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>>47554065
The Texts of Lore that Men were not meant to know:
http://www.eldritchdark.com
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/
A good playlist about the gods and other entities of Lovecraft: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-aprpylMuCdnaFEYwTzAobqUZGxS1D5p
>>47581698
I'a, I'a.
Threadly Reminder that Derleth is a hack
>>47581698
>be me
>going on a trip to Europe
>pick up a Lovecraft compendium to read on the plane
>read "The Horror at Red Hook"
>arrive in France and find the cities full of evil Yazidi refugees
>mfw
I now know what it feels like to roll for san loss.
Reposting from last thread for /tg/ related discussion and in case someone has the complete version.
So I'm running a Call of Cthulhu game for a bunch of people who have never actually read anything more than cursory Lovecraft. What should I dredge up to spoop them with?
so I'm still working on a homebrew featuring Cosmic Horror...inspired by BloodBorne and the few bits of Lovecraft I have read, and apparently the Great Wall of China.
I've re-ordered it and assembled a table of contents.
anyone interested? or is this thread only for discussing Yog sothoth?
>>47581907
Hastur, Y'go and the Dark Side of the Dreamlands
>>47581905
Imagine if Lovecraft saw that, he'd shit his pants
>>47581957
The Yog-Sothothery is everything Cosmic Horror related, do tell of it.
>>47581985
I need suggestions and thoughts on this so I can finally finish this freaking thing.
also maps, more than a few...
>>47581735
Look at him, so smug and shit
>>47581905
You think you have it bad? Imagine reading Nyarlathotep during the 2008 election season.
>"I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. I recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard. A sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land, and out of the abysses between the stars swept chill currents that made men shiver in dark and lonely places. There was a daemonic alteration in the sequence of the seasons—the autumn heat lingered fearsomely, and everyone felt that the world and perhaps the universe had passed from the control of known gods or forces to that of gods or forces which were unknown. And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilization came Nyarlathotep..."
>>47582253
Obama immediately joins up with him
>>47582308
Obama is him.
>>47582082
Still reading it...
>>47582308
You fucking numpty, the implication is that Obama /is/ him. Where were you in 2008?
>>47582314
This is officially the single greatest thought in all of /tg/
>"Now, let me be clear. I am not using the Migo to brainwash anyone."
>>47581968
>Y'go
You mean Mi-go? Never hear of y'go, and no search results for it
are we sure Trump isn't the eldritch horror watching man develop and getting ready to throw in a monkey-wrench
>>47582337
On /co/
>>47582349Y'golonac
>>47582367
Trump is the HPL protagonist who has seen the horrors and gone mad.
>>47582375
oops, o shit I read that spolier, NOBODY READ THIS
>>47582375
Oh, well, that explains it. You were underage.
>>47582392
And what, Hillary is Delta Green?
>>47582416
she gives too much appearance of being sane, perhaps Sanders is the DG?
>>47582347
So, they just put the brains into the jars straight from the skull?
>>47582416
Yup. Those CIA operatives in Benghazi knew too much.
>>47582416
Hillary's face is a waxen mask.
>>47582416
>>47582433
And Cruz was a Yithian timeshare?
>>47582465
not enough lore knowledge to say...
>>47582465
As well as the Zodiac Killerpossessed by Y'golonac
>>47582462
And Trump's hair is a poorly disguised pseudopod
>>47582367
Ask yourself, what's the predominant color in his house?
Trump confirmed for the King in Yellow.
>>47582513
you totally glossed over his very SKIN...
all that tanning compound is a poor attempt at hiding it's true tone.
>>47582513
>Trump is Xanthous King Confirmed
Hastur replaces Nyarly in office
This is gonna get interesting
>>47582548
>Trump is Xanthous King Confirmed
I would love to see him in a certain hat
>>47582399
What is this gif from?
But the real question is,
Who is George W. Bush?
>>47582584
An idiot human
>>47582465
Ted Cruz isn't interesting or competent enough to be anybody. Even the cultists wouldn't have him.
>>47582548
I'd certainly vote to rename Washington DC New Carcosa
>>47582465
Cruz had that whole Uncanny Valley thing to his face - Ghoul? Migo man-seeming?
>>47582513
How can anyone stand to live in that?
Reminder to keep political discussion at /pol/
>>47582513
I was somewhat disbelieving that was actually Trump's house but it apparently is. You can't make this shit up
It's sad people think the guy can relate to the average american. Just a few years back the guy was considered slime incarnate and now he's most likely going to be president.
>>47582622
That thing looks like it would have really foul-smelling breath
>>47582622
Right.
So, anons, what would a setting where Lovecraftian entities were manipulating the major political figures be like?
>>47582640
what do you mean, what would it be like?
