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 ==Mister Chatters and the "Chatty McAppy Show"==
-[[File:Chatters7.jpg|thumb|200px|right|"Mister Chatters", a companion of the Shadowman...]]
+[[File:Shadowchatters.png|thumb|150px|right|"Mister Chatters", a companion of the Shadowman...]]
 Also known as Chatters, Mr. Chatters, Chatters McAppy, Chatty McAppy, "that damned creepy puppet", etc.
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-[[File:Shadowman.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Portrait of a Shadowman]]
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 "The strange, tall, slender figure was dressed in a traditional stage magician's costume of black and white, and had some sort of featureless, white mask over its over-sized head, topped with a shapeless black cap or beret... in one hand, it held the vast, ponderous book of black secrets as if it weighed nothing at all, though I knew from many hours of treacherous study just how much it really weighed; with the other, the faceless figure silently pointed to the blank white pits in the fabric where its eyes should be, then, towards its sleeves... 'look!  there's nothing up my sleeves!", it must have been gesturing, as if anything at all could be hidden in the tight-fitting sleeves around such abnormally long, thin arms, or anywhere else about its nauseatingly tall, skeletal, stooped shape.  Yet, in an absurd, silent instant, the book was gone, as if it had never existed.  I never saw it vanish, and there was no way I could explain its sudden absence... the figure was cocking its head to one side, and, if it had had a mouth, I swear it would be grinning at me; but there was nothing but that blank, white cloth... and, it was gesturing again:  a strange, open-palmed gesture, a strange, sardonic gesture that asked whether I wanted to see another trick, when it knew all too well that I never wanted to see tricks or magic or wonders ever again!  But it was too late - it performed its next trick, far worse than its first, and I think that was the moment I went mad...."

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 The less you know about the Shadowman, the better, for knowing too much may make you the subject of its interest; and, indeed, the Shadowman leaves clues to its own existence for the curious to find and follow to their doom; such clues usually appear in the form of recordings which typically feature the Shadowman in some way, subtly attracting the victim's attention, and perhaps drawing a psychic connection between the viewer and the Shadowman.
-The Shadowman does not speak and prefers to operate in the background, preferring to let its followers (Men-in-Black, Rakes, and animated puppets like Chatters) speak for it and do its dirty work, and perhaps only revealing his presence to NPCs and to PCs who are helpless to do anything about it.  The Shadowman does seem to enjoy a sort of telepathic link to its followers, communicating through a combination of simple pantomime and telepathic dream-imagery.
+The Shadowman does not speak and prefers to operate in the background, preferring to let its followers (Men-in-Black, Rakes, and animated puppets like "[[Shadowman#Mister_Chatters_and_the_.22Chatty_McAppy_Show.22|Chatters]]") speak for it and do its dirty work, and perhaps only revealing his presence to NPCs and to PCs who are helpless to do anything about it.  The Shadowman does seem to enjoy a sort of telepathic link to its followers, communicating through a combination of simple pantomime and telepathic dream-imagery.
 The menacing Shadowman is sometimes closely associated with children, and images of the Shadowman have been captured in video and film frequently enough for investigators to reach ominous conclusions about the Shadowman's malevolent relationships with children, ranging from that of a bogeyman to that of an invisible "friend".
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 Chatters McAppy itself is a ventriloquist dummy wearing a black-and-white suit, top hat, white gloves, and monocle, typically playing the role of a stage magician who travels into the "Land of Magic" for his unsettling adventures, where he performs illusions and casts nonsensical spells as a seemingly random part of the story.  Chatters usually appears in what seems to be a sort of "hero" or "host" role in the show, but viewers usually seem to remember him mostly as a vaguely threatening or distinctly off-putting character.
-Chatter sometimes complains and wails hellishly about being manipulated by the Shadowman, when appearing on the Shadowman's knee apparently under the Shadowman's control, begging "the kiddies at home" to save him from the Shadowman's apparently horrifying control over the puppet.
+Chatters sometimes complains and wails hellishly about being manipulated by the Shadowman, when appearing on the Shadowman's knee apparently under the Shadowman's control, begging "the kiddies at home" to save him from the Shadowman's apparently horrifying control over the puppet.
 Other recurring characters of the puppet show include:

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 * The [[Nightgaunt]], a creature that never seems to appear in the show, but still represents an element of threatening and nameless terror from somewhere off-screen or off-stage for the characters and, usually, the audience.
