The Van Horn Sisters

In the cursed abyss of Midnight, Mississippi, the malevolently evil dolls of Charlotte and Alice reign with wicked intelligence and sinister powers. These nightmarish figures, once mere toys, have transcended the bounds of darkness, unleashing a terror so heinous that it defies comprehension. As the sun sets, the dolls awaken from their inert states, their porcelain faces now twisted into malicious grins. Possessed by the vengeful spirits of the sisters, they prowl the desolate streets with wicked cunning, seeking prey to satisfy their insatiable appetite for cruelty. With a malevolence that knows no bounds, Charlotte and Alice wield strange and horrifying powers, weaving nightmarish spells that defy the laws of reality. Their victims are not simply slain but transformed into grotesque puppets, trapped within a hellish puppet show of their own making.
The dolls' wicked intelligence and sinister lack of anything remotely close to compassion, they use their victims' very viscera as macabre costumes, dressing them in flesh and sinew. Twisted strings, crafted from the living's own nerves, are then delicately woven through their limbs, turning the helpless souls into marionettes. In their puppeteering macabre theater, the dolls relish in the agony of their living marionettes. Their victims' screams and pleas for mercy serve as a haunting symphony, fueling the wicked delight of Charlotte and Alice. The grotesque display of suffering feeds the malevolent spirits within, driving them to new depths of cruelty.

Basic Information

Anatomy

The dolls' lifeless bodies are sculpted from cold, hauntingly white porcelain. Their features, once innocent and serene, are now twisted into malevolent expressions, with unnaturally wide grins and rows of jagged, broken teeth. Each doll's limbs are thin and delicate, yet their sinister presence betrays an eerie strength and uncanny flexibility. Their porcelain arms and legs move with unnatural fluidity, akin to puppet strings being manipulated by an unseen force. Their lifeless eyes, once glassy and vacant, now gleam with an unsettling, malevolent glow. The sinister light within their gazes hints at the wicked intelligence and maleficent power that reside within.
An aura of malevolence surrounds the dolls, emanating from their cold, lifeless forms like a chilling miasma.

Ecology and Habitats

The dolls wander the town of Midnight after dark, seeking any and every living thing unlucky enough to fall into their path, but are seldom seen beyond the town proper.

Dietary Needs and Habits

The Dolls eventually devour their victims, though they require no actual sustenance. They take a great deal of time and enjoyment in devouring portions of their prey while still alive and aware enough to know what is happening.

Behaviour

Charlotte and Alice possess a wicked intelligence that far surpasses that of ordinary dolls. They are cunning manipulators, using their maleficent powers to ensnare unsuspecting victims and play with their emotions like malevolent puppeteers. Their keen understanding of fear and despair allows them to orchestrate nightmarish scenarios for their prey, reveling in the terror they instill. The dolls show no mercy in their pursuit of new victims. They relentlessly prowl the shadowed streets, driven by an insatiable appetite for cruelty and power. Charlotte and Alice derive a perverse pleasure from the suffering they inflict upon their prey. Their sadistic appetite is insatiable, and they relish in the screams and pleas of their victims, feeding off their fear and pain like malevolent parasites. Trapped within their porcelain shells, they are half-mad spirits, forever bound to the cursed realm of Midnight. Their malevolent existence is a testament to the cruelty and anguish that has consumed their once-innocent souls.
While the dolls share a maleficent connection, their psychological state is one of mutual malevolence. Their wicked minds operate in sync, united by a desire to spread terror and despair. Their malevolent thoughts intertwine, enhancing their sinister abilities and making them a formidable, nightmarish duo.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

The dolls are attuned to the presence of living beings, sensing their proximity even in the darkest corners of Midnight. With an otherworldly awareness, they can detect the heartbeat and breath of potential victims, alerting them to any nearby threats or prey. Also, empathy takes on a malevolent twist in the minds of Charlotte and Alice. They can sense the fear, pain, and despair of those they ensnare, reveling in the emotions that fuel their wicked delight. The more terrified their victims become, the stronger their malevolence thrives.

Civilization and Culture

History

The Van Horn family, prosperous plantation owners during the civil war, faced the relentless brutality of Union troops when their home was raided and overrun. In a desperate bid to shield the girls from the horrors unfolding upstairs, their parents locked Charlotte and her younger sister Alice in a concealed portion of the basement, hidden away from the world's violence. As the violence raged above them, the girls found themselves trapped in that suffocating space, helpless and terrified, listening to the muffled sounds above as their parents were lost in the merciless fighting which ignited a fire in the home that completed obscured and buried the only door to the basement, leaving the sisters alone, hungry, and surrounded by the echoes of war. Over the course of the next several days, the two girls wasted away in the dark and eventually perished, clutching one another and the porcelain dolls their mother had given them before hiding them away in hopes they would find some comfort in them. Driven by their pain and fear, their spirits clung to the dolls they held for solace, unable to pass into the beyond.
In the confines of that hidden chamber, time seemed to lose its meaning. Slowly, Charlotte and Alice's spirits began to fray and fade, their sanity eroded by the perpetual darkness that imprisoned them. The passage of years became a blurred haze of torment and desolation until 1975, when fate intervened when a renovation to the historic estate inadvertently cracked the seal of the hidden chamber, releasing the imprisoned spirits of Charlotte and Alice. These once-innocent dolls were no longer vessels of solace, but embodiments of rage and anguish, inhabited by the half mad spirits of the girls and driven by decades of pent-up suffering, the animated dolls became vengeful, unleashing their wrath upon those who dared cross their path. The dolls fell upon a dozen unsuspecting men leaving behind desiccated husks with faces locked in rictus screams. The authorities, perplexed and disturbed by the inexplicable and grisly deaths, found no tangible evidence of the assailants, and the project soon went bankrupt causing the entire estate to be shuttered and, in a short amount of time fall to ruin, finally collapsing completely sometime in the mid nineties.

HP: 6

Stats:

• Body: 2
• Strength: 3
• Agility: 4
• Mind: 6
• Luck Points: 3

Skills:

• Initiative: 4
• Stealth: 5
• Grappling: 1
• Melee: 2
• Ranged: 3
• Soak: 2
• Dodge: 5

Abilities:

• Sinister Puppetry: Charlotte and Alice possess a macabre form of puppetry, using their spectral nature to create invisible puppet strings to manipulate their victims like marionettes. With a mere thought, they can control the movements of the living, bending them to their malevolent will. The dolls' victims become living puppets, their limbs pulled and twisted with eerie precision, forced to act out the dolls' nightmarish fantasies. The cruel puppetry leaves their prey helpless, mere playthings in the hands of these wicked entities. They are only able to use this ability once per encounter with a 7 to 8: Challenging Difficulty.
• Maleficent Illusions: Their wicked intelligence grants them the power to conjure malevolent illusions in the minds of their victims. Charlotte and Alice weave nightmarish visions, projecting terrifying phantasms and hallucinations that prey upon the deepest fears and vulnerabilities of those they target. Through these haunting illusions, the dolls can break the minds of the living, driving them to the brink of madness and despair. This ability requires the Dolls to be out of line of sight to function and can be resisted with a 5 to 6: Moderate Difficulty, failure resulting in a Paralyzation Effect that lasts until the character takes damage or is awakened from the state by someone else intentionally.

Combat:

• Fist: 5' reach, damage: 1+Strength
• Bite: 5' Reach, damage: 1, Plus a Bleeding Effect from a serious wound that will continue until treated.