/ysg/-Yog-Sothothery General

You think you have it bad? Imagine reading Nyarlathotep during the 2008 election season.

>"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 daemonic 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 civilization came Nyarlathotep..."

Obama immediately joins up with him

Obama is him.

Still reading it...

You fucking numpty, the implication is that Obama /is/ him. Where were you in 2008?

This is officially the single greatest thought in all of Veeky Forums

>"Now, let me be clear. I am not using the Migo to brainwash anyone."

>Y'go
You mean Mi-go? Never hear of y'go, and no search results for it

are we sure Trump isn't the eldritch horror watching man develop and getting ready to throw in a monkey-wrench

On /co/
Y'golonac

Trump is the HPL protagonist who has seen the horrors and gone mad.

oops, o shit I read that spolier, NOBODY READ THIS

Oh, well, that explains it. You were underage.

And what, Hillary is Delta Green?

she gives too much appearance of being sane, perhaps Sanders is the DG?

So, they just put the brains into the jars straight from the skull?

Yup. Those CIA operatives in Benghazi knew too much.

Hillary's face is a waxen mask.

And Cruz was a Yithian timeshare?

not enough lore knowledge to say...

As well as the Zodiac Killer possessed by Y'golonac

And Trump's hair is a poorly disguised pseudopod

Ask yourself, what's the predominant color in his house?

Trump confirmed for the King in Yellow.

you totally glossed over his very SKIN...

all that tanning compound is a poor attempt at hiding it's true tone.

>Trump is Xanthous King Confirmed

Hastur replaces Nyarly in office

This is gonna get interesting

>Trump is Xanthous King Confirmed
I would love to see him in a certain hat

What is this gif from?

But the real question is,

Who is George W. Bush?

An idiot human

Ted Cruz isn't interesting or competent enough to be anybody. Even the cultists wouldn't have him.

I'd certainly vote to rename Washington DC New Carcosa

Cruz had that whole Uncanny Valley thing to his face - Ghoul? Migo man-seeming?

How can anyone stand to live in that?

Reminder to keep political discussion at /pol/

I was somewhat disbelieving that was actually Trump's house but it apparently is. You can't make this shit up

It's sad people think the guy can relate to the average american. Just a few years back the guy was considered slime incarnate and now he's most likely going to be president.

That thing looks like it would have really foul-smelling breath

Right.

So, anons, what would a setting where Lovecraftian entities were manipulating the major political figures be like?

what do you mean, what would it be like?

By the standards of "Veeky Forums discusses politics" this is pretty fucking good natured and tame.

Look out the window.
Shut your trap Kaathe

>and now he's most likely going to be president
You don't recover from a 20% nationwide popularity.

Got those mixed up, bugger.

Jokes still stand

You say that, but then you post a Cruz pic. Mixed messages, user.

t. Jimmy Carter, 1980

Ok, non-sequitur, but what exactly is a dimensional shambler?

They're from another dimension and they shamble about. Probably in an unspeakably loathsome manner reminiscent of a Negro.

So anyway...

One of my problems with Delta Green/CofC/other Mythos games is that the people most excited to play are genre savvy. They've read the books. The know what a Night Gaunt is or how the Mi-Go operate, even if their characters don't. Horrors from beyond the stars aren't horrifying if you've read about them in a fucking field guide.

So what are some homebrewed Mythos creatures I can use in a game? Things that fit the style, but that aren't part of the "canon".

There's a point where gold and marble cease to be tacky, and instead go full patrician.
Trump has passed this point three times successively.

Well then. New question: What would happen if I- I mean a friend of mine tried to eat a Mi-Go?

Check out the No Security scenarios by Caleb Stokes, deliberately written to address those issues - he made a number of scenarios riffing on Lovecraftian ideas but explicitly "non-canon" monsters. Final Revelation also has some good stuff, though it's Trail.

I suggest actually pulling obscure characters out of your ass and surprising them

Summon one of Nyarly kid's the Million Favored Ones, Throw them into Dreamland and turn the game into Alice Through the Looking Glass. Have some cultists of Hastur or Y'go show up.

Best mushroom risotto ever.

well they're basically just very advanced fungi, so either they'd be tasty, give you hallucinations, or kill you painfully

make something up!
Don't even have a "creature". Have after-effects of the Elder being there.
A room which is perpetually damp with mucus. A women with no face on the floor.
A glass of water which drips upwards.
They bend over to try and look at it but the room goes pitch black and the women with no face screams.

You'd reach state of pure high and understand everything to the point of being noticed by Yog-Sothoth.

You'd then die after 35 of pure understanding

Oh, I can write them (and I'll post some later in the thread). But has anyone else written some?

Just because the things are obscure to me doesn't mean they're obscure to the players, sadly.

>You'd then die after 35 of pure understanding
35 what?

Seconds? Hours? Eternal ages of the cosmos?

no, just 35. It's way too much understanding for a person

Hey! You're trying to find out what will happen to to from the previous thread!

