Why am I picturing her setting him down for lessons on how to avoid breaking the minds of mortals and how to just bend them ever so lightly. And why can I picture Jessica trying to sudduce Marry Poppins and winding up in a three way sandwiching a lucky sweep...... My child hood memories contorted into eldritch smut. Praise Shub-Niggurath shake what your quasar gave ya.
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- Thread starter theaceoffire
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Because a mortal mind can not comprehend how eldritch being say hello with out their mind shattering. Let alone art or sexy fun times. Praise Shub-Niggurath. May you have eldritch revilations about platypuses look them up their weird.
Fragnostic
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I see you are back to your Adam roots, what with the sudden onset of lewd thoughts?
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Kinda imagining this as the MC slowly calming down and healing as they travel, resulting in him being more mentally stable and "maturing" faster. Like, as he heals more and becomes more assured of himself and his system, he starts physically and mentally restoring to his appropriate age. Instead of staying a small hyperactive child.
Ace Dreamer
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You don't need to shatter all of their mind...
"See, John, this is how you seamlessly repair a 'pleasure centre', and shift... inconvenient memories into a warm, rosy, glow..."
('centre', not 'center', because this is England, after all!)
May the limbo-dancing shoggoths, with the hula hoops and lei garlands, only ask politely before replacing the dodgy looking sheep, you count to get to sleep at night.
("Lovecraft was an amateur, we've got E.E. (Doc) Smith, and A.E. van Vogt!"
)((van Vogt invented the Coerl, in 'Black Destroyer' (1939), Smith the Edorians in the 'Lensman/Triplanetary' (1934)... Science fiction authors have created things that would eat the Cthulhu Mythos for breakfast, and not even burp...
))(((Don't believe me? Consider what the term 'full armed, dirigible multiverse' might mean.
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I bow before the might and revelation of your referenceses. Have mercy on this dabiler of eldritch horror.You don't need to shatter all of their mind...
"See, John, this is how you seamlessly repair a 'pleasure centre', and shift... inconvenient memories into a warm, rosy, glow..."
('centre', not 'center', because this is England, after all!)
May the limbo-dancing shoggoths, with the hula hoops and lei garlands, only ask politely before replacing the dodgy looking sheep, you count to get to sleep at night.
("Lovecraft was an amateur, we've got E.E. (Doc) Smith, and A.E. van Vogt!"
((van Vogt invented the Coerl, in 'Black Destroyer', Smith the Edorians in the 'Lensman/Triplanetary'... Science fiction authors have created things that would eat the Cthulhu Mythos for breakfast, and not even burp...
(((Don't believe me? Consider what the term 'full armed, dirigible multiverse' might mean.
Never had that much of a tolerance for horror always get to caught up in the story and start to spaz out over the thing behind the door.
Ace Dreamer
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I'm not claiming that's anything special, yes, I've been told I read too much.
Basic point: There's always a Bigger Fish. Trick is, can you be a Weirder fish? That's one reason I like what @theaceoffire has done in this story, >>weird<< of this quality is a rare thing to find!
(BTW, I've read probably too much horror, but the funny thing about it is how small their worlds are. Immense amounts of beliefs, mythology are ignored, as are the size and age of reality. Just, "There's horrors out there in the darkness". Yes, some reasonably modern authors do a (much) better job of it.)
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William Stepp
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Would most humans understand the difference? Old Testament Angels really hug the line between wonder and horror.
Ace Dreamer
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Hmm. The Olympian/Greek gods, supposed if you saw them and they weren't being careful the shock killed you... So, 'eldritch', but neither a horror nor quite a wonder?
Seeing John hasn't obviously killed anyone... Yet... What the uncloaked effect of Mary Poppins might be...
Might even persuade a certain... man of variable employment to acquire a better Cockney accent?
BTW, this looks somewhat readable... Given the 1934 publication date...
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Okay not murdering a student on a stage in front of the entire School is acceptable the first time. However it's a school teaching you to fight to the death, so after the family of that student proceeds to try to assassinate you four or five times with powerful godlike killers... And then set you up to die on another stage a second time... Just kill him.
Honestly I wish he would have died right there anyway, what fucking moron holds an assassin with a blade to their neck and then decides 'well I won, let's all go home and have some coffee or something.' This isn't a kid trying to break your legs or whatever, it's an assassin held back because he was too stupid to graduate who's being paid to murder you, as the seventh murder attempt so far from the same stupid family.
Not only can you legally and morally kill this person, but if they succeeded in killing you they wouldn't even get detention!
I didn't really have a horse in this fight or whatever until I saw the guy pull that weird Dumbledore "no one could ever hurt anyone unless you're a bad guy because that makes you evil, but if bad guys do it then that's just part of life and we have to shut up and accept it.' thing
Honestly I wish he would have died right there anyway, what fucking moron holds an assassin with a blade to their neck and then decides 'well I won, let's all go home and have some coffee or something.' This isn't a kid trying to break your legs or whatever, it's an assassin held back because he was too stupid to graduate who's being paid to murder you, as the seventh murder attempt so far from the same stupid family.
