Which of the Lovecraftian gods would be the best to serve? So far my top three would be Shub-Niggurath, Yig...

If you're a human and you can even contemplate (much less actually desire) "serving" any of the gods that Lovecraft wrote about, you're doing it wrong.

Lovecraft's idea of scary is just outdated. He sees a perversion of the human form, but I see an opportunity.

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Yog-Sathoth, Daoloth, and Tsathouaggha.

But there were a lot of cultists and scientists serving the great ones or outer gods in Lovecraft's works.

you go mad from the revelation that humanity and existence in general is completely irrelevant, but some people are completely fine with that and become cultists.
eldritch horror isn't something that literally makes your head implode from just thinking about it.

You neglected to mention the part where you cut off your dick

Shub-niggurath get's you killed, of if you're lucky you become a Skinwalker

Yog's all about perspective and free omniversal taxi-rides in exchange for pussy that he wrecks so hard the bitch loses her mind, and he's a pretty decent fellow because he leaves his magical silver keys lying around and the best of the best get the BloodBorne ending, elevating that conciousness yo.

Dagon is just fishcucking, not much to work with.

Hastur is alright, but it's a shame about what happened to him post Nyralathotep fucking the poor bugger over, but I think he still shows up at children's plays, sunday dinner or harvest moon for a blessing or two, and the only issues crop up when fucking wizards get involved.

Their internal thought processes might be hard to follow, their method of communication might need some filters and their goals might be hard to understand but their outward behaviour tends to follow trends that are accountable.

If you adapt your behaviour in someway that results in a measurable benefit, or even just a feeling of fulfilment, by it's interaction with their actions then that may constitute a form of worship.

Commandments and rituals and religious customs are there to instil this beneficial behaviours as habit among the faithful multitudes.

Also this
The total irrelevance of man on the galactic let along universal scale isn't as harrowing as it once was due to familiarity.

What did Nyralathotep do to Hastur?

Dumped him on an uninhabited planet several light years away from the nearest pub and stole his ride.

Hastur now has to use mass meme saturation to try and get back to anything even vaguely resembling even primitive civilization; Earth.

Imagine being dumped in a ditch in the middle of the Australian outback except with less life and the road is several 30 light years to the next service station.

Nodens is actually pretty chill.
Don't know of any benefits for service, but he's very high on the list of least likely to eat you or drive you insane.

>Pretty clearly Dagon/Cthulhu. In life, you begin a transformation into an immortal, powerful fish being, while being given immediate wealth and status.
That only happens if you were a deep one hybrid to begin with. Humans basically just go insane.

Nyralathotep is THE troll.

Isn't it replaced with a tentacle dick, though?

derlethians get out reeeeeeee

>He hasn't read Dream Quest of Unkown Kadath (aka best Lovecraft story), where Nodens went out of his way to help the protagonist.

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That's Abhoth, you dolt.

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Thank you. I take it back.

The thing that's supposed to scare you about his stories is that there are these unstoppable supernatural forces in the universe which could do their equivalent of sneezing and destroy Earth without even noticing.

That's one aspect of it, but the other guy is also right, in that Lovecraft was very much scared of anything he deemed impure.

Elaborate? That sounds like a big deal.

Yeah, which loses some bite in modern times because thats already a thing. Gamma Ray bursts are nonliving disasters that can wipe us out at lightspeed before we see them coming. It can happen at literally any moment.

Its scary, but im not exactly losing sleep over it.

it gets replaced unless you are unworthy

Y'golonac, of course.

Shubby-chan is the cutest!

...Although, really, you probably want to g with Yog-Sothot. Knowledge from beyond the spheres and ability to move freely in space and time is a pretty good deal, and he doesn't actively fuck you over. Some ritual sacrificing might be needed to invoke his power, though.
Shub-Niggurath might make you a perfect immortal lifeform, or just give you super-cancer or impregnate you with something weird. If it's somehow connected to life, it's close enough for her.

Under no cicumstances should you ever serve Nyralathotep, though. He might seem to be the only one you can reason and negociate, but he's also a colossal dick and will fuck you over when he finds it funny.

Sounds like the ideal build is to serve Yog and Shub equally. Shub for immortality, Yog for power.

Cursory research suggests that a GRB would not be any kind of "instantly fatal" event. Definitely damaging, possibly fatal, but more from the long term atmospheric effects. You could probably shelter from it after it started and survive.

Well, Nodens' job is to hunt evil and malicious beings in the Dreamlands
>TFW Nodens hunts Nightmares for no reason other than to give people a good night's sleep

Probably shub. You might become a horrific tentacled abomination, but
>at least I had sex

Normies ruined Lovecraft.

He died unknown by most and only achieved fame decades after his death but I imagine he would rather have faded into permanent obscurity in favour of the gutter perverted commercialism that arose using his name like pic related.

Imagine Lovecraft coming face to face with a Cthulhu plushie lmao

Es Y'Golonac
Es Y'Golonac
Es Y'Golonac
Monstro con las bocas esus manos

Es Y'Golonac
Es Y'Golonac
Es Y'Golonac
Monstro con las bocas esus manos

On his hands he's got orifices
Oh on his hands he's got orifices
On his hands he's got orifices
And he hasn't got a head!

