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Peace talks excerpt indications
g33k:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on January 24, 2020, 01:41:43 PM --- ... Michael's description is vague but it includes tentacles...
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OTOH, he also described that as "the usual" so it's hardly a definitive field-mark!
Yuillegan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on January 24, 2020, 01:41:43 PM ---
--- Quote ---If you catch the attention of one of them, they will hunt you FOREVER.
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Just saying.
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Very interesting idea.
123Chikadee:
Right! This would explain why time magic is forbidden by the council. I wonder if Rashid has to fight these creatures off all the time or what?
g33k:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on January 24, 2020, 01:41:43 PM ---
--- Quote ---If you catch the attention of one of them, they will hunt you FOREVER.
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Just saying.
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That's the original Hounds of Tindalos; but of course we cannot be sure that the Cthulhu-Mythos origin of the Hounds (and other Mythos elements (which AFAIK is our best model for Outsiders, besides what canon shows and WoJ says)) is any proof of HPL being as specifically-correct-in-every-detail as Stoker was about BCV's. "Cornerhounds" may be similar to HoT's but not identical...
IIRC there is WoJ that HPL was "onto something" in a similar manner to Stoker, but of course the Outsiders are a much more diverse and unknowable group than the BCV's. Dracula was explicitly a "bible for BCV-slaying." I don't think anything comparable is POSSIBLE for Outsiders; at best, the Mythos Stories are more of a "survival guide," a how to not die guidebook, in hopes of being rescued. And a limited Guidebook, at that: recall the Cold Days scene at the Outer Gates, where the Outsiders were more notworthy for NOT having any commonalities, than for any recognizable types or kinds.
Last but not least: HoT's aren't even HPL's work! So even if HPL himself was "onto something" (per WoJ) there is a clear line of argument that HoT's aren't part of that. They were invented by one of his admiring sub-authors (whom HPL then later explicitly honored by copying into his own work). But "the Mythos" as a whole is only partially HPL's work, and I suspect at this point it'd take a some effort (which may already have been done, in some wiki or article or somesuch) to extract the pure-HPL from the extended Mythos corpus. AND YET... here they are, Cornerhounds, very Tindalosian, and explicitly Outsider-y.
I dunno, maybe... maybe the "Cthulhu Mythos" is sort of "Outsider-Template-ish," and Outsiders find it much easier to manifest if they do so via something Mythos-flavored that a bunch of humans already conceptualize...? Maybe? Call it a WAG...
All of which is, I guess, my way of arguing that we really cannot draw many firm conclusions at this point!
morriswalters:
I've never read Lovecraft. I don't generally care for horror as the real world scratches that particular itch.
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