What weapons would you use against the dunwich horror? Prof. Armitage said that no mortal weapon can harm it but i believe he simply didnt have the right one at hand
What weapons would you use against the dunwich horror? Prof.
What weapons would you use against the dunwich horror? Prof. Armitage said that no mortal weapon can harm it but i believe he simply didnt have the right one at hand
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>What weapons would you use against the dunwich horror?
Even more Chaos
>Chaoshomosexualry
Gay and Cringe.
My homie Oxy.
>in open combat
Bullshit, all those daemons and cultisimps should be on the ground frothing by unseen blowdarts or walking into Rambo First Blood tier traps.
Gay indeed, cosmic horror calls for more cosmic horror, throw a C'Tan at them. The Outsider is perfect for the task, can't even drive him insane as he did it to himself millions of years ago.
>You now have a C'tan on the lose
>on earth
>without big E to imprison it on mars
If C'Tan exist so does The Not-God Emperor. He'll step out of the shadows, set things straight, then go back into the shadows until the age of strife.
Rocks, multiple of them.
Shit like this is why I love Warhammer. In no other franchise will you see a bunch of dinosaurs stone a demon from hell to death.
>who would win
>a immortal being made from the condensed rage/schemes/lust/suffering of billions of souls
>or some oversized skinks with stones
Unfortunately geedubs seems determined to roll against the punches as push back against player driven results and desires when it stands in the face of the narrative they want to write.
There's a reason. Because GW can't balance their game worth a frick and lore is independent of gameplay.
Daemons get what they fricking deserve. Based skinks.
>female primarchs
ultra cringe, consider suicide
Maybe if you read the book you would know that one of profs, who went there, took a shotgun with him just for lulz, despite knowing full well that it won't do crap to the monster.
So the answer is "none of human-made weapons, but a Necronomicon and some knowledge of outer gods"
>ultra cringe, consider suicide
No one cares about 40k, everyone wants to frick god pussy.
I see you are already considering, good job, keep on it
Lol I'm not the one in tears over some coomer posting an anime b***h wearing Lord Niggulous the IVs power armor.
Extremely cringe if one's being serious, but 10/10 coom bait if kept away from any actual Canon.
Also, how would the eldritch things from HP Lovecraft do in WH40K?
Lesser entities like Deep Ones and Serpent People would be pretty fricked since they can already be beaten by 20th century tech and plucky pulp RPG heroism. The actual divine entities of the mythos would still be far beyond the reach of mortal weapons.
>Also, how would the eldritch things from HP Lovecraft do in WH40K?
It's kind of hard to say how something "does" in the 40k universe because the universe is so big things weaker than modern humans have survived tens of thousands of years just by not running into anything significant.
>Extremely cringe if one's being serious
I cant imagine anyone taking 40k all that seriously.
The entire 40k universe to an elder god would be like what a couple water molecules on your arm hair would be to you. The lovecraftian elder gods bascially ARE existence, not just of the entire universe but the multiverse and scales even beyond that that we could not comprehend (I know the chaos gods are described as somewhat like that but its still not comparable in scale)
>Quote, the dreams of insane people and the cults of said gods
everyone describes their own gods as omnipotent. Take your power scaling bullshit elsewhere.
Randolph Carter literally meets and converses with Yog Sothoth in Gates of the Silver Key and he explains multiple aspects of reality to him
meant for
>Yog Sothoth insists he's more powerful than Warhammer, and I've always trusted Yog Sothoth, he babysits my kids
Power scaling arguments are gay and self defeating.
>heh heh you're entertaining little mortal let me just throw your consciousness into an alien body 200 million years ago as a treat
Yeah he seems like a b***h.
For the record Shub Niggurath is the one who watches my kids shes a good mom
>Yeah he seems like a b***h.
It's impossible to scale anything big from lovecraft without just "taking their word for it".
Sigh
*zip*
Create a suicide commando squad, who rush him and put rocket engines or jetpack into him, then shoot him out to space.
If human weapons doest work, make someone else's problem. Ayy lmao gun might work on him, who knows, not our problem anymore
Wasn't this guy supposed to be partially invisible, like an elephant chameleon? And his brother got mauled by a dog lmao, he's not that tough.