>>47582622
By the standards of "/tg/ discusses politics" this is pretty fucking good natured and tame.
>>47582622
Look out the window.
>>47582640
Shut your trap Kaathe
>>47582635
>and now he's most likely going to be president
You don't recover from a 20% nationwide popularity.
>>47582681
Got those mixed up, bugger.
Jokes still stand
>>47582622
You say that, but then you post a Cruz pic. Mixed messages, anon.
>>47582688
t. Jimmy Carter, 1980
Ok, non-sequitur, but what exactly is a dimensional shambler?
>>47582743
They're from another dimension and they shamble about. Probably in an unspeakably loathsome manner reminiscent of a Negro.
So anyway...
One of my problems with Delta Green/CofC/other Mythos games is that the people most excited to play are genre savvy. They've read the books. The know what a Night Gaunt is or how the Mi-Go operate, even if their characters don't. Horrors from beyond the stars aren't horrifying if you've read about them in a fucking field guide.
So what are some homebrewed Mythos creatures I can use in a game? Things that fit the style, but that aren't part of the "canon".
>>47582513
There's a point where gold and marble cease to be tacky, and instead go full patrician.
Trump has passed this point three times successively.
>>47582782
Well then. New question: What would happen if I- I mean a friend of mine tried to eat a Mi-Go?
>>47582819
Check out the No Security scenarios by Caleb Stokes, deliberately written to address those issues - he made a number of scenarios riffing on Lovecraftian ideas but explicitly "non-canon" monsters. Final Revelation also has some good stuff, though it's Trail.
>>47582819
I suggest actually pulling obscure characters out of your ass and surprising them
Summon one of Nyarly kid's the Million Favored Ones, Throw them into Dreamland and turn the game into Alice Through the Looking Glass. Have some cultists of Hastur or Y'go show up.
>>47582857
Best mushroom risotto ever.
>>47582857
well they're basically just very advanced fungi, so either they'd be tasty, give you hallucinations, or kill you painfully
>>47582819
make something up!
Don't even have a "creature". Have after-effects of the Elder being there.
A room which is perpetually damp with mucus. A women with no face on the floor.
A glass of water which drips upwards.
They bend over to try and look at it but the room goes pitch black and the women with no face screams.
>>47582857
You'd reach state of pure high and understand everything to the point of being noticed by Yog-Sothoth.
You'd then die after 35 of pure understanding
>>47582918
Oh, I can write them (and I'll post some later in the thread). But has anyone else written some?
>>47582871
Just because the things are obscure to me doesn't mean they're obscure to the players, sadly.
>>47582949
>You'd then die after 35 of pure understanding
35 what?
Seconds? Hours? Eternal ages of the cosmos?
>>47582968
no, just 35. It's way too much understanding for a person
>>47582857
Hey! You're trying to find out what will happen to to >>47568900 from the previous thread!
The answer? Pic related. And it's highly contagious.
>>47582991
Hot.
>>47582991
A fungus is fine too.
>>47582968
No, you die at age 35, of pure understanding. It hits you all at once.
Happy birthday to BOOM
>>47582857
>>47582991
Hey, don't knock Noel. You know he's not been the same since that caving trip. We were scared stiff thinking about him lost down there in the dark - thank god he came back to us, even if it was after two whole days! I shudder to think what it must have been like for him down there, no wonder he's never gone caving since. No, he seems much happier roaming the open spaces of the forest, or going into town and people-watching.
>>47583052
How are his hunting skills?
>>47583009
>>47583015
>>47583064
Well, he got better at it. You can't sell hunted meat in Oregon, or even trade with it, but he'll drop off prize cuts of venison, and his bills (pretty minimal) always get paid. He comes into town maybe once every six months and buys almost nothing - just clothes from the charity store, sometimes, new tools, and ammo.
Would having two groups of beyond human powers fighting each other make both less frightening? Or could you do it where they both remain equally horrifying and beyond comprehension?
I'm thinking of making a setting where Elder Gods throw down with Super-Skynet Seed AIs.
>>47583200
Have one of them fight AM.
>>47583200
With any setting, the question is "how does this affect the story of the players"
It might be super cool that Australia has become a battleground where sentient helicopters fight giant evil blowflies from Neptune... but if the players are in North America, it doesn't /matter/. It's just GM wankery at that point.
So what does having 2 competing superhuman powers /mean/ to your players, and to the story? What themes will this evoke? What plots will this enable, or what dead-ends will this create?
>>47583324
It is basically GM wankery at this point, I don't really intend to ever run a game in this setting. It's actually more workable as some kind of wargame.
That said, if it were to be an RPG it would be some kind of weird horror intrigue. The players would either be unfortunate bystanders or agents of the secret war between the two major Illuminati type groups/cults that are struggling for global control.
