Kuchisake Onna

[yamamura]

Being a fan of the Ring (bet you couldn't tell), I like hearing about Japanese urban legends. This is my take on one of these creatures that haunt the modern landscape. Any suggestion or correction I should make would be most welcome. Oh yea also compliments are also welcome:)

 

The following website has information of the legend

http://www.chthonian.net/persona/tsumi/faqs/persona_k.html

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-King/7623/

http://www.compleatbellairs.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=10&topic=49

 

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Kuchisake Onna

 

Player:

 

Val	Char	Cost
11	STR	1
20	DEX	30
15	CON	10
10	BODY	0
10	INT	0
10	EGO	0
30	PRE	10
5	COM	-2
11	PD	3
11	ED	2
4	SPD	10
5	REC	0
40	END	5
35	STUN	11

24" RUN02" SWIM02" LEAP-9Characteristics Cost: 71

 

Cost	Power	END
36	+18" Running (24" total)	4
8	Horrific Visage: +10 PRE (10 Active Points); Only When Mask is off (-1/4)
5	Appears Beautiful: +13 COM (7 Active Points); Only When Mask is on (-1/4)
	Optional Powers (99 points) [Notes: replace running with flight]
0	1) Ghost Powers: (Total: 0 Active Cost, 0 Real Cost) Undead Vitality: Life Support , Eating: Character does not eat, Immunity: All terrestrial diseases and biowarfare agents, Immunity: All terrestrial poisons and chemical warfare agents, Longevity: Immortal, Safe in High Pressure, Safe in High Radiation, Safe in Intense Cold, Safe in Intense Heat, Safe in Low Pressure/Vacuum, Self-Contained Breathing, Sleeping: Character does not sleep (Real Cost: 50) plus I have no legs: Flight 1", Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2) (3 Active Points) (Real Cost: 3) plus I have No Legs: Flight 23" (Real Cost: 46) plus Optional Powers (-99 Active Points) (Real Cost: -99)	5

Powers Cost: 49

 

Cost	Martial Arts Maneuver
3	Martial Grab: 1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, -1 DCV, Grab Two Limbs, +10 STR for holding on

Martial Arts Cost: 3

 

Cost	Skill
6	+3 with Kama (Sickle)
6	+3 with Grab
3	+2 vs. specific OCV modifier targeting the mouth

Skills Cost: 15

 

 

Cost	Talent
12	Combat Luck (6 PD/6 ED)

Talents Cost: 12

 

Cost	Equipment	END
10	Kama (sickles): Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 1d6 (plus STR) (vs. PD), Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2) (22 Active Points); STR Minimum 11 (-1/2), IAF (-1/2), Real Weapon (-1/4)

Equipment costs shown above are for reference only, and are not included in Total Cost.

 

Total Character Cost: 150

 

Val	Disadvantages
15	Distinctive Features: Mouth Slashed ear to ear (Easily Concealed; Extreme Reaction; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses)
20	Psychological Limitation: Vain (Common; Total)
20	Psychological Limitation: Hunt Children (Common; Total)
20	Deranged Ruined Beauty Bonus

Disadvantage Points: 75

 

Base Points: 75

Experience Required: 0

Total Experience Available: 0

Experience Unspent: 0

Height: 5' 4" Hair: Black

Weight: 115 lbs Eyes: Brown

Appearance: Beautiful woman in a long red coat with a guaze surgical mask on. Underneath the mask her face is split ear to ear.

Quote:Watashi kirei ne? (Am I beautiful?)

Background: In most versions I have found, she had went in (either by her own or encouraged by her husband) to get plastic surgery done. Unfortunely the doctor goof, splitting her mouth nearly from ear to ear. This drove the former beauty off the deep end. Now she lurks near power/telephone poles around dusk awaiting children. When she finds one, she ask them if she is beautiful? If they answer yes, she pulls down the mask and asks again. The child will take off running and she will catch them and say "I want do for you what was done to my face." Then she will use her sickle to split the child's mouth ear to ear (and by all indication kills the child too). If the child says no right from the start she will still chase them and still perform her grisly task. Now it gets tricky if the child answers yes the second time. Some say it will lay her to rest (if she is supernatural), while other say she still will go after the child. I have even hit one version saying the only way to protect yourself is to say it is so-so.