Yes on his hands he's got orifices
Oh on his hands he's got orifices
Oh on his hands he's got orifices
And he hasn't got a head!

He'd lose his shit over the people that would actually want to fuck tentacle women

>Shub-Niggurath

Exactly. Old One paizuri.

>I imagine he would rather have faded into permanent obscurity in favour of the gutter perverted commercialism that arose using his name like pic related.

You imagine wrong. He would've wrote less and wrote less garbage if he wasn't in it just for the cash/fame.

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yes, because people don't need money

user already has no balls, so really, it's a match made in heaven

Azathoth.

One: He gives no fucks.
Two: You can wear whatever you want to work
Three: More you know, less competent you will be. You will fit into any government position, anywhere. Even military.
Four: He will never give you orders
Five: When you are done, you will not care. You won't even be sane.

You have to serve the four great ones equally.
Nyarlathotes is the messanger; he will try to make your deal bad,and yet he's the only one you can reason with.
Yog-Sothoth is knowledge. Without knowledge, power is useless. It's a hiltless blade.
Azathoth is power. Without power, life is worthless.
Shub-Niggurath is life. Without life, all the knowledge of this world has no mean, no reason to be known at all.

Muckled damn cult!

That's not how the Outer Gods work and there are more than four in the first place. You can't just reduce them to a single aspect, they are not forces of nature.
They go beyond that.

I would call you a Derleth fag, but I'm pretty sure you have never read a book in your life.

Which one gives the most gifts?

shub-niggurath gives you endless goat pussy

No he does it as he enjoys The Hunt.

Shub-Niggurath.

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But is what comes out 'you'? Do you get that opportunity. A dude is EATEN. If it's just getting goat legs and being immortal but you still have full human autonomy then yeah that'd be great. But service to these beings tends to come with so many more strings and fatal pitfalls before you finally get the monkey paw.

Well assuming the Lovecraft mythos is accurate you've basically got 2 options:

>stay a normal human, get eaten, and die horribly
>worship the shubster, get eaten, and then its like 50/50 if you die horribly or become a demigod.

Pretty bad odds, but generally better than the default.

Nope. Delta Green: Countdown specifically calls out the Living Messiah of the Skoptsy (a gof'nn hupadgh) as being sexually frustrated because, while he takes testosterone to grow his beard, he has no dick or balls.

The rite where you become a gof'nn hupadgh begins with you casting your genitals into the mouth of the Goddess. And not in a sexy way either, in a literal way.

No it doesn't.

;^)

Lovecraft didn't invent the gof'nn hupadgh. They come from Ramsey Campbell's "The Moon Lens" and are further elaborated on in the Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green RPG manuals

The king in yellow is pretty sick. Might have to go with azathoth.

I'm actually really happy this stuff doesn't exist, simply for the fact that reading about old ones still gives you insight. Considering the amount of lovecraft stuff I've read/watched/played, I'd be rocking about 99 right now.

Is this bait?

Nodens or the king in yellow

>everything hurts to look at

We've all lost SAN points to be here user

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>random delta green sub-book
>canon
lol

>Shub-Niggurath NOT gifting you with agonizing, disgusting, horrific virility to spread her damnation-black seed
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Skoptsy were Russian religious sect whose members cuts their dicks or tits to be closer to a "perfect form"

>Ramsey Campbell's "The Moon Lens"
>canon

Top fucking kek

This is the same guy that named a cat Niggerman in (what was perhaps the most frightening story he ever wrote) The Rats in the Walls. He may very well have killed a marketing agent that approached him with such an idea.

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user, what good does a shelter do you if you don't have an atmosphere anymore?

Pretty sure it would be for the same reason cultists in any of the stories do it, you want power, you are crazy, or likely both. All the horny anons who want to get turned into freaky sex monsters are pretty much the point.

I think the problem is that we're talking about what Lovecraft thought was scary, at the time mind you, in the modern day, on Veeky Forums.

>married since before his career started
>edgy permavirgin
This projecting is just pathetic but the pic really pushes it into "see muh fanart proves goku would beat superman!" territory.

Can't I just hop into the Dreamlands, hang out with Kuranes, and live forever exploring science and philosophy and stuff with other dreaming wanderers? Sounds like a good time to me. Pretty sure he counts as a god, right?

Source on this so I can jack off?

Is the Black Goat Shub Niggurath or is it the servant of Shub Niggurath?

>He may very well have killed a marketing agent

Are you joking? In the 20s, golliwogs were still pretty popular.

They'd have been fine with the cat's name.

Where can one read lore/short stories/etc about this stuff?
Aside from HP Lovecraft's short stories, obviously. There's clearly a lot more stuff out there now than he put out in his lifetime.

Azathoth or bust

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shub-Niggurath#The_Black_Goat

Someone has encountered the Dreams in the Witch House Rock Opera. Speaking of Dreams in the Witch House, Nyarlathotep/Azathoth seems to offer a decent deal if you're willing to go through with a human sacrifice here or there.

Shub-niggurath or Dagon, depending whether you are more into tentacle goats or fishladies.

Didn't the whole Insmouth gig start with some dudes getting Deep One waifus?