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<</nobr>>This story is the genre: <<set $Genre to either ("Body Horror", "Cosmic Horror", "Dark Fantasy", "Folk Horror", "Ghost Stories", "Gothic Horror")>>
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[[Discover the story's villain.|Step2]]
[[Find a new genre.|Start]]
[[Mix genres.|StartMixedGenre]]The villain is below!<<nobr>><<if $Genre is "Body Horror">><<set $Villain to either("An abandoned homunculus made in the image of its creator’s child, now left to fester alone", "A scientist who, hoping to keep their spouse alive, grafted the spouse onto their body", "A seething mass of fungi that grows more intelligent with every sapient life it engulfs", "A guardian angel possessed by the vile blood of the demons it has slain", "An aging king obsessed with creating a new body so he can continue his reign indefinitely", "A cancer possessed by the mind of a dead necromancer that seeks to regrow his body", "A monarch who feeds their cannibal children, no matter the cost", "The priests of a forgotten god who attempt to raise their deity from the flesh of the faithful", "A house that remembers having tenants and will do anything to regain them", "A grieving mortician who sculpts every face she encounters into the countenance of her lost love")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Cosmic Horror">><<set $Villain to either("A smiling minstrel with yellow eyes and music that drives listeners to murder", "A priest obsessed with creating a shelter that will preserve her through the coming apocalypse", "The mayor of a town who will do anything to make sure the citizens finish their sacred transformation", "An astronomer broken and enraptured by what they saw in the stars", "An old scientist convinced he must make his body the perfect host for an ageless being’s emissary", "A coroner who believes a message is being relayed to him through the bodies he autopsies", "The head librarian of an ancient sect, who seeks secrets hidden within her peers", "A spoiled noble who intends to raise a cult to feed to the realm they want access to")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Dark Fantasy">><<set $Villain to either("A machine that believes it’s a resurrected tyrant and seeks to rebuild its empire in iron", "The leader of a subterranean people who plots to manipulate the moon to blot out the sun’s searing light", "A high priest intent on shifting an entire nation into their god’s otherworldly realm", "A desperate general who unleashes otherworldly armies or war machines that they can’t control", "A massive treant who has allied with exploitative raiders and seeks to fell every forest", "A sage who, heedless of the consequences, solves an endless war by preventing anyone from dying", "A member of a cabal of eternal royals who support a war against Mount Celestia, as their immortality relies on the blood of angels", "The commander of a legion of soul-addicted templars who punish crimes by burning criminals into psychoactive spirit dust", "An ancient dragon whose godlike magic drains the domain of life", "A god who killed all their peers and now rules the mortal realm")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Folk Horror">><<set $Villain to either("A secluded temple’s high priest who needs to find the perfect sacrifice before the annual festival", "An erinyes that appears when youngsters speak a rhyme into a darkened mirror", "A night hag that dwells in the dreams of those who drink a special lavender and ergot tea", "A shape-shifter that takes on the appearance of the last person it fed upon", "A wicker giant that animates during the new moon, collecting sacrifices and punishing the unwary", "A village of people who behave in archaic ways so they don’t enrage an ancient, lingering ghost", "A treant who demands living limbs to replace the branches of trees cleared by a town’s construction", "A protective giant made from the corpses of deceased villagers")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Ghost Stories">><<set $Villain to either("A medium who feeds victims to spirits in exchange for power over them", "The spirit of a long-dead murderer who stalks the same types of victims in death as in life", "The haunted home of a cruel patriarch, who refuses to relinquish control of his descendants", "A priest who marks the unworthy for death at the hands of the cathedral’s hungry spirits", "A phantom rider who sweeps through the village, stealing victims who disbelieve her legend", "An unbound spirit that repeatedly manifests in victims’ nightmares", "The capricious phantasm of an amoral accident victim who torments victims for fun", "The spirit of a former tyrant who demands sacrifices from the village she once ruled", "A ghost hunter who inflicts hauntings on unwitting clients—and then charges to remove the undead", "The spirit of an evil captain who lurks near their shipwreck, harassing vessels and crews that pass")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Gothic Horror">><<set $Villain to either("A reclusive noble who isn’t a vampire, but uses his reputation as one to terrorize his vassals", "An indulgent socialite who made a terrible bargain with a fell power to retain her youth", "A scientist obsessed with creating the perfect poison, machine, or lifeform", "A beloved magnate who abducts commoners to steal their blood for his beauty rituals", "A celebrity who openly murders innocents but uses their charm to avoid repercussions", "Someone who loves a monstrous creature and does anything to keep it fed and safe", "A wealthy heir who manipulates the ambitious into committing terrible deeds", "A poisoner who seeks to manipulate history through targeted killings", "An artist who manufactures terrible accidents to provide inspiration and reference for her art", "A monster hunter who accuses those they consider sinful of being monsters")>><<else>><</if>><</nobr>>
GENRE: <<=$Genre>>
VILLAIN: <<=$Villain>>
[[Discover the villain's torment.|Step3]]
[[Find a new villain.|Step2]]
