Which Lovecraft gods would you like to fight against (boss battle) ?
>>729859740Where’s Dagon?
>>729859727One shoggoth.
What was the thing beyond the mountains of madness anyway? What would he have seen beyond the ruins?
Anthing Lovecraftian will stop being so when put in a game because it automatically becomes a digitized, measurable and comprehensible entity.
>>729859740>fanfiction created after Lovecraft by a retard who completely missed the point of the Mythos and that the moment you neatly categorize, it is the moment you kill it
>>729859956What if you fighting unknown or distorted type enemy? Like Earthbound's Giygas
>>729860025At best people will datamine/out of bounds it and learn the trick of how the boss is created, killing the mystery.
Lovecraft Gods fight each other? Lore wise
>>729859956Have you ever watched the thing anon? (Das ding)
>>729859956It's usually not that simple, since Lovecraft definitely did describe things, but one thing is very simple. One of the most important aspects of cosmic horror is the indifference of the universe, and you can't have a boss fight against something that is so beyond your experience that it doesn't even have the capacity of considering your puny mind sentient. You would be harmless microbes to them at best.
>>729859727An insignificant microscopic spec of dust from a tiny blue marble would do little damage to an incomprehensibly large and powerful cosmic entity residing within the outer dimensions of reality
>>729860152>. One of the most important aspects of cosmic horror is the indifference of the universeWhat about Nyarlathotep? Does he screw with humanity?
>>729859956That's why you stick to dangerous, bizarre, but ultimately low level and quantifiable opponents and only HINT at the big unknowable fucked up shit. Also make limited but effective use of "This thing you're seeing? It's not really the thing that you're seeing. And the more you think about it, the more scary it actually gets" pic related
>>729859923You mean the monolith, right? It's been a while since I read it but wasn't it implied to be Yog-Sothoth? I remember something about strange colors and bubbles being mentioned.
>>729860353These look like some very happy [CAMPERS]. I'd invite them over to [PARTY].
>>729860357I need to reread it sometime too but I vaguely recall mention of some entity beyond the forgotten city, out beyond the ridge or something, that he never actually saw
>>729860001Nigger that letter is written by Lovecraft
>>729859727 the niggerman
LOVECRAFT MADE HIS OWN MONSTERS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT REGULAR WEREWOLVES AND VAMPIRES WERE OVERUSED AND THUS BORINGYOU CHUDS RESUSING THEM ENDLESSLY FOR YOUR OWN WORK IS KILLING THE ENTIRE REASON HE MADE HIS OWN MONSTERS
Lovecraft stuff works infinitely better in ttrpgs than it does in vidya desu. Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green are both S tier rpgs.
>>729861638Well then he shouldn't have made his monsters so fucking cool. i mean, yithians, mi-go, elder things, shoggoths, deep ones, nightgaunts, dark young, all of these things are fucking awesome.
>>729859740Shub-what?
>>729859956comprehend this https://e621.net/posts/1270440
>>729861748He got the name from the most reprehensible thing he could think of
>>729861748>>729861864
>>729859727King in yellow isn't a Lovecraft god
>>729861638They were also made because "Le science" started becoming a thing in his era so the supernatural shtick wasn't working anymore and that's why a lot of the stories are about intellectuals or researchers getting fucked by things they outside of their knowledge.
>>729859727Ghast, unwholesome scabrous beast
>>729861638>>729862070I mean, he also wrote the Curious Case of Charles Dexter Ward, which was literally about a fucking necromancer.
>>729860173Cthulhu got hit by a fucking boat
>>729862469Cthulhu isn't a god
>>729860217He seems to be the one exception. For some reason he seems to care what happens to humans. Maybe he's the only eldritch entity curious enough to have discovered that these insignificant biological replicators have partially become aware of things beyond their realm. His motivations might be entirely unknowable. It could be a simple as a timeless entity being fascinated by the existence of cause & effect and questions about determinism in a reality where things appear to have illusions of choice and the ability to tbe influenced by things from beyond.
>>729860357At the very end of the story the two characters leave by helicopter (or plane, I forgot), one of them looks at the city below and sees something that turns him insane on the spot.
