#eldritch lore

TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR EVERYTHING UNDER THE FUCKIN SUN.THIS HOWARD COWARDICE LOVECRAFT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.WE HAVE ALL THE DAMN-ISMS.

Hastur The Feaster:

Haita the Shepherd, Ambrose Bierce. https://americanliterature.com/author/ambrose-bierce/short-story/haita-the-shepherd

An Inhabitant of Carcosa, Ambrose Bierce. https://americanliterature.com/author/ambrose-bierce/short-story/an-inhabitant-of-carcosa

The King in Yellow, Robert Chambers. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8492/pg8492-images.html

Yidhra The Dream Witch:

Where Yidhra Walks. Walter C. DeBill, Jr. Could Not Find a Free Digital Version.

The Dreams in the Witch House, HP Lovecraft. (Considered a Nyarly Story However I Personally Think it Fits IDV Yidhra More than EOD) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dreams_in_the_Witch-House

Antonio the Violinist:

The Music of Erich Zann, HP Lovecraft. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_5/Issue_5/The_Music_of_Erich_Zann

Grace the Naiad:

Shadow Over Innsmouth, HP Lovecraft. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Over_Innsmouth_(1936)

Eyes of Darkness, Most Likely Nyarlathotep:

Nyarlathotep, HP Lovecraft. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_United_Amateur/November_1920/Nyarlathotep

The Cats of Ulthar, HP Lovecraft. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_7/Issue_2/The_Cats_of_Ulthar

The Dream Quest of Unknown Kaddath, HP Lovecraft. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dream-Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath

Herbert West: Reanimator, HP Lovecraft. (Blog Runner Believes The EOD Cult Is Connected to This Story Somehow) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herbert_West:_Reanimator

Under the Pyramids, HP Lovecraft. (WITH SPECIAL GUEST AND EFRON INSPIRATION HARRY HOUDINI). https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/up.aspx

Ithaqua The Night Watch:

The Thing That Walked on the Wind, August Derleth. https://cthulhufiles.com/stories/derleth/derleth-the-thing-that-walked-on-the-wind.html

Ithaqua, August Derleth. Unable to Find a Free Digital Version.

An Inhabitant of Carcosa, Ambrose Bierce. (Blog Runner Believes IDV Itha’s Design Has References to This) https://americanliterature.com/author/ambrose-bierce/short-story/an-inhabitant-of-carcosa

The Black Goat, Most Likely Shub-Niggurath:

The Last Test, HP Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_12/Issue_5/The_Last_Test

Ivy The Shadow/Yithian:

The Shadow Out of Time, HP Lovecraft. https://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/sot.aspx

Assorted Guesses for Whatever the Hell is Going on With Norton “Fool’s Gold” Campbell:

The Transition of Juan Romero, HP Lovecraft. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Transition_of_Juan_Romero

The Curse of Yig, HP Lovecraft. (One Guess for the Identity of the Mine Beast) https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cy.aspx

The Inhabitant of the Lake And Less Welcome Tenants, Ramsey Campbell. (Another Guess for the Mine Beast) https://archive.org/details/inhabitantoflake0000camp

Darkness, My Name Is, Eddy C Bertin. FREE DIGITAL VERSION NOW ACQUIRED THANKS TO A PAL. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OmV6IGJGAl36j7_GU87VOGrF8A9XhHDu/view

Thank you for contacting the Department of Monster Affairs.

The worry about your safety is a real one. While you might consciously think you are "fully into it" your concerns over wanting it to be safer speaks to your subconscious and instinctive rejection of these changes. They are dangerous to your body and your soul.

Please go to the nearest cleric immediately for purification the corruption in your system. We have dispatched a team from the Center for Corruption Control to your location. They will ensure you are purged of corruption along with anyone others this eldritch horror has infected. The unit will capture and contain your "girlfriend" to prevent the further spread of the corruption.