This works on everything, "unkillable" doesn't prevent you being
>Shot into stars
>Encased in concrete
>Emotionally damaged
>Emotionally damaged
Dozen men with 12 gauge shotguns and solid slugs.
If that doesn't work then bring as much high explosives as your truck can carry.
I hate Lovecraft. He pushed his own mental illness and weakness of spirit on the rest of humanity. Where just seeing a gribbly monster once is enough to completely break someones mind.
He's someone that was reaching breakdown from the idea that we live in a godless universe and he might have welsh ancestry.
>I-is that an italian?! AAAAHHH Black personMAN DON'T LET ME ASTRAY!!!
To be fair to Lovecraft, each successive generation of "Italian" I've seen in America seems to be degenerating into some kind of hyperBlack person state. Except with much oilier skin. Probably rampant incest causing it.
Reminded me of this
>he might have welsh ancestry.
Must be why he was so based.
He would not agree with you
>“an inferior race, but little better than Mexicans, & but little more capable of self government. They could never maintain an orderly existence save under the domination of some branch of the Teutonic master race—if they could leave England, they would have to take Germany as a master; in fact, I am not sure but that they need a few Prussian methods to curb their ebullient & seditious emotions.”
Q: How did England conquer Wales?
A: One village at a time.
Much like Pineys in the northeastern US, the Welsh claim a homicidal intolerance of strangers (and guns) to be their sole cultural trait.
Ass
Call the world back when you are a real nation and not just Englands cheap pun on BBC panel shows
>The countrylets that have been nothing more than theme park parodies of themselves for almost a century are arguing about which of them is a real country
>Lovecraft's weakness and mental illness
Yes and no, I think what he was trying to convey was that these creatures are made up of pure SHOULD NOT EXIST and the human mind simply can't rationalize it and goes into a cognitive dissonance that eventually breaks your sanity. Or he was projecting lamo.
>be HP Lovecraft
>my pure Anglo-Saxon heritage makes me superior to "lessor whites"!
>a sickly mentally ill twig who never did a day of hard labor in his life and later married a israeliteess
So this is the power of "superior breeding".
>married a israeliteess
If you saw the size of her khazar milkers you wouldnt blame him
> I think what he was trying to convey was that these creatures are made up of pure SHOULD NOT EXIST
That's the redditor's take.
The white man's take is: Lovecraft was writing about men who took their beliefs about reality seriously, logically took into consideration the consequences of facts which shattered those beliefs, and then struggled to adapt to the true reality.
He was writing about people with too much sanity, not too little. Probably because he was neurotic.
I might be tonedeaf, but with some rare exceptions like that one moment in Reanimator, you can distance yourself from authors personality and enjoy what he writes without trying to find some edgy context for it all. I think his books are pretty neat, shame he didn't write more.
>He's someone that was reaching breakdown from the idea that we live in a godless universe and he might have welsh ancestry.
Discovering you have welsh ancestry could destroy anyone's mind and spirit. It's like finding out your grandfather was a garden gnome that had no soul
So a ginger?
Annon we where trying to be polite about this.
No need to be so open.
Look you made him cry and he's getting Black folk coat all wet, happy now?
>wasp american surprised that he's welsh
>it doesn't matter, because even the most anglo of anglos are still mostly celtic anyway
lol
>t. slavomed trash
>Where just seeing a gribbly monster once is enough to completely break someones mind.
Literally never happens.
Quite literally happens when the Dunwich Horror is made visible.
Lovecraft didn't have "insanity beams" like every later writer put in "lovecraftian fiction", his characters were just almost always flimsy nerds who'd never encountered physical hardship before. The best way to exist in Lovecraft is as a hulking, gnarled-face Caveman who grimly bashes anything he can't impregnate with a stone celt while calling it gay.
The Prussian uboat captain with his upper class militaristic, scientific and extremely arrogant mindset and unshakable belief in his own superiority did well.
In fact he did better than any other character in all of the lore under some of the worst circumstances, while trapped on a dark submarine with his crew losing their minds left and right
>his characters were just almost always flimsy nerds who'd never encountered physical hardship before. The best way to exist in Lovecraft is as a hulking, gnarled-face Caveman
But anon it's opposite. It's upper class educated nerds who could remain relatively calm in the face of the horrors and fight them, when rural morons are either broke in madness or into stupidity. Lovecraft premise of intellectuals superiority over the lower classes is obvious. (very problematic btw).