 * The Finger-Biter, an eyeless, crawling, mumbling puppet whose role seems to be to cause puppets to fall asleep so he can chew on their fingers, a source of senseless and insane dread among the various characters, as well as for sensitive audiences remembering his strange, nightmarish appearances.
-* The "Kiddies at Home" - the audience, who the puppets seem to pretend are characters in the show, who can influence the plot through "the power of belief" or the "power of dreaming".  Some viewers remember actual terrified and crying children appearing in particularly upsetting stories, begging for their mothers and wanting to go home, while Chatters, with the help of the Shadowman, tries to cast sleeping spells or perform tricks on the traumatized "kiddies", sometimes accompanied by threats of "if you don't stop crying, the Nightgaunt will get you!"
+* The "Kiddies at Home" - the audience, who the puppets seem to pretend are characters in the show, who - according to Chatters - can influence the plot through "the power of belief" or the "power of dreaming".  Some viewers remember actual terrified and crying children appearing in particularly upsetting stories, begging for their mothers and wanting to go home, while Chatters, with the help of the Shadowman, tries to cast sleeping spells or perform tricks on the traumatized "kiddies", sometimes accompanied by threats of "if you don't stop crying, the Nightgaunt will get you!"
 The "Chatty McAppy Show" doesn't appear to have ever actually existed outside of urban legend, and instead seems to be a form of mass delusion inspired by modern forms of mass entertainment.  Still, the delusions and hallucinations associated with the show seem to keep a powerful hold over those who claim to remember the nightmarish show from their childhood.  The delusion is consistent enough that grown adults who have never met each other and who have totally different backgrounds and life experiences, interred in separate mental institutions in different parts of the country, can describe their memories of the imaginary show with eerie similarity, and share similar delusions of persecution involving the threatening presence of the "Shadowman" and "Chatters" characters outside the show, animated into "real life" where, for example, the living ventriloquist dummy can hide under the patient's bed or in his closet, waiting to begin saying horrible things in a shrill "puppet" voice, or leap upon the terrified patient with gnawing, chattering wooden or porcelain ventriloquist dummy teeth....
-Similarly, some victims of the Shadowman delusion have reported seeing the ventriloquist dummy in the company of the Shadowman, for example walking beside that phantom.  Another common hallucination described by patients suffering from night terrors seems to be a variation on the ancient "old hag" nightmare:  the patient will describe an experience of waking up to find the dummy sitting on the sufferer's chest, the patient unable to move or scream, while the Shadowman lurks nearby, peering into the patient's window, or leaning over the patient's bed.  This Chatters character appears in such cases to play the role of a sort of mouthpiece for the silent Shadowman, shrilly speaking upsetting truths which the Shadowman would otherwise be forced to pantomime.
+Similarly, some victims of the Shadowman delusion have reported seeing the ventriloquist dummy in the company of the Shadowman, for example walking beside that phantom.  Another common hallucination described by patients suffering from night terrors seems to be a variation on the ancient "old hag" nightmare:  the patient will describe an experience of waking up to find the dummy sitting on the sufferer's chest, the patient unable to move or scream, while the Shadowman lurks nearby, peering into the patient's window, or leaning over the patient's bed.  This Chatters character appears in such cases to play the role of a sort of mouthpiece for the silent Shadowman, shrilly whispering upsetting truths which the Shadowman would otherwise be forced to pantomime.
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 * companion:  Chatters, an animated ventriloquist's doll
 * setting:  a bizarre version of the [[Dreamlands]], resembling an unsettling television children's puppet show
-** The ranks of the Men In Black include of government agents, conspiracy theorists, and Investigators who have dug too deep and attracted the attention of the Shadowman; they have been taken away, and... treated.  Now, pale-skinned from long decades spent in timeless places without sunlight, the Man in Black typically dresses in a dark suit and hat or black cloak and hood.  He obeys messages and visions from Shadowman without question, but has a 50% chance of cutting and running when casualties reach 50% or if an allied monster is destroyed/driven away; otherwise, he fights to the death if attacked.  Men in Black prefer to avoid combat, however, preferring intimidation and mind-games to direct conflict.
+* The ranks of the Men In Black include of government agents, conspiracy theorists, and Investigators who have dug too deep and attracted the attention of the Shadowman; they have been taken away, and... treated.  Now, pale-skinned from long decades spent in timeless places without sunlight, the Man in Black typically dresses in a dark suit and hat or black cloak and hood.  He obeys messages and visions from Shadowman without question, but has a 50% chance of cutting and running when casualties reach 50% or if an allied monster is destroyed/driven away; otherwise, he fights to the death if attacked.  Men in Black prefer to avoid combat, however, preferring intimidation and mind-games to direct conflict.