 

There are also version where she is the wife of a samurai who noticed her wandering eye. In his rage he split her face so that none would fine her beautiful. Now her ghost haunts roadways in vengence for what was done to her.

 

 

[OddHat]

The high school bathroom ghost!

 

Well done.

[yamamura]

Thanx Oddhat for your comment. I have decided to create another one the Teke-teke (see below). I am still trying to figure out how I should do Hanako of the Toilet.

 

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P.s. I remember to add the background this time and add one for the Kuchisake Onna

 

Teke-Teke

 

Player:

 

Val	Char	Cost
25	STR	15
18	DEX	24
19	CON	18
10	BODY	0
10	INT	0
10	EGO	0
25	PRE	15
15	COM	3
12	PD	1
12	ED	2
5	SPD	22
9	REC	0
47	END	5
46	STUN	13

16" RUN02" SWIM010" LEAP0Characteristics Cost: 117

 

Cost	Power	END
64	Make Teke-Teke: Transform 10d6: Dying Human into Teke-Teke (Major), Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2) (225 Active Points); Victim must be cut in half (-1), Limited Target Humans (-1/2), All Or Nothing (-1/2), No Range (-1/2)
20	Scythe: Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 2d6 (plus STR) (vs. PD), Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2), Armor Piercing x1 (+1/2) (60 Active Points); STR Minimum 16 (-3/4), Required Hands Two-Handed (-1/2), IAF (-1/2), Real Weapon (-1/4)
20	Really Fast Elbows: +10" Running (16" total)	2
25	Supernatural Vitality: Life Support , Immunity: All terrestrial poisons and chemical warfare agents, Immunity: All terrestrial poisons and chemical warfare agents, Longevity: Immortal
18	Supenatural Toughness: Armor (6 PD/6 ED)

Powers Cost: 147

 

 

Cost	Skill
3	Seduction 14-
8	+4 with Scythe

Skills Cost: 11

 

 

 

Cost	Equipment	END
12	Sharp Saw (Alternate Weapon): Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 1d6 (plus STR) (vs. PD), +1 STUN Multiplier (+1/4), Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2), Penetrating (+1/2) (34 Active Points); STR Minimum 6 (-1/2), IAF (-1/2), Must follow or durning a grab (-1/2), Real Weapon (-1/4)

Equipment costs shown above are for reference only, and are not included in Total Cost.

 

Total Character Cost: 275

 

Val	Disadvantages
20	Distinctive Features: Missing her lower half of her body (Concealable; Extreme Reaction; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses)
20	Psychological Limitation: Urge to increase her kind (Common; Total)
105	Legless Monster Bonus

Disadvantage Points: 145

 

Base Points: 125

Experience Required: 5

Total Experience Available: 0

Experience Unspent: 0

 

Appearance: A beautiful girl who is missing her lower part of her body.

Quote:teke-teke teke-teke

Background: The story goes that one day a boy was leaving his school. For some reason he looked back as he was leaving and saw a pretty girl through a window. This was very strange given the fact he had went to an all boy school. The girl smiled at him and he smiled back. Then the girl lept out of the window. At this point he boy could see that she was missing the lower half of her body and that she couldn't be human. Some say he then tried to run, while other say he was frozen to the spot. But whatever is true she began running on her elbows making a teke-teke sound. When she caught up to the boy she took out a scythe and cut him into two making him into one of her own.

 

[yamamura]

Okay one more (this one was easy. see below)

 

Aoi Manto/Aka Manto

 

Player:

 

Val	Char	Cost
15	STR	5
15	DEX	15
20	CON	20
20	BODY	20
15	INT	5
15	EGO	10
20	PRE	10
10	COM	0
11	PD	5
11	ED	4
3	SPD	5
10	REC	6
40	END	0
40	STUN	2

6" RUN02" SWIM03" LEAP0Characteristics Cost: 107

 

