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It is a box of toys suitable for children (ages 1 to 4). They are sturdy, wooden, comfortable, and painted brightly. The box is also brightly painted and a good toy carrier. There seems nothing amiss with it.
Magic/Cursed Properties Of course these are in the Garage Sale from Hell Codex…. you know there is something wrong with them.
The items are enchanted with three enchantments.
The first is to weaken any defenses the child’s home and play room might have. This is a slow, draining process, that only the most dilligent might notice. This draining empowers the entire process.
The second is to encourage the child to focus on its self rather than other. Once any defenses the child might have are breached, the process begins. This is also a slow process, shifting the child from the general good to the selfish towards the Evil. The child will not be come Evil until much, much later in life. Of course, by that time… who remembers who gave him that box of wooden toys.
The third is to cause the child to trust a specific astreal being. This astreal being could be the Evil Cultist or a specific demon who helped create the toys. Once the defenses around the child are down, the astreal being can slip in. The item allows the child to see the astreal being easily, and protects the astreal being from being sense by others. This astreal being becomes the child’s imaginary friend. And that friend will help to mold the child.
This is a great item for long term plans, disrupting prophicies, corrupting future rulers, and 98 other uses.
November 13, 2005, 9:27
January 23, 2006, 22:34
January 23, 2006, 2:36
January 23, 2006, 22:40
I personally see these as the precursors to a time travel mission, go back to when they were young and fix it.
Do these toys have any special qualities that could warn someone of what they are?
Not specifically. If the Evil Cultist who enchants the toys are smart, they would just take normal, average toys. But of course, their own opinions and ideals will get in the way, so there might be a few toy soldiers of the wrong colors, or bats (instead of birds), or maybe a creepy looking doll.
Also, if the "imaginary friend" is defeated/destroyed somehow, what happens to the child?
It would depend on how long the imaginary friend had the child in his clutches and if any compulsions were laid on the child. For a happy ending, the answer would be "Child become happy and good".
Do they still become evil? Do they get another playmate? If Evil Cultists were smart, they would get another playmate. However, Evil Cultists are not that wise, if they were... they would not be Evil Cultists. They also see themselves as the center of the universe and totally smart, so of course their plan will never be defeated... so why do a second one.
Do they grow up to wonder what the hell is wrong with them?
That would be a great background for a character. Destined to be good, but always feeling tainted because of the child hood toy experience. :)
I can also see some Evil Villian giving one of these to his own children/small relatives.
Sure.
January 23, 2006, 7:54
January 23, 2006, 22:35
January 24, 2006, 1:51
November 9, 2006, 9:01
November 9, 2006, 12:04
"Evil" toys would often reflect the backgrounds of their creators: Noble toy knights and nasty toy peasants that suggest that the peasants "need to learn their place"; Religious themed toys that subtly emphasize the truth (or hypocrisy) of a faith; dolls that make one group look good and kind, while another group is depicted as ugly, stupid menials.
In a land where supernatural evil is aggressively present, something like that would be almost inevitable.
November 11, 2006, 11:26
Now, nobody, especially me, likes cardboard Evil for the sake of Evil.
Now these people would not neccisarrily call themselves Evil. They would see themselves as enlightened and "free of common morality that is there to enslave a person to the status quo". They think they are deserving of certain things that society has yet to feel fit to provide. Nobody thinks they are the villian in their own story. They think they should "get their due" and will take any means to achieve that. If that happens to be demonic forces, then they have an edge the rest of the poor saps refuse to take because they are cowards, or too stupid, or too weak.
November 11, 2006, 11:30
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