[[Go back a step.|Start]]The villain's torment is below!<<nobr>><<if $Genre is "Body Horror">><<set $Torment to either("The villain is pockmarked with eyes that never close and never allow for sleep.", "The villain suffers ever-growing, tumorous organs, the mass expanding beyond them to choke their dwelling.", "The villain possesses a second starving mouth in their torso, one that howls unless fed.", "The villain can’t control their transformation into a beast and back.", "The voices of those the villain has wronged scream endlessly from inside them.", "The villain aches daily with a monstrous, unceasing hunger.", "The villain is perpetually gravid with monstrous egg sacs that hatch waves of insects.", "The villain has extraneous limbs that tear the villain apart then re-stitch the pieces.")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Cosmic Horror">><<set $Torment to either("The villain is obsessed with music, their body warping to embody whatever song they hear.", "The villain is transforming into a long-extinct being or something from the far-flung future.", "The villain sees multiple dimensions at once and is going blind from their incandescence.", "The villain is haunted by otherworldly masters that whisper from reflective surfaces.", "The villain incubates something within them, an entity that slowly eats through their skin.", "The villain is emptying of their own thoughts and filling with the voices of their scrolls.", "The villain randomly screams their masters’ words, messages that etch upon stone and flesh.", "Any object the villain sees is drained of all but one portentous color.")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Dark Fantasy">><<set $Torment to either("The villain’s regime is fraught with spies and saboteurs, increasing the villain’s paranoia.", "Worthless sycophants surround the villain, their incessant praise making every success hollow.", "The villain’s incredible power uncontrollably damages everything the villain cares for.", "Others excessively revere or fear the villain, leaving the villain isolated.", "Imagined or remembered rivals endlessly critique the villain, causing them doubt.", "Society preemptively celebrates an achievement the villain will never be able to provide.", "The villain seeks the pleasure of lost glories, engaging in hollow contests against unworthy foes.", "The villain manufactures catastrophes to distract from their inability to fulfill their role.")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Folk Horror">><<set $Torment to either("The villain can’t commune with the spirit they worship. They offer ever greater sacrifices in hopes of proving their worthiness.", "The villain constantly, uncontrollably speaks prophecies.", "The villain is haunted by the judgmental spirits of their predecessors.", "The villain is the only one who adheres to an ancient faith and desperately works to convert nonbelievers.", "The villain seeks to transform their body into a vessel or gate for the subject of their belief.", "The villain knows the community’s beliefs are false but keeps up the facade to maintain power.")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Ghost Stories">><<set $Torment to either("The villain tames the spirits in his haunted mansion, but only when he sacrifices a memory.", "The villain’s skin is haunted, but she can temporarily release spirits from her elaborate scars.", "A dozen phantoms cater to the villain; each spirit is an emotion he can no longer feel.", "Vampiric spirits keep the villain forever young, but physical sensation fled them long ago.", "Despite being alive, the villain is cursed with the inability to convince anyone they’re not a spirit.", "All spirits obey a villain who can’t touch anyone without stealing their soul.", "The villain fully controls the veil between this world and the spirit world, but if he steps outside his mansion, he’ll be permanently destroyed.", "Any animal the villain sees dies and comes to haunt the morbid zoo her home has become.")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Gothic Horror">><<set $Torment to either("The villain’s soul is so consumed by shadows that it extinguishes all light that shines on them.", "The villain inherited unlimited wealth, but finery she wears turns to rags and food tastes like ash.", "The villain is incomparably beautiful, but locals perceive him as a terrible beast.", "Tattoos detailing the villain’s sins cover their body.", "Every night, the villain is the focus of a lavish ball, but during the day he turns into a lead statue.", "A choir of spirits follows the villain, endlessly singing her sins.", "The villain endlessly cries tears of blood, ink, poison, or molten iron.", "The villain knows how he’s going to die and sees evidence of impending doom everywhere.")>><<else>><</if>><</nobr>>
GENRE: <<=$Genre>>
VILLAIN: <<=$Villain>>
TORMENT: <<=$Torment>>
[[Discover the setting.|Step4]]
[[Find a new torment.|Step3]]
[[Go back a step.|Step2]]The setting is below!<<nobr>><<if $Genre is "Body Horror">><<set $Setting to either("A country of red muscle, with bleeding eyes embedded in the hair-strangled trees", "A world of monuments and houses, all made of flesh", "A domain ordinary save for the abundance of black hair, the strands always moving even when there is no breeze", "A neighborhood of derelict houses, each one composed of numerous mimics", "An ocean of undead leviathans, still moving despite the entrails bubbling from their burst torsos", "A forest of black pines draped in bodies", "A slaughterhouse larger than it appears on the outside, full of victims mutely awaiting slaughter", "A system of subterranean tunnels, their walls spackled with fossils or mummified organs")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Cosmic Horror">><<set $Setting to either("A wind-blasted dimension of indigo sand and eyeless statues", "A world with slowly vanishing land masses being consumed by an obsidian sea", "A kingdom of rusting spires ruled by oblivious academics", "A land possessed by fear of the colossi that move only during dawn and dusk", "A red ocean that manifested without warning", "An ambulatory forest riddled with glowing eyes", "A kingdom of undying monarchs who outnumber their frightened subjects", "A dimension of featureless white, broken up only by the eyes that blink