Wednesday, March 26, 2014

New Lovecraftian Monster - Node of Nyarlathotep For Stars Without Number

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Number appearing : 1-4 Attendants 
Armor Class: 3 
Hit Dice : 3 
Attack Bonus : +5 
Saving Throw : 13+ 
Movement : 30' telekinetic movement  
Damage: 1d8 Tendril, Tongue 1d10 

Morale: 9
The gid thing constantly has a sixth level power field of  power psychic assault surrounding it. It may create a field of cursed luck as the sixth level psychic power  around it and may contaminate the area with it's aura of insanity and depravity. 
The thing has control over the entire range of bio psionics and uses them as blessings for it's followers.
It may use telekentic ram up to eight times per day. 


This God thing is quivering mound of bio plasmic flesh and tendrils prepared by the demented clone masters of Mars from the slain minds of  twelve psychics from before the Stroke. This horror exists in twelve planes of existence at once and causes insanity as if by a constant radiating psychic attack to all those in it's presence. The horror is prepared when a cult wishes to drag every last living conscious into the wailing void of the Outer Gods who wait beyond the threshold. The thing can not reason and is only created as a weapon against sanity and the order of the universe.
 The thing will lash out with it's tongue and horrid tendrils seeking to violate the target on every level of existence. Anyone hit by the thing will have to receive expensive and quite costly treatments to heal both mind and body. Many who cross it's path are simply put out of their misery for they are merely fragments of this thing.
The horror  is said to be modeled upon the mind and flesh of the Outer God himself. A small fragment of his mind put upon the local time space continuum by his followers. The thing will strip and devour the souls of anyone who cross it's path. Finally during the 'Time Of Calling',  the thing will create a bubble of sub sanity and planar instability and devour everything within a 500 mile radius around it. Very little will have the power to escape this event.
 It is said that a node is called back to the mind of the Outer One.
 


Nyarlathotep
 by H.P. Lovecraft 1920 

Nyarlathotep... the crawling chaos... I am the last... I will tell the audient void...
I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. I recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard. A sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land, and out of the abysses between the stars swept chill currents that made men shiver in dark and lonely places. There was a demoniac alteration in the sequence of the seasons the autumn heat lingered fearsomely, and everyone felt that the world and perhaps the universe had passed from the control of known gods or forces to that of gods or forces which were unknown.
And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences of electricity and psychology and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare. Never before had the screams of nightmare been such a public problem; now the wise men almost wished they could forbid sleep in the small hours, that the shrieks of cities might less horribly disturb the pale, pitying moon as it glimmered on green waters gliding under bridges, and old steeples crumbling against a sickly sky.
I remember when Nyarlathotep came to my city the great, the old, the terrible city of unnumbered crimes. My friend had told me of him, and of the impelling fascination and allurement of his revelations, and I burned with eagerness to explore his uttermost mysteries. My friend said they were horrible and impressive beyond my most fevered imaginings; and what was thrown on a screen in the darkened room prophesied things none but Nyarlathotep dared prophesy, and in the sputter of his sparks there was taken from men that which had never been taken before yet which showed only in the eyes. And I heard it hinted abroad that those who knew Nyarlathotep looked on sights which others saw not.
It was in the hot autumn that I went through the night with the restless crowds to see Nyarlathotep; through the stifling night and up the endless stairs into the choking room. And shadowed on a screen, I saw hooded forms amidst ruins, and yellow evil faces peering from behind fallen monuments. And I saw the world battling against blackness; against the waves of destruction from ultimate space; whirling, churning, struggling around the dimming, cooling sun. Then the sparks played amazingly around the heads of the spectators, and hair stood up on end whilst shadows more grotesque than I can tell came out and squatted on the heads. And when I, who was colder and more scientific than the rest, mumbled a trembling protest about imposture and static electricity, Nyarlathotep drove us all out, down the dizzy stairs into the damp, hot, deserted midnight streets. I screamed aloud that I was not afraid; that I never could be afraid; and others screamed with me for solace. We swore to one another that the city was exactly the same, and still alive; and when the electric lights began to fade we cursed the company over and over again, and laughed at the queer faces we made.
I believe we felt something coming down from the greenish moon, for when we began to depend on its light we drifted into curious involuntary marching formations and seemed to know our destinations though we dared not think of them. Once we looked at the pavement and found the blocks loose and displaced by grass, with scarce a line of rusted metal to show where the tramways had run. And again we saw a tram-car, lone, windowless, dilapidated, and almost on its side. When we gazed around the horizon, we could not find the third tower by the river, and noticed that the silhouette of the second tower was ragged at the top. Then we split up into narrow columns, each of which seemed drawn in a different direction. One disappeared in a narrow alley to the left, leaving only the echo of a shocking moan. Another filed down a weed-choked subway entrance, howling with a laughter that was mad. My own column was sucked toward the open country, and presently I felt a chill which was not of the hot autumn; for as we stalked out on the dark moor, we beheld around us the hellish moon-glitter of evil snows. Trackless, inexplicable snows, swept asunder in one direction only, where lay a gulf all the blacker for its glittering walls. The column seemed very thin indeed as it plodded dreamily into the gulf. I lingered behind, for the black rift in the green-litten snow was frightful, and I thought I had heard the reverberations of a disquieting wail as my companions vanished; but my power to linger was slight. As if beckoned by those who had gone before, I half-floated between the titanic snowdrifts, quivering and afraid, into the sightless vortex of the unimaginable.
Screamingly sentient, dumbly delirious, only the gods that were can tell. A sickened, sensitive shadow writhing in hands that are not hands, and whirled blindly past ghastly midnights of rotting creation, corpses of dead worlds with sores that were cities, charnel winds that brush the pallid stars and make them flicker low. Beyond the worlds vague ghosts of monstrous things; half-seen columns of unsanctifled temples that rest on nameless rocks beneath space and reach up to dizzy vacua above the spheres of light and darkness. And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep.

2 comments:

  1. Excellent piece, Needles. "Nyarlathotep" is my favourite of HPL's prose-poems, a more convincing end-of-days than most Terran mythologies have offered, & a great non-standard apocalypse for RPG inspiration.

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  2. Thanks, the soul of the Outer Gods is one of my favorite go to deities and a very different prose offering that most folks don't expect when you mention H.P. Lovecraft. Most if not all of the 'Lovecraft circle' did prose which gives a DM a wide column of material and inspiration to pull from for gaming. Thanks for the great comment.

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