Why do the Skinsaw cult wear jester outfits?


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This always seemed kind of random, unless it's a reference to the Joker.


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It looks fly as hell.

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It's not so much a jester outfit as it is an outfit patched together from all sorts of different clothes and styles. Think of it as a less grisly way to have them dress in skin harvested from their victims, which is what they wear in my homebrew where they were invented, but which is a bit too much for Pathfinder, I suspect. It's certainly too much for them to go around in public. The symbolism of the patchwork outfits lets them ride the line.

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Grankless wrote:
It looks fly as hell.

Definitely agreeing they have the best cultist uniform


I mean, don't you find a cult of murderous clowns that wear masks made of out people's face to be pretty terrifying?

Do they need a reason beyond that?

But yeah, James' homebrew origin of wearing literal suits made of people would make it extremely terrifying.

Wasn't there a serial killer who skinned their victims and wore the skin like some sort "disguise"?

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Claxon wrote:

I mean, don't you find a cult of murderous clowns that wear masks made of out people's face to be pretty terrifying?

Do they need a reason beyond that?

But yeah, James' homebrew origin of wearing literal suits made of people would make it extremely terrifying.

Wasn't there a serial killer who skinned their victims and wore the skin like some sort "disguise"?

More than one, there's a Fae whose whole shtick is this.


I was talking about in our world, not Pathfinder

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Ah, again, probably more than one.


Rysky wrote:
Ah, again, probably more than one.

I think you're probably right


Are you thinking of Ed Gein?


Yqatuba wrote:
Are you thinking of Ed Gein?

Maybe, I dunno. I don't really keep track of serial killers.


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I always saw it as more of an Ed Gein, although the skinstitch in Edgewatch sort of blends the two in a horrifying way. Something about 'stitched clownsuit flesh construct filled with bugs and made of people' really just tends to rattle ya.


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Claxon wrote:
Wasn't there a serial killer who skinned their victims and wore the skin like some sort "disguise"?

Not sure about the real world, but that's what Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs is trying.

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