"Dark forces gather" edition.

Previously on /slop/:>>95888062

▶ Thread Task: I'm in the mood for something darker. Let's see some forces of evil gather up in here. Demons, monsters, corrupted souls, or whatever BBEG you might've stumbled across.

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>>95897178
Beautiful. Prompt, pretty please?

>>95897128 (OP)
>TT
Also I got the idea how to merge ideas from classic fantasy with contemporary one: make typical bad guys (daemons, orcs etc) religous, believing in old dogmas.

>TT

>>95897128 (OP)
>Thread Task
Four of the biggest, baddest, and most evil guys (and gals) from past campaigns I've ran.

Good morning.

>>95897739
stillhorny.jpg

>>95897146
>>95897186
>>95897186
>>95897235
Perfect balance of creatively fun and deeply unsettling at the same time. Do any of these characters have lore, or are they just random ideas brought to life?

>>95897803
Meant to tag >>95897221 too instead of double-tagging the puppet master guy.

>>95897128 (OP)
>TT
>"BBEG"

>>95897809
>>95897245

>>95897815
Gives a whole new meaning to "tongue of the boot." How'd you describe them in the prompt to get a good mimic like that?

>>95897338
Honestly, >>95897178 looks like one of yours, sage.

>>95897829
Literally just
>a pair of Ugg boots with eyes fangs lolling tongues
and spun the wheel until I got one I liked

>"Shh! I think he's gonna do it!"
>[giggles]
>"Stop laughing, or he'll notice!"

>>95897128 (OP)
>When the light goes out, something else finds it's way in...

The Nightmare Lord in his Hall of Screams

>>95897803
A little bit of both actually.
I usually just mess around with random ideas/prompts for a while until something I really like pops up. Then I tweak with it and sometimes come up with some lore after.
A little ass-backward, but I find it actually helps with ending up with slop I enjoy.

>>95897338
A dark fantasy portrait of four gaunt, otherworldly humanoid creatures standing together in eerie dim lighting. They are bald, with grayish, almost translucent skin stretched over thin skeletal frames. Each has elongated limbs, oversized black reflective eyes, and pointed ears. The atmosphere is ominous and shadowy, with a subtle horror tone. Realistic rendering in the style of a gothic oil painting, with detailed textures and dramatic chiaroscuro lighting.

>>95898217
Nah, this makes sense. A lot of my inspiration for campaigns come from random images found online, so generating them instead is just a more involved creative process all around. Got any interesting ideas cooked up from your marionette dude?

>>95897858
>Fuck! Going as boots is genius. Why didn't we think of that!?
>Gotta hand it to 'em...

Good morning sloppers

Eclipse Burst has been one lf my favorite spells to cast in Pathfinder (so far).
A 60 foot burst doing massive cold damage and additional void damage to living things caught in the blast.
I can neither confirm nor deny Serena yelling a Megumin-style "EXPUROSION!" as she casts it.
She absolutely yells it when she casts Sunburst.

>TT
https://files.catbox.moe/cfrj2g.mp3

>>95897128 (OP)
>Thread Task
They followed their princess to a distant world, set to enact conquest in her name.

>>95899240
Nice

>>95898516
Thank you very much.

>>95899349
Thank ye

>TT
One my favorite villains I ran. Crusaders are great for making villains that pursue the party instead of other way around

>>95899532
>Crusader
Pursuing them for their crimes against fashion, I presume? Damn murder-hobos and their offensively plain garb! I bet not a one wears a fancy hat.

He'll have his revenge

Maybe

>>95897645
Looks like fine tressym. Am I missing anything?

>>95900156

>>95897128 (OP)
i'm just a smol girl

>>95899532
Same campaign, Goblin bard-barian specialized in intimidation and skill monkeying. Killed two PCs on non-consecutive occasions. Loved this guy.
>>95899557
Damn right. Hats are important.

>>95900173

I just really like skeletons is all.

It's the only comfort they will ever experience in their wretched state, would you blame them for listening to its whispers?

>>95900563
Ditto bro

>>95897858
Nothing personnel, mimic.

>>95900563
How many you need, we even have skeletons on stilts

>>95898550
I'm sure I've got something typed up saved somewhere but at the moment I remember I was going for a creepy Eggman/Doctor Wiley steampunk mid-tier villain but he just kept getting creepier as I chugged along lol

>>95897128 (OP)
>>TT

>TT
General purpose evils? Sure why not.
Nuckelavee
Not undead! One of the outdoor deadly faeries that were later reclassified as demons by Christians. Runs the roads bringing disease, death, and bad luck to everything it touches or sees it.

>>95901809
Another classic most people probably know. Red cap.
Throws stones at you until you get knocked out then stomps the shit out of you with his iron spiked boots. Takes his hat and sops up the blood to keep it red.