Imagine a RPG that takes inspiration from the King in Yellow (not strictly Lovecraft but whatever), you're a normal dude and one day you're yeeted in Carcosa, a city that operates on societal and physical rules completely aliens to you, and the gameplay is entirely based on understanding how to navigate this strange universe until you can go home.
>>729859727https://youtu.be/GsJcf0Mjuuk>game serie ends when the major forces are clearly identified and ready to clash>you'll never fight the elder god and team up with the hylden to do so ( or whatever the banished race opposing vampires were called ) because everyone finds out he's the bigger evil in nosgothgay nigger universe
>>729860152>>729859956play look outside
>>729859727I already killed the Shoggoth
>>729862678he saw one cat doing sick skater tricks on a flaming board
>>729861638>>729862128He also created the zombie (frankenstein doesn't count)>>729862678In the story the fall of the city is caused by something, and I think it turns out to be an even bigger, eviller mountain overlooking the entire thing, the MC sees it and realises what it is and goes insane.
>If the Doom that Came to Sarnath was written today, it would be considered woke propaganda, being apologetic in favor of pluralistic coexistence with subhuman beasts and blaming the civilized man for their own eradication at the hands of the vengeful monsters
>>729859740I wish Azathoth had been finished, it seemed really interesting.
>>729859727The King in Yellow is not Lovecraft thoughlbeitever
>>729864096Wait what? The fall of the Elder civilization was very explicitly attributed to a Shoggoth uprising. The thing in the mountain isn't shown to have anything to do with this, as it was already ancient even before the Elder beings came to Earth and they didn't even dare to approach it.>>729862678I just remembered all Lovecraft books are public domain now. I'll quote the third and second-to-last paragraphs> All that Danforth has ever hinted is that the final horror was a mirage. It was not, he declares, anything connected with the cubes and caves of echoing, vaporous, wormily honeycombed mountains of madness which we crossed; but a single fantastic, daemoniac glimpse, among the churning zenith-clouds, of what lay back of those other violet westward mountains which the Old Ones had shunned and feared. It is very probable that the thing was a sheer delusion born of the previous stresses we had passed through, and of the actual though unrecognised mirage of the dead transmontane city experienced near Lake’s camp the day before; but it was so real to Danforth that he suffers from it still.>He has on rare occasions whispered disjointed and irresponsible things about “the black pit”, “the carven rim”, “the proto-shoggoths”, “the windowless solids with five dimensions”, “the nameless cylinder”, “the elder pharos”, “Yog-Sothoth”, “the primal white jelly”, “the colour out of space”, “the wings”, “the eyes in darkness”, “the moon-ladder”, “the original, the eternal, the undying”, and other bizarre conceptions; but when he is fully himself he repudiates all this and attributes it to his curious and macabre reading of earlier years. Danforth, indeed, is known to be among the few who have ever dared go completely through that worm-riddled copy of the Necronomicon kept under lock and key in the college library.
>>729859727I wish someone would do a game with the OG king in yellow
>>729859727>mollusk shitThe King in Yellow is older than that bullshit.
I have a nagging suspicion that Hastur was used as the image for this thread specifically because of that Minecraft video that retardos keep creaming themselves over. I will now assert that the only good adaptation of anything related to The King In Yellow was in True Detective Season 1. You can play as Lovecraft himself in the HOI4 mod KaiserRedux - he can take over New England and reunify America when the war breaks out. Highly recommend it, a very cool path.>>729859956You've clearly never read Re-Animator, which is just about living dead niggers running amok, or The White Ape, which is about half-nigger, half-albino ape, half-anglos running amok, or The Nameless City which is about an underground tomb in a Nameless City where freaky reptilian things used to run amok - and so on. Lovecraft wrote plenty of stories that had concrete, easily described, creatures / monsters and you're just a double nigger.
>>729859727>king in yellow>lovecraftPeople just attribute everything to lovecraft these days.