across the landscape")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Dark Fantasy">><<set $Setting to either("A land where towering stents pierce magical leylines, allowing their power to be drained", "A country devastated by magical pollution or the fallout of weapons used in an age-old war", "An empire covered in the watchful symbols of an all-seeing religion", "A city adrift on a sea full of primeval predators", "A land dotted with the floating and fallen ruins of magical megastructures", "A world where an unstoppable ooze, infection, or hive encroaches on civilization", "A demiplane created by unknowable beings and populated with their test subjects", "A place of punishment or endless boredom that a Darklord believes is part of the afterlife")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Folk Horror">><<set $Setting to either("A countryside with stretches of hayfields, colorful barns, and perpetually smiling residents", "An island floating in the air where ground-worshipers dream of the lands below", "A telepathic collective that townsfolk join by ingesting a rare fungus", "Tunnels where sewer dwellers assure that the “blood of the city” ever flows", "A glacier that residents never leave, lest the icy spirits haunting their community escape", "Rival villages engaged in a private, age-old war")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Ghost Stories">><<set $Setting to either("A realm where speaking to spirits is just like speaking with the living", "A graveyard city-state where all living residents are grave keepers", "A nation where the residents observe grueling rituals to keep the angry dead appeased", "A city where the victims of violence can’t cross into the afterlife until their murders are solved", "A ship with the same name and lines as a vessel lost at sea a hundred years earlier", "A realm in which a common ritual allows a living individual to trade places with a dead one", "An expansive forest in which a cruel noble once hunted the poor for sport", "A land in which mediums are revered because they maintain the veil between the living and dead")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Gothic Horror">><<set $Setting to either("A city-state where the rulers are secretly warring lycanthropes, hags, and vampires", "A countryside littered with gigantic pieces of armor", "A nation where fog hides packs of deadly beasts", "An island where the inhabitants make sacrifices to avoid eerie transformations", "A mountain-sized cathedral devoted to transforming a prophesied being into a deity", "A forest of eternal night where bloodthirsty creatures live in monstrous peace", "A city where all who die are cast in plaster and used to adorn tableau-covered avenues", "An artist’s paradise where cruelties are elevated to terrible and beautiful art forms")>><<else>><</if>><</nobr>>
GENRE: <<=$Genre>>
VILLAIN: <<=$Villain>>
TORMENT: <<=$Torment>>
SETTING: <<=$Setting>>
[[Discover the adventure site.|Step5]]
[[Find a new setting.|Step4]]
[[Go back a step.|Step3]]The adventure site is below!<<nobr>><<if $Genre is "Body Horror">><<set $AdventureSite to either("A derelict ship, buried for mysterious reasons", "A vine-covered, ostensibly abandoned prison", "The cavernous gut of a dead, multi-eyed behemoth", "An inn in the valley, its insides dark and smoke-drowned", "An asylum, abandoned save for vermin", "A cave system, slick and comprised of gleaming black rock", "An old church sitting astride a warren of ancient tunnels", "A sprawling university, older than the town surrounding it, and older still than the memories of its inhabitants")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Cosmic Horror">><<set $AdventureSite to either("A hidden floor of the royal library", "The ninth basement beneath a family home that seems normal from the outside", "A decrepit manor, empty save for staff who swear the lord is merely preoccupied", "A small inn in the mountains that smells perpetually of brine", "The place in the forest where all the animals come to die", "A fortress manned by paladins, all of whom removed their own tongues", "A sewage system that predates the city above", "A thin chapel in the woods, whose bells rings without ceasing")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Dark Fantasy">><<set $AdventureSite to either("An expanding labyrinth that grows to protect the evil imprisoned at its heart", "A forest where every tree grows from the body of a mummified hero", "A magical factory that distills living beings into the reagents of a wish-granting elixir", "A criminal consortium’s lavish sewer-academy, where recruits are transformed to be perfectly suited to enacting one near-impossible heist", "The fractured mind-scape of a powerful but dormant sentient weapon", "A massive construct-cathedral built to exact the ultimate expression of faith and sacrifice", "A palace where the nonhumanoid inhabitants purposefully petrified themselves", "A fortress with seven locked gates that seal off the underworld")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Folk Horror">><<set $AdventureSite to either("A seemingly deserted chapel that has been burnt down and rebuilt a thousand times", "A hag’s hut that stands atop a growing hill of rotten sweets", "A whispering pit once plugged by a monolith covered in prayer scrolls", "A field where paths grow in corridor-like patterns leading to a ruin at the center", "A mansion built incorporating a stone circle", "A cavern where the glowing bones of an otherworldly being jut from the walls")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Ghost Stories">><<set $AdventureSite to either("A decrepit conservatory whose inhabitants are prone to terrible accidents", "A village graveyard that holds the victims of a terrible mass crime", "A decrepit barn where dozens of remarkable animals lost their lives in a fire", "An attic in which a hateful spirit has been sealed for decades", "A theater in which, decades ago, an actor systematically poisoned their rivals", "A swanky inn where, for years, nobles killed the staff to prevent word of their affairs getting out", "A picturesque cliff that’s a popular destination for lovers, despite the