You’re good at finding things ‘off the beaten track’, as it were. Well, I’m pretty sure there’s some sick and twisted shit could be done by combining Nobilis with Little Fears.
Only I don’t know where to get the Happy Birthday, Little Fears (10th Anniversary Edition) rules / Little Fears Nightmare Edition … and supplements — although, obviously, the darker original/birthday rules are the more desirable.
A few ̶y̶fears spent in Psychoville … then taking flight for Roofworld … a fall to London Below …cowering from the wild tomes roaming the Labyrinth of Dreaming Books … an escape to Abarat … Nobilis could be a thing of twisted beauty in the right hands
After all … if you thought monsters were terrifying as a child
… try growing up only to learn the thing is still at the top of the stairs and you’re trapped in the playground — this isn’t your chancel … it’s the Cityback (and someone big is headed your way).
Adult gods with all the power of children, running and hiding in dimension after dimension … reality after reality … pocket universe after pocket universe … whilst the big scary hunts them down.
Will they realise their true nature before it’s too late?
Or will the Excrucians catch up with them, destroy their toys and swallow their souls?
I think we know the answer to that question, don’t we?
Give me some time to re-tailor the lining and I’ll have you rocking and mewling in a ball of piss and snot in the dark in the corner, whilst nightmares you never even knew you had pour, slithering and suffocating, from the recesses of Shadwell’s newly befouled jacket.
“Children, the voice said. We hate ’em. Foul things. They laugh at what they doesn’t understand. They laugh at things they should be afraid of. Oh, but we know. We know what the circus hides. We know what all circuses hide. Foul children. We make them laugh, but when we can . . .
We take ‘em!”
— John Connolly, Some Children Wander By Mistake