I mainly just got the idea after reading about Taoism. The whole light vs dark dichotomy. Hot and cool, dry and wet, man and woman, destruction and creation, artificial and natural.
>>47583421
>>/EclipsePhase/
>>47583507
There's actually a homebrew Eclipse Phase module involving Deep Ones under the ice on Europa.
>>47582582
AM1200 by Dreamlogic Pictures, or so I've heard.
>>47582688
But his popularity is higher than that of Hillary Clinton and is well over 40%.
>>47582635
People now see that the real slime incarnate are violent and malicious SJWs. We need a strong hand to crush their kind.
>>47583669
They're both scum.
Radicalism is the cancer of American politics, and must be cut out.
>>47583712
BUILD WALL
>>47583712
>nationalism is radicalism
ebin
>>47583728
SAFE SPACE
>>47583744
Good presidents would have wiped the floor with Trump and his ideas, on both sides of the party divide.
This election is a debacle, and not worthy of the legacy of the great men that built America.
>>47583712
When has moderation ever worked out well for a country? It just puts you at a disadvantage against your enemies, both foreign and internal.
America has basically been living on luck and borrowed time since the end of the 19th century. We're falling behind in every way while we sit around worrying about the feelings of minority groups that really shouldn't have any voice at all in a proper democracy. We need a little more "big stick diplomacy" and colonialism to get back on track.
>>47583777
>with his ideas
What exactly are wrong with them?
Enforcing borders is bad?
Simplified taxes are bad?
Actually being pragmatic when it comes to who we let into our country is bad?
Actually giving veterans the support they deserve is bad?
The only legitimate problem you can have with Trump is his attitude and demeanor.
>>47583829
Yeah pretty much. I don't really have that much issue with his politics, I like a lot of it actually, it's just the fact that he's gonna get elected because he told people to punch their political rivals and that Mexicans are rapists.
>>47583712
No, the fact that our leaders are openly bought and sold by corporations is the cancer in American politics.
Guess which side is the biggest corporate whore this time around?
>>47583868
>and that Mexicans are rapists.
When will this meme end; he never said "Mexicans are rapists", he said that lots of the illegal aliens are rapists.
>>47583868
That's the best thing about him. I don't really think the Wall and all that is very important, but Trump is the first person in US politics in my lifetime who overtly rejects the whole "worship of weakness" thing that seems to have become the dominant narrative in the western world.
The idea of punching a whiny college socialist in the face is deeply satisfying in ways that are difficult to explain.
>>47583918
You can use the violent urges you feel instead of actually explaining your ideas?
Not having arguments with people who disagree with you is an SJW mindset.
>>47583965
The SJW mindset is like political heroin, anon.
Like, you know you shouldn't just silence your enemies with force, but it feels so damned good. Gotta keep chasing that fascist high.
>>47583978
That's my problem. It's basically just become a screaming match between the two sides, with no one actually listening to anything.
I like a lot of Trump's policies, more than I like Hilary's and her being a fucking whore. I don't like the kind of political climate that Trump is pushing. I just don't know who to vote for, and I blame both sides for pushing their hyper-aggressive non-dialogues to this point.
![bug_king_painted[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/1BbHJC9.jpg "bug_king_painted[1].jpg")
Remember this?
>>47582655
>By the standards of "/tg/ discusses politics" this is pretty fucking good natured and tame.
That stopped happening.
>>47583669
>But his popularity
Among people old enough to answer phone surveys.
>>47583829
We don't know what his ideas are because he has 0 voting record.
>>47584103
>I want to do X
>"we have no idea what he wants to do!"
:^)
>>47584127
>wages are too low
>wages are too high
On consecutive days even.
>>47584003
Part of the problem is that you can scream and insult all you want and it's not controversial, but if either side actually expressed the underlying ideas of their campaigns, it would be a publicity disaster.
I'd like to see Trump openly say that America is a white Eurocentric nation and that racial/cultural diversity is what's making us weak. I'd like him to openly say that he supports Imperialist foreign policies. I'd like to see Hillary come out and say that people aren't fit to manage their own lives and they need the government to take care of them and handle their money for them. I'd like her to say that she thinks immediate national interests are less important than global stability.
I want us to be able to have the great ideological battle of our time. It would be better that way; people would have to take a stand with one side of the other and admit what they believe. The whole SJW/Stormfront way of arguing falls apart if you accuse someone of being racist and they agree that they are racist, or accuse someone of being a socialist and they agree that they are a socialist.
>>47584221
>that America is a white Eurocentric nation
Americentric*
We aren't bound to the old world, anon.
>>47584235
Then why did The Donald marry a Euro girl and decorate his apartment >>47582513 like a baroque palace?
