> Bill Pragnell<bil### [at] hotmailcom>  wrote:
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>> Warp<war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
>>> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>>>> I don't know what Lovecraft is
>>>
>>>    Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
>
>> If you didn't have to google that, I'm very impressed.
>
>    I think this description is quite evocative:
>
>    "How to describe these grotesque mockeries of natural law? There are no
> words that can encompass such disgusting foulness, not in English or any
> other human tongue. They are The Other. The Inconceivable. Alien beyond
> comprehension, their sole existence is an affront to all reason. We could
> speak of painfully dissonant noises and nauseating colours, ichor-dripping
> vermiform tentacles and abyssal yonic voids, or complex mathematical
> geometries, but those are mere superficialities. Monstrous and sick though
> these stigmata are, they do not define the abominations; they are merely
> among some of the more common symptoms of their underlying wrongness.
> They are the things that should not be, the ultimate aliens. It is this
> what makes them abominable, and it is this that horrifies and reduces to
> gibbering madness all but the strongest of those who encounter them."
>

Makes me think of the Call of Ktul'hu role playing game. In that game 
you play "investigators" looking into some strange appening. You should 
NOT get to attached to your persona, nor spend to much time creating him.
It's arguably the role playing game with the lowest survival expectacy 
of them all. After the first game cession, your investigator will almost 
surely be dead, changed to a raving lunatic, plunged in a catatonic 
state or some other such state.
You may not even encounter any creature, only reading some dark book or 
handling some artefact may doom you.


Alain

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