>>95901873
Mares of Diomedes - But I've heard them under different names like Hrul and Guo but i can't find them with barely cursory google searching so fuck it.
Carnivorous horses. Hercules had to capture them for his 12 labours. Pretty bog standard, they are what they say on the tin. Claws on their front hooves.

>>95901889
>Dear Frederik,
>Stop sending me bitches!
>Yours sincerely,
>Enis, the lich with no penis

>>95901993
Black Shuck
A completely black dog the size of a horse or cow with a glowing red eyes. Seen by coach drivers since middle ages. They attempt to cause crashes or accidents by howling, attacking, or just running in front of the driver who swerves to avoid it. Usually happens are night, but there are reports happening at all times. Still seen to this day. I know this because I actually have seen one. Longer story than worth writing but many long haul drivers will tell you they've seen the black dog. They jump in front of your truck and disappear.
Ghost? Demon? Could be both or neither. Doesn't help there are hundreds of black dog stories.

>>95901873
"Why are you telling the mortals about us, huh? How about I slap your shit?"

>>95902092
Bakaak
Great Canadian Lakes demon. Only attacks warriors, but does so by firing invisible arrows at them from the sky then eats their liver. I used a raven here, but you could call it a harpy or such instead. It flies and shoots people, what more do you want?
>>95902161
lol

>>95902211
Nibishen
Another GCL spirit. A small animal that sounds like a baby crying. Stays in or near the water and attempts to get kids to come find it. Of course, those kids that find it are never seen again so there isn't really any description of what they look like.

>>95899797
He being released or bartered for?

>>95897128 (OP)
>Generators
Why not use Forge or Comfy installs?

>>95902368
Laziness

>>95897128 (OP)
Even in the darkest night, one can dream of the light

>>95902368
And miss out on such compelling anime imagery? I don't know how I'll go on without, now that I've seen true art.

>>95901431
I can see the influences. Also reminds me of the Mad Pierrot episode of Cowboy Bebop.

i thought bitches loved the lute?

>>TT

Welcome to Seattle

>>95902566
she was about to wack her with it, wasn't she... brutal

>dark

this is the tip of the iceberg. i can do some wretched stuff if yall want

>>95897128 (OP)
>TT

>you have 60 minutes to save her

>GRONK!

>>95897128 (OP)
>Sacrivenna della Spira—a white cathedral raised in the heart of Hell, built to channel God’s wrath upon those who believed themselves safe within Satan’s dominion.

>>95903177
>save
Nope. I wanna see where this goes.

>>95903203
The Honkdra?

>>95903229
that would make a good Dark Souls location

>>95903229
Was that done in Midjourney? It looks great.

>>95903177

>>95903137
Make a "good angel" snuck!

>>95903266
It is!

>>95903229
This is maybe the only landscape pic I've seen that doesn't look like shit & looks like something believable

>>95903285

>>95903300
Heavenly

>>95903299
The details are nonsense if you look close, but I appreciate the kind words anyway lol

>>95903307
Nah it's fine, your landscape isn't a barren fuzzy blob of color & the building isn't an empty cut & paste add infinitum lego brick

>>95895401
The tale of the Techpriestess continues from >>95873479

>Ever closer, the Lord of Change approached, until Salafié could feel its cold breath upon her face. The daemon's voice was little more than a harsh whisper, though it vibrated the deck plating with each hateful word.

>"Apostate of Mars, I stood before you once upon a world nameless in the tongue of your race. You knew me not then. Know now that I am Zar'Barzaviel, Herald of the Changer of Ways. And know that my master bids me show you that which is known to Him alone."

>Visions assailed the Priestess as the daemon inflicted its power upon her, a maddening swirl of images tracing out the infinitely branching paths of her fate. Until this moment, Salafié had never truly contemplated the implications of the synthetic immortality she had snatched from the vaults of the Mechanicus in those last frantic months before her excommunication. Nanotechnological resurrection had seemed a mere contingency against the power of her foes, but now she saw the truth of it, as not centuries, nor even millennia, but the yawning abyss of true eternity stretched out before her.

>Friends, lovers, enemies; all flickered into life, grew old, and were gone almost before she had seen them. Victories and defeats followed one upon the other, until both lost any meaning. And though she would die a thousand deaths upon a thousand worlds, each was but a moment's rest before she was dragged back into the endless march of fate. In time, she would witness eons of blood and flame as a rising tide of metal surpassed the era of flesh, first glorious, then unbearably silent.

>For all the varied paths of wonder and horror, the visions inevitably converged in the dizzying recesses of a future further before her than Mankind's birth lay in the past. Down path after path, Salafié saw herself walking the ashen plains of lifeless worlds under the fading light of dying stars, facing eternities of solitude at the very end of time...

