The parameters of these apparitions are completely up to the GM. They may decide on their own if any of these visions and apparitions require a Sanity check though if they do, the penalties should be light. These effects last a few moments to a few minutes before fading away. They may or may not leave behind a trace of their existence. A swarm of spiders may vanish without a trace, leave behind those that were squished, or only leave the evidence of their bites behind.
Table 4: Outside The Window
Roll on this table if anyone looks outside the window while Dread Apparitions are manifesting.
- A group of six naked people run across the lawn.
- A spectral figure, cloaked, hooded, and wielding a scythe, glides past the window, heading to parts unknown.
- A huge flock of blackbirds flit around left to right, up to down. When they go left or down, they completely vanish. When they go right or up, they reappear. After a few moments they are gone.
- A wolf the size of a Great Horse creeps along, sniffing the ground. Suddenly it stops and looks towards the window you are looking through. It pauses there a moment and then moves on.
- A black chariot wreathed in flames and pulled by fiery steeds shoots by the house heading god-knows-where. You think you can make out the forms of people trapped inside it.
- What looks to be a group of zombies shuffles along in the distance.
- Two children out in the yard are playing “monkey in the middle” with the head of a third child, who is trying desperately to intercept it.
- A formal dance is happening with at least 100 people. They wear beautiful, ornate outfits and swing and dip with precision. None of them has legs.
- A beautiful peasant woman is screaming and running. Her clothes are torn. Lurching after her is a 7-foot tall scaly green humanoid with gills.
- A giant bat flies down from the sky. Right before it lands it transforms to a human. The human examines the ground for just a moment, then leaps into the air, transforming back into the bat as it flies away.
- Two mailed knights thunder towards each other in a joust. When they clash, there is a blinding flash of light – and they are gone.
- A pack of ghostly hounds has surrounded a yearling deer. They take it down and tear it apart.
- The ghost of a giant lumbers into, then out of sight.
- The trees in the distance seem to be trading places.
- The clouds have thinned and the full moon is out. It begins to grow and swells to an unusual size.