He's a like a weeb for old-world monarchism.
>>47584235
>Eurocentric
Just shortform for "direct descendant of Rome's legacy."
>>47584267
>baroque palace
Not even they were so tacky.
>>47584304
at that point it's not about looking tacky or not, it's about the show of ridiculous wealth. It's like having your shoes plated gold, it looks stupid, but that's not the point
>>47582320
...waiting hopefully.
>>47584331
Wait, he's got golden shoes?
This is important. I might have to stop feeling the Bern for that kind of swag.
>>47584358
I don't think so, but it'd be really cool if he did
>>47584304
It's only tacky if you can only just barely afford that kind of conspicuous wealth.
If it's nothing more than a second thought, than the concept of wealth itself is the true decoration.
>>47584090
You have to go back
>>47581907
Here's the full version, which is the same but with some monster entries. It was too big to be posted without compressing. Surprised somebody bothered posting something I made a fairly long time ago.
Somebody last thread asked why there wasn't anything Hastur-related in it. To be honest, that's at least partly because I'm rather ambivalent towards Hastur. I consider the "core" Outer Gods to be Azatoth, Yog-Sothot, Shub-Niggurath and Nyarlathotep. I'm not really even sure whether Hastur is supposed to be a Great Old One or and Outer God. He's not really Lovecraft's creation anyway (Hastur, the King in Yellow, and Magnus Unnominadun are some of the places/beings namedropped in on HPL story, but the whole thing about Hastur the Unspeakable being an OG/GOO also known as the King in Yellow is some other writiter taking those names and assuming they all refer to the same being).
>>47582576
>>47585750
>>47582576
>>47585750
>>47585911
Fucking beautiful. Saved, although I don't know when I'll ever use them again.
>>47585998
>>47585911
too bad there's no way to include spandex wall-suit guy in the joke...
>>47584734
Thanks man. Do you have the Protean class?
I think it started as an idea for a mutant barbarian subclass?
>>47586461
I've got most of my stuff on my Megaupload here: https://mega.nz/#F!EkUC2TAK!N0S0xIhIHeNhC7ANim00KQ (with the exception of some of the stuff you probably don't want to see anyway, and some random monster stats for 3.PF).
The Protean class is actually a redo of something I did earlier, before going full Yog-Sothothery. It was always intented to be Mythos-esque, and I got the idea to do a proper Cthulhu Mythos thing from that.
I was originally going to remake it into a barbarian specialization for the Cthulhu stuff, but decided that I couldn't do that without cutting a lot of features, and that it wasn't quite properly Mythos-themed enough to fit in.
I'm considering of making another "generic eldritch horrors" thing, with monsters and classes not directly tied to the Mythos but thematically similar (and probably more tied to my homebrew setting), but I don't have quite clear enough idea on what I'd actually do there.
>>47586647
I'd be interested in helping with that, at least idea wise, if you like.
>>47582253
Why do people meme about Obummer so hard? Guy wasn't even that liberal and turned out to be a centrist warbird.
I'm planning on doing a game based on cosmic horror fantasy (think medieval bloodborne) one thing I'm having trouble with is I don't know any systems which do mythos magic well, are there any?
also repeating my taking of requests from last thread: >>47577093
>>47572979
>>47584469
To Ohio?
>>47584401
His net worth is only like four and a half billion, he can just barely afford that.
>>47584734
According to Derleth, Hastur is a GOO, spawn of Yog-Sothoth and half-brother to Cthulhu.
Since Derleth is garbage and everything he does should always be ignored, Hastur is never really explained, and could be a person, place, object, or deity.
>>47582968
Yes.
>>47583085
my sides are visiting Azazoth
>>47584344
Sorry Anon. Politics have fucked any chance of you getting a proper critique of that.
>>47586667
If you have any good ideas, I'd like to hear them.
>>47587597
So, who do you fear more:
The King in Yellow
or
Hasturhasturhastu-...
>>47587933
The King in Yellow, Hastur is just a betentacled Candleja
>>47587597
>According to Derleth
There's your problem, familioni.
>>47588014
Wanna read that second line there.
>>47588009
Yeah, but the King in Yellow couldn't even harm Carter. He's just a sludge-frog with a mask.
>>47587431
This guy has some pretty tight shit.
>>47584734
The discovery of one the hunters are a Migo in disguise.
>>47581698
Are the Chaos Gods (and Chaos itself) from the Warhammer 40k universe Lovecraftian?
>>47588488
No, if life dies Chaos will die with it. The Outer Gods are eternal.
>>47588488
Chaos as a concept migth be, but the Chaos Gods are portrayed too human-like to really count. Plus, they're born from the emotions of mortals, which doesn't really fit Lovecraft's themes of cosmicism and insignifigance of humanity.