>>95903343
>Yet even now, the Priestess saw that redemption was not wholly beyond her grasp. Among the innumerable visions of timeless horror, Salafié was shown a shining image of a moment centuries from now, where she could choose kneel in fealty before the Primarch and forge the fleets of a new Great Crusade at the right hand of Archmagos Cawl himself. And somewhere, long millennia down this path, there were even hints that she might somehow gain a blessed final death, with pilgrims praying at her tomb.

>Desperately she tried to cling to this vision, but it dissolved away into mist, leaving only the leering blue daemon standing before her. She implored him to let her see it once more, to show her the way to this future. Yet the daemon merely laughed.

>"The price of that secret would have been your soul, yet you squandered that currency long ago to buy the immortality you now dread."

>"Then why did you show me this?"

>"To chastise your pride," the daemon hissed, "For all that you are, and all that you may one day become, never shall you be more than a pawn of fate."

>It was then that a thought came to Salafié from that part of her mind the daemon could not reach, a mind of wires and silicon and archaeotech arcana: If she had no soul left to sell, she had no soul that this Warp-spawn could threaten. Suddenly animated by a wrath that eclipsed her fears, the Priestess leapt to her feet.

>"You dare mock me, daemon?" she cried out, lunging towards the Lord of Change with a fury that would have made the Emperor proud. Yet as her gleaming metal claws closed around the daemon's throat, it merely evaporated into a cloud of blue feathers and raucous laughter that echoed away down the corridors, leaving Salafié alone to contemplate the revelations she had been forced to witness.

>It was, as it would happen, not the only envoy Salafié would receive from the Immaterium that day...

>>95902092
maaan dont be posting that fuck. some of us are trying to supress our experiences with that thing. like seriously dude I get you're trying to show cool shit but shut the fuck up about that dog and stop reminding some of us trying to forget

>>95903343
How'd you do that with the images?

>>95903501
I've been dabbling in corpses and undead more and turning some into chatbots for some silly interactions between the living and dead. Fun times and a few conversations based on zombie brains have made me look t some of these spooky corpse a tiny bit different *zombies according to perchance chatbot logic have a vague series of humanity left in some of them and a few can hold vague sort of conversations depending on the world and reality (marvel comic zombies are somewhat functional and dangerous yet the ones in the 1968 night of the living dead reality are brainless and communication fails every time.

Shhhh, you'll ruin the surprise!

>>95904278
Would you be interested to hear about The Order of the Holy Thigh? We got hotpants, wine and crackers

>>95904585

>>95904585
>Holy Thigh
Sounds intriguing.

>>95903280
Based and comfy

>>95903280
>>95904898
King is apparently fond of black haired girls

Good morning sloppers

Oops. Good morning sloppers

>>95904984
He's fond of conquest & challenges if someone wants a redhead or blonde genned I can do that too.

>>95905356

>>95903360
>>95903343
>be me, demon of Tzeentch (best god)
>show a human her awesome destiny doing based shit forever
>she says she wants to be normie instead and spergs out when I troll her a little
Fucking humaniggers, I swear.

>>95903343
>Salafié saw herself walking the ashen plains of lifeless worlds under the fading light of dying stars, facing eternities of solitude at the very end of time...
Can't she anhero herself by jumping into a black hole? That should deal with most forms of immortality.

>>95905361
When did DK become a digimon?

>>95897128 (OP)

>>95905356
I was referring to the time he was seen with a black-haired librarian who's into grounding

>>95905356
No love for bronze beauties?

>>95905533
Digimon?

>>95905734
Well, 90% of what people post seem to have dark hair so that's why. Andris, Aure, Bing Bing, Kobby/Gobby, or this unknown rescued girl, it's all good.

>>95905761
Bronze too

>>95905841
New digimon game coming.
https://files.catbox.moe/smbves.jpg

>>95905948

>>95906311
That "tree house" would be a perfect hangout spot for them, don't you think?

Poor Ogre is learning the hard way that without abs like a steel there's absolutely no reason to participate in bodybuilding contests.

>>95897128 (OP)

>>95906041
That's hilarious. Don't tell me you wouldn't want dk to scoop you up in one atm

>>95906311
Another stroll in the forest, but this time for a specific reason. She wanted to find again the mysterious house grown out of the tree she found back then when she was chasing the little goat running away with her basket.

Smells like bait in here again

>>95907250
Eventually after an unusual amount of searching she finds the house. Something appears off about it from a distance however. No malice or fear, just exhaustion.

How long roughly has it been?

>>95907416
As she stood at the door, she peeked inside. Maybe this way she could learn what was going on.

And sorry for a door with metal elements, but after many tries this was the best pic I could get

>>95903407
Just some complicated collaging in Photoshop with the background color-matched to the 4chan post background.

>>95905500
Kek. It do be like that.

