Christian, your Crocodile Games’ Scarab Ogre could stand for Basatan, King of Crabs. You would score 3 for that entry, assuming Basatan is a giant crablike being, that is – and if you do the legwork to write it up.
Hounds of Tindalos
Score = 13 (2 for Cthulhu +2 for Hounds +3 for Bugg-Shash +3 for Dagon +3 for Gol-goroth)
Sorry Whiskeyrat... Hounds of Tindalos are not deities or Great Old Ones. We allow Dagon and Hydra, though they be only supersized ancient deep ones because Shudde M'ell and other oversized racial leaders tend to be classified as Great Old Ones. So dock yourself on your next post. Dagon is often misrepresented as a tentacled thing, but he is really an oversized Deep One. Tentacles come on cephalopods and cnidarians - not on fish. And while we’re talking tentacles, the cnidarian types are not the same as the octopoidal types and neither of them are worm-like. This doesn’t mean an alien GOO can’t have any of these of course! But SOTA definitely got it wrong; not everything that is “slippery” and “lumbering” is molluskan:
“Once I sought out a celebrated ethnologist, and amused him with peculiar questions regarding the ancient Philistine legend of Dagon, the Fish-God; but soon perceiving that he was hopelessly conventional, I did not press my inquiries.” ~ From “Dagon” by H. P. LovecraftAnd in this quote, too, we have evidence that Dagon is at least a Great Old One, for nothing less than a demigod or super-alien will hold up to the title of a god.
Whiskeyrat, think you can come up with an alternate GOO or God for that SOTA sculpt that fits a mythos author’s description? I’m sure there is one...
Yibb-Tstll, Great Old One, Mother to the Nightgaunts I’ve been looking for one to suit this GOO and the best I could find was too small to nurse a brood of nightgaunts:
Valiant Enterprises’ VEL4035 Abominations of the Black Fortress $9.99 US has a belly full of what could be alien teats:
http://www.veltd.net/32mm/vel4035.htm]http://www.veltd.net/32mm/vel4035.htm]http://www.veltd.net/32mm/vel4035.htm):
So thanks go to Hammers (
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=23968.15) for bringing the following figure to our attention!
Kingdom Death’s The Wet Nurse First Run Collectors Edition (Only 100) $55.00 USD (Sold Out) Sculptor: Thomas David Concept: Danny Cruz Painter: n/a
http://shop.kingdomdeath.com/product/wet-nurse]http://shop.kingdomdeath.com/product/wet-nurse]http://shop.kingdomdeath.com/product/wet-nurseSculpting Mods: Add bat-wings to all figures and wipe out the faces of all the humans to convert them to nightgaunts. But then that would make only 99 limited editions...
(To get the full blast of Sanity loss, view the entire figure and other photos of it, by clicking on the url given above.)
“...I was quite insane. I wanted to stand beneath the stabbing lightning and scream at those awful, rain-blurred stars. I wanted to bound, to float in my madness through eldritch depths of unhallowed black blood. I wanted to cling to the writhing breasts of Yibb-Tstll.” ~ From "Rising with Surtsey" by Brian LumleyMore about Yibb-Tstll at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yibb-Tstll#Yibb-Tstll Lliogor and Zhar, the Twin Obscenities This one’s for Frederick J. Mayer, who seems to have been put off... (Not everyone is confident in their written English fluency, so we should exercise a little understanding.)RAFM’s RAF02981 Summoning of Lioigor [sic] $14.95 USDSculptor: Bob Murch? Concept: Bob Murch? Painter: Unknown
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF02981&Category_Code=COCMMSculpting Mods: None, if you use the figure for Zhar, but you would have to add a triplet of wings to represent Lliogor (though how this “twin” acquired them is a mystery... Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Old_Ones#Table_of_Great_Old_Ones)
Debut: "The Lair of the Star-Spawn" (1932) by August Derleth and Mark Schorer
The Hound, Tcho-tcho Death God RAFM’s RAF02959 The Hound $7.95 USDSculptor: Bob Murch? Concept: Bob Murch? Painter: Unknown
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF02959&Category_Code=COCMM]http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF02959&Category_Code=COCMM]http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF02959&Category_Code=COCMM(Just to complete the Hound figures for me and to get the RAFM figs in here.)
dreamingleopard score for this post: 6
2 for my last post
2−1 for the Yibb-Tstll Valiant Alternate (needs mods)
3−1 for Yibb-Tstll (needs mods)
1 for Zhar (for recognizing the difference between the twins and identifying the RAFM figure correctly)
0 for Lliogor (official RAFM fig)
0 for The Hound (official RAFM fig)
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Cummulative total to date: 107 + 6 = 113
25 May 2007, 11:14:56 PM