The Cat

Presenting The Cat With Hands to paradisa:

Cats are peculiar creatures. At once they are disdainful of humans while still craving their attentions, their affections, their attachments. Anyone who has ever interacted with a cat knows that lofty walk, that dismissive look, that demanding meow. You would know it even if you'd never even seen a real, live cat. Even the most loving of felines is guilty of scorning the humans charged with their care, and the worst of them are spitting, hissing hellions. But even then, even those cats would look angelic compared to a certain cat.

No one knows where it came from, or what it wants -- not in Paradisa, anyway. All anyone in Paradisa knows is that it is here and it wants, and it is not to be underestimated. It is the kind of thing one fears when one looks into a dark void and feels something staring back, even if there is nothing to be seen and nothing to be heard. It, of course, is the Cat With Hands.

"A cat with hands?" I hear your scoff. "All cats have hands, they're called paws."

"No," I say. "Hands. The cat with human hands."

You seemed skeptical, and I felt a twinge of dismay.

"Cats don't have human hands."

That was, of course, the last time we saw you alive. I still remember the twist in my gut when we saw your body, stretched taught by rigor mortis, back arched in desperation, having been suffocated by your own skin.

If only you'd listened.

1. Your character will suffer some sort of potentially-traumatizing body horror, and depending on how it goes, someone may die. The cat will be stealing a body part (or two!); the specifics will range base on what is stolen, so some are bound to be a bit more "what the fuck" than others. Even so, I want to find volunteers interested in writing it out and playing with the concept, because there's nothing interesting about characters facing that stuff with a resigned sort of "oh that's weird."

2. You need at least 2 major CR mates to comment to your volunteering comment saying you've discussed this with them and confirm that it's okay. Obviously you should inform everyone that may be affected by your character getting HANDSED, but I want to confirm that your CR is interested in participating.

3. You must be available at some point either Friday night (October 19th) or Saturday morning (October 20th) to play out your character getting CAT WITH HANDSED. We can work with whatever you prefer.

4. Getting limbs back depends on how the character can make peace with the creature, in the end... if your character is liable to hold a grudge, getting them back might be a little bit more difficult.