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Starry Eyes [Worm/Lovecraft Mythos]

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Poor TayTay and friends... Also, Hookwolf fighting E88 members? Wut?

Best part of this new chapter: I remembered that the PRT is dealing with a cannibal. Just, ya know, that cannibal is an eldrich horror with amnesia, not the girl that befriended it.
 
Ruinous Virtue said:
Poor TayTay and friends... Also, Hookwolf fighting E88 members? Wut?
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I have an alternative hypothesis: Tayfield is mistaken and those are not the droids you're looking for E88 members, but instead a bunch of bald-headed cultists, who worship the unspeakable horrors, that lurk beyond mortals' comprehension.

Too early to tell though. It might be Master/Stranger or a some other plot development...
 
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Ruinous Virtue said:
Poor TayTay and friends... Also, Hookwolf fighting E88 members? Wut?
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Firkraag said:
I have an alternative hypothesis: Tayfield is mistaken and those are not the droids you're looking for E88 members, but instead a bunch of bald-headed cultists, who worship the unspeakable horrors, that lurk beyond mortals' comprehension.

To early to tell though. It might be Master/Stranger or a some other plot development...
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Hookwolf got captured by the creepy cultists earlier... And the creepy cultists have someone who can grow people organs that can kill them when she wants to.
 
When you start introducing non-human sapients into it, "cannibalism" is often expanded to include "one sapient eating another."
 
Casually chewing up the phone didn't help her image, either.
 
Segev said:
When you start introducing non-human sapients into it, "cannibalism" is often expanded to include "one sapient eating another."
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Anthropophagy may be the correct word, though it's supposed to just be for anything eating humans. Humans generally don't mind cannibalism too much (when other species do it) but we tend to deal with anthropophagy harshly.
 
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Cool, it's back. Can't wait for Taylor to most likely eat hookwolf.

I assume this little bit of unrest is probablyh bceause Hooky decided to upgrade his Nazi level to include anyone who's skin color isn't "Swords".
 
Khettien said:
To be fair, I'm pretty sure Shoggoths will eat other Shoggoths. I don't think they make a distinction beyond 'me' and 'not me'.

Edit: Where 'not me' = 'haven't eaten yet'.
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I don't think eating each other has as much weight to a species that can not only survive that, it probably doesn't even bother them that much. In their society taking a quick taste could be like shaking hands!
 
I read a short story called The Things, basically the movie the thing, from the things perspective. They (he/her/them/it) called it Taking Comunion to Share News of The World. Fun read
 
Azerick01 said:
Link please?
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Looks like I had the relationship wrong; I read the story before I knew about the movie, but the story is much newer.

My google-ing also turned up a sequel-ish by a different author (published on the same site) titled "Things With Beards". The behavior-of-writing pattern of fanfiction is a thing even outside of fanfiction.

Edit: I keep thinking that I should come back and add content/trigger warnings, so:

The Things (link above) uses the word "rape" in an unusual context. May well be warranted, but still, heads up. Also body horror and violence of course, and what I think is an existential crisis?.

Things With Beards has what appears to me to be AIDS; implied body horror; suicide/suicidal thoughts; a bombing campaign; and "background" tensions lifted straight from the eighties, so gay rights, the eighties version of BLM/race riots, etc.
 
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Malbutorius said:
Although Humans are descended from Shoggoths that forgot how to shapeshift.
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Actually we aren't. Or I'm almost 100% sure, but I'd have to check the sources first. But if I recall correctly we're just part of the general biological waste that the Elder Things created as a side project when they were creating Shoggoths.

I suppose that means we're related to the Shoggoths in the same way that we're related to the cougar. Except less, since we actually both have lungs, for example.
 
John Therion said:
Actually we aren't. Or I'm almost 100% sure, but I'd have to check the sources first. But if I recall correctly we're just part of the general biological waste that the Elder Things created as a side project when they were creating Shoggoths.

I suppose that means we're related to the Shoggoths in the same way that we're related to the cougar. Except less, since we actually both have lungs, for example.
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It's not made totally clear in At the Mountains of Madness. It is often interpreted as us being direct descendants since the first thing the Elders made on Earth where the Shoggoths. In almost all modern Mythos stories and RPGs it is taken as fact.
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These vertebrates, as well as an infinity of other life-forms—animal and vegetable, marine, terrestrial, and aërial—were the products of unguided evolution acting on life-cells made by the Old Ones but escaping beyond their radius of attention.
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It interested us to see in some of the very last and most decadent sculptures a shambling primitive mammal, used sometimes for food and sometimes as an amusing buffoon by the land dwellers, whose vaguely simian and human foreshadowings were unmistakable.
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