>>47588538
>>47588548
But they are "eldritch horrors", aren't they?
>>47588548
>forgetting Nyarlathotep who Tzeenech is an expy of
>>47588552
Eldritch, yes. Lovecraftian, no.
>>47588133
You mean the High Priest not to be Described, or the Thing in the Yellow Mask.
Different things to the King in Yellow. (And mentioned by Lovecraft before he'd read Chambers' work)
Also, in one RPG supplement, it's the Theurang, the parent of Nyatri Tsenpo, the mythical founder of Tibet.
>>47588578
>Eldritch, yes. Lovecraftian, no.
WHAT KIND OF FOUL YOG-SOTHOTHERY IS THIS?!
I never got all the rampant hatred about Derleth.
>actual friend of Lovecraft to the point that Lovecraft wrote him into some of his works
>actually compiled Lovecraft's works and tried to get them published to immortalize his friend when he died
>when no one would publish them, he literally founded a publishing house to do it himself
>literally coined the term Cthulhu Mythos (I don't care if you want to jerk your dick over the fact that Lovecraft referred to it as Yog-Sothothery)
Literally not one of you fucks would have ever heard of Lovecraft or stumbled across his works if it wasn't for Derleth moving heaven and earth to keep Lovecraft's stories in print and relevant.
You can retroactively hiss and boo the man for taking some of Lovecraft's scraps and spinning his own tales out of them and selling them, but if he didn't, there wouldn't be any fucking money to keep Arkham House running.
>>47588552
The Chaos gods are still ancient cosmic gods with unknowable complex minds and insanity inducing abstract forms unconstrained by the laws of reality, but they are also manifestations of the nature of species with souls. Chaos gods actually acknowledge insignificantly tiny beings, and even let mortals ascend to daemon prince, so they aren't entirely alien to humans.
>>47588488
No. Chaos in 40K was stolen from Michael Moorcock's Elric saga.
>>47588597
>Chaos gods actually acknowledge insignificantly tiny beings, and even let mortals ascend to daemon prince, so they aren't entirely alien to humans.
Lovecraftian Gods also transform humans into... things.
Maybe not as powerful things as daemon princes, but they become alien, too.
>>47588354
>this guy has some pretty tight shit
that's pretty cool but it's still just the D&D magic rules I more meant a magic system where magic is treated like it is in the mythos, the result of forbidden knowledge gained at great personal risk and used to bend or break the usual laws of nature. I feel like it should be something which is actively sought after (or unintentionally encountered) rather than something the character gains automatically and then can use for free
>>47588645
Why don't you literally use the Magic system from the Chaosium Call of Cthulhu games then?
>>47588658
It feels too punishing, I feel like I'm being very picky but there's a balance between magic just being casual and the system seeming to want to discourage you from using it. I suppose tricky to learn but consistently useful once you learn it is the point on said balance I'd find ideal though. The CoC magic system is the best one I've seen so far for this though.
>>47588587
People dislike him as a writer because he completely missed the point of the Mythos by trying to instert Good vs Evil dualism an dobvious Christian allegory into a setting that explicitly did not work like that. He did good work collecting Lovecraft's writings and getting them published, but he was a hack when it came to writing.
>>47588645
DESU it sounds like you want to overhaul the DND magic system; remove level limits and the vancian magic and push it maybe more towards what they used to have in old Warhammer where spells have a difficulty rating and you roll so many dice based on your character and compare that to the casting of the spell.
That way there is risk for casting above your level, but there are big rewards for searching out spells even if you wouldn't normally be able to cast them.
I would recommend that you build some kind of failure chart as well so that failure to cast a spell is more significant that just it flumphs.
>>47588774
Maybe something like the 40k RPGs' system, where psychic powers can be very powerful but unless you use restrain when casting then there's a chanse that something really nasty happens, and God-Emperor help you if you go all out.
Basically, whenever you cast your powers there's a chanse that something bad happens, forcing you to roll on a table. If you use fettered casting, the effect of your powers is halved but you only use the "psychic phenomena" table, which mostly has inconsequential effects (such as the air around you growing cold, or all mirrors nearby spontaneously shattering). On normal casting there's a small chanse you have to roll on the "perils of the warp" table, which has various nasty effects, from stunning everybody in the vicinity, to reversing gravity for one round, to summoning a greater daemon. If you push your powers (which you should never, ever, do unless you know for sure there'd be a TPK unless you do it), you get big boost to your powers, but you always roll on the table and have a higher chanse of rolling on the perils table
>>47588645
focusing on what you said about magic being something sought after, you could treat it like D&D treats magic items. In a recent West Marches episode the characters 'birthed' a dragon and the GM said he'd let each of them pick a magic item and have its effect become part of their character. You could essentially use magic items as normal but fluff the effects of it as knowledge or strange powers the character has gained instead of coming from an object.
