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Vaguely eldritch scenes I can't get out of my head
An anthology
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On the commuter train:

"Hey can I help you? You keep staring at me."

"Oh sorry, my eyes are just wandering and getting stuck places."

Angrily: "Well it's really rude to stare, could you stop!"

Getting angry too: "Well it's not my fault you're reflecting photons in my direction! Could you perhaps stop doing that?!"

Petulant: "Fine!"

A *worp* sound as the person promptly disappears from view.

Mollified and surprised: "Oh...   Uh, okay!" Goes back to looking out the window.

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"Sorry could you hold the leash of your dog when I walk past? It's a little scary."

"Oh don't worry, he's harmless. Wouldn't hurt a fly."

"That might well be the case, but I'm a bit afraid of dogs, so I really would prefer it if you could hold his leash."

"Oh I wouldn't do that to my little buddy."

"Oh god damn it I'll walk the long way around."

"Wow, people are such assholes. Don't you think, Bubsy?"

A 2 meter high dire wolf with mandibles, seventeen eyes and a tentacled mane comes into frame: "GRYAAAAAAAHHH"

Unphased desipite the hair flying back from the air pressure:

"Right you are Bubsy, right you are."

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DM: Okay, the friendly cultist says "Alas, you must not observe the last steps of the ritual. Avert your eyes!"

Bard, chaotic neutral: Aha, he wants to keep his secrets. I respond "I solemnly swear!"

DM: Okay the cultist starts chanting again, holding his hands out to the flame, and he reaches a fever pitch and screams as the flame roars. Do you peek?

Bard: Obviously!

DM: Okay, hm, your studies included natural philosophy before you started studying music, didn't they? So you'd have a fair chance at understanding what you're seeing, right?

Bard: Yup!

DM: Cool, you take 20d4 psychic damage.

Bard: fuck

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