The Ossuary and the Chimera {picture shortly} A sect of Ciccatri, once strictly loyal to Sangreal, are losing their total belief in the Razide and are being swayed by something they have inadvertedly created. So fanatical was their devotion to their master that an unexpected effect has taken place. Sangreal's orders to these tattooed and immortal followers was to find the God Bundle that is Mictantechutli, the former Death God of pre-Spanish Mictlan. He had them work with one of the Sangre Negra's leading Death Magician's, Romero, tasked to complete the ritual needed to locate the deconstructed god. Both the Ciccatri and the Romero's original intentions have changed. The Ciccatri created, on the behest of the Romero, the Ossuary by taking first a prostitute from the streets after feeding her with a powerful hallucinogen, stripped her of her bones while she slept and constructed a small shrine from her remains. The Romero entrapped her dreaming self within the altar, stripping it of free will and most memory - a clean slate. Then, under the Romero's orders, the Ciccatri began to abduct prostitutes to close to the fringes of reality. Abused, terrorized, raped and sometimes murdered, the prostitutes were threatened into utter submission and soon followed the Ciccatri's orders without question. Used to distribute a powerful and ancient hallucinogen to the desperate of Mexico's slums, the prostitutes watched the Ciccatri expand and take more bodies under powerful, drugged dreams in their lair. The sentience grew to awakening and fed on the strongest emotion surrounding it ~ the pain, humilation & terror of the prostitutes, integrating the prostitutes drives into it as it realized itself. Needing to inflict the same feelings from others as a means of purpose it draws in the desperate and hopeful, yet beaten, of Mexico's slums through Dream. The prostitutes quickly deteriorate, physically over months, their bodies withering until they cannot move. They are so sucked of their suffering by the Chimera, emaciation of mind takes form in body to the point where bones give form. In this lifeless state they cease to move, but are alive. The Ciccatri easily fill gaps these dying prostitutes leave with more threats to even younger girls. For the Ciccatri this is the only time they are needed to hunt - the prostitutes bring victims back to the Ossuary for the Ciccatri. Some of these victims are taken through labyrinthine tunnels to Sangre Negra and others are dragged into the Dream of the Chimera and murdered like most of the victims the Chimera kills. The Ciccatri, find themselves less needed to hunt outside of their lair, due to the Romero providing a gateway through their bone arch into the Dream that is the Chimera and through the prostitutes fear. Now that the Chimera draws in victims, the Ciccatri can harvest the bones that the Romero says he needs, all the while this Chimera grows stronger and its Dream expands. Soon the Chimera's power through Dream shall erase the need for the prostitutes, however, the Ciccatri will continue to do as they intend, enjoying the brutality and sadism. The Romero intends to uncover the God Bundle through a ritual that utilizes and expends the Chimera and escape into her Dream with the deconstructed god. There he intends to unravel it and, for the same reason Sangreal wanted it, and become the god by slipping on its skin. There, from the Chimera's dream world, he will exist as a God free from Sangreal and Amine. The Chimera Without free will, but strong in purpose the Chimera is a growing carpet of rage, humilation and suffering within Dream. It manifests as flashes of these in pure imagination and represents itself as an ever-expanding organism of nerves across a bleak landscape of bones and skulls. Silhouetted mountains stretch in a circle around the osseus plain. It is perpetually twilight. The Chimera cannot physically harm others, but the Chimera can create powerful dreams of terror and induce visions of horror that it feeds from eventually draining that feeling from the victim. Touching the network of nerve fibres results in the same effect regardless of the Chimera's desire. These dreams begin with a strange dream, slowly intensifying and leading the victim into vast subterranean tunnels which eventually lead out on the mountain range surrounding the Chimera's Dream. The Chimera is growing at an advanced rate and many victims disappear every night and the Chimera grows through the suffering hauled out of these people. The Ciccatri then remove the bones and leave them in whatever position the Death Magician has dictated. The Chimera leaves the Ciccatri alone. The final death of the victims releases the energies needed for its sustenance and growth. The original landscape the Chimera dreams is a distant nightmare the original prostitute had as a child in recurring imagery. It grows with more and more bones that are placed in a ever spanning magical arrangement. The Ossuary A permanent portal into the Dream of the Chimera. Constructed by the Death Magician it serves an open doorway for the Ciccatri to drag others into & to lie awaiting within the realm for those that the Chimera lures through hopeless dreams, dreams of anger & pain. It is made of the carcass of the original prostitute murdered by the Ciccatri for the Death Magician. Its bones were removed and hastily constructed. The bones are not white, but yellow and covered in the unstripped pieces of dried meat. The frame has been shaped as an archway pressed against a shadowy wall. The protrusion of the bones standing out further obscures the entrance in shadow. Crawling through the portal takes one into a series of tunnels and out from the mountain range onto the massive Dream that Chimera stretches across. It is the only way to enter the realm (other than by magic) unharmed. It is only a short distance in these tunnels to the place of bones. The Ossuary is located close to Sangre Negra church, half an hours walk The building the Ciccatri slum within, lurks among a housing area, where all residence layers each other and narrow alleyways thread a maze through the urban environment… sometimes to the Labyrinth if one is not careful. Theirs is deep under others who built over it, believing it abandoned, since the time of Cortez. It is an old temple with many large niches… from which people over 6 foot must duck, but others walk through a maze of small painted and sculpted chambers. The niches form a massive netwerk that threads deep into the hill that has grown over it. Over time the residents around them on the hill realized the growing danger, but unable to escape the Chimera finally consumed them all. Over 200 families have been consumed. Still, due to the utter poverty, very few notice except family, who fear of what has happened to their loved ones.