While this may sound harsh, please know that this is for the best for you and others. Eldritch horrors are powerful and highly corruptive demons, that cause severe physical, mental, and spiritual changes in their victims. Once you are fully purified you will see how we are helping you even if you do not feel so currently.

So, as you may know, it's November! The year is almost up, and last month I accomplished... absolutely nothing. Burn out, mental health, work, and real life shenanigans have completely taken away any drive to be present. I'll be here, but slowly.

I have no progress to report whatsoever on The Descent Down Below, but that it's still a WIP. I don't know if I'll do anymore edits or updates to the project after some things came up that still...make me rather angry and annoyed that happened, but oh well. It is what it is. Still probably gonna work on it, but until I'm in a better headspace, I'm taking a break away from the project.

This isn't me scrapping it completely. Just a well-needed breather because my brain has 47 tabs open, one's playing music, two are frozen, and the mouse is missing. Yaaaay ADHD. Love that for me.

IN OTHER NEWS i think mistystar should have been a victim of mapleshade's curse but she keeps getting extremely lucky and her survival is a defiance of the odds and it INFURIATES mapleshade. She just has luck on her side and she KEEPS SURVIVING.

Aaaaaah no, keep the questions coming!! XD

So this is all stuff that I've talked about in the Discord server, but I haven't had a good way to talk about it here on Tumblr, so thank you for the opportunity to infodump like a madwoman :3

Yes, Stonebinder is an ancient demigod who has been relegated to a bogeyman figure in stories come present-day Atmos.

However I wouldn't say he's 'from' the Far Side. In a way, he predates it, coming from a time when Atmos was whole, and not split in two by the Barrier Cliffs. His ancient curse libraries are dotted around both sides of Atmos, lying abandoned, but not unprotected. A few curses still reside within them, active and tormenting their victims. Many have simply died out as their targets left the mortal coil.

Stonebinder is indeed ancient. Older than most of recorded history in fact, but curses have existed since before the beginning of Atmos. An ancient eldritch 'god' creature known as the Vow embodies curses, pacts and promises, and that is the creature that Stonebinder draws his power from.

you said his purpose was to collect curses, was it a task given to him by a higher force or was he brought into existence by the existence of curses

Oh boy, oh boy you have opened a can of worms here Peregrine, brace yourself XD I'm putting it and the rest of this post under the cut, otherwise this is going to get so long.

I girlrot in my girlroom with my girlunmedicated mental illness.

Recently I've started doing a bit of weekly video editing for a friend who pays me because it saves her a huge amount of time.

I co-own her company (FableScraps) which focuses on digital media content production (twitch streaming TTRPGs) and tabletop game development. We have a completely original game world and system called Issliss which is kind of a gritty survival horror thing set in a world ruled by intelligent monsters where humans are very much not the dominant species, and it has heavy themes of cooperation and organized rebellion against a fascist ruling class. The player group is called "the cell" in the rulebook.

I had some input on the game design (mainly the dice system), but the vast majority of the work was done by others.

Currently we have a quickplay guide available through the website and fully playable, but it's still in active development and there will be a full scale player's guide book later, MAYBE by the end of the year.

The primary antagonists for the first book/campaign are the Kasat, a species of giant spider people who use humans as a subjugated labor class. They also appear on the cover art:

Also player stats are called "VECTORS" because the character sheets are framed almost like dossiers written by the ruling class

The system is built for streamlined combat encounters so more time can be spent on roleplay and survival. Almost all rolls are made with 3d6, and a single 3d6 roll covers both your attack and damage. Using skills you're not proficient with requires a 2d6 roll (i.e. it's a lot harder to succeed) and doing it with "Synergy" (we have a whole system for this, basically help from another player) allows you to bump the roll up to a 4d6.

Systems like "Rival" NPC encounters (recurring antagonists) and "Showdowns" (more cinematic and high stakes combat) are still being developed.

the short answer is no:( 

the long answer is no but eventually. Spoilers under the cut~