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ex0skeletal-undead · 2 days
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Sea monster illustrations by William 巴特尔  Bao
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eepsy · 3 days
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HEARTS AND CRAFTS
crafty’s outfit inspired by @localgremlinenthusiest art ((u should like..totally follow them btw….)
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anim-ttrpgs · 17 hours
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Thing from Beyond Poll
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Your friend is an otherworldly monster whose persona you know her as is only a shape she folds her body into to interface with human society and also as a lure to get close enough to humans to open up and consume them whole both for nourishment and to absorb their DNA and memories to become more human and in turn maybe better understand her place in a world to which she doesn’t belong. Her “true form,” unfolded, is about a 9’-14’ across 1”-thick ‘blanket’ of a creature with no front or back, only color-changing skin on one side and rows of retractable teeth on the other side that doubles as both a mouth and stomach. (This is the side that’s on the inside when folded up into a human shape but it can change color too with some practice.)
(This is one of the five core playable monsters in Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, the “thing from beyond”, which you can read all about and even play as if you go download the demo from the free demo link on our website and jump to page 402.)
Anyway, the question is, if the whole gang was planning a picnic and she wanted to lay mouth-up on the ground and be the blanket, would you let her?
Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is going to launch on Kickstarter on April 10th and we need all the help we can get. Set a reminder from the Kickstarter page through this link.
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If you’re interested in a more updated and improved version of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy than the free demo you got from our website, there’s plenty of ways to get one!
Subscribe to our Patreon where we frequently roll our new updates for the prerelease version!
Donate to our ko-fi and send us an email with proof that you did, and we’ll email you back with the full Eureka prerelease package with the most updated version at the time of responding! (The email address can be found if you scroll down to the bottom of our website.)
Or, if you can’t afford any of that, join our TTRPG Book Club and then just ask. Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy is the current game being played in the book club, and anyone who wants to participate in discussion, but can’t afford to make a contribution, will be given the most updated prerelease version for free! You can even come and listen in on a session today! The session starts at 5:30 PM CST today (March 27th, 2024). If you’re reading this in the future, join anyway, there’s several other groups that may or may not be still going with Eureka at the time you’re reading this. Plus it’s just a great place to discuss and play new TTRPGs you might not be able to otherwise.
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THE IDEAS YOU RECEIVE FROM CHEESE CANNOT SAVE YOU
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thestuffedalligator · 4 months
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I read Fat Face by Michael Shea last month and it was. Fine? It was a Cthulhu Mythos story written in the 80s, it was very edgy and it had a lot of tropes I’m not a fan of, I don’t really recommend it, but I have to talk about one detail I have not stopped thinking about since I read it.
So. I knew Fat Face through reputation because it was the story that inspired Shoggoth Lords from the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG, shoggoths that can control their cellular makeup to look like humans. And the twist in Fat Face is that shoggoths have been hiding amongst humans in Los Angeles, and at the end of the story one of them eats the protagonist.
The tone of the story is grit. It’s grime. It’s sleaze and sexual violence and drug abuse on top of cosmic horror. It wants to be taken seriously so bad.
But here’s the thing about the shoggoths: they have a business.
They have two businesses they run out of an office building in downtown Los Angeles. A shoggoth is a primordial blob of eyes and mouths and flesh and hunger, and the idea of one of them at the LA Office of Finance registering an LLC is already. Great. Perfect. No notes.
The business is a front — and again, that’s great, a shoggoth went, “I want to do some nefarious deeds and not get caught by humans; I know, I’ll register a fake business that’ll be a front, and no human will ever suspect” — because the actual interior of this office is a room of pools of water made from black and ancient Antarctic rocks so that shoggoths can relax in their original blobby forms and eat stray animals that they’ve caught.
So it’s basically just. A place for shoggoths to unwind after a long day of pretending to be human. It’s portrayed as cosmic horror, but it’s shoggoth Cheers. Sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your shape.
Here’s the kicker. The front of the business is a hydrotherapy clinic and stray pet rescue.
When they decided to make a front for their secret lair in an LA office building where they hang out in pools of water and eat stray animals — the front they prominently display and advertise — they decided to go with a hydrotherapy clinic and stray pet rescue.
That is Goosebumps shit. The rest of the story reads like a tone poem about the sleaze and violence of Los Angeles, and the main twist of the story reads like R.L. Stine.
But that’s not even the detail I can’t stop thinking about. Because the story reveals that this business — which again, is a front made by alien blobs to eat stray animals like an ALF-themed buffet and hang out in jacuzzi tubs of Antarctic rocks in an LA office — has a flyer.
Which means there’s a shoggoth with a passion for graphic design
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kmlaney · 9 months
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prokopetz · 6 months
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sajanrai · 7 months
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My daybill interpretation of RE-ANIMATOR (1985) as part of a group exhibit for BORLFF (Brisbane Only Repulsive Liquid Film Festival) by Feature Presentation. Mine and the others' wonderful prints are open for pre-orders here until the end of September!!
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probablybadrpgideas · 2 months
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Remember, the names of the great old ones are just human approximations.
While "Kuh-thoo-lu" is the accepted pronunciation, there's nothing stopping you from having cultists who use "Ku-lu-ho", "Kat-hu-lu" or the entirety of Flo Rider's 2008 hit song (Shawty Got) Low as the god's name.
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ex0skeletal-undead · 4 months
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Greater Morula, Photoshop painting by Dariusz Kieliszek
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thesesixseeds · 7 months
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“Freak Deer. A piece i just did. Conjoined parts from 2 mummified deer heads.” -Richard Difeo
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grickle14 · 4 months
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Before becoming a Great Old One, Cthulhu was a Impressionable Young One and my gosh did he enjoy reading comics!
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LOVECRAFT MEETS GRIMSHAW 
by Oliver Wetter
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saspitite · 4 months
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ive been thinking about this question for a while so i wanted to make a poll and see other people’s opinions:
reblog for himb
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do it for he ^
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