The answer? Pic related. And it's highly contagious.

Hot.

A fungus is fine too.

No, you die at age 35, of pure understanding. It hits you all at once.

Happy birthday to BOOM

Hey, don't knock Noel. You know he's not been the same since that caving trip. We were scared stiff thinking about him lost down there in the dark - thank god he came back to us, even if it was after two whole days! I shudder to think what it must have been like for him down there, no wonder he's never gone caving since. No, he seems much happier roaming the open spaces of the forest, or going into town and people-watching.

How are his hunting skills?

...

Well, he got better at it. You can't sell hunted meat in Oregon, or even trade with it, but he'll drop off prize cuts of venison, and his bills (pretty minimal) always get paid. He comes into town maybe once every six months and buys almost nothing - just clothes from the charity store, sometimes, new tools, and ammo.

Would having two groups of beyond human powers fighting each other make both less frightening? Or could you do it where they both remain equally horrifying and beyond comprehension?

I'm thinking of making a setting where Elder Gods throw down with Super-Skynet Seed AIs.

Have one of them fight AM.

With any setting, the question is "how does this affect the story of the players"

It might be super cool that Australia has become a battleground where sentient helicopters fight giant evil blowflies from Neptune... but if the players are in North America, it doesn't /matter/. It's just GM wankery at that point.

So what does having 2 competing superhuman powers /mean/ to your players, and to the story? What themes will this evoke? What plots will this enable, or what dead-ends will this create?

It is basically GM wankery at this point, I don't really intend to ever run a game in this setting. It's actually more workable as some kind of wargame.

That said, if it were to be an RPG it would be some kind of weird horror intrigue. The players would either be unfortunate bystanders or agents of the secret war between the two major Illuminati type groups/cults that are struggling for global control.

I mainly just got the idea after reading about Taoism. The whole light vs dark dichotomy. Hot and cool, dry and wet, man and woman, destruction and creation, artificial and natural.

>>/EclipsePhase/

There's actually a homebrew Eclipse Phase module involving Deep Ones under the ice on Europa.

AM1200 by Dreamlogic Pictures, or so I've heard.

But his popularity is higher than that of Hillary Clinton and is well over 40%.

People now see that the real slime incarnate are violent and malicious SJWs. We need a strong hand to crush their kind.

They're both scum.

Radicalism is the cancer of American politics, and must be cut out.

BUILD WALL

>nationalism is radicalism
ebin

SAFE SPACE

Good presidents would have wiped the floor with Trump and his ideas, on both sides of the party divide.

This election is a debacle, and not worthy of the legacy of the great men that built America.

When has moderation ever worked out well for a country? It just puts you at a disadvantage against your enemies, both foreign and internal.

America has basically been living on luck and borrowed time since the end of the 19th century. We're falling behind in every way while we sit around worrying about the feelings of minority groups that really shouldn't have any voice at all in a proper democracy. We need a little more "big stick diplomacy" and colonialism to get back on track.

>with his ideas
What exactly are wrong with them?
Enforcing borders is bad?
Simplified taxes are bad?
Actually being pragmatic when it comes to who we let into our country is bad?
Actually giving veterans the support they deserve is bad?

The only legitimate problem you can have with Trump is his attitude and demeanor.

Yeah pretty much. I don't really have that much issue with his politics, I like a lot of it actually, it's just the fact that he's gonna get elected because he told people to punch their political rivals and that Mexicans are rapists.

No, the fact that our leaders are openly bought and sold by corporations is the cancer in American politics.
Guess which side is the biggest corporate whore this time around?

>and that Mexicans are rapists.
When will this meme end; he never said "Mexicans are rapists", he said that lots of the illegal aliens are rapists.

That's the best thing about him. I don't really think the Wall and all that is very important, but Trump is the first person in US politics in my lifetime who overtly rejects the whole "worship of weakness" thing that seems to have become the dominant narrative in the western world.

The idea of punching a whiny college socialist in the face is deeply satisfying in ways that are difficult to explain.

You can use the violent urges you feel instead of actually explaining your ideas?

Not having arguments with people who disagree with you is an SJW mindset.

The SJW mindset is like political heroin, user.

Like, you know you shouldn't just silence your enemies with force, but it feels so damned good. Gotta keep chasing that fascist high.

That's my problem. It's basically just become a screaming match between the two sides, with no one actually listening to anything.

I like a lot of Trump's policies, more than I like Hilary's and her being a fucking whore. I don't like the kind of political climate that Trump is pushing. I just don't know who to vote for, and I blame both sides for pushing their hyper-aggressive non-dialogues to this point.

Remember this?
>By the standards of "Veeky Forums discusses politics" this is pretty fucking good natured and tame.

That stopped happening.

>But his popularity
Among people old enough to answer phone surveys.

We don't know what his ideas are because he has 0 voting record.