fact that couples frequently fall to their deaths", "A lighthouse where a lone guard is the only living individual keeping an army of spirits at bay")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Gothic Horror">><<set $AdventureSite to either("A mansion’s forbidden east wing, where terrible noises sound from every night", "A castle where all visitors are transformed into rats, bats, spiders, and other beasts", "A science lab where preserved body parts carry the consciousnesses of their former owners", "A hidden fighting arena where rivals and lovers battle to prove the strength of their emotions", "A beautiful garden where the past keepers find immortality as statues and in ancient trees", "A tower where honorable heroes are sworn to protect a monstrous ruler", "A lavish inn where a random guest chokes on their own blood each night", "A rectory where the stained glass windows hold the trapped souls of the pious")>><<else>><</if>><</nobr>>
GENRE: <<=$Genre>>
VILLAIN: <<=$Villain>>
TORMENT: <<=$Torment>>
SETTING: <<=$Setting>>
ADVENTURE SITE: <<=$AdventureSite>>
[[Discover the plot.|Step6]]
[[Find a new adventure site.|Step5]]
[[Go back a step.|Step4]]The plot is below!<<nobr>><<if $Genre is "Body Horror">><<set $Plot to either("Learn who’s organizing the local dinner parties before more epicureans die of autophagia.", "Stop whatever is stealing the livers from the town’s guard.", "Find out what is causing the children of the city to transform into misshapen statues.", "Stop whatever is killing the sea life and transforming them into monsters.", "End the curse that is leaving the beasts of forests dead, mutated, and halfway human.", "Stop the infestation before it can use more townsfolk as incubators for giant insects.", "Solve the mystery of whatever is causing a town’s inhabitants to melt into giant blobs.", "Cast out the fiends that have infiltrated a community by wearing the corpses of the recently dead.")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Cosmic Horror">><<set $Plot to either("Help a parent recover a child who’s gone missing in the impossibly vast space underneath their bed.", "Stop a sapient, unholy tome from reaching a group of cultists.", "Save the inheritors of an ancient sect before they transform into horrors.", "Stop the sacrifice of a young noble by those who believe the noble’s grandchild will end the world.", "Find and stop the musician whose music has robbed entire cities of sleep.", "Survive an evening in the sinking, ancestral home of a hydrophobic family.", "Discover what is dragging the people of a hamlet out of their homes, garbing them in silver, and leading them into the surf to drown.", "Learn why the bakers of a small town have started making pastries filled with a popular, delicious, and faintly glowing blue goo.")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Dark Fantasy">><<set $Plot to either("Track down a beholder-shaped flesh golem and learn why it’s targeting specific individuals.", "Seal a portal to a demonic realm that opens within the mouth of an innocent acolyte.", "Cure a virus turning people into shadows.", "Mount a defense against the swarm of giant spiders that’s declared war on bipeds.", "Prevent a mighty spell that a coven of witches is casting using a volcanic caldera as a cauldron.", "Keep a nation from tearing itself apart when it’s revealed the beloved ruler is a lich.", "Banish a spirit haunting the moon.", "Uncover the identity of an otherworldly coward who’s hiding among mortals, avoiding the destructive search of the immortals they fled.")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Folk Horror">><<set $Plot to either("Recover a missing villager who ran away to escape the local cult.", "Hunt down the monster blamed for causing a blight: a unicorn meant to serve as a sacrifice.", "Discover why anyone entering the city on horseback is imprisoned and sentenced to death.", "Help a cult summon a fiend to combat an impending greater evil.", "Defeat a violent hag who’s protected by everyone in town and called “grandmother.”", "Escape an estate after the residents adopt the party and refuse to let them leave.", "Learn why the characters bear uncanny resemblances to the founders of an underground village.", "Slay a dragon and, in so doing, prove a character is the prophesied chosen one.")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Ghost Stories">><<set $Plot to either("Investigate the bloody graffiti being left on the village’s ancient walls and stop the vandal.", "A dying hero is convinced they’re going to return as a spirit. Prevent this from happening.", "Discover why members of a prominent family never allow anyone to enter their guest house.", "Solve the murder of a phantom who can say only the words “blood,” “onions,” and “wine.”", "Solve the murder of the countess, who drowned in the same well as her mother and grandmother.", "Convince a stubborn miser to visit his haunted family home and put his deathless family to rest.", "Discreetly follow a phantom vagabond to find out where she disappears to and with whom.", "Learn why a mob of spirits besieges the local temple on the winter solstice each year.")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Genre is "Gothic Horror">><<set $Plot to either("Discover why anyone who utters the prince’s true name immediately turns to dust.", "Investigate the disappearance of a scientist known only through their correspondence.", "Help a repentant immortal lose centuries of painful memories.", "Track down a serial killer who impales her victims on the same monument.", "End an affliction that turns a noble into a living doll every night.", "Settle a dispute between mortals and devils who both claim the same child is their next ruler.", "Put to rest a pair of spirits that bring tragedy to any couple who tries to get married.", "Find a way to end a land’s generational curse that doesn’t involve a group of innocents willingly sacrificing themselves.")>><<else>><</if>><</nobr>>
GENRE: <<=$Genre>>
VILLAIN: <<=$Villain>>
TORMENT: <<=$Torment>>
SETTING: <<=$Setting>>
ADVENTURE SITE: <<=$AdventureSite>>
PLOT: <<=$Plot>>
You're done! Unless you want to start over—or mix genres.