 * tome:  The Shadowman will sometimes leave tomes (either in the traditional written form of books, scrolls, pamphlets, etc., or in the form of film, audio records, digital video recordings, photographs, etc.) in places where they might lure wizards, cultists, and investigators into his grasp.

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 "The strange, tall, slender figure was dressed in a traditional stage magician's costume of black and white, and had some sort of featureless, white mask over its over-sized head, topped with a shapeless black cap or beret... in one hand, it held the vast, ponderous book of black secrets as if it weighed nothing at all, though I knew from many hours of treacherous study just how much it really weighed; with the other, the faceless figure silently pointed to the blank white pits in the fabric where its eyes should be, then, towards its sleeves... 'look!  there's nothing up my sleeves!", it must have been gesturing, as if anything at all could be hidden in the tight-fitting sleeves around such abnormally long, thin arms, or anywhere else about its nauseatingly tall, skeletal, stooped shape.  Yet, in an absurd, silent instant, the book was gone, as if it had never existed.  I never saw it vanish, and there was no way I could explain its sudden absence... the figure was cocking its head to one side, and, if it had had a mouth, I swear it would be grinning at me; but there was nothing but that blank, white cloth... and, it was gesturing again:  a strange, open-palmed gesture, a strange, sardonic gesture that asked whether I wanted to see another trick, when it knew all too well that I never wanted to see tricks or magic or wonders ever again!  But it was too late - it performed its next trick, far worse than its first, and I think that was the moment I went mad...."

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 "I feel I'm walking outside... circled around me are these faceless figures watching me, as if they are waiting for something to happen... ''then it happens''...."
 - The Nefilim, "Still Life"
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 "They stood him before a mirror. He was emaciated and covered with wounds, his back was bent, his hair was gone. There was not a single deprivation he had not known."
 <br>- The Nefilim, "Pazuzu"
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 All of me, it all fades away... it all fades away....
 <br> - Voivod, "Twin Dummy"
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 - Korovakill, "Der Schlafmann kommt"<br>
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 == Quotes ==
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-''Folge mir in den Sonnenschein, durch Zauberfelder und Städte aus Eins. Bald wìrd' Dein Leben ein gläserner Sarg, hier bleibst Du Licht, alle Freunde sind da.  Komm!  Das kinder spielen und singen an unserer Seite. schala-la-la, der Schlafmann kommt.  Schlaf, schlafe, schlafe, komm und bleibe fìr immer!  Und wenn wir es wagen zu folgen, werden wir nie wiederkommen.  (Das Kind ganz ruhig im Bette liegt, blau im Gesicht, mit leerem Blick, und starrt der Mutter Tränen wund: "Der Schlafmann hat mich heimgeholt."'')
+''Folge mir in den Sonnenschein, durch Zauberfelder und Städte aus Eins. Bald wìrd' Dein Leben ein gläserner Sarg, hier bleibst Du Licht, alle Freunde sind da.  Komm!  Das kinder spielen und singen an unserer Seite. schala-la-la, der Schlafmann kommt.  Schlaf, schlafe, schlafe, komm und bleibe fìr immer!  Und wenn wir es wagen zu folgen, werden wir nie wiederkommen.  (Das Kind ganz ruhig im Bette liegt, blau im Gesicht, mit leerem Blick, und starrt der Mutter Tränen wund: "Der Schlafmann hat mich heimgeholt."'')<br>
-- Korovakill, "Der Schlafmann kommt"<br><br>
+(Follow me into the sunshine, through magic fields and cities of oneness... soon life will be a glass coffin, and there you will stay happy, all your friends and family are there. Come over! Children play and sing at our side. Schala-la-la, Sleepman comes. Sleep, sleep, sleep, come and stay forever. And if you dare to follow, you will never return...." The child lies calmly in bed, blue in the face, with an empty look, and stares at the mother's tears: "Sleepman has brought me home."  The Sleepman is Coming...)<br>
-(Translation:  Follow me into the sunshine, through magic fields and cities of oneness... soon life will be a glass coffin, and there you will stay happy, all your friends and family are there. Come over! Children play and sing at our side. Schala-la-la, Sleepman comes. Sleep, sleep, sleep, come and stay forever. And if you dare to follow, you will never return...." (The child lies calmly in bed, blue in the face, with an empty look, and stares at the mother's tears: "Sleepman has brought me home.")  The Sleepman is Coming...)
+- Korovakill, "Der Schlafmann kommt"<br>
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