> The Bloated Woman Cult and the Plateau of Leng. Maybe Joseph almost
> slept with the Bloated Woman?
Enough Tentacle Sex already! Uncle Joe did not have an inappropriate
relationship with an Outer God!
Davide Mana
Meanwhile, by one of those strange, uncanny coincidences that bug me
sometimes, I just got the following from China:
> I have profound heart to announce a bad news that Prof. Yun ZHANG was died
> from his head injury in an accident yesterday afternoon. ZHANG was a
> professor of Peking University and known for his pre-Cambrian life studies
Sad.
But almost too good to be true.
This is the first Chinese chapter seed.
The Man in Black
> If there are no other takers, being the proud owner of one orientalist
> brother, I can offer my help with the Chinese bit, too.
> I'll try and not make it too Feng Shui.
You can't be *too* Feng Shui! I was thinking Grey Dragon Island from
Masks of Nyarlathotep could be used as a Secret U-boat/Luftwaffe Volcano
base. Kinda hard to pull off without becoming James Bondish B-movie
ludicrous.
> Just let me know if all this is all right with you.
> Ok, Dave, you're my hero. Love you're chapter.You've got it all over
> me for speed.
He who hesitates is last.
> For anyone listening (like, say, M.I.B.): Is there a problem with us
> diverging from the specifications outline on the EH webpage? My tome of
> choice has been the Ponape scripture, rather than the Goddess of the Black
> Fan. Right now, I'm doing my research on Japanese right-wing groups.
The Goddess of the Black Fan is required for clues leading to the action
on Grey Dragon Island (Secret Volcano Base, Luftwaffe AD, and the secret
Karotechia U-boat fleet... OK, they only have one stolen sub, sue me :)
Although how these ideas mesh with SuperDave's outstanding chapter is
beyond me.
How about a template write-up of the Kunika branch of the Japanese
National Police, and the baddies they go up against? Japanese Red Army,
Yakuza, Right-wing nutbars etc...
Matt Cowger wrote:
> > 7. Void: Contact Hound of Tindalos, Contact Nyarlathotep
> Wouldn't it be Nyarlathotep in his "Bloated Woman" aspect? Also maybe a
> good one for Void would be contact Yog-Sothoth.....
Yeah, I figured on Bloated Woman--but this being set on the Plateau of Leng,
maybe there's some Hidden Master aspect that might be even more appropriate.
But references to the Bloated Woman will lead the agents on to Goddess of
the Black Fan (or encourage them to go on a diet), so it could tie into
Jay's chapter (unless he goes ahead with the idea of switching to the Ponape
Manuscript). As far as Yog-Sothoth goes, well, I wasn't coming up with these
spells myself; I just took them from the DG book, Dr. Joseph Camp's writeup.
Uncle Joe happens to already own "a particularly ancient and complete copy
of The Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan and two books related to the Order of
the Bloated Woman...." I just named the scrolls, split the spells up on them
roughly according to theme, and added the idea of a secret-code spell to
summon the Big A. The scroll names come from the days of the week, starting
with Saturday (Earth), replacing Metal/Gold (Friday) with Void to make
things creepy.
I need to find a book that really deals with Chinese writing systems well,
but what I've got now gives me the idea that the original 7 Books was
written in ancient Xiaozhuan script, which is VERY different from modern
script, though if you compare characters you can see how they evolved.
Alphonse's copy could be written in classical Lishu script; the slightly
more modern script lost the code, so the Summon Azathoth spell dropped out.
And the MiB wrote:
> The Goddess of the Black Fan is required for clues leading to the action
> on Grey Dragon Island (Secret Volcano Base, Luftwaffe AD, and the secret
> Karotechia U-boat fleet... OK, they only have one stolen sub, sue me :)
> Although how these ideas mesh with SuperDave's outstanding chapter is
> beyond me.
At the moment, I have NO idea how we'll get the characters to the island,
maybe a dropped matchbook :-)...hey, what was that word... "outstanding?"
Hey, wait a minute--you CAN'T be the MiB! You must be an imposter! GUARDS!
SHOOT THAT MAN!
And Jay wrote:
> I'll get on it. If you want nuts, you're looking in the right
> country. It must have something to do with the population density. Or maybe
> natto.:)
Now there's an angle: protomatter shipped in natto containers! Misdirected
shipment goes out to Lawson convenience stores across the country, and mass
reports of "killer natto" follow! All part of a revived Unit 731 project.
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, David Farnell sat his Candy-Ass in the Jabronie Cafe,
was served a heapin' helpin' of Smack Down with a side order of Know Yer
Role, and washed it all down with a nice warm cup of Shut the Hell Up!:
> At the moment, I have NO idea how we'll get the characters to the island,
> maybe a dropped matchbook :-)...hey, what was that word... "outstanding?"
> Hey, wait a minute--you CAN'T be the MiB! You must be an imposter! GUARDS!
> SHOOT THAT MAN!
AAAARRRGGGHH~!
(leaps off corrugated aluminum catwalk into a huge pile of plastic
barrels, narrowly being missed by an enormous billowing ball of flame and
hail of bullets)