No, breaking down into hysterics and insanity is the midwit response. The intelligent stay cool and calm while the morons don't even try to comprehend what they're seeing and if that's so, they can't go insane.
Two words: "Memetic Cognitohazard".
H.P. kinda had a vague grasp of the thin edge of that idea, but wasn't able to sufficiently elucidate the idea in a way that made sense to a late-1800s/early 1900s culture.
>Two words: "Memetic Cognitohazard".
Yes, that moronic gimmick.
>H.P. kinda had a vague grasp of the thin edge of that idea, but wasn't able to sufficiently elucidate the idea in a way that made sense to a late-1800s/early 1900s culture.
Don't insult him that way. Only hacks and homosexuals use insanity beams.
True. I went to an inner city school.
>Where just seeing a gribbly monster once is enough to completely break someones mind.
This doesn't happen anywhere in lovecraft's fiction. People don't go "insane" after seeing monsters, people start looking insane to everyone else who hasn't seen whatever mythos bullshit the story is about. If you've never seen a hound of tindalos walk out of the angle of two walls and your friends notice that you're trying to excavate a completely spherical room underneath your house and refusing to go inside. You're gonna think he's lost his shit until a hound of tindalos jumps out of your wall and kills you.
>He's someone that was reaching breakdown from the idea that we live in a godless universe
This would be more impactful if we didn't live in a godless era.
One thing I will say is having seen enough rekt footage I always underestimated how long people will just stand there doing absolutely nothing to prevent their own death or the deaths of others from danger they could easily avoid.
Though I will admit most of those people are brown.
You think that's bad? Motherfricker was terrified of geometry because he was bad at it. Seriously, any mention of "non-euclidian" shit is just because he couldn't do the math on circular shapes.
Really being a fan of his terribly written works is like announcing you are a failure of a human being.
>Terribly written
moron.
t. never read lovecraft
Really the whole 'mindbreak' stuff only comes into play when protagonists realize they are actually monsters or that shoggoths live on Earth, at which point they likely started shouting such things to other people until they were committed.
That's the only bit you respond to, because its the only 'gotcha' you've managed to pick up from others within the fanbase.
Even then it actually does happen in the works, but you just write it off by being extremely pedantic about semantics.
The rest of it is straight up not true.
>He pushed his own mental illness and weakness of spirit on the rest of humanity.
If anything the reverse is true. Lovecraft had a love of deep time and thinking about things in geological terms, where Humanity is a tiny blip across vast layers of rock. He attacked Victorian sensibilities about Humanity's innate superiority, when the reality is we either need to put our money where our mouth is and stop being pretentious buttholes.
>Where just seeing a gribbly monster once is enough to completely break someones mind.
Again, totally false. Cthulhu was knocked out by a fricking boat, and while everyone was unnerved nobody went crazy.
>Whines about the "myth" of people getting shocked and mindbroken by the sight of monsters in Lovecraft stories
>Blindly regurgitates the one about Cthulhu being knocked out by a boat.
moron.
Okay, smart guy. Name one time when YOUR complaints happened in the stories. I'll wait.
>the one about Cthulhu being knocked out by a boat.
You should be forced to take some kind of reading comprehension test before you're allowed to discuss literature
NTA, but have you actually bothered to even read any of Lovecraft's work? It really sounds like your basing all your assumptions of him off of PrepHole memes.
Eh, if I woke up and immediately a bunch of ants started ramming me with a twig, I'd take that as a sign to go back to bed, too.
>Muh power scale
>He has to blow up infinity suns and beat up superman or else the story's not good
It's depressing that you spergs make Lovecraft himself look well adjusted.
What the frick are you even talking about schizo
Cthulhu got KOed by a boat, cope.
>H.P. Lovecraft's greatest fears combined in one image
>"UNIMAGINABLE HORROR, BEHOLD HE WHO SLEEPS!"
>"H.P, that's a buff squidman with tiny bat wings."
>"...WELL, BEHOLD THE ELDER THINGS!"
