The sun slowly sets over the metropolis of Paris as you arrive at the home of your friend, a wealthy art-collector, who has invited you to a dinner and the unveiling of a new piece of art that he’s just purchased.
But when you enter the house, the sight of a bloody massacre knocks the wind out of you. It seems that the art-collector, your friend, and his household-staff have mercilessly butchered each other. Soon after, the citizens of Paris are abuzz with fearful gossip and shocking speculations as to what happened.
And when another massacre occurs, one very similar to the first, panic is ripe in Paris.
Possibilities
1 The reason behind the bloody massacres is the artwork that the victims recently acquired. They’re created using a strange material that has a dreadful influence on any sentient being that stays too long a time within its vicinity.
The material is many millennia old and, most strangely, quite alive. Its lifeforce affects sentient beings and makes them feel extremely paranoid and thus quite murderous.
The artist who made the pieces has already fallen to its influence, but many items have already been sold...
2 The reason for the bloody massacres is the artwork that the victims recently acquired. They are a portal to a strange world inhabited by incorporeal and sinister creatures. The artist behind the dastardly creations is quite mad and dabbles in the occult. The artist bound a gateway in some of his art that triggers when the new owner looks too long a time at it. When the gate opened, the incorporeal creatures passed through and possessed the owner and some of his household-staff, making them turn on each other.
The same happened to the victims at the second massacre, who had also bought one of the artist’s chaotic creations.
3 The reason behind the bloody massacres is not the piece of art – It’s the artist.
Paint fumes combined with his rather fragile mind and destroyed his sanity. He began to believe that the buyers of his creations planned to kill him.
So he hunted down and massacred two of the buyers, their family and their household-staff. Then the artist arranged the victims so it appeared that they’ve killed each other. He is now after the others.
© Tim Deer
But when you enter the house, the sight of a bloody massacre knocks the wind out of you. It seems that the art-collector, your friend, and his household-staff have mercilessly butchered each other. Soon after, the citizens of Paris are abuzz with fearful gossip and shocking speculations as to what happened.
And when another massacre occurs, one very similar to the first, panic is ripe in Paris.
Possibilities
1 The reason behind the bloody massacres is the artwork that the victims recently acquired. They’re created using a strange material that has a dreadful influence on any sentient being that stays too long a time within its vicinity.
The material is many millennia old and, most strangely, quite alive. Its lifeforce affects sentient beings and makes them feel extremely paranoid and thus quite murderous.
The artist who made the pieces has already fallen to its influence, but many items have already been sold...
2 The reason for the bloody massacres is the artwork that the victims recently acquired. They are a portal to a strange world inhabited by incorporeal and sinister creatures. The artist behind the dastardly creations is quite mad and dabbles in the occult. The artist bound a gateway in some of his art that triggers when the new owner looks too long a time at it. When the gate opened, the incorporeal creatures passed through and possessed the owner and some of his household-staff, making them turn on each other.
The same happened to the victims at the second massacre, who had also bought one of the artist’s chaotic creations.
3 The reason behind the bloody massacres is not the piece of art – It’s the artist.
Paint fumes combined with his rather fragile mind and destroyed his sanity. He began to believe that the buyers of his creations planned to kill him.
So he hunted down and massacred two of the buyers, their family and their household-staff. Then the artist arranged the victims so it appeared that they’ve killed each other. He is now after the others.
© Tim Deer
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