Cost	Power	END
10	Red Mantle Knife: HKA 1d6 (plus STR) (vs. PD), Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2) (22 Active Points); OAF (-1), Real Weapon (-1/4)
5	Blue Mantle Rope: Hand-To-Hand Attack +3d6, Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2) (22 Active Points); OAF (-1), Hand-To-Hand Attack (-1/2), Required Hands Two-Handed (-1/2), Must Follow Grab (-1/2), Must Aim At head (-1/2), Real Weapon (-1/4)
5	Demonic Being: Life Support , Longevity: Immortal
13	Don't Go into the last Stall: Extra-Dimensional Movement (Single Dimension) (20 Active Points); One Location Only (a bathroom stall where tradegy has struck) (-1/2)	2
11	He takes a lickin and keeps on tickin: +10 REC (20 Active Points); Requires A CON Roll 13- (-3/4)
29	He comes back: Healing 2 BODY (Resurrection (others can stop resurrection by performing Buddhist rituals to send him back to the underworld and cleansing the stall of the evil)), Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2), Persistent (+1/2) (80 Active Points); Extra Time (Regeneration-Only) 1 Turn (Post-Segment 12) (-1 1/4), Self Only (-1/2)

Powers Cost: 73

 

 

Cost	Skill
15	+3 with HTH Combat
3	Climbing 12-
3	Contortionist 12-
5	Stealth 13-

Skills Cost: 26

 

 

Cost	Talent
6	Combat Luck: 3 PD/3 ED

Talents Cost: 6

 

 

Total Character Cost: 212

 

Val	Disadvantages
0	Physical Limitation: Human Size
20	Psychological Limitation: Unquenchable Urge To Kill Very Common, Strong

Disadvantage Points: 20

 

Base Points: 75

Experience Required: 117

Total Experience Available: 117

Experience Unspent: 0

 

The legend of Aka Manto/Aoi Manto (or translated; Red Mantle/Blue Mantle) is another bathroom haunting. In this case a young woman going to bathroom by herself will hear a male voice coming from a stall. It will ask her if she wants either a Red Mantle or a Blue. If she answers Red it will come out and cut up her back thus making it look like a grisly mantle. If she answers Blue the creature will use its rope to strangle her. I have not found what would happen if she said neither but given this creature’s thirst for blood, it probably wouldn’t help.

 

Design Notes: I basically used the Slasher from the Bestiary (Thanks Steve for such a useful book) and add some color and an additional weapon to better fit the story. I also borrowed from older myth the ability to enter into the underworld as an innate ability of this creature and also the fact that tragedy has struck in the particular stall, thus allowing the creature into our world. Both of which and immortality can be drop thus creating a more standard Slasher.

 

A friend of mine suggested making this creature even less human by adding a tail that could strangle and the tip of the tail having knife like structure on the tail’s end.

 

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[yamamura]

Came up with this idea for a phyiscal disadvantage for a horror campaign. Just want to bounce it off ya.....

 

Affected by the Spirit World

Ghost and other mystically insubstantial beings can affect you to some degree. This disadvantage fits best psychic characters attuned to the spirit world but can be used by others.

 

Somewhat Affected (Frequently, Slightly): The touch of a ghost can slow you down and cause delay actions; -1 to all Agility related rolls and skills. 10pts

 

Affected (Frequently, Greatly): Any attack by a spirit creature that doesn't Affect Physical World, does half damage to person with this disadvantage. Also the ghost gets half it's strength to grab and hold the character. 15pts

 

Greatly Affected (Frequently, Fully): The Ghost's attack and strength are at full in regard to this character. 20pts

 

This assumes camapign where things other then ghost (such as werewolves and vampires) exists. In a strictly ghost campaign, frequently can be moved up to all the time. Also I am not so sure of the penalty on the lower version of this one.

 

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[OddHat]

The disads look reasonable for a ghost heavy game. If a PC wanted to be able to spot invisible ghosts and/or fight back I'd require the appropriate powers.

[yamamura]

Hanako of the Toilet is a Japanese toilet ghost that has been scaring school children for a number of years. Versions of her have appeared in a number of animes for example; Dirty Pair Flash and Haunted Junction. In Dirty Pair Flash she is a hologram of a dead girl with a baby emulating from one of the stall. She so frightens Kei that she started shooting at everything. By the end of the episode, the hologram is stuck in the on position and when one girl says that they can’t be rid of her, Hanako smiles a wicked smile. While in Haunted Junction, she one of many ghost that haunt the school. There have also been books and movies centering on her and other ghost of Japanese Urban Legends.

