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Mrs. Dawn ("Frankenstein")

This time it'll work. This time for sure.

Every new moon, that's what she's said to herself, to her workrooms, to the new corpse laid out neatly on a marble table while she worked feverishly.

But this time --

Alas, no. Not this time.

The dead rise; but not with new life. And a restless soul trapped in dead flesh was not what she wanted.

Another new moon wasted.

She sighs and lifts a holy blade to end yet another experiment.

Next time.

#AuGhost #ttrpg #osr

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the Ghost Howler ("werewolf")

Whether wolf or man or beast between it's always the same.

He stalks roads and hallways, forests and farms, market squares and city blocks, a snarling, howling tangle of agony and rending fangs.

Only the silver spike thrust through his buried ribcage keeps him from hunting across the entire land.

And destroying those bones will not end him.

Only returning his pelt, flensed from him with silver and spite, will put an end to his rage.

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I cannot with these lilies. Look at the speckles!

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Lady Rose ("vampire")

For her first century, Rose was a monster.
She justified it with her own grisly death, her dishonoured burial, her horrible freedom from it -- none of which changed the horrors she caused in turn.

For her second century, Rose was a bloodstained penitent, learning control.
She walked away from hermitage with a wise dead heart and tempered hunger.

For a century, now, Lady Rose is a dire guardian.
A single drink is all she asks of her supplicants.

#AuGhost #ttrpg #osr

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the Voiceless Departed ("silence")

It's not always strange gates, crossroad slips or bloodied ceremony. Sometimes, all that's needed is the right place, the right time, and to want it enough -- and the dead can reach out to the living without calamity.

But it's not perfect. Even if they can see each other, even if there's a shiver of sensation as spirit touches flesh, no sound can pass between them.

A safe meeting, unaided, for both sides; imperfect, but it can exist.

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Bells Of The Dead ("sound")

The chiming of bells drives away the dead, the story goes. And, it's true enough -- but what many stories don't say is how it can't be any old bell.

An iron bell repels the passion-bound.
A silver bell, the malicious dead; a golden one the lost and wandering; a bronze those looking to possess a living host.
A wooden bell, echoing and hollow, to drive off the haunts of animals.

A crystal bell will call the departed to you like a gentle beacon.

#AuGhost #ttrpg #osr

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RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by. I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn’t have much to ‘bring’ to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say. “What are you struggling with?” he asked.

I gestured around me and said “I dunno man. Life.” Not satisfied with my answer, he said “No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?”

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn‘t want to say it.

I wanted to have something more substantial. Something more profound.

But I didn’t.

So I told him, “Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN’T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can’t stand and scrub the dishes” I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with actual problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But my therapist nodded in understanding and then said:

“RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.”

I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

“Why the hell aren’t you supposed to? If you don’t want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist, so stop giving yourself rules."

It blew my mind in a way that I don’t think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times. I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later, I folded my laundry and put them wherever the heck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!

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