>"Alright, granted that looks more fricked up. Still kinda looks like a sea cucumber with bat wings. I mean, I'd run but I'm not really feeling the mind-melting stuff."
>"...what's your opinion on those new AC unit things?"
>"H.P, we need to talk bro."
The climax of Mountains of Madness is literally the main character saying "well these bizarre looking aliens from the abyss of time are basically the same as you and I and should be respected and mourned", and the one who ripped his friends to pieces was probably acting in reasonable self-defense or delirium. It was the Shoggoths, the constructed servitor entities that were the villains.
I think that when Danforth looked back in the airplane and went insane, he saw that the Shoggoths who came after them had their own human slave race in tow.
No not really, since many of the members of the expedition have been carefully dissected. The starfish flying barrels immediatly showed how alienly sadistic they are when in the same circumstance a human would feel dizziness and confusion instead.
Bruh, the first thing humans did when they found an Elder Thing was to dissect it.
Be honest, if you found a leather barrel with wings and a starfish on it's head, you would open that b***h up.
I would, and so would I open up a bipedal bald ape if I was a leather barrel with wings and a starfish on my head.
>Where just seeing a gribbly monster once is enough to completely break someones mind.
check out /misc/, there's a ton of people who have apparently been mindbroken because they saw a troony.
/misc/ used to be better, was round about the elections it became completely mind broken and schizoid. Lotta immigrants came in.
Thats a weird thing for a non troony to bring up out of nowhere.
Dont care. This is not a pro/anti troony thread. Not everything is about you all the time. Frick off.
That's a grossly flanderized version of his actual body of work where, frequently, protagonists survive and even win. In one a guy discovers an eldritch horror in his basement and just buys a bunch of acid and dissolves the fricking thing.
Also the one where the hybrid human/monster abomination breaks into the university and just gets mauled to death by a regular ass dog offscreen
Dogs unironically are an incredibly strong defense against eldritch horrors in Lovecraft, possibly because they're just not afraid and are going to bite the shit out of a witch or alien bug because it's in their yard and they don't like it.
>He pushed his own mental illness
If being autistic were mental illness, 95% of /k/ would be committed
>and weakness of spirit
If not liking Black folk is weakness of the spirit, 95% of /k/ would be dead inside
>Where just seeing a gribbly monster once is enough to completely break someones mind
This does not happen. Either
1) The characters realize their whole world is fundamentally false - they seem insane to others, but their mind isn't completely broken
2) The aliens show them the world through the mind of the aliens themselves. If an ant were to see and understand the world as you (granted not the most intelligent specimen, but let's roll with it for the example) for like 1 hour and then forced back into its ant body carrying fricking pine needles for the rest of its life, his mind would be pretty boggled as well.
>He's someone that was reaching breakdown from the idea that we live in a godless universe
He was an autistic NEET with pretty good writing skills.
>and he might have welsh ancestry
Okay, that is pretty scary.
Dodge this, you filthy casual.
>*incomprehensible whispers stop*
>no mortal weapon
Then you would need a spiritual one
To preserve your sanity from such eldritch horrors
Gun is the most spiritual of weapons, Howard was simply too blinded by his own neurotic inferiority to realize this.
Ζῶν γὰρ ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ ἐνεργὴς καὶ τομώτερος ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν μάχαιραν δίστομον καὶ διικνούμενος ἄχρι μερισμοῦ ψυχῆς τε καὶ πνεύματος, ἁρμῶν τε καὶ μυελῶν, καὶ κριτικὸς ἐνθυμήσεων καὶ ἐννοιῶν καρδίας
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
The Black Stone is a little known tale written by Robert E. Howard where the protagonist discovers a statement left by an ottoman commander in the mountains of Hungary, he states how his troops fought against a tribe of an unknown race and the eldritch abomination they worshiped as a god, and how only weapons of steel blessed by the Prophet managed to kill the creature.
This tale was part of the Cthulhu Mythos and like a few others it shows how items consecrated to the abrahamic God have a degree of power over some of the entities.
So yeah, heavy ordinance blessed by some abrahamic religious authority may be capable to at least harm the Dunwich Horror.