[[Start over.|Start]]
[[Find a new plot.|Step6]]
[[Mix genres.|StartMixedGenre]]Each upcoming step could be from the genres of Body Horror, Cosmic Horror, Dark Fantasy, Folk Horror, Ghost Stories, or Gothic Horror. Buckle up!
[[Discover the story's villain.|Step2MixedGenre]]
[[Go back to finding a genre.|Start]]The villain is below!<<nobr>>
<<set $Villain to either("An abandoned homunculus made in the image of its creator’s child, now left to fester alone", "A scientist who, hoping to keep their spouse alive, grafted the spouse onto their body", "A seething mass of fungi that grows more intelligent with every sapient life it engulfs", "A guardian angel possessed by the vile blood of the demons it has slain", "An aging king obsessed with creating a new body so he can continue his reign indefinitely", "A cancer possessed by the mind of a dead necromancer that seeks to regrow his body", "A monarch who feeds their cannibal children, no matter the cost", "The priests of a forgotten god who attempt to raise their deity from the flesh of the faithful", "A house that remembers having tenants and will do anything to regain them", "A grieving mortician who sculpts every face she encounters into the countenance of her lost love", "A smiling minstrel with yellow eyes and music that drives listeners to murder", "A priest obsessed with creating a shelter that will preserve her through the coming apocalypse", "The mayor of a town who will do anything to make sure the citizens finish their sacred transformation", "An astronomer broken and enraptured by what they saw in the stars", "An old scientist convinced he must make his body the perfect host for an ageless being’s emissary", "A coroner who believes a message is being relayed to him through the bodies he autopsies", "The head librarian of an ancient sect, who seeks secrets hidden within her peers", "A spoiled noble who intends to raise a cult to feed to the realm they want access to", "A machine that believes it’s a resurrected tyrant and seeks to rebuild its empire in iron", "The leader of a subterranean people who plots to manipulate the moon to blot out the sun’s searing light", "A high priest intent on shifting an entire nation into their god’s otherworldly realm", "A desperate general who unleashes otherworldly armies or war machines that they can’t control", "A massive treant who has allied with exploitative raiders and seeks to fell every forest", "A sage who, heedless of the consequences, solves an endless war by preventing anyone from dying", "A member of a cabal of eternal royals who support a war against Mount Celestia, as their immortality relies on the blood of angels", "The commander of a legion of soul-addicted templars who punish crimes by burning criminals into psychoactive spirit dust", "An ancient dragon whose godlike magic drains the domain of life", "A god who killed all their peers and now rules the mortal realm", "A secluded temple’s high priest who needs to find the perfect sacrifice before the annual festival", "An erinyes that appears when youngsters speak a rhyme into a darkened mirror", "A night hag that dwells in the dreams of those who drink a special lavender and ergot tea", "A shape-shifter that takes on the appearance of the last person it fed upon", "A wicker giant that animates during the new moon, collecting sacrifices and punishing the unwary", "A village of people who behave in archaic ways so they don’t enrage an ancient, lingering ghost", "A treant who demands living limbs to replace the branches of trees cleared by a town’s construction", "A protective giant made from the corpses of deceased villagers", "A medium who feeds victims to spirits in exchange for power over them", "The spirit of a long-dead murderer who stalks the same types of victims in death as in life", "The haunted home of a cruel patriarch, who refuses to relinquish control of his descendants", "A priest who marks the unworthy for death at the hands of the cathedral’s hungry spirits", "A phantom rider who sweeps through the village, stealing victims who disbelieve her legend", "An unbound spirit that repeatedly manifests in victims’ nightmares", "The capricious phantasm of an amoral accident victim who torments victims for fun", "The spirit of a former tyrant who demands sacrifices from the village she once ruled", "A ghost hunter who inflicts hauntings on unwitting clients—and then charges to remove the undead", "The spirit of an evil captain who lurks near their shipwreck, harassing vessels and crews that pass", "A reclusive noble who isn’t a vampire, but uses his reputation as one to terrorize his vassals", "An indulgent socialite who made a terrible bargain with a fell power to retain her youth", "A scientist obsessed with creating the perfect poison, machine, or lifeform", "A beloved magnate who abducts commoners to steal their blood for his beauty rituals", "A celebrity who openly murders innocents but uses their charm to avoid repercussions", "Someone who loves a monstrous creature and does anything to keep it fed and safe", "A wealthy heir who manipulates the ambitious into committing terrible deeds", "A poisoner who seeks to manipulate history through targeted killings", "An artist who manufactures terrible accidents to provide inspiration and reference for her art", "A monster hunter who accuses those they consider sinful of being monsters")>><</nobr>>
VILLAIN: <<=$Villain>>
[[Discover the villain's torment.|Step3MixedGenre]]
[[Find a new villain.|Step2MixedGenre]]
