Cthulhu (ELF Invocation)

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"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn!"

[ Cthulhu ]

[ Type  : ] demigod

[ Portfolio  : ] madness, nightmares, water

[ Disposition  : ] moderately hostile

[ Offerings Desired  : ] anything

[ Spirit Point Cost  : ] eighty to one hundred twenty

[ Requirements to Invoke : ] worship Cthulhu, elder lore skill of 25 or higher or have been in the presence of Great Cthulhu

[ General Information  : ] Cthulhu is highly dangerous, but useful. Most demigod-class beings lack the capacity to respond to invocations and the power to do much about them, but Cthulhu is exceptional in that its status as a demigod is only one aspect of its power; long before it attained godhead, its monstrously powerful mind psychically dominated its entire species and unified them in a gestalt consciousness. Then, making contact with the lloigor, it took on the capacity of high priest, dealing with those beings on behalf of its species as it saw fit. These interactions led it to discover how to use its control of its species to elevate itself to the divine plane. So let it not be said that the being called Great Cthulhu is any ordinary demigod. It may be invoked in combat to deal psychic injury to foes, and out of combat to invite it to infuse one's mind with eldritch knowledge and power. It has sometimes been known to grant the service of a gogtzul to particularly talented invokers who call upon it near water.

Upon a mountainous, corpulent, vaguely anthropoid body rests a great squid-like head, the face of which consists of a mass of tentacles, with a pair of blank grey eyes staring forth from it. Upon the long arms and legs mounted on the dead-gray gelatinous mass of the body are tremendous claws, yellowed as with tremendous age. The thing moves with a stumbling, groping carelessness that bespeaks its power with every crashing impact of his clawed foot upon the ground, and terror hangs around it like a palpable, infectious aura grasping for the first hapless mind that falls into its demesne. You know this to be Great Cthulhu, devourer of dreams and subverter of souls, overlord of all the beings called gogtzul. It is permeated by a sparkling light. It has a tracery of prismatic radiance and a tracery of shimmering radiance within and around it. It looks about sixty-seven dimins tall, twenty-six dimins wide and six and eleven twentieths dimins long. It is in good shape.

[OOC Chaos] "he has resistance to 12 meaningful types, and several of those are shit
no one cares about like disease, viral, poison and temporal" Megnmax 10:57, 20 May 2008 (EDT)

Leolla here!

This was changed. It used to do other stuffs!

Now it provides" some skill training with a tendency to cause mental disorders." if used out of combat--pretty much as advertised.

Gogtzul are almost "quote"ish. (Seekret Erisian for "overpowered!". Shhhh!)

Abuse one today! You've earned it, Mr/Mrs/Ms/HHM. Edge-of-Insanity!

• Gogtzul speak Ngaathgl, so if you do, too, you can order them around. Otherwise, they just follow you and smash things that you do. -- Porphyria

NB: Invoking/sacrficing to Cthulhu will introduce the language skill Ngaathgl, and also grant permanent (very small) increases to that skill, as well as Elder Lore. There may be other skills handled the same way.