#cthullu

Dream: I know this dreamer, I recall him well. Such a proud, small minded young man. Such disregard for those he considered beneath him. Yet a well of untapped potential. I oversaw his dreams personally for period.

Hob glances over his shoulder to see Dream holding his copy of the The Complete Works of H. P. LOVECRAFT.

Hob: You tormented Lovecraft? Ha, no wonder.... You certainly left your mark Duck.

Dream: He felt himself so tall, so grandiose. I showed him the cosmos, infinite, beyond mortal comprehension. So he could see how truly small and insignificant his was. His mortal mind near broke from it.

Hob: Well that explains his works.. A lot.

Dream: I remember he had a distinct abhorrence for marine life. I took the form of a giant, winged octopod often, some of my finest work. How he trembled at it...

Hob: Wait a minute, wait a minute. Back up! Do you mean to tell me you're Cthulhu!? Great old one, face tentacles!?

Dream:...?

One Day Later...

Dream: What is THAT Hob Gadling?!

Hob: (Holding a little black Cthulhu plushie.) Look, it's you! Look at your little wings! Aren't you just the cutest little eldritch nightmare?

Dream: 😑

(Dream inadvertently inspired the works of Lovecraft. But never saw them come to fruition and reach the heights of influence they did due to being imprisoned....And is also Cthulhu 😆)

Some of my personal favourites include:

• Cxaxukluth- “an amorphous, writhing mass of bubbling, nuclear, protoplasmic-gel.” • Aletheia- “a vast spiral of manifold titanic hands with a single cycloptic eye in each palm, and kilometric wire-like protrusions.”

• Ialdagorth- “a black, shapeless, malevolent mist. The sight of such a fiend is unsettling if not traumatising.”

• The Blackness from the Stars- “an immobile blob of living, sentient darkness.”