[[Go back a step.|StartMixedGenre]]The villain's torment is below!<<nobr>><<set $Torment to either("The villain is pockmarked with eyes that never close and never allow for sleep.", "The villain suffers ever-growing, tumorous organs, the mass expanding beyond them to choke their dwelling.", "The villain possesses a second starving mouth in their torso, one that howls unless fed.", "The villain can’t control their transformation into a beast and back.", "The voices of those the villain has wronged scream endlessly from inside them.", "The villain aches daily with a monstrous, unceasing hunger.", "The villain is perpetually gravid with monstrous egg sacs that hatch waves of insects.", "The villain has extraneous limbs that tear the villain apart then re-stitch the pieces.", "The villain is obsessed with music, their body warping to embody whatever song they hear.", "The villain is transforming into a long-extinct being or something from the far-flung future.", "The villain sees multiple dimensions at once and is going blind from their incandescence.", "The villain is haunted by otherworldly masters that whisper from reflective surfaces.", "The villain incubates something within them, an entity that slowly eats through their skin.", "The villain is emptying of their own thoughts and filling with the voices of their scrolls.", "The villain randomly screams their masters’ words, messages that etch upon stone and flesh.", "Any object the villain sees is drained of all but one portentous color.", "The villain’s regime is fraught with spies and saboteurs, increasing the villain’s paranoia.", "Worthless sycophants surround the villain, their incessant praise making every success hollow.", "The villain’s incredible power uncontrollably damages everything the villain cares for.", "Others excessively revere or fear the villain, leaving the villain isolated.", "Imagined or remembered rivals endlessly critique the villain, causing them doubt.", "Society preemptively celebrates an achievement the villain will never be able to provide.", "The villain seeks the pleasure of lost glories, engaging in hollow contests against unworthy foes.", "The villain manufactures catastrophes to distract from their inability to fulfill their role.", "The villain can’t commune with the spirit they worship. They offer ever greater sacrifices in hopes of proving their worthiness.", "The villain constantly, uncontrollably speaks prophecies.", "The villain is haunted by the judgmental spirits of their predecessors.", "The villain is the only one who adheres to an ancient faith and desperately works to convert nonbelievers.", "The villain seeks to transform their body into a vessel or gate for the subject of their belief.", "The villain knows the community’s beliefs are false but keeps up the facade to maintain power.", "The villain tames the spirits in his haunted mansion, but only when he sacrifices a memory.", "The villain’s skin is haunted, but she can temporarily release spirits from her elaborate scars.", "A dozen phantoms cater to the villain; each spirit is an emotion he can no longer feel.", "Vampiric spirits keep the villain forever young, but physical sensation fled them long ago.", "Despite being alive, the villain is cursed with the inability to convince anyone they’re not a spirit.", "All spirits obey a villain who can’t touch anyone without stealing their soul.", "The villain fully controls the veil between this world and the spirit world, but if he steps outside his mansion, he’ll be permanently destroyed.", "Any animal the villain sees dies and comes to haunt the morbid zoo her home has become.", "The villain’s soul is so consumed by shadows that it extinguishes all light that shines on them.", "The villain inherited unlimited wealth, but finery she wears turns to rags and food tastes like ash.", "The villain is incomparably beautiful, but locals perceive him as a terrible beast.", "Tattoos detailing the villain’s sins cover their body.", "Every night, the villain is the focus of a lavish ball, but during the day he turns into a lead statue.", "A choir of spirits follows the villain, endlessly singing her sins.", "The villain endlessly cries tears of blood, ink, poison, or molten iron.", "The villain knows how he’s going to die and sees evidence of impending doom everywhere.")>><</nobr>>
VILLAIN: <<=$Villain>>
TORMENT: <<=$Torment>>
[[Discover the setting.|Step4MixedGenre]]
[[Find a new torment.|Step3MixedGenre]]
[[Go back a step.|Step2MixedGenre]]The setting is below!<<nobr>><<set $Setting to either("A country of red muscle, with bleeding eyes embedded in the hair-strangled trees", "A world of monuments and houses, all made of flesh", "A domain ordinary save for the abundance of black hair, the strands always moving even when there is no breeze", "A neighborhood of derelict houses, each one composed of numerous mimics", "An ocean of undead leviathans, still moving despite the entrails bubbling from their burst torsos", "A forest of black pines draped in bodies", "A slaughterhouse larger than it appears on the outside, full of victims mutely awaiting slaughter", "A system of subterranean tunnels, their walls spackled with fossils or mummified organs", "A wind-blasted dimension of indigo sand and eyeless statues", "A world with slowly vanishing land masses being consumed by an obsidian sea", "A kingdom of rusting spires ruled by oblivious academics", "A land possessed by fear of the colossi that move only during dawn and dusk", "A red ocean that manifested without warning", "An ambulatory forest riddled with glowing eyes", "A kingdom of