got normal that already isn't. And you add onto that the fact that a spacesuit is second only to a straightjacket in helplessness.

As a side note, has any anon ever had those dreams where you try to punch, and it's like punching through water? or you try to run, and it's more akin to swimming?

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>>21971178
>>21971249
>The terrifying Space Chupacabra that steals all your Shuttle Goats


Oh fuck I'm laughing!

>>21971332
would that be pronounced ching-bay?

>>21971246

Hmm my ship's captain has gone insane and thinks some leviathan creature is her son, so probably not as hilariously crazy as the Lich. Neat ideas, though.

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>>21971333
Actually, yes. Used to very frequently. It was like a real hard push to move even slowly. And always running. Running away from, something. But I can't remember what from. I, I don't think I want to remember. It almost had me last time, I'm sure of it...

>>21971357
Actually I think it's "Ching-bee"

>>21971249

>Shuttle goats
"Jack, it's not that I don't believe you, It's just that I want to know why you had goats in the shuttle in the first place."

>>21971333
I think that is also an aspect as to why.
That and given the nature of how large some ships are vs crew size (for example, the Nostromo in Alien or Red Dwarf in Red Dwarf) also leads to a sense of isolation and loneliness, just because much of the ship was built, but no one is meant to/can live there.

>>21971409
Oh God, Captcha has created the silliest of space horror monsters.

inb4 some b movie from the 50's.

>>21971412

I'm trying to play with that a bit. Mixed with Dark Heresy's SPACE CATHEDRALS I'm seeing some storage decks and maintenance areas that haven't been used in a while.

>Inquisitor's handbook talks about those
Yes, I know, I like the idea.
>It lists creatures that live there
Yeah, Ghilliam, I was planning on using them.
>You're talking to yourself
Shut up, I'm tired.

>>21971409
"Todd, there is a horrible mammalian beast stalking our ship looking for blood, and the first question you have is why we have goats?"

"WHERE THE FUCK WILL WE GET OUR MILK FROM WITHOUT THEM TODD? HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET A JOB AT NASA?"

Oh man, these past threads are gold mines. Many not-so great ideas, but with some beautiful nuggets of terror embedded in there.

My personal favourite so far:
>A wall to the outside has sprung a leak. Saltwater springs into the room from a pinprick on the wall.

>>21971524
My sides!

>>21971541

inb4 Pandorum (speaking of not-so good)

>>21971524

"I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY THEY'RE IN THE SHUTTLE. WE HAVE A BIOLAB YOU KNOW."

>>21971178
Chingbe.
Now I imagine an Asian looking hairy Tyranid that yelps like a chihuahua..

the scariest monster is our own imagination, so why not build off of that? I know wandering space horrors and mutigenic viruses are all the rage, but why not forgo all that for a less tangible danger, like your own mind.

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>>21971178
Was about to mention being out of space related horror art, then I remembered H.R Giger!

On an unrelated note: >>21970638
>talking about a ship AI that falls for the crew sent to recover the ship or whatever
*sigh* why do I want that?
Why do I want an AI for a ship as a waifu suddenly? What is wrong/right with me?

During or after every session, change the ship map. If you build it as a collection of discreet sections that are connected, essentially like rooms in a dungeon, switch the rooms. Sometimes, do it while characters are in said rooms. Deny that anything has changed.

You guys know how the Planet in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is sentient?
I always found that creepy.

Imagine an entire world - geography, weather, biosphere, everything - awake, and hating your guts.
Or curious to see what would happen if an earthquake hit you. Or a volcano.

>>21971772
>Why do I want an AI for a ship as a waifu suddenly? What is wrong/right with me?

Who wouldn't want a girlfriend who can fold space and obliterate asteroids with her bow cannons?

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>>21971772

>>21971660
>>21971524
>>21971409

In Space...

No one can hear you bleat

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>>21971797
Well, when you put it that way...

seriously, /tg/ is the only board that I need. Given this, do I even need /d/?