>>95905516
There's plenty of stuff that could finish her off for good if she really tried. Anything that completely obliterated all the nanomachines that regenerate her body would do it, from a direct hit with a nuke to even just falling into a metal smelter Terminator 2 style. For that matter, there's enough immortal beings in the 40k setting that she wouldn't really be facing eternal solitude in the first place. The daemon was just showing her half-truths to fuck with her mind.

>>95907823
My question is, what would happen if she got cut in half. Is she still bio brain or not?

>>95907925
NTA, but in 40K's lore it's mentioned that Techpriests tend to remove right cerebral hemisphere to get rid of all "unnecessary" things going in their head, and replace it with a cogitator acting as an additional left hemisphere

>>95907307
>Smells like bait in here
Does it? I thought it smells like fish and a big fat dude who smears his body with fat to protect himself from cold.

>>95907925
>My question is, what would happen if she got cut in half.
A brown and white dog appears and tells you that's an unsafe image.

But anyway, she would appear to die the way anybody else would upon being cut in half. But if the two halves were left close together, little mechanical limbs and writhing cables would quickly start to extend out of the cut surfaces of the halves of her body and reach towards each other until they met and pulled the two halves back together. A few hours to days for the internal bits to hook back up they way they should, and she'd be good as new. Alternately, if someone separated the halves at a great distance, only the larger portion would regenerate (so no Sorcerer's Apprentice style cloning by chopping her up), with her spilled nanomachine-laden blood aggressively grey-gooing the surroundings to create whatever autonomous machines were necessary to regrow/rebuild the missing body parts. This would be a lengthy process that could take months or even years to complete, and may cause considerable devastation, particularly if anyone tried to interfere with the growing mass of self-assembling machines while it was doing its work.

>Is she still bio brain or not?
As pictured. The parts of her brain responsible for higher consciousness are organic (hence why she's emotional, hedonistic, and thoroughly insane, rather than purely logical as per this anon's >>95907951 comment on the default Techpriest setup). But her cerebellum, brainstem, and spinal column are mechanical, housing a potent cogitator that functions as her subconscious, along with various cable sockets and antennae with which she interfaces with tech.

I have no idea why Bing allows this but not so many other things. She's not just naked, she's double-naked!

Good night. Sweet dreams. And don't forget what happens to the followers of Tz.

>>95905500
>Tzeentch (best god)
Fuck off. Tzeench is a lie. Vashtorr the Arkifane always tells the truth.

>>95897128 (OP)

OP here:
Just checking back in after a busy day and I'm really digging what all of you have been posting (yes, even YOU Sage : P).
Nicely done anons.
Have a mushroomy daemon.

The Dreaming King travels the Tokyo subway

>>95909501
Who is this kid? He just keeps crying & talking about not wanting to be a pilot

>>95909501
...I had too. Sorry lol

>>95909590
Who is this blue haired Japanese girl? I was going for something generic but man it started put the exact same girl after a while. You made her too.

>>TT
A darker day,
No soul has known.
For now we bathe and feast,
On blood and bone.

>>95907495
She motions to a chair nearby and pushes the teacup towards it. The tea smells like pine needles with honey, so it's hard to judge from a distance.

>>95908598
Awesome pic.
>>95908997
Nurgle is best god. Not even close.
>>95909590
lol
>>95909615
I want to say Hatsune Miku, but I can't tell if thats twin tails or just a really off center pony tail.

>>95909615
>>95909649
I was going to say Hatsune Miku too, but that was just the first one to pop into my head.
There's like a metric ton's worth of characters with similar design.
Honestly I think it's such a trope that AI has just created a go-to gestalt character to embody it.

>>95902314
Another cryptid TT while its still in thread
Shadow giants
Two different kinds of these. The giants of the wilderness and the shadow people of civilization. Mostly just a frightening apparition that feels like pure terror. Ghosts? Tricks of the eye? Hard to say just cause they are so commonly experienced.

>>95909694
Holy shit, I clicked on that without realizing it was animated and almost shat myself.
...Smartly done, anon.

>>95909649
>>95909666
Just googled & it looks right to be the miku girl. Interesting

>>95909694
A repost of mine, but I liked it and it still fits
Rusulka
Eastern european lake/pond mermaid. Not particularly dangerous in old myths. Mostly just sort of like walking along in the woods and accidentally coming across a naked woman taking a bath. Still technically a type of faerie though so your mileage may vary. Depicted here as a version I used in this setting >>95899532
Basically a Rusulka for the tarsands.

>>95909716
Lady I don't know who your husband is & I don't care if you think he can kick my ass...

>>95909649
>Nurgle is best god. Not even close
No. Slaaaaaaaanesh!

>>95909773
So what is this "Hetap" stuff?

>>95909800
Looks like you're baking.

>>95909806
Dang it.
Okay. Give me a bit.

Okay, anons. Wow me.
>>95909960
>>95909960
>>95909960