undying monarchs who outnumber their frightened subjects", "A dimension of featureless white, broken up only by the eyes that blink across the landscape", "A land where towering stents pierce magical leylines, allowing their power to be drained", "A country devastated by magical pollution or the fallout of weapons used in an age-old war", "An empire covered in the watchful symbols of an all-seeing religion", "A city adrift on a sea full of primeval predators", "A land dotted with the floating and fallen ruins of magical megastructures", "A world where an unstoppable ooze, infection, or hive encroaches on civilization", "A demiplane created by unknowable beings and populated with their test subjects", "A place of punishment or endless boredom that a Darklord believes is part of the afterlife", "A countryside with stretches of hayfields, colorful barns, and perpetually smiling residents", "An island floating in the air where ground-worshipers dream of the lands below", "A telepathic collective that townsfolk join by ingesting a rare fungus", "Tunnels where sewer dwellers assure that the “blood of the city” ever flows", "A glacier that residents never leave, lest the icy spirits haunting their community escape", "Rival villages engaged in a private, age-old war", "A realm where speaking to spirits is just like speaking with the living", "A graveyard city-state where all living residents are grave keepers", "A nation where the residents observe grueling rituals to keep the angry dead appeased", "A city where the victims of violence can’t cross into the afterlife until their murders are solved", "A ship with the same name and lines as a vessel lost at sea a hundred years earlier", "A realm in which a common ritual allows a living individual to trade places with a dead one", "An expansive forest in which a cruel noble once hunted the poor for sport", "A land in which mediums are revered because they maintain the veil between the living and dead", "A city-state where the rulers are secretly warring lycanthropes, hags, and vampires", "A countryside littered with gigantic pieces of armor", "A nation where fog hides packs of deadly beasts", "An island where the inhabitants make sacrifices to avoid eerie transformations", "A mountain-sized cathedral devoted to transforming a prophesied being into a deity", "A forest of eternal night where bloodthirsty creatures live in monstrous peace", "A city where all who die are cast in plaster and used to adorn tableau-covered avenues", "An artist’s paradise where cruelties are elevated to terrible and beautiful art forms")>><</nobr>>
VILLAIN: <<=$Villain>>
TORMENT: <<=$Torment>>
SETTING: <<=$Setting>>
[[Discover the adventure site.|Step5MixedGenre]]
[[Find a new setting.|Step4MixedGenre]]
[[Go back a step.|Step3MixedGenre]]The adventure site is below!<<nobr>><<set $AdventureSite to either("A derelict ship, buried for mysterious reasons", "A vine-covered, ostensibly abandoned prison", "The cavernous gut of a dead, multi-eyed behemoth", "An inn in the valley, its insides dark and smoke-drowned", "An asylum, abandoned save for vermin", "A cave system, slick and comprised of gleaming black rock", "An old church sitting astride a warren of ancient tunnels", "A sprawling university, older than the town surrounding it, and older still than the memories of its inhabitants", "A hidden floor of the royal library", "The ninth basement beneath a family home that seems normal from the outside", "A decrepit manor, empty save for staff who swear the lord is merely preoccupied", "A small inn in the mountains that smells perpetually of brine", "The place in the forest where all the animals come to die", "A fortress manned by paladins, all of whom removed their own tongues", "A sewage system that predates the city above", "A thin chapel in the woods, whose bells rings without ceasing", "An expanding labyrinth that grows to protect the evil imprisoned at its heart", "A forest where every tree grows from the body of a mummified hero", "A magical factory that distills living beings into the reagents of a wish-granting elixir", "A criminal consortium’s lavish sewer-academy, where recruits are transformed to be perfectly suited to enacting one near-impossible heist", "The fractured mind-scape of a powerful but dormant sentient weapon", "A massive construct-cathedral built to exact the ultimate expression of faith and sacrifice", "A palace where the nonhumanoid inhabitants purposefully petrified themselves", "A fortress with seven locked gates that seal off the underworld", "A seemingly deserted chapel that has been burnt down and rebuilt a thousand times", "A hag’s hut that stands atop a growing hill of rotten sweets", "A whispering pit once plugged by a monolith covered in prayer scrolls", "A field where paths grow in corridor-like patterns leading to a ruin at the center", "A mansion built incorporating a stone circle", "A cavern where the glowing bones of an otherworldly being jut from the walls", "A decrepit conservatory whose inhabitants are prone to terrible accidents", "A village graveyard that holds the victims of a terrible mass crime", "A decrepit barn where dozens of remarkable animals lost their lives in a fire", "An attic in which a hateful spirit has been sealed for decades", "A theater in which, decades ago, an actor systematically poisoned their rivals", "A swanky inn where, for years, nobles killed the staff to prevent word of their affairs getting out", "A picturesque cliff that’s a popular destination for lovers, despite the fact that couples frequently fall to their deaths", "A lighthouse where a lone guard is the only living individual keeping an army of spirits at bay", "A mansion’s forbidden east wing, where terrible noises sound from every night", "A castle where all visitors are transformed into rats, bats, spiders, and other beasts", "A science lab where preserved body parts carry the consciousnesses of their former owners", "A hidden fighting arena where rivals and lovers battle to prove the strength of their emotions", "A beautiful garden where the past keepers find immortality as statues and in ancient trees", "A tower where honorable heroes are sworn to protect a monstrous ruler", "A lavish inn where a random guest chokes on their own blood each night", "A rectory where the stained glass windows hold the trapped souls of the pious")>><</nobr>>
