Thread:Dr0Shadow/@comment-4924435-20131226232433/@comment-28071061-20131227001042

Okay here are my comments on the Jar:

First off, it has nothing to do with temptation. And before you point out it has "memetic effect that makes people open it", no that is not a good enough reason in the slightest. IT'S A FUCKING JAR WITH SPIDER LEGS, WHAT THE HELL IS TEMPTING ABOUT THAT. Even if you knew it could make new fears, why would you open it! Now let's compare that to the Colour of Blood, the Rapture version of.

In Rapture had a scene where Jordan friends have all abandoned him after dozens of arguments and Jordan is has to stare at the Omen who took the form of his ex and see the horrible things he's done to her while everything around him is completely burnt. Then he wanders through the city and finds and ocean of blood which reminds him how he's responsible for Salcamcis's death and is presented how much he has fucked up. Only after all of that does the Colour of Blood come in, where she starts tempts him to jump off the ledge and drown himself in order to reunite with his Salcamcis's.

Now looking at all of that, how is a Jar with spider legs remotely better at representing temptation?

Secondly the Pandorean Jar is about the biggest Marty Stu ever created in the Fear Mythos. It fucking creates Fears, that is the most Marty Stuish anything can get in this mythos! If it just created a bunch of weird shit like an expy of the moth man or a thing with ten heads, that would be fine. But as it is, it is the most overpowered thing in the entire mythos. There needs to be a balance for this type of shit.

For example in the Daniel-Verse, even when people get super powers and attempt to fight the Fear with them, they are in no way capable of harming them in most cases let alone killing them. Even when it introduced Mana, the closest equivalent to magic this mythos has, it still had dozens of negative effects on those that used it and everyone around them.