>>21971813

>>21971789
Imagine that a species of bacteria inside your body becomes sapient. Imagine that it becomes increasingly frantic as you and the doctors attempt to kill it, never comprehending that it is living inside a far greater being and is doing it serious harm.

>>21971849
Yes, you do need /d/, because it's polite to port the fetish porn to where it belongs and just link the thread here.

>>21971853
Thank you, now I'm afraid of every cold I'll ever have.

Also, while we're on Alpha Centauri, this fits this thread perfectly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB46XpnwhrA

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>>21971875
>Implying that /tg/ is polite.
No, /tg/ is just bro tier... Usually.

>>21971849

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>>21971797
Ah if only...

Hun', there's a giant asteroid coming for the planet again

Go, shoot it up a bit, would you? Thanks dear.

>>21971789
Ray Bradbury and the story where the city killed and replaced a shipload of scouts, then sent them back with virus bombs.

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>>21971849

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>>21971999
We/I need writefag(s) on this.

>>21971909

>>21971849

I don't know, some of Giger's art pushes the boundaries of promotions.

>>21971789
The first one was called Solaris.

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>>21972047
I'm trying to not post those ones.
They are the majority, however.

>>21972027

>>21971702
Ok heres a setting. The monolith is actually a memetic reality warping device that passively interacts with the PC's subconscious, temporarily altering the ship and the happenings within and around it at random based on whatevers foremost in their subconscious. Just dont tell the PC's. At first make the changes subtle but logic defying (impossible device readings, messages from home or other players that never existed, finding a large cache of a player or NPC's favorite food in the pantry but no record of it on the supplies manifest, ect.)

As confusion grows start ramping things up. Suddenly outright impossible things start happening, time begins to behave erratically, the layout of the ship becomes foreign, and peoples deapest thoughts and their dreams begin to manifest in reality, but still reveal nothing to the PC's. As fear and confusion begins to fester in the minds of the crew, the changes made by the obelisk begin to reflect it and only propagate it further, until the ship is riddled with impossible geometries, and the amalgamated nightmares of everyone on board.

Now that's space horror.

>>21971909

Something about that figure and the title- The Redeemer- really creeps me out. Possible character ideas brewing, though.

>>21972027
Actually, from what I remember, there was an old thread about humanity finding the secret to feasiblespace travel via an ancient derilect or something. The catch was that the ships were people, as the only way the technology would work right was if it was an organic that underwent a sort of metamorphosis. It had to be an intelligent being, too.

I forgot what we called it, but basically, giant spaceship women.

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>>21972099
Sounds good.

>>21972073

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>>21972099

Sounds a bit like if Lovecraft wrote Solaris. Not bad.

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>>21972126
This must now be found.
Go, /tg/ deliver.
I shall continue to shitpost art in the mean time.

>>21972138

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>>21972165

>>21972158
now if only i was a writefag and not just an ideas guy, i could do something with it

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>>21972222
I got quads

>>21972222
Is that ballsack a computer?

>>21972165
I was in that thread, it was kinda shitty. All it was was "what if you had a waifu what was a spaceship" and then it got more boring from there.

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>>21972301
>ballsack
What?

>>21972267

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>>21972126
>>21972165

It wouldn't be this, would it?
http://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/18734234

>Picture not strictly space horror

>>21972330
john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden

>>21972126

*ahem*

>Actually, from what I remember, there was an old thread about humanity finding the secret to feasiblespace travel via an ancient derilect or something. The catch was that the ships were goats, as the only way the technology would work right was if it was an organic that underwent a sort of metamorphosis. It had to be an intelligent goat, too.

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>>21972407
BUT THE CHINGBE!

>>21972321

>>21972360

Ok, I take it back, that's definitely space horror.