VILLAIN: <<=$Villain>>
TORMENT: <<=$Torment>>
SETTING: <<=$Setting>>
ADVENTURE SITE: <<=$AdventureSite>>
[[Discover the plot.|Step6MixedGenre]]
[[Find a new adventure site.|Step5MixedGenre]]
[[Go back a step.|Step4MixedGenre]]The plot is below!<<nobr>><<set $Plot to either("Learn who’s organizing the local dinner parties before more epicureans die of autophagia.", "Stop whatever is stealing the livers from the town’s guard.", "Find out what is causing the children of the city to transform into misshapen statues.", "Stop whatever is killing the sea life and transforming them into monsters.", "End the curse that is leaving the beasts of forests dead, mutated, and halfway human.", "Stop the infestation before it can use more townsfolk as incubators for giant insects.", "Solve the mystery of whatever is causing a town’s inhabitants to melt into giant blobs.", "Cast out the fiends that have infiltrated a community by wearing the corpses of the recently dead.", "Help a parent recover a child who’s gone missing in the impossibly vast space underneath their bed.", "Stop a sapient, unholy tome from reaching a group of cultists.", "Save the inheritors of an ancient sect before they transform into horrors.", "Stop the sacrifice of a young noble by those who believe the noble’s grandchild will end the world.", "Find and stop the musician whose music has robbed entire cities of sleep.", "Survive an evening in the sinking, ancestral home of a hydrophobic family.", "Discover what is dragging the people of a hamlet out of their homes, garbing them in silver, and leading them into the surf to drown.", "Learn why the bakers of a small town have started making pastries filled with a popular, delicious, and faintly glowing blue goo.", "Track down a beholder-shaped flesh golem and learn why it’s targeting specific individuals.", "Seal a portal to a demonic realm that opens within the mouth of an innocent acolyte.", "Cure a virus turning people into shadows.", "Mount a defense against the swarm of giant spiders that’s declared war on bipeds.", "Prevent a mighty spell that a coven of witches is casting using a volcanic caldera as a cauldron.", "Keep a nation from tearing itself apart when it’s revealed the beloved ruler is a lich.", "Banish a spirit haunting the moon.", "Uncover the identity of an otherworldly coward who’s hiding among mortals, avoiding the destructive search of the immortals they fled.", "Recover a missing villager who ran away to escape the local cult.", "Hunt down the monster blamed for causing a blight: a unicorn meant to serve as a sacrifice.", "Discover why anyone entering the city on horseback is imprisoned and sentenced to death.", "Help a cult summon a fiend to combat an impending greater evil.", "Defeat a violent hag who’s protected by everyone in town and called “grandmother.”", "Escape an estate after the residents adopt the party and refuse to let them leave.", "Learn why the characters bear uncanny resemblances to the founders of an underground village.", "Slay a dragon and, in so doing, prove a character is the prophesied chosen one.", "Investigate the bloody graffiti being left on the village’s ancient walls and stop the vandal.", "A dying hero is convinced they’re going to return as a spirit. Prevent this from happening.", "Discover why members of a prominent family never allow anyone to enter their guest house.", "Solve the murder of a phantom who can say only the words “blood,” “onions,” and “wine.”", "Solve the murder of the countess, who drowned in the same well as her mother and grandmother.", "Convince a stubborn miser to visit his haunted family home and put his deathless family to rest.", "Discreetly follow a phantom vagabond to find out where she disappears to and with whom.", "Learn why a mob of spirits besieges the local temple on the winter solstice each year.", "Discover why anyone who utters the prince’s true name immediately turns to dust.", "Investigate the disappearance of a scientist known only through their correspondence.", "Help a repentant immortal lose centuries of painful memories.", "Track down a serial killer who impales her victims on the same monument.", "End an affliction that turns a noble into a living doll every night.", "Settle a dispute between mortals and devils who both claim the same child is their next ruler.", "Put to rest a pair of spirits that bring tragedy to any couple who tries to get married.", "Find a way to end a land’s generational curse that doesn’t involve a group of innocents willingly sacrificing themselves.")>><</nobr>>
VILLAIN: <<=$Villain>>
TORMENT: <<=$Torment>>
SETTING: <<=$Setting>>
ADVENTURE SITE: <<=$AdventureSite>>
PLOT: <<=$Plot>>
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