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Pan[ic] game background and character drafts

Bohemian Sydney, 1926: the pubs, wine-bars, coffee shops, scandal, gossip and sensuality of the street. Starving artists, poor musicians, writers scratching for a living, bit actors, and people with all sorts of strange jobs. The men seek the verities of beer, women and mammon. Mostly the beer. The women seek something a little more complex and indefinable. Led by Jack Lindsay, the Vision group seeks to defend True Art against the barbarities of modern life.

But something has entered this antipodean arcadia, something beautiful and terrible. Something deadly.

A Machenesque horror game for Phenomenon Silver. Check out the game background and characters!

 

The Ravens

Cecilia Winterbloom was courageous, sharp as a pin, and unwavering in her passion for the truth. We all knew it would end badly.

DAZ Studio and Photoshop. Adapted image is Ahasuerus at the End of the World (1888) by the pre-Symbolist Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl.

“The peace and safety of a new dark age”

 

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

H.P. Lovecraft, ‘The Call of Cthulhu’

Created in DAZ Studio and Photoshop.

Waratah Investigates

Waratah was shocked to discover that Colonel Nightshade was more than just an avid stamp collector. DAZ Studio and Photoshop.

Japanese Yūrei

Yūrei (‘faint souls’) are figures in Japanese folklore, analogous to Western legends of ghosts. Onryō are vengeful yūrei who return from purgatory to a avenge a wrong done to them during their lifetime.

DAZ Studio and Photoshop.