Gods are capable of harming or at least stopping other gods in Lovecraft mythos. In Out of the Aeons scroll prepared with help of Shub-Niggurath is able to vard of power of Ghatanothoa. Like babylonians calling upon locust lord Pazzuzu to chase away child-killing Lamashtu you can stick one cosmic horror upon another.
Yeah the abrahamic god is Mitra in their universe but he's only middling in power. He can stop some of the smaller things maybe and even at times fight off the other mid gods but once you get to things like Yog, Yigg, etc he can't help you. Part of the horror is that even God himself is nothing compared to Azathoth. Just a particularly focused on part of his dream.
>Uhh actually God is
Solomon Kane doesn't believe in squid fairy tales
Mitra was from Howard. He is canonically the Abrahamic God. He is good. He is pretty tough. He can beat up Set. He can't take Set's dad Yigg.
That's pretty gay.
Hey I didn't write it. Although I think it's kinda cool. You may get a boon here or there but its up to guys like Conan and Kane to stop the problem.
Solomon Kane doesn't believe in squid fairy tales
No he doesn't, nor do I want him to. Just clarifying that his God's true name is Mitra. Outside of that it's pretty much the same.
>Just clarifying that his God's true name is Mitra
Nope, sorry, Christ is king, the pattern of reality is not subject to your Squidtheism.
>non-h spinoff
The original is best.
It's worth pointing out that Prof. Armitage and his two buddies actually did construct the relevant magical weapon by themselves, using just scribbles of a madman, contents of university lab and 100% normal pesticide dispenser from the gardening shed. At this point, I think I would just follow their lead.
They only made it visible for a while
Which was needed to chant the banishing spell. Ergo, they managed to defeat it.
The Horror outright dies, I believe. It begs for Yog-Sothoth's help as it's being killed. Whole scene is a send-up of the Passion, pretty fricking metal.
1911s and swords
For big problems bring big guns.
What rifle?
Winchester model 70 safari express.
M1911, the BAR, and the power of Christ
You wouldn't even know it was there until it was on top of you. What possible chance would you have? It could just sneak into the nuke station and kill the operators before launching it. You can't even target the damn thing. Good thing it's brother was such a pussy.
>Giant stompy fatass
Seems like there would be multiple ways to tell where it is outside of seeing it with the naked eye.
But does it appear on radar? Can it appear on infrared? If we can't target with our stronger stuff and small arms are useless it may not be beatable with weapons. Making it frick off back to it's dad like in the story is easier.
Yeah it would be moderating a discord group
If Call of Cthulhu has taught me anything it's that if guns don't work, a milk bottle filled 1:1 paraffin/petrol mix with a storm match taped to it goes a much longer way.
Bomb it with increasingly large bombs. I'd like to see that fatass tank a MOAB.
Throw some powder of Ibn-Ghazi at it and then use the brick.
Don't they use like an elephant gun in the novel?
One of the dude's who go looking for it just brings a big gun.
If I recall, it does have SOME effect, but not as much as some spells that the other dude reads from an old grimoire.
no he was about to bring it but the doctor said it was useless. said the same to the villagers who were literally amassing pitchforks and old civil war muskets and he basically keked in their faces, saying that an invisible monster who obliterates houses is impervious to that mundane shit
It sounds more like the doctor was just too high on his own occult knowledge that he he went out of his way to look down on 'mundane' means.
I don't even trust modern shooters to predict the effects of an elephant gun and for good reason, let alone Lovecraftian loonies.
I believe that a lot of "modern" mythos is that "Lead is ineffective against eldrich abomonations or magic. But STEEL is effective!"
I think this goes all the way back to the Conan Barbarian novels.
Bullets don't do much against gaelic elves, monsters or other abominations. But if you have a steel sword, that will be effective.
this is why a lot of old-timey places have an iron horse-shoe above the front door.
"To bring luck", sure. But more importantly, to ward off evil off-worldly things.
If Iron/steel is something that wards off nasties (where lead bullets fail) then what is the most common iron thing that a rural ranch/household might have? A horse-shoe.
A piece of iron/steel to make sure that no otherworldly elf/leprechaun/demon/monster thing can walk through that door.
It makes sense, in that old-timey farmer John mentality. and that kind of mentality is what myths are built upon.
It isn't just a myth.