"I'm telling you, I just saw someone standing at the top of the rise."
"But that's impossible. You guys are the only two people out there, and everyone else is in the control room with me."
"Look! There it is again!"
"Son of a bitch, there is someone there! Shannon, start cycling frequencies. Hello? Can you hear us? This is moonbase Gamma, please identify yourself."
"John Madden"
"Very funny. Alright Mr. Madden, where did you-"
"John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden "

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>>21972330
>the ship retains its arms and human form
Well, this writefag has failed me.
Something must be wrong with me if the space ship waifu that I want isn't human in any way.

>>21972441

>>21971999
Sun above, Earth below. We sit together, at the place where gravity holds us still. We are silent, hidden from the planet's eyes. We cast no shadow.

She points, with her long, slender fingers. The stars pass out of sight, as the second ender obscures them. It is large, but too far away for those below to take much notice. They predict that it will pass safely by. They are wrong.

The beast of metal and rock turns slowly, lifelessly, as we observe it together. We have destroyed one of its kin already, and we will do the same to it. We will do the same to all its brothers, until we are no longer needed.

We will protect, unseen and unknown, she and I.

She speaks to me so sweetly, drawing her words across my mind like ribbons of silk. Here, in this place, in these ornamented halls, I hear her voice alone. The hum of her body caresses my flesh, building in intensity as she prepares her spears.

For a moment, the breath catches in her throat. I feel her palms on my shoulders, moving across the soft metal of my second skin. My head sinks back as she touches my spine, running her fingers up to the brittle spar that connects us.

We sit together, unseen and unknown, turning in the black. She whispers of her might, the holy task of her weaponry.

I give the order, and she shouts, only for the second time. The invisible spears of her main battery seek and find, and the second ender is no more.

We sit together, my beloved and I. She hums in the void, casting no shadow.

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>>21972501
I approve.

>>21972496

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>>21972441

Ok, I was glad to get some horror ideas out of this thread, but I feel like something needs to be done with the Chingbe now, as long as it keeps coming up.

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>>21972577
One day I will learn how to be a writefag.
One day...

>>21972545

>>21972623
You'll never learn if you don't write anything. Practice, and the path of the writefag will be opened to you.

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>>21972673
It's not that, it's more keeping the writing consistent and being up to the task of writing a long story.

That and I don't want people to be judging me. T_T

>>21972623

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>>21972711
> being up to the task of writing a long story.
By that I mean actually stay focused and not get bored of writing it, not making a story that is long.

I've writen stories for English tests that ended up being way too long. Wrote like, 3 and a half pages for a half hour thing and I considered it to be an incomplete chapter one. That was awkward because we then had to grade each others story.

>>21972711
fortune favors the bold my friend. Im sure people will find your stories of sufficient quality, and if not, then you can use the feed back to become a better writefag.

If your really in doubt of your writing prowess then you should try to emulate an author that you like and adapt it to your own work suitably

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>>21972762
Eh, fuck it, I'll try it.

>>21972738

>>21972738
Staying focused can be extremely difficult. Procrastination is the main problem I have when I'm writing something. You just have to force yourself to do it, at least for a short time each day or week. Eventually you should get into it and not want to stop, and then you'll build a habit.

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-Report from the frontier worlds-
-Seneschal-

Something on this planet has taken a liking to the goats.

Initial scouting reports of Seneschal revealed no life forms more than half a foot in length. Since the colony's founding two years ago, we have found no conclusive evidence to the contrary. Conclusive.

Even in the short time we've been here, Seneschal's mists have sparked imaginations. More than once, settlers, mainly children, have wandered too far from the perimeter and come running back in a panic, crying that something big had chased them down from the hills. On one occasion we found tracks leading to within a hundred meters of our perimeter fence, but in the dry ground their age was near impossible to determine. They remain there, and no other tracks have been found.

Certainly, we've had two children go missing. It's lamentable, but given the circumstances, there is no indication that a creature caught them. Recall that one of the first scouting parties got separated and lost within five meters of each other, owing to thick fog. Frankly, the way the families let the children run around unsupervised, I'm surprised more don't get lost and disappear beyond the fence. We've set up rope paths to prevent these sort of disappearances from recurring, but kids are kids.

