The Temple of Dagon

See, it was a poor attempt at a "there is no spoon" joke. But there is no spoon. Only the metal in the shape of a spoon.

So there is no Shiznick, only a mushy meat puppet in the shape of a Shiznick?

Shiznicks dead! they killed him!

I'm so calling one of my kids Shiznick.

i'm sure they will appreciate that when they say "where did you get that name" and you can tell them about the lost whitzoski brother...

Fuck yes.

Its a good name

Eternities End wrote:Whats the deal with that? If thats actually true then how was Conan the Barbarian get involved with The Great Old Ones and the works of H.P?? I need to know!

There used to be a collection of R.E. Howard short stories called Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. One of the stories took place in both Hyperborea and Europe. The main characters were Conan and his modern-day reincarnation. Basically, reincarnated Conan was a wuss who got lost in some cavern system and was stalked by some degenerate, GOO-worshipping snakeman. During the experience, he begins to recall his past life life experience as Conan, kicking ass and taking names in the same caves.

Sounds sorta lame, so are those snake people suppose to be worships of Yith or something?

Maybe. Maybe they're just lonely.

Every snake loving cultist just wants to find a friend..

Hey every cultist who worships a reptile feels that way one time or anougther

Eternities End wrote:Sounds sorta lame, so are those snake people suppose to be worships of Yith or something?

I don't remember. Wasn't the best tale in the collection.

So... Howard was a guy who wrote a bunch of swashbuckling sword and stuff deals and things. And so then he was HPL's friend as well as CAS and FBL and all those other nifty peeps. He never wrote a lot of tales strictly about Cthulhu or Great Old Ones or anything, but Conan and Serpent-dudes and Hyboria and Kull and all that other jazz got mixed up in the lot when they were all referencing each other. HPL put BRan Mak Morn in his list of goofy names and REH put Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, and Tsathoggua in his. A FEW of REH's stuff is directly about Tsathoggua or Golgoroth or other toady-things, but his attempts at being ominous and lovecraft-like as sorta... lame. "The Black Stone" was pretty rockin' though.

Also, he wrote the section of "Challenge From Beyond" immediatley following HPL's. And then when the frail lovecraftian geologist goes mad with fear because he is in the body of a yekubian centipede, Bob takes up the pen and has him kick ass and kill shit and become the god-emporer of Yekub.

My favorite part is how REH sets up a cliffhanger for the god of Yekub, Juk-Shabb, to actually rip the protaganist to shreds, FBL (my favorite writer of all time) decides to let the Great Old One tell Campbell (the M.C.) that Yekubians havent been conditioned to billions of years of death of carnage and it means that the mind in his home body will die because of it's inability to handle an earthly mind. The human mind, however, who knows how to kill in any form, was destined to become the greatest ruler of Yekub ever. So, basically, it's about how Lovecraft was wrong and Howard was right. I like HPL more than REH, but truly, FBL has the last word.

And THAT is why Godzilla can kill Cthulhu. If you don't believe a mere mortal, check out Secrets of Japan from Chaosium, in which a bastardized Godzilla (he is expensive you know) with a SIZ of only 90 is said to have constantly driven Great Old Ones from Japan though at considerable injury to itself. Increase that SIZ stat to match his true dimensions... 1000 (100 meters), and what do you get?

So, there's not a story where Cthulhu and Conan actually meet up, but the outcome would probably be the same as any other Hyborian adventure.

And if you want only the best... get Nameless Cults from Chaosium. I DID! It's all you've ever wanted to know about REH without a goofy 5 minute sequence of Arnold falling down the stairs.

Seriously, there's something about the word Yekub (and all its derivatives) that makes any author willing to use it take a serious loss of cool points.