 

Her legend varies from region to region and school to school. Believed to be the evolution of a toilet kami, Hanako can be very helpful (some stories say she will hand a girl toilet paper from the toilet if the girl uses her stall). Some stories even say she will help protect her summoner from other ghosts. She can be mischievous though. This varies from knocking on the stall and hearing her answer but opening it up to find no one there to dousing the girl using her stall with blood (this has led some to believe that there is connection with the menstrual cycle and the legend). Then there is the darker side of her, a demoness that will grab any body who dares to summon her and drag them down to the pit of hell or maybe just kill them.

 

The basic story is that of a young girl who died in the toilet. Some say it was during a bombing raid during the war while others say that she committed suicide and thus haunt the toilet and yet other says she met some other untimely end there. To summon her, you must go to the stall in which she died in (or is associated with her) and knock on it and call her name. She will then appear and depending on what legend you hear, help or hurt you (at very least played a trick on you).

 

As an option you can even have it be a boy’s bathroom that she haunts. After all schools get rebuilt and remodeled and what was once an all girl school, can become a coed or all boy school. This can take on a double reason why she haunts if a boy is what she committed suicide over.

 

Below I have included a write up of Hanako using the Ghost from Hero Bestiary as a starting point. I went with her being a nasty creature, but with a little tailoring and adjustment of the points she can be made to fit any of the legends that surround her.

 

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Hanako of the Toliet

 

Player:

 

Val	Char	Cost
20	STR	0
18	DEX	24
10	CON	0
10	BODY	0
10	INT	0
18	EGO	16
20	PRE	10
8	COM	-1
5	PD	5
5	ED	3
3	SPD	2
2	REC	0
20	END	0
15	STUN	0

6" RUN02" SWIM04" LEAP0Characteristics Cost: 59

 

Cost	Power	END
25	Ghost Powers: Elemental Control, 50-point powers
45	1) Chilling Touch: Drain STUN 2d6, Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2), Affects Physical World (+2) (70 Active Points)
17	2) Ghostly Strength: +10 STR, Affects Physical World (+2) (50 Active Points); No Figured Characteristics (-1/2) (Modifiers affect Base Characteristic)	5
35	3) Fading: Invisibility to Sight Group, Hearing Group, Smell/Taste Group, No Fringe, Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2) (60 Active Points)
60	Ghostly Form: Desolidification (affected by affected by magic), Inherent (+1/4), Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2), Persistent (+1/2) (90 Active Points); Always On (-1/2)
10	Touch Of Fear: +20 PRE (20 Active Points); Only For Fear-Based Presence Attacks (-1)
47	Undead Vitality: Life Support , Immunity: All terrestrial diseases and biowarfare agents, Immunity: All terrestrial poisons and chemical warfare agents, Longevity: Immortal, Safe in High Pressure, Safe in High Radiation, Safe in Intense Cold, Safe in Intense Heat, Safe in Low Pressure/Vacuum, Self-Contained Breathing, Sleeping: Character does not sleep
10	Undead Form: No Hit Locations (10 Active Points)
24	Ghostwalking: Flight 8", Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2) (24 Active Points)
22	Ghost Senses: Spatial Awareness
17	Hunger For Life: Detect Life 11-, Range, Sense
6	Undead Senses: Enhanced Perception (+4 to PER Rolls for All Sense Groups) (12 Active Points); Only To Perceive Images Created By Means Other Than Necromancy (-1)
40	Extra-Dimensional Movement (Underworld (Hell)), Usable By Other (+1/4), Reduced Endurance 1/2 END (+1/4), Area Of Effect (One Hex; +1/2), Continuous (+1) (60 Active Points); Gate (-1/2)	3

Powers Cost: 358

 

Cost	Martial Arts Maneuver
3	Martial Grab: 1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, -1 DCV, Grab Two Limbs, +10 STR for holding on

Martial Arts Cost: 3

 

Cost	Skill
20	Various Skills possessed in life

Skills Cost: 20

 

 

 

 

Total Character Cost: 440

 

Val	Disadvantages
0	Physical Limitation: Human size (up to about 3m tall and 650 kg)
15	Distinctive Features: Japanese Ghost ( legs disappear into nothing) (Concealable; Always Noticed and Causes Major Reaction; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses)
5	Physical Limitation: Reduced Leap, cannot leap Infrequently, Slightly Impairing
20	Psychological Limitation: Hunger For Human Life Very Common, Strong

Disadvantage Points: 40

 

Base Points: 75

Experience Required: 325

Total Experience Available: 323

Experience Unspent: 0

 

Height and build of an average Japanese High School Girl