My adventures are about to become deep sea divers, /tg/, give me good shit to spook their pants off.
>>45966735
The last people to become deep sea divers.
>King & Son's Oceanic Surveying Co. folded late in the year, unable to stave off the debts incurred by constant delays. The delays were caused by a disturbing casualty rate among the deep sea divers; they simply stopped returning to the surface. The company's assets and few remaining dive suits were sold to a competing group. They scrubbed off the suits' distinctive crown logos and immediately put them to good use in successful dives arranged in the same previously unlucky waters.
>During the course of these new untroubled ventures two divers working at the absolute limit of safe diving depth happened upon a building of sorts; some type of oppressive colonnade sheltering a row of seated figures. A tentative investigation discovered that within the building were seated the drowned remains of the missing divers, chained in stone thrones. In front of each corpse drifted bundles of kelp, crustacean meat and other seemingly edible offerings. The dead diver's bodies themselves were coated in a thick layer of silt, with the exception of the still shining, as though regularly polished, stylised crown markings on the dive suit's outer plating.
>Upon return, with the intent of winching up the men's remains for proper burial, it was revealed that the entire submerged building had seemingly collapsed, dragging most of everything down with it into an unfathomable trench below.
Is it a fantasy setting?Bobbit Worm HydraHorse sized mantis shrimpJapanese Spider Crab with a knife
>>45967180
Es fantasy, si.
>>45966735
https://warosu.org/tg/thread/S28219799
https://warosu.org/tg/thread/S36347271
>>45966824
Who does the party hear this from?
>>45966824
Also any general tips on running spooky sessions?
>>45966735
>>45966735
As with usual horror, what they imagine is usually more scary than what they actually meet. Make it pitch black and describe scraping sounds around them.
>>45968797
Pitch black is a easy thing to do when over half of the party has darkvision. ¬_¬
>>45968709
>>45968714
I didn't write it, and I just thought it was a good caption to set the mood of the image/give some ideas.
It's from the artists website, which is itself a treasure trove of pretty creepy shit.
http://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/surfaceking.html
>>45968830
Maybe something quick that moves just at the edges of what they can see then? Give them the feeling that something is following them, and just waiting.
Maybe just throw this pile of NOPE at 'em?
>>45966735
Take 15 mimutes to listen to Lovrcrafts Dagon on audiobook.
When youre done, welcome to the world of the old gods. Maybe they stumble upon the city of cthulu that sunk beneath the waves. It would be a nice plot hook.
>>45968830
Make it true dark where it takes True Sight to peer into it with true visibility
>>45969612
This dude. This dude. This. Dude. 1000% correct
>>45968830
Darkvision has a short range. Whatever they're hearing is just outside it.
>>45968830
Water could be murky as well as dark.
>>45968830
Bring in an eldrich aspect to the darkness. It's not seeing in the dark. It's the absolute absence of light. No way to see through it.
Thresher Sharks with broadswords for tails.
>>45968830
Tell them to roll perception and spot checks and such, then roll dice behind a screen, and then do nothing.
>>45973968
Always a classic asshole GM move.
>>45968726
If it's fantasy, they probably have magical means of breathing. So, dispel magic. Specifically, dispel magic traps on every doorway.
Water elementals and gelatinous cubes would also be invisible in such an environment, or nearly so. Have them guard the doorways against disable device check once your party catches on to the previous trick. Having the party rogue dragged up to the pitch-black ceiling by something unseen should put the fear into them.
>>45966735
Spooky deep sea fish. Aboleths. Ancient sunken temples to alien gods built when the world was young. Horrible vore-mermaids.
A ship sailing underwater.