Speaking of kids, you'll want to know about the goats. If you haven't read the earlier reports, the short of it is that the goats are some of the only livestock that have taken a liking to the rockweed that grows here. Since even the GM crops are having difficulty rooting here, they are the only animals that have flourished here. As such, their milk and hide have become highly valued.

Since they are the colony's primary source for these resources, you can understand the concern that swept through the colony when we began to find them eviscerated.

[cont.]

>>21972842
YES! Let the legend of Chingbe begin!

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>>21972832
Bah, I already don't like how it started. It started with one idea, then I go off topic in order to explain why the character is on a research base as an engineer, when said reason probably wont matter much. Blarg.

>>21973010

I know the feeling. I've got about a hundred stories that go that way, including some I've been doing partial rewrites of for two years. The best advice I can give is just sit down and keep working at it. You'll start to find things that work and that you can build from.

Ironically, some of the writing I'm most satisfied with are snippets I've written for /tg/ threads.
Speaking of which, part 2 in a minute here.

>>21973010
So revise it. A first draft should go through multiple edits.

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>>21973075
Hardest part of writefagging: Names.

>>21970971
>>21970638
So was any more of this comic drawn besides these two?

>>21973325
No, unfortunately.

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The first indication that something was odd about the attacks on the goats was that they were all left in a similar state. Their abdomens were cut, or perhaps ripped, open in a line along the length of the body. Injured legs on a few of the bodies seemed to indicate they were probably held down. Some amount of flesh and organs were always missing, but the blood from the incident was localized. The butcher leaves a mess when it kills the goats, but never a trail.

Naturally, the first assumption was foul play. Bad blood between the herding families became worse when accusations started flying that they were slaughtering each others herds.

Around the same time, rumors of a different sort circulated. Some colonists claimed to have seen or heard something moving through the colony at night, and as these things tend to in small towns, speculation grew. Stories began to go around about an animal, whose size and description changed with every telling, coming into the colony at night and feeding off the goats. One of the families even gave it a name that stuck. "Chingbe". They said it was from a pidgin language that people spoke on their homeworld. They tell me it means goat killer. Not very imaginative, but it seems to have stuck.

>>21970638
The players may decide to try to rescue the AI.

If they do, let them go to the central computer room to retrieve the AI core. The door's jammed, and there's also no atmosphere in there, but these things can be fixed or overcome.

When they open up the access panel, there's nothing in there but torn and drifting wires. The AI never speaks again.

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>>21973543

We only have a few solid leads. Other than the dead goats themselves, we've found sections of fence that were badly mangled, if not by a man then by a large animal. Only the cows would be able to have made a hole like that in the wire. The most assured "sighting" of this Chingbe comes from one of the agriculturalists, who was sitting on his porch and watching the hills as he drank a beer one evening. He said something that at first looked like a rock suddenly stood up on two hind legs, sniffed the air, and loped off on all fours. With the dim light, fog, and alcohol accounted for it's not a very reliable tale, but the rough size of the creature he describes is just large enough to make a hole in the fence.

What is to be done about this is up in the air. Again, despite the killings, we have no conclusive evidence that this is a real creature. We don't want to arm the colony, nor do we want to call in a military guard. We need to protect the colonists while assuring them that they will likely never need protecting. Should the attacks continue we may request a set of firearms to give to the colony officers. Should- god forbid- any colonists be found dead, more drastic steps will of course be taken.

Either way, we will be requisitioning more goats shortly.

>>21973559
This will live on forever.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/21970316/

>>21971246

How much of this is ripped off of BG2: Shadows of Amn?

>>21970477
I hate you. I was planning on going to sleep now. But after reading that. Ill prob be up for another few hours. You know..... till the sun comes up

>>21974330

Haha oh wow.
I hope the guy who posted that captcha is still around.

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bump for greatness