mountains of madnes

[nils]

for all you cultists i have a question
inspite of pinguins what died they discoverd a the mountains of madnes(creatures like)?
and what figures woud you use?
i want  to do a scirmish game
i have the arctic explores from copplestone, as explores:)and the inuit as ...inuit(im not going to the arctis,but GRÖNLAND
so inuits are ok)
im thinking about the games workshop goblins from the HOBIT as hybrids..very dearanged hybrids(and they arent looking like gobos !! )
so some deep ones will have their place too(i know no deep ones in the story)
so you cultists can you help me?
pleas excuse my engish..Hessisch is my mutter sprach

[fairoaks024]

It's a while since I read it, but I think they learn of mi-go, star spawn and the elder things
And they find an elder thing and a shoggoth along with the 6foot tall blind penguins

Regards

Jim

[Governor General]

 If your setting your Mountains of Madness in Greenland they have Polar Bears,  voracious predators. Lovecraft mentions an artic horror, the Gnoph -Keh and there's a host of hyperborean monstrosities in Clark Ashton Smith's works. Greenland also has lemmings which could smother an investigator as they swarm.

[Klener Zorn]

It's a while since I read it, but I think they learn of mi-go, star spawn and the elder things
And they find an elder thing and a shoggoth along with the 6foot tall blind penguins

Regards

Jim

THAT

also you can use Polar Bears .... and i like the Hybrid idea
also anything related to the plateau of leng ( as i think its been mentioned )
Also i think Ithaqua the Wendego It controls snow, ice and cold, and Gnop-Kehs
Nyarlathotep can be integrated too as he shows up anywhere he wants to
for example in his  Thing from the Dolmen form wich i think was created by The guy who runs Yog blogsoth
 
"The cold pop and crack that trees do when icicles hang from your nose, I thought that's what made the noise. Wrong, very wrong. Stars and trees glowed the same color and the milky vapor of my breath hung before me as I twisted to see what…A shape emerged from the dolmen I’d departed, bearded slick stones reflecting the black deep, and deeper black wrapped a cavity of wormy softness. The figure came onward, hitching and dipping at disjointed angles, an unsleeved mass undulating and cohering into the towering semblance of a stick man screaming soundlessly
through a mouth of rotted birchwood."
Laird Barron, Untitled
Written Exclusively For an Illustro Obscurum Collaboration

and if you dont shy away from lovecrafts lingering racism...you can add the evil enuit tribes he talked about 

[The Gray Ghost]

with the Elder Things living at the south pole perhaps their enemies the star-spawn live at the north pole

[nils]

thank you felow cultists
i think a polar bear will hasard all partys who encounter him
fore now i will stik to 3 partys
1.hybrids and the cultmaster and some deep ones(living in a cave worshiping an idol)
2.explores(the evilones treing to do some magic...)
3.the good explores/adventures and their trusty inuits and maby some dogs
maby i can get a shooggoth -caled by the cultmaster ore just hanging around in the cave
randomly moving and traing to eat all...

elder things/ gnop-kehs/wendego/ithaqua are to strong fore mer mortels

[Connectamabob]

Elder Things aren't too much for mortals. They're mortal themselves, and any rare surviving ones in the modern day would be like refugees rather than technologically advantaged.

I could imagine the Mi-Go having a pick-over of their old enemies' strongholds, but they've had millions of years to do that already, so if they came back they'd probably be in small number... or they might even have their human proxies do it for them instead. Picture your protagonists crossing paths with some business or scientific expedition that's actually a front for Mi-Go sponsored searching/looting. I guess the main thing is Mi-Go aren't aggressive so much as secretive, so they might not take action against your protagonists unless they thought your protagonists posed a credible risk of exposing them.

Where there's oceans, there's Deep One potential, and Deep Ones are Cthulhu worshipers, so they connect well with Star Spawn and cultists. We know pretty well that Deep Ones are outrightly vicious.

Polyps could be a technical possibility too. They live underground, and nobody knows how far they roam or settle. Like Mi-G though, they're mostly merely secretive, and the only direct interaction they have with a human in the original story ("Shadow out of Time") is arguably benevolent. The mean stories about them come from the Yithians, and it's not like they were unbiased.

Shoggoth would be the most certain threat, as "mountains of Madness" makes it explicit they're still living down there. A lot about them is left to reader interpretation, so you can go a lot of different ways. The idea of them being trained by cultists doesn't feel right to me, as they wouldn't be at all keen about returning to bondage (plus "training" implies they're non-sapient: they waged a protracted war of uprising against the Elder Things, so they're more like Cylons or PotA apes than animals), and would kill or chase out anyone who tried to contact them without giving them the chance to communicate anyway. But that's just how I see them.

[FramFramson]

God do I ever love Mountains of Madness. Can't wait to see where this goes. The Elders had mostly retreated to their last holdout near the South Pole, but shoggoths should be a worldwide danger.

I really wish the Copplestone polar bear wasn't discontinued  

[Hat Guy]

Great ideas, will put them to use with some Doctor Who Seeds of Death and The Thing Gaming.

Also, couldn't resist this:

15mm Kurasan.

[FramFramson]

[nils]

allways love that little feela!!
but sorry, wrong part of the world no pengus!
i ordert some achtung ctuthulu deep ones

and just ordered reaper bones stuf
Tiik champion and a warrior
shogoth
a faceleshorror-i thing some one postet a paintet one in the forum
and the rest i dont remember...
the bones stuff is realy cheep
i will get the lot a the tactica....so painting on that starts end of februar
anyone painted somthing in this material?

[Klener Zorn]

allways love that little feela!!
but sorry, wrong part of the world no pengus!
i ordert some achtung ctuthulu deep ones

and just ordered reaper bones stuf
Tiik champion and a warrior
shogoth
a faceleshorror-i thing some one postet a paintet one in the forum
and the rest i dont remember...
the bones stuff is realy cheep
i will get the lot a the tactica....so painting on that starts end of februar
anyone painted somthing in this material?

have a look at my latest post in my strange aeons toppic...or here

https://kleinerzorn.wordpress.com/