>>47588582
When he's travelling to Kadath, he goes through a hellish and desolate area. He arrives in a building, meets a 'king' draped in yellow, with a mask, and a frog-like hand, that's grey and see-through, if I recall correctly.
So, I assume it's the Thing in the Yellow mask.
Who's the High Priest not to be Described?
Wait, neither of them are KiY?
I have no idea what Theurang is, or Nyatri Tsenpo. I'm only a bookfag regarding Lovecraft, even though I always wanted to RP in his realm.
>>47588488
>Are the Chaos Gods (and Chaos itself) from the Warhammer 40k universe Lovecraftian?
Maybe Tzeentch is Nyarlathotep. Boxes within boxes, plots within plots, KEIKAKU DOORI lol I troll the fuck out of you.
>>47590243
The thing Carter encounters is the High-Priest Not to Be Described. (Who is also encountered by Kuranes in the story Celephaïs.)
The being also appears to be The Last Elder One, mentioned in his poem The Elder Pharos (From the Fungi From Yuggoth collection.)
Now, it could be Hastur I guess. The Elder Pharos does mention shepherds praying at the pale blue light emitted from the eponymous lighthouse. And Hastur is the god of Shepherds.
The Thing in the Yellow Mask is a similar being, or the same one, who dwells in 'Ygorith in the Dreamlands.
As for the Theurang and Nyatri Tsenpo, this is just Tibetan mythology.
Nyatri Tsenpo was the first Emperor of Tibet, whose eyes closed from bottom to top, and whose hands were webbed. He was immortal, thanks to the silver cord that linked him to heaven. His parent was the Theurang, an even less human creature.
Now, as you may know, the rulers of Tibet are no longer immortal. This is due to the 8th Emperor, Drigum Tsenpo, who quarrelled with his stable master. The stable master cut the silver cord which connected Drigum Tsenpo to heaven, leaving Drigum mortal, where he became the first Emperor to be buried in the earth. (Or more accurately, sealed in a copper coffin and chucked into the Tsangpo river, located in the deepest canyon in the world.)
So what exactly was the larger mountain range (or rather, what was haunting it?) that even the Antarctic Elder Things were spooked by? A legit Great Old One?
>>47591192
Kadath, in Leng.
>>47591127
Haita the Shepherd represent.
>>47591202
The plateau of the Elder Ones in Antarctica wasn't Leng. The narrator simply wonders if it could have been at one point.
>>47591192
Considering that the narrator's companion namechecked every single thing in the Lovecraft universe from the colour out of space to Yog-Sothoth to the elder pharaohs to the black pit to the primal white jelly to the original, the eternal, the undying suggests Yog-Sothoth was looking back at him...noticing him even as he was noticed.
>>47591192
>>47591994
Lovecraft actually answered that in one of his letters. It's supposed to be one of the Great Old Ones, only unlike Cthulhu this one isn't sleeping/sealed away. They only reason it hasn't wiped out humanity is that it has absolutely no interest on anything that exists beyond the mountains.
>>47587917
no! a man can still hope.
>>47593147
>>47587917
>>47584344
>>47582320
>>47582082
one final hope-bump...
>>47595273
>Hope in Cosmic Horror
>>47595273
It stinks, now shit up
>>47591202
>>47591994
>Leng
Is it just me, or was Lovecraft really inconsistent about where Leng was located?
Or is it actually some kind of extra-dimensional location that simultaneously exists in multiple places at once?
>>47595617
>shit up
>>47597136
Yes.
Leng is and is not real.
>In Stephen King's novel Needful Things, Mr. Gaunt gives Ace Merrill some cocaine said to be fabricated in "the plains of Leng", though no other explanations are given.
>>47597312
Does Mr. Gaunt have any relation to Mr. Skin.
Also we know where SnowFlame's cocaine comes from
>>47597472
Well, it's possible.
Some have thought Gaunt was Randall Flagg, who is a form of Nyarlathotep (sometimes).
>>47597549
>>47597472
>Mr. Skin
Isn't that Nyarlathotep's Pimp Mask?
>>47597549
Randall Flagg was a pretty decent Nyarly
>>47591127
This is some great lore that could be fitted into a scenario very well.
>>47583592
Its very good and short. Watch it.
>>47597549
Randall Flagg's spellbook was written by the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred in a place called Leng.
>>47597146
You heard me.
