Okay, please help me out here:

If you can see through the Illusion, what do you see? Yeah, sure, it is in the book, but I want to know what YOU think. What do you think you'd see? What do you think you SHOULD see?

I think other than seeing monsters as they really are, it would be like Neo in the first Matrix. You'd know everything was wrong somehow and would start re-evaluating everything around you.
Glimpsing the little truths out of the lies around you as well as the big Lie.
Also suspecting that you aren't even who you think you are. Freaky stuff.

You wipe the blood from your eyes with the back of your hand. The sticky substance smell of iron and for some reason sets off feelings of panic and fear in the back of your spine, even if the blood is not yours.

As you look around, colours of maroon and yellow penetrate you eyes. At first you think it might be some of the blood still clinging to your retina, but soon you realise the factory is coloured with decay. Rusted machinery tower around you, far taller than they where a moment ago. Some of them have pulsating patches of yellow flesh, randomly scattered growing on and in the machinery like tumours.
A smell of rotting flesh mixed with machine oil now fills the room, reeking of it, and at the same time the rhythmic sound of metal hitting flesh makes a sickening blunt repetetive noise.

You turn to look at your co-workers who have turned towards you. Their eyes appear to be black mate spheres, coldly evaluating you. Their mouths no longer have lips and the bare flesh of their faces are exposed. Their teeth glint with the shine of metal forming a wide ironclad grin.
The closest one, the one you once called Jim, looks at you and hisses; "You can sssseeeee!!!"

You stumble backwards as they move closer, hesitantly at first, but then with a sense of purpose. Your heel trips on the decapitated corpse of Henry and you fall backwards, landing in the large pool of blood seeping from him. Terrified you crawl away as fast as you can, slipping and sliding in the blood as you can feel the creatures close in. The machines keep pounding in your ear and the smell of the blood and rotting flesh and oil is all around you.

And as you feel a sharp object pierce your shoulder, pinning you to the floor, you start to scream. But even as the pain overtakes you and the sound of your own screams almost deafens you, you can still hear that hissing voice whisper; "You must not sssseeeee…"

Hope that little piece of improvised fiction can give you some ideas.

Nice!

One of the (sadly very few) things I like about the Black madonna, is some of the peeks through the illusion. Especially the one where the PC's suddenly look out into a vast tunnel system. In a corner lies a large insect-queen-lookalike, with a huge, bloated egg-laying thingy. The offspring, that plops out of the end of that thingy hatches quickly, and start devouring their mother. On a closer look, the PCs can recognice some faces of the people that a moment ago was walking by on the street, on the newly hatched bugs...
This is supposed to be a look into Inferno, and frankly I don't understand what it is supposed to symbolise, or what it has to do with anything, but it's a cool scene, and it shows that the GM can do technically anything he/she wants, as long as it is neat and morbid enough, and fits the athmosphere of the campaign.

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Originally posted by Laughing Corpse I think other than seeing monsters as they really are, it would be like Neo in the first Matrix.

Early Neo, though. A full-blown neo would have to be an awakened person or something.

full-blown neo is not awakened.
he can just has body awareness, can pierce the veil, walk between worlds and alter time and space. its only mental balance -300 (and yes he is negative because he is still violent and emotional, the oracle and the architect are both positive).

broken doll description is good, very constantine (speaking of keanu, though i dont know if that was out yet when this thread was going), but the truth can look like anything the gm wants, perspective is everything