For something the average person can actually accomplish at the table, you can always go with nursery rhymes with a creepy emphasis.
Someone about to fall into a pit of death, hanging on with dear might using a single hand?
"Ring around the Rosy" (walk around the pit)
...(skip for brevity)
"Ashes, ashes, and we all fall down" (step on his fingers before he yells and falls to his fiery doom)
Just look up a few recognizable ones, and identify some elements that are common in adventures.
Bonus points if you look up old, old school traditional german nursery rhymes. Those always end up unsettling in their original form.
A different approach- remembering the whistling in kill bill? You know, where that one villain prepares on an attempt to kill the comatose Bride? Being unstintingly cheery while preparing to murder someone always has a nice effect.
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A different approach- remembering the whistling in kill bill? You know, where that one villain prepares on an attempt to kill the comatose Bride? Being unstintingly cheery while preparing to murder someone always has a nice effect.
This works really well. For and older and more disturbing example, see the "Singing in the Rain" scene in A Clockwork Orange.
There's Oh Death, by Jen Titus. You might need to switch out deities, if it matters to you, but its very ominious. Classical music would be Toccata and Fugue, as well as Totentanz (the dance of death) as well as a bunch others I'm sure.
What will we do with the drunken whaler - Dishonored soundtrack
Love Bites - Def Leppard (if using sour love as a motivation for doing bad stuff)
Alternatively, humming legitimately sweet love-songs or upbeat music while doing despicable stuff will lend an air of intense creepy and madness to the character.
-Nearyn
Bonus points if you look up old, old school traditional german nursery rhymes. Those always end up unsettling in their original form.
German in general is a very menacing sounding language.
Even wedding vows sound threatening.
I always imagine languages like Orcish are a germanic language.
I you wanna ham it up, you could always go with Voltaire's When You're Evil
-Nearyn
Metallica:
The End of the line
Broken, Beat & Scarred
The Day That Never Comes
All Nightmare Long
Cynide
Am I Evil?
Seek & Destroy
I Disappear
"Disturbing the Priest" Black Sabbath.
Decemberists, Shankhill Butchers,
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Days of Swine and Roses
Edit, a couple more from my disturbing wife's head,
Ludo, The horror of our love
NIN, Gave up
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For something the average person can actually accomplish at the table, you can always go with nursery rhymes with a creepy emphasis.
Someone about to fall into a pit of death, hanging on with dear might using a single hand?
"Ring around the Rosy" (walk around the pit)
...(skip for brevity)
"Ashes, ashes, and we all fall down" (step on his fingers before he yells and falls to his fiery doom)Just look up a few recognizable ones, and identify some elements that are common in adventures.
Bonus points if you look up old, old school traditional german nursery rhymes. Those always end up unsettling in their original form.
A different approach- remembering the whistling in kill bill? You know, where that one villain prepares on an attempt to kill the comatose Bride? Being unstintingly cheery while preparing to murder someone always has a nice effect.
A lot of those nursery rhymes are dark. "Ring Around the Rosy" is about bubonic plague, or so I've heard.