>>47597839
>I was only pretending to be retarded
>>47597879
No pretending my good friend
>>47597912
Honest at least, and funny
>>47588488
in some way: lovecraft inspired moorcock
moorcock inspired warhammer
warhammer 40k is warhammer in space
>>47598101
>>47598101
>>47598229
This is now a Micolash thread!
>>47591942
Something that interested me when I went back to read Chambers is how Hastur does appear in the stories of Chambers - as a falconer. In fact that's the only time in the King In Yellow in which a character is positively identified as Hastur, in The Demoiselle d'Ys. Given the story is about a man receiving visions of the PAST, and the fall of a female figure of authority - and how the play the King in Yellow is about a female authority figure being overturned by the titular yellow king (commonly held to be Hastur) - it all came together to form a more political interpretation of the Hastur "mythos" in which Hastur is a force that deposes, subverts and overthrows other forces, distortion and entropy incarnate. He infiltrates other cults in order to twist their purpose, or sell them out, to sabotage their rituals; not to turn them to His worship, for he's not interested in gaining power himself so much as tearing down others who have it. He's the reason so many Old Ones are sealed away, or sleeping, or exiled between places etc. An unsmiling Mythos-version of a trickster, or perhaps he is smiling behind the mask.
>>47598305
>not realizing that Nyarlathotep is actually Hastur
>>47598229
>>47598257
>>47598295
Wow, that died faster than your social life Anon.
>>47598461
>social life
Where do you think we are?
>>47598552
Exactly, it didn't even exist.
>>47598584
OH YOU
>>47598631
Micofag I like you, stay as long as you like.
>>47597738
Got a pdf for UO 21?
So, currently playing my first CoC/Deltagreen game, having a grand time so far, but I was just wondering, I chose the "arcanist/mage" PCC(we're using slightly modified palladium ruleset) and I'm guessing from my GMs reaction that they are akin to playing the Psyker in 40k,I.e. powerful but high risk for player/party?
>>47598831
No.
>>47601008
Neat thanks
>>47601639
It's not a big deal, you're welcome
>>47601540
>>47598831
Well I do!
In fact I give you every single PDF out their!
Just promise me you support the hobby with some real purchases once and a while.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/h9qjka0i4e75t/Call_Of_Cthulhu#oel9v4x2xn379
>>47598631
Micoanon is long gone, life is terrible
>>47602375
Nah just contemplating the cosmos, and my Delta green game
>>47602422
(Just rekilled the psychic ghost of an exp -presidential candidate that had possessed a barrel of military grade crisco, the some poor Navaho kid, though when we found him he was pretty much a zombie so nothing the group could do except have me fire bolt him while they mowed him down. Over all was a good night)
>>47602554
10/10
>>47602554
The chase and the A Call Beyond fuckery were annoying but the atmosphere totally lifted this boss above the stupid shit he'd have been otherwise.
>>47586678
He's black, you notice that both the dindus and the racists picked up after he got elected. He's a lightning rod for everything regardless of his own involvement.
>>47604552
He even campaigned as being both half-white and being half-black. It's just the blackness over-rules everything else in America politics.
>>47604552
If I had a son...he'd look like Nyarlathotep.
>>47592079
Now that's... weird.
>>47591127
I just simply don't remember a High-Priest. That's my problem. I mean, I don't even remember him in Kuranes's story. He just kept re-awakening in the dreamlands, thrice to be exact, and got stuck there, after he killed himself in real life. All of that was his own doing. I remember him seeing the city, being a part of the statues, but I can't recall anyone interacting with him. I remember Carter meeting Kuranes in Celephaïs, which was probably my favorite moment in Kadath, since Celephaïs is my favorite from Lovecraft, but I still don't remember the High-Priest.
Is this some eldritch mind-fuckery?
I remember the Yellow Mask, though. That's the one I was talking about.
>>47605363
He's only briefly mentioned in Kuranes' quest for Celaphaïs, as one of the things Kuranes encountered.
Carter's meeting is a little more elaborated on, he meets the High-Priest while accompanying a man-from-leng through the cold wastes on Shantaks.
>>47605130
It really is.
Anyone read the Pulp Cthulhu pdf yet ?
Also: What other lovecraftian/cthulhu games does /ysg/ enjoy ?
Also also: Best way to do zombies in CoC
>>47606923
I'm a big fan of the Laundry Files books and accompanying RPG.
As for zombies, there's only one real way to do it.
With Jeffrey Combs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htLpEDAXbqI
>>47606923
Tremulus
>>47603689
The Awwwwhhhoooo made that boss fight go from 5/10 to a solid 9/10
>>47607785
Micoanon has returned, the happy days are back.
>>47607920
Sortta, now anons, there is a spell, time slip, it stops time in the immediate area gives the caster 7 seconds to do as they please, as long as it is not a hostile action, and costing everyone else two melee actions.