I don't. I offer it a hot blonde in the hopes that it will spare me.
Explain.
Did they finally make a God Emperor of Dune adaptation?
>that text at the bottom
Is this more Russian althistory?
No, it's just stupid internet-tards doing silly comics about Hitler-VS-Stalin.
Just google "hitler vs stalin comic" and you will find it soon enough. It's actually pretty fun.
It's just an effective tool for writers because guns based killed the horror genre. Man will never be scared of the unknown if he has a gun. So they always need to include some reason it doesn't work or he doesn't have one.
Horror is a pretty stupid genre tbh and has massive problems, some of them being those you list.
Anyone who writes horror is a homosexual, yeah.
The real world itself has more than enough horror, no need to invent homosexual fictional monsters with magical powers that are immune to guns to make it scary.
I know LN where guns actually very effective against ghost/spooky shit.
The Asians literally have no understanding of what horror is, except for Ito, and all he does is Surrealist Nightmares (and ghoulish comedy).
Even Ito himself thinks other asian horror is beyond moronic, he's just too nice to point it out most of the time.
They should just set all horror stories in Britain. No guns, and the country's weather and history give you a lot to work with.
Hell, if you set it in some inbred little village in Scotland or Wales, or in some enriched city, then you don't even have to make up a fake monster to be scared of. The locals will already be eldritch horrors.
You have to be able to care about the victims to engage with the Horror. Horror set in Europe or a city has me rooting for the monster.
I've conquered all the mortals
I'm never gonna stop
Shoggoths, Mi-Gos, Deep ones
Scrum'd with the fackin lot
I'm scaring HP Lovecraft
His cat Black personman too
I'm an abomination
Because human souls are me food
Honestly I think a lot of horror games are totally ruined by giving you a gun. What's there to be afraid of that can be blasted to death? Either guns should be completely useless or not present at all. I don't even think you should be able to kill the zombies or whatever, you just have to sneak around them. That'd be scarier I think.
The inability to fight back completely ruins horror games for men, because we know we can fight back. It doesn't make the monster scarier it makes the protagonist seem weaker.
They make steel bullets by the way
I'm not fighting a lovecraft monster, no tentacle beast ever called me Goyim.
'ate chaos
'ate orks
'ate rats (not a racialist, just don't like em)
luv the Old Ones
luv Sotek
luv me Plan
Simple as
A chinook with a big fricking rock, drop it on the bastard
Nukes. Nuclear weapons are the purest form of technological power. You destroy matter itself to release a vast and pure burst of energy. Not even a God can stand up to creation being ripped asunder in front of them.
And fusion nukes use the power of man (chemical explosives) to harness the power of destruction (fission) to harness the even greater power of divine creation (fusion) purely to smite some c**t
And we put them in ARTILLERY SHELLS, AND FIRED THEM OUT OF GUNS
>unleashing nuclear chaos
Get out of here, Azathoth cultist.
>Engulfing with radiation a being born from the alien god of radiation
Yeah makes sense, of you wanna scratch the flying polyps off his back.
if they were fighting Yog Sothoth himself that would be a good point but Wilbur's brother was explicitly part of our world in all ways but being visible. He was able to be locked up in a house and had to regularly eat cows even. Honestly now that I'm thinking about that I'm starting to question how necessary the ritual really was
4 bore rifle round made of pure osmium, blessed by an orthodox priest (both rifle and bullet) with a Bible verse carved into the casing
+20 holy damage
308
I would consider it like a shoggoth which would be generally resistant to small arms but dies to large explosives and cave-ins.
>Make huge pit to trap him
>fill it with cement
>launch to space
not my problem anymore.
Even fricking Lovecraft managed to have someone that loved him. An ugly lanky socially inept paranoid angsty moron. The world is simply not fair.
That's because even Lovecraft would be horrified by how little time you spend outside socializing.
>marries him because she thought he was a successful writer
>he's a penniless bum that hates everyone
>divorces with him after roughly 3 years because she's forced to find a job half the country away to survive
>marries a rich LA doc
>after the war discovers that lovecraft purposedly never signed the divorce papers despite telling her the contrary in her mails, making her bigamous for over 15 years
>reees uncontrollably because according to her israelite mentality he jeopardised her afterlife
based autist gets the last laugh
How would you hurt a 4th-dimensional being?
