Made a...a.... please tell me what it is? Update: Done!

[Bergh]

***Status: DONE!*** But ideas and comments are welcome!

Hi everyone, Yesterday I was chopping into some of the plastic leftovers I have from my cemetery project.
The idea was to make it a "Scene of Horror" for Strange Aeons.
I was actually just glueing it together without any real plan, beside it being somekind of Cultist shrine or something like that.

somehow I think its a great little weird building, but it need SOMETHING too define it for what it is.
anyone have any idea on what to enhance it with?


 

[Cory]

The two room plan with dividing fence rather than a wall would suggest something to be viewed rather than locked away, but the fence means it needs to be protected from casual touch - a serious person could go over the top.

The lack of a roof means it needs to be open to the sky, suggesting a plant of some sort.

Thus I'd put a tree, rose bush, or similar thing in that back spot.

Some candles or shrine like offerings at the base of the fence could really dress it up as well.

[Krysset80]

Would say some sort of shrine with a relic or a mad monstrosity behind the bars... or perhaps a sacrefice..

[Mason]

My first thought was a sepulchre, but seeing the open top makes me think of some kind of Penitent/Punishment cell.

Haunted by the ghost of the occupant of course.

Dont know if that helps at all....


Besides that, I think it looks great.
Very original!
 

[Bergh]

I could maybe find some Mythos entity miniature, paint it up as a bronze statue, and but that in the little cell.
A unholy idol put behind bars to keep it "safe".

Keep ideas coming.

Does the front entrance need a door ?

[Uncle Mike]

I seem to recall that nuns or charges of the Church (read: young girls...) were locked up in a building such as this, usually located on the side of a Church. They were basically bricked in and had a window to the outside...not sure I've got my facts straight so you may want to look into it. As far as a Scene Of Horror...you could have a skeleton on the floor of that poor unfortunate girl. Would also make a good Grave Marker for a Ghost...

Looks great, can't wait to see more!

[Dolmot]

Put some claw marks on the walls and bend the bars.

[Golgotha]

Move the bars to be on the doorway and add a roof? At any rate no matter its purpose it is looking like a great bit of terrain. Of the other ideas given above a statue locked away does sound good.

[Bergh]

I really can't decide what to do with this little thing, I have decided to both make a loose statue and a skeleton for the "cell", then I can switch when needed.

I have found on old miniature in my stash: got it from EM4 miniatures. Its a 25mm Nightgaunt. I think its on the small side of even 25mm, and have not really found it useful with my collection from Pulp figures and Copplestone.
I think it could be a great statue:


I have also plans of making a small table where a book and a lamp is standing on.

[Connectamabob]

I seem to recall that nuns or charges of the Church (read: young girls...) were locked up in a building such as this, usually located on the side of a Church. They were basically bricked in and had a window to the outside...not sure I've got my facts straight so you may want to look into it.

IIRC it was a form of religious hermitage. Not something that was forced on people, but something the devoutest of the devout might request for themselves.

The building made me think of a private grave. Maybe like a private mausoleum for someone who wasn't quite wealthy enough for the full building... or maybe someone infamous enough to be segregated from the general cemetery population for posterity. Like maybe a discredited lord with a reputation for nasty extracurricular preoccupations, but with just enough living friends to get him an actual burial instead of a dragging through the streets and/or souvenir dismemberment by the local peasantry.

[starkadder]

It's open to the elements, particularly the sun at specific times of day.
It has two chambers, the smaller one with bars, the larger one is suitable to hold a small viewing party.

It looks to me like an Undead Mortification Cell.

Vampires can be chained to the floor and exposed to the sun for a ghastly Undeath (a la Underworld).
Lycanthropes, similarly chained, can be used in the execution of condemned prisoners.
Ghouls can be used to feast on the flesh of the pious while villainous cultists look on with glee.
Prisoners may be held for trial, taunting, abuse and similar execrations before being taken to their death.

Or it is the place where we keep the Fluffy Bunny Pyjamas and Naughty Devices. You may need the Bob Murch pulp film crew to round that one out.

 

[Mathyoo]

Its a crypt!

In the locked part you could make an altar or just put a sarchophagus in there. The rest is just a part of the crypt.

You could improve it by making a roof and putting some torches in (something I plan for my crypt, and some source lightning yay

You could also improve it by making a destroyed roof and some debris, making it a really old crypt!

Hope it helps!

[Oldben1]

It sort of reminded me of a crypt as well.  What about a vampire crypt with the 3 vampire women.  Or have the threshold team have to dispatch of a newly turned vampire in the crypt.

Just some ideas . . .

[mdomino]

Whatever it is, it's really cool. Will make an excellent scene of horror. I can see multiple uses- Strange Aeons, gothic horror.
Mike D

[Verderer]

I seem to recall that nuns or charges of the Church (read: young girls...) were locked up in a building such as this, usually located on the side of a Church. They were basically bricked in and had a window to the outside...not sure I've got my facts straight so you may want to look into it. As far as a Scene Of Horror...you could have a skeleton on the floor of that poor unfortunate girl. Would also make a good Grave Marker for a Ghost...

Looks great, can't wait to see more!

You mean Anchorites? There were both male an female ones, I think?

As to the utility of the model, either it's to keep outsiders getting in, or something from the inside getting out... maybe it's for a dead relative, who doen't quite get the concept of staying put when you're dead?