X I need clever ideas/childish pranks to pull both in and outside of combat, for shits and giggles.
>>47592079
Does he occasionally shout for lesser beings to get off his mountain?
>>47608167
I hope so
>>47608167
Well, the Elder Things were afraid to go there. presumably out of fear of pissing it off. Or possibly because if it realizes there's things on the other side of the mountain range it might get ideas about going there to see for itself.
>>47608082
>removing their garments
>Stacking things on them
>>47608276
Please Anon, there is only Mountians, nothing else.
Hey, so I'm finishing off a run of The Haunting today that I'm doing to introduce some of my friends that have only ever played D&D to CoC. Of course, there's one in the group who just doesn't get it. He goes to the house while everyone else is researching and explores almost the entire first floor by himself. The entire time I'm saying things like "you hear a large thump upstairs" or "footsteps can be heard upstairs and they're coming down the hall toward the stairs" and he still just keeps going. Eventually I make up some shadow creature that comes at him from upstairs, and he just stands there as it comes at him. I have it hit him for a point of damage and knock him over and he finally gets the hint and leaves. How can I get through to the guy that he can't play this like he does D&D without pulling a rocks fall on him? I want him to enjoy the game, but I can't have him keep doing this kind of thing.
>>47608330
Have him meet something nightmarish, preferably Nyarlathotep,Y'golonacor Hastur
>>47608280
>stacking things on them
Oh lord that's perfect, time to abuse my eldritch powers
>>47608348
Perhaps a little extreme for a "baby's first game" adventure like The Haunting? And yes, I do in fact have a hard time recognizing sarcasm on the internet.
>>47608330
Seriously mangle the guy.
The knife in the basement is perfect for this.
Let him explore and when he enters the basement slice and dice.
The knife has the potential to take away 6 HP in one slash and given how low CoC health is that should put the fear of the GOOs in him.
CoC is suppose to a game about how insignificant humans are so don't be afraid to rough them up and even kill them at the drop of a hat.
>>47608330
I found the Bed is a good way of getting them to realise they might need help instead of going alone.
Getting knocked out a window can do that for you.
>>47608901
I was considering that, but I was able to at least stop him from leaving the first floor before it became necessary. I'm definitely keeping the bed on reserve for tonight though.
Eldritch bump
>>47610879
page nine bump
>>47607412
I've mainly heard negative things about Tremulus, what about it do you enjoy?
Who's the worst, lowest-quality spoopy guy in the non-Derleth canon?
>>47614227
Yig.
Basically is to snakes as Bast is to cats. Gets treated as evil for pretty much that reason.
"Scientists to the last — what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn — whatever they had been, they were men!"
This is still one of my favorite lines in Lovecraft. The splendor of Elder Thing civilization, and the narrator's open sympathy with their motives, really gives emphasis to the horror of the shoggoths.
>>47616175
It's one of the reasons I'd love to see it done as a movie.
If they can pull it off right, the ridiculously alien Elder Things, being given a human feeling, that their minds, for all their differences, are similar enough that there could have been communication... it'd just be awesome.
>>47592079
This too me is true cosmic horror.
>All of mankind
>All of it's beauty and horror
>It all exist due too sheer dumb luck
>That the cosmic being that could destroy it all...
>Just wants to chill out on a fucking mountain
I have realized there is no Love(craft) for Cthugha and Y'go.
Any underrated abominations you guys have?
>>47617573
Glaaki is pretty cool. Ramsey Campbell discovered some interesting things.
>>47617573
>another lover of Cthugha
My Negro
>>47616241
The Elder Things really look like viruses, huh.
>>47618622
Yeah. I wonder if Lovecraft had any knowledge of viral structure, or would that be far after his death?
>>47618650
No, he was alive. He died in 1937 and viruses where discovered in the 1890's
>>47618622
Well, they're often described as being crinoid-like. Of course, they're probably more like cnidarians.
>>47618732
Yeah, perhaps he combined the two to create the design?
>>47618696
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virology
Looked it up, and the electron microscope (the first thing able to actually show viruses in a visible manner) was invented in 1931 and AtMoM was written in February 1931. So AtMoM was probably written before electron microscopes were used in any capacity
>>47618842
Awww shieeet
Goddamnit, /lit/ is being retarded
>>>/lit/8125771
>>47619258
/lit/ is pure cancer, to be honest.
>>47619258
>/lit/ caring more about titties than Lovecraft
Understandable but still irritating
>>47619274
I know but why must they trample upon Lovecraft like Philistines?
>>47619320
Because they're a board of Philistines with raging hormones and a superiority complex.
>>47619258
/tg/ is now more /lit/ than /lit/
>>47619394
Looking through the thread Anon is correct.
