A npc, antagonist, patron, or something else along those lines for a modern horror RPG setting.
It appears before you, a large snake with eyes full of tv static, ever shifting black and white.
You stare deep into your eyes, deeper, and deeper still, at some point you realize that you aren't getting closer, you're zooming in like a camera.
The eyes are not full of static but color, each little speck an impossibly detailed image that you recognize immediately: tv shows, cartoon characters, celebrities, mascots, video games, movie posters, memes, web sights, musicians, album covers, and more.
Their jaws clamp down upon its own tail and you cannot look away.
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| By fl64 |
The Ouroboros has grown strong in our age of endless sequels and manufactured nostalgia, of movement without going forward, of endings that do not end.
It is a being of change that keeps everything the same for its change is that of a circle, no matter how far forward you go you will always end up in the same place eventually.
It is also a being of destruction that breaks nothing for its destruction is that of digestion and regurgitation, leaving things smooth and palatable, it removes depth and scars replacing it with the same things that have come before.
The Ouroboros wants for nothing and there is little left to offer it, we have already given it our world. Worship is unneeded, every Avengers movie is a sermon, every rockstar a high priest. So are sacrifices, they have become quite unfashionable among divinities in our time. Even working on soulless cash grabs throughout your whole life will earn you not even an ounce of attention. The only real thing one can offer the Ouroboros is to strike down the only things that could threaten its reign: originality and finality.
1d6 cruel tasks asked of by Ouroboros
1 harass a small online artist that is starting to gain a following, bully them offline
2 burn down a local business that is just about to open a new location
3 go to an art exhibition and cut up as many paintings as you can
4 crush the artistic dreams of one of your best friends
5 disfigure a local actor that could go places
6 form a mob to harass a large creator who recently ended a project, bully them till they make another sequel
For those who serve Ouroboros and complete a task given by it some measure of power may be acquired, though Ouroboros is clever and miserly, it will never give a person more than one gift and unless you have impressed it (very hard to do) it will not let you choose your gift.
1d6 meager gifts from Ouroboros
1 choose any person you know of that the Ouroboros doesn't care about, they become obsessed with a popular franchise of your choice, cutting off social ties and spending all their free time pursuing it
2 you can annihilate any paper you touch as if it was never there to begin with, anyone who wrote, painted, or otherwise worked on the paper will find they have little inspiration to work on similar projects and will not recreate the work
3 choose any person you know, the Ouroboros will consume them and then lay a giant egg, a week later it will hatch and they will emerge without any past scars or injuries, no tattoos, no surgeries, etc, their personality will also be very dull compared to what they were like
4 a pistol, you can't tell what type just some sort of generic modern pistol, it acts as a +3 pistol vs artists or people more interesting than you
5 a xiphos with sheath, it has only its hilt, where the blade should be is a silhouette of one made of tv static, attacks made with the blade do not physically harm the target but instead cloud the mind, causing increased procrastination/laziness, obsession, and inability to focus
6 the face of a celebrity of your choice, put it on and your entire appearance changes to match them permanently but if you meet the celebrity that you look like or if someone realizes that you could not possibly be the celebrity you claim to be the disguise falls off and becomes naught but shed skin and you die from a heart attack
1d6 ways to find Ouroboros/how it finds you
1 on the edge of unconsciousness, watching the same movie over and over again, it will appear in the screen
2 when you realize your parents were right and you will never be an artist, its right behind you, whispering about working for some large media company
3 while on the set of a movie or tv show, you stare into the camera and see its eyes in the reflection
4 when you finally meet that popular celebrity you have always wanted to meet, it will slither out of their mouth and speak to you when the two of you are alone
5 in a pile of discarded merchandise where a snakes blood has been scattered, it may emerge at night on the anniversary of famous movies
6 in Hollywood, slithering through the streets
Also happy New Years!!! I didn't plan to finish this today but I think it's oddly fitting that it did turn out to be today.