Something that your ape brain can barely percieve?
Nukes. Unironically.
I mean like, some of that energy has got to wind up dispersed to higher dimension.
If nukes don't work, maybe particle cannons. Ideally try and find some particle that intersects with multiple dimensions or something.
>mass-replying
homosexual.
No u
Can you guys recommend any other good period spooky stuff? I just finished up a bunch of Algernon Blackwood stories and dabbled in Poe but nothing else is scratching the Lovecraft itch.
I'm also fine with modern stuff in the same vein. A Colder War was neat, if a bit obvious.
For me it's this square jawed, corn fed practicing Catholic PrepHole chad who saved HP's reputation from the trash can.
His writing is kind of mediocre though unfortunately.
>Can you guys recommend any other good period spooky stuff?
The Wolfen.
Machen's The Great God Pam is right in that sort of area, as are a few of Robert Chambers' stories from The King in Yellow, although I'd say only The Repairer of Reputations, In The Court of the Dragon, and The Yellow Sign are really proper horror fare. The Mask is a part of the same group of stories and it's worth reading, but it's more of a early-to-mid century romance in style than a pre-Lovecraft Lovecraftian horror story. As an aside, I'm sure you've read it if you've been reading Blackwood, but for anyone else The Wendigo is a very good 19th century horror short story worth a read, and is arguably where we get most of our conceptions of the wendigo in horror today.
Sadly no full novels that I've read in that sort of vein, though hopefully someone will come along with some other recommendations.
The king in yellow is pretty great. But after the title story the rest of the short stories are pretty crapshot.
I think my single favorite little element in all of Lovecraft is when Willett realizes the plot and immediately puts 2 and 2 together. It's so obvious to the reader what's going on as soon as Ward finds the portrait that it's almost annoying that none of the characters understand, but Willett doesn't hesitate an instant.
Do the cosmic horrors in Lovecraft ever get shot or blown up? We really have no idea how resistant they are to damage besides cultist scripture.
Cthulhu gets knocked unconscious by a boat collision to the face. If you count works by other authors, then there are plenty of instances where mundane weapons can kill lesser mythos entities and/or repel bigger horrors (see: Call of Cthulhu RPG, Delta Green).
Sure, they're generally made of matter and even if they're not fully corporeal they still have to play along with physics. Off the top of my head, the mi-go get killed by a simple rifle, the innsmouthers (the colony near the shore anyway) was knocked out pretty easily by depth charges, Cthulhu got knocked out by a boat (kind of, it's not that simple), the Elder Things can be cut with surgical tools.
That's not really the point, though. The 'madness' that Lovecraft talks about is encountering beings and phenomena that force you to realize that there are perspectives so completely different than the human experience that you will never understand them, and then you, briefly, actually do comprehend that different perspective. That's the Cthulhu madness, really; its when you actually see the world like Cthulhu does for an instant.
Man I really want to play Delta Green sometime but the only people I know who play TRPGs are purple haired pronoun people that play as disabled gay dark elves.
They can be fought and killed depending upon the species, so a prepared fireteam can handle a mob of Innsmouth hybrids or mi-go. But some entities (Cthulhu, Azathoth, girls, etc.) exist in more than 3 dimensions, which causes sensory overload or have some other form of wrongness about them that causes mental fracturing. If you have a sturdy shotgun or rifle you're good to go against quite a few Lovecraftian nasties.
Except girls, still can't find their stat block in my monster manuals.
Sure, if you take derleth & co as canon. Too bad they're laughably bad compared to the original lovecraft writings. I remember he wrote about cthulhu's benevolent twin brother and a battle between each other. Literally fanfic tier.
This reminds me of that scene in The Thing (1982)
Which to me says that a good old flame thrower would do the trick.
The Thing is pretty ridiculous, like it seems just a Thing moving about brushing against everything should rapidly lead to everyone there becoming infected.
It helps to consider the Thing itself as a more deliberate conscious entity than a viral zombie infection. As if it needs to make a decision to overwhelm and impersonate a single individual at a time, rather than each cell being a potential new Thing.