>>729864802It's been awhile since I read it, but I remember something about the Mountain was implicitly evil, even moreso than the Shoggoths. Looking on it is what causes the narrator to go insane, it wasn't anything in the city. Yeah, your quoted paragraph mentions something beyond the mountains which the Old Ones avoided, it's the Mountain.
>>729859727the whole point of Lovecraft is those entities are on a completely different level of being
Nowadays, I prefer Algernon Blackwood, a favorite of Lovecraft. His stories feel more engaging and gripping, even if they are written in that highly dense victorian prose. Lovecraft's stories don't grip me as much.
>>729862896Myst/Riven
>>729865025>I will now assert that the only good adaptation of anything related to The King In Yellow was in True Detective Season 1Counterpoint, Impossible Landscapes is also really really good.
>>729859740Sex with nug/yeb kihihihihi
Good thread, good thread and good morning.
>>729862896thats almost Pathologic
>>729859740>Average american family tree:
>>729865758Pathologic really is lovecraftian despite having no actual ties to the mythos. It's also not a very fun game. Great atmosphere though.
>>729864697and in chambers it's just a metaphor for decadent (yellow) literature moreso than spoopy alien monsters
>>729865375Wendigo is a classic, but my favourite is that story about a dude who goes on a fishing trip in the middle of nowhere and sleep in a deserted lodge in the middle of an island, but decide against sleeping in the master bedroom, and one night he wakes up and see indian ghosts lugging his own corpse around and going up in the bedroom.
>>729864697The funny thing about this book is that only the first 4 or 5 novellas that make up the first half are actually horror novels feature the play "The King in Yellow". The latter half of the book are just short stories about love, no horror or any "deep lore".
A HVAC sim like those weird german forklift sims.>You ask me to explain why I am afraid of a draught of cool air; why I shiver more than others upon entering a cold room, and seem nauseated and repelled when the chill of evening creeps through the heat of a mild autumn day. There are those who say I respond to cold as others do to a bad odour, and I am the last to deny the impression. What I will do is to relate the most horrible circumstance I ever encountered, and leave it to you to judge whether or not this forms a suitable explanation of my peculiarity.
>>729866005i like them all though. the book was written in the late 1800s IIRC, pre WW1 at any rate, so the love story set in paris against an oncoming war/invasion was sort of fascinating to read from a post WW1/2 perspective. i also liked "the repairer of reputations" because it has a real art deco/chicago world's fair/1930s-gotham-city-in-mask-of-the-phantasm sorta vibe that i'm really into.
>>729866561The Paris stories are set during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.
>>729865025>I have a nagging suspicion that Hastur was used as the image for this thread specifically because of that Minecraft video that retardos keep creaming themselves overNah. I just like color yellow and how King in Yellow looks.
>>729859956Here is how to do it:1. Lock the monster away in "Forbidden Location (FL)" outside of the main path of the game,2. FL should be optional and unrelated to the main story.3. A sequence of complex steps are required to access FL. These include but are not limited to talking to certain NPCs, collecting certain items, finding hidden books that tell you about these items, and making morally dubious choices.4. At every step of the way there should be explicit warnings that this is not a good idea. At first these warnings should be rumors, mumbled by random destitute and mentally ill NPCs; Something like "The Holder of the End" creepypasta. By the final steps these warnings should be extreme, direct and downright creepypastas on their own.5. At the moment you unlock FL the game diverges into a completely different path and ending. Note accessing FL isn't necessary for this divergence.6. You can explore FL but there are heavy costs. If there are multiple characters some might die along the way. Otherwise the PC might start to hallucinate or lose limbs, and/or get stuck while walking in a straight line, only progressing by clipping through the corners of things.7. If you chose to fully explore FL there is a boss fight at the end. What you are fighting against should not be clearly visible and more like a fever dream of shapes and colors mishmashing and reacting randomly. There is no way to win this fight, but you can still run.8. While running you only delay the inevitable. The world starts to unravel around you and the only possible way of surviving is running further away. 9. The world ends. Either the PC dies or manages to survive hiding in a cave, forest or other inhospitable location. PC is now in shambles, staring at the ruins of civilization and a warped world, waiting for death to welcome him as well and without understanding why or how exactly this is happened.