Not only can you legally and morally kill this person, but if they succeeded in killing you they wouldn't even get detention!
I didn't really have a horse in this fight or whatever until I saw the guy pull that weird Dumbledore "no one could ever hurt anyone unless you're a bad guy because that makes you evil, but if bad guys do it then that's just part of life and we have to shut up and accept it.' thing
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Ralyx
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I admit nothing!
But on a completely different note, apparently people should really check what's in their clipboard when they copy and paste something from somewhere else that's less frustrated type in. Yep.
I think old school fae might count as an 'eldritch wonder'. At least some of them, considering how horrific they can be. Maybe 'horror disguised as wonder'.
Or at least the closest I can think of. Which is kind of fitting, considering that one of the suspected etymology origins of 'eldritch' has it as... 'fairyland'. Or 'elf kingdom', when translated.
And then before I can hit post is... Whatever context Ace as for that, must be pretty strange. Whatever setting that is sounds pretty messed up. And sort of seems like the kind of consequences of an editor blocking certain actions from even happening in a story, that really would have been either completely rewritten for it to make sense, or just, y'know, dropped from the story.
I'm guessing this is for the next setting after Mary Poppins. Or... apparently complete red herring. I just figured it was an extension of the "I AM INVINCIBLE" bit posted earlier.
Or at least the closest I can think of. Which is kind of fitting, considering that one of the suspected etymology origins of 'eldritch' has it as... 'fairyland'. Or 'elf kingdom', when translated.
And then before I can hit post is... Whatever context Ace as for that, must be pretty strange. Whatever setting that is sounds pretty messed up. And sort of seems like the kind of consequences of an editor blocking certain actions from even happening in a story, that really would have been either completely rewritten for it to make sense, or just, y'know, dropped from the story.
I'm guessing this is for the next setting after Mary Poppins. Or... apparently complete red herring. I just figured it was an extension of the "I AM INVINCIBLE" bit posted earlier.
ProtagNeptune
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...Great, now I'm curious.
Ace Dreamer
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Sounds a bit Percy Jackson? Gives you the Greek god connection, and then change Camp Half-Blood into a Hogwarts for Scions of the Greek gods, and related beings? Dunno.
Who-niverse: You don't kill him if you are The Doctor. But, for some reason the next time he tries to kill you a mysterious space-time vortex drops him off, protected from immediate death, next to a black hole... So, you haven't killed him, and from a time dilation viewpoint he's not going to die for a long, long, time...
They tell me that's a vice. I've never been convinced.
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You make it sound pretty interesting, could I possibly get a link or title description or such?
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Sigh, it was 'God Rank Upgrade System' and... I just had to give up. The dude nearly gets assassinated like six times, survived through sheer luck and plot armor, and worst of all? When he gains the ability to hide himself he actually asked 'why should I bother'! I normally put up with a lot with my stories, but if you're going to be this incompetent the story needs to be good enough for me to look over it. But not only is it frustrating to read, but the guy is so damn cocky the whole time. You're fighting zombies and murders and shit, you've got your ass kicked four or five times, stop trying to show off and hide until you're strong enough to fight back or something! Idiot.
ProtagNeptune
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Hidden One
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Ace? Now I have to ask, did you try reading 'Cultivation Chat Group' ?
I didnt make it through despite it being better then average on humor and plot in most points.
Should probably try to re-read it again.
At least that MC's plot armor is somewhat humorous since he does not usally get what he wants and only mostly gets what he would need.
Even if it means becoming bald.
I didnt make it through despite it being better then average on humor and plot in most points.
Should probably try to re-read it again.
At least that MC's plot armor is somewhat humorous since he does not usally get what he wants and only mostly gets what he would need.
Even if it means becoming bald.
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Now you're making me think of a story-line about an AI that lives in (plus communicates via) a superhero world online chat group. And thinks that they're safe because of that...
I didn't need more story ideas in my head...
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I find that with chinese novels someone will have an original idea and then twenty other authors will copy it and beat that horse until it's dead and then continue milking it. webnovel/qidian, the biggest source of translated chinese novels certainly doesn't seem to check it's publications for quality either. I remember being able to easily find really good and funny novels on it in the past, but now there seem to be so many books on there that try and fail to have a charismatic, cocky, "face-slapping" protagonist and copy off of other better books that i can't even tell apart the titles anymore
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Hidden One
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So that is how the Hero BBS got started! I knew Student was sus.
So ignoring aces posting issues. Old school fae would definitely count as eldritch being please not that. They are not horrors inherently as far as I understand the fae are generally not actively malicious. They do however have vary different mortality compared to mortals. Fae and fairies are generally alien others depending on their depiction. And I think that is a very important part that needs to be remember fae exist in a sort of spectrum between alien and eldritch beings depending on the setting.
Old school fae in particular would be leaning towards the eldritch side of the scale, mainly due to how often they use mortals a playthings or act in a sort of malicious innocences. Alternatively they actively revel in their otherness such as Titania I believe. I don't remember if I am switching them with another.