Blaire and Fuchs fears notwithstanding, the fact that the Thing never actually attempts to use any of the strategies they speculate it's capable of (subtle, single cell infection, poisoning food or water) suggest that it knows it can't do these things. There must be a critical mass of it's cells required to exponentially expand and assimilate, it knows it's powers better than they do and it seems to know it can't just cough on everyone. Some process must occur that Blair didn't observe that limits the cells expansion from the pattern he saw.
it poisoned the blood and they explicitly mention that they're now only eating from cans and preparing their own food
It didn't poison the blood it destroyed the blood bags and *potentially* mixed it's blood with them to stop them from using them as a test.
>They mention they're eating from cans
Yes, based on Fuchs fears that the Thing can poison them, not based on anything the Thing actually does throughout the movie. When there's a contradiction, the actual actions of the Thing take precedence over the worried speculation of the victims.
*He* never tries to poison anyone, or infect anyone subtly, so it's reasonable to assume that he can't considering the idea is brought up in the script.
Just so we're clear, anyone else think he might've known what he was doing when he named Shub-Niggurath?
>The BLACK goat with a thousand young
Ya think?
>The BLACK goat with a thousand young
Nick Cannon
For a guy named LOVECRAFT he sure was set on spending all his time to CRAFT things about his HATE for everyone else.
lol.
.45-70 will kill anything on the North American continent. That statement wasn't made based upon animals present in North America. It will literally kill anything that exists within those geographic locations. The dunwich scrub would die like a whitetail once reaching America or Canada.
Why the frick did you quote me all I said was I didn't trust a noguns moron *in story* to tell me if a space cow was immune to bullets or not.
He's either a shitposter or someone butthurt people have anything bad to say about his favourite franchise. He wasn't in a careful state of mind either way.
>Armitage said that no mortal weapon can harm it but i believe he simply didnt have the right one at hand
Unica 6 chambered in .44 Magnus with Gold Damascening depicting Archangel Michael thrusting his spear toward the barrel of the gun, and the scripture of Psalms 23 on the other side, firing hand loaded round with binding runes etched into the lead, dipped in the ashes created from the bark of an aspen tree, loaded into brass shells that had been blessed and consecrated with holy water that was created on Easter Sunday.
Its not about the weapon itself, its about what the weapon symbolizes that gives it power over the ethereal.
The more elaborate, symbolic, and ritualistic the process and weapon, the more power it has.
>infiltrate the dunwich elite
>point out that the dunwich have a history of oppressing races from three-dimensional realms
>donate millions of gold doubloons to teach "critical race theory" to the dunwich
>encourage mass migration of humans to dunwich realms
>dunwich become cucked minority in their own shadow land
gg ez
>dunwich elite
dunwich is a hamlet of toothless hillbillies where incest and illiteracy are rampant. the few civilized branches of the families from dunwich send their sons to harvard or miskatonic, and they rarely if ever return home.
There is nothing wrought in flesh that cannot burn. If you disagree it means there wasn't enough thermite used.
Fire and steal for demons. So just use a flamethrower.
>invisible
>bloodsucking tentacles
>moronic twin brother of a sorcerer
Magic capable of being cast by random college professors oneshot it.
>Magic capable of being cast by random college professors oneshot it.
to be fair occult knowledge is so common among intellectuals in the lovecraft universe it might as well be a standard part of their education
Because you can just read the spells out of a book.
Mythos nigs get fricked
We eating fried fish tonight, boys!
No squid ever called me Goyim.
That's because fish fricks can't even speak, just gurgle some shit like a malfunctioning pipe.
That still puts them above Talmudites.
>killing every unique animal you find
Hello Mr. Chinaman.
Hybrids get the bullet, I don't make the rules, just have fun enforcing them.
My favorite Lovecraft story is Rats in the Walls, it's one of the few with a proper climax. Also enjoy Polaris, one of those that are more alien/haunting.
Apropos of nothing I just beat Cultist Simulator, pretty ludo game if you have a specific type of autism.
NLAW or SMAW or RPG7 should do fine. It just looks like a blob of flesh and tentacles, blow it up.
1796 sabre and Webley revolver of course, if I was American a chainsaw and a sawn off shotgun and if a Russian a broken bottle and length of steel pipe.