What would you do if Cthulu came?

[EightGaugeHippo]

Pants will be brown'd

 

[That's Funny]

Say ''hello, I'm your biggest fan''.

 

[Therumancer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu

I actually recommend this article for fans:

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Cthulhu


Even if your not a fan be sure to click on the "Carol of the Old Ones" video. That makes me chuckle every time I hear it.

 

[Sinspiration]

After This? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOHJUrcVdJk]

Probably laugh at him and tell him to go play elsewhere,

 

['Aredor]

Probably eat my own fingers or bang my head against the wall repeatedly. Most humans go insane once they see him, don't they? It's not like my sanity bar is full enough to prevent me from going fucknuts.

Fuck him.

You'd fuck Cthulhu? That's wrong on so many levels

 

[Arctodus_Simus]

Offer him a tissue and go back to sleep.....




(so very sorry, lol. *Drags mind out of gutter*)


Go crazy and die? Seems about the only real option

 

[Oodleew]

Honestly?

Probably laugh as he got ripped to shreds by the police and/or national guard.

I'd find it hilarious that old HP saw this coming, but at the same time didn't see the whole picture.

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Understand that part of the horror of the stories is the irrelevence of humanity and the idea that we peaked as far as we could go and it was insignifigant in the scheme of things. We have come further than HP Lovecraft could ever have imagined and a lot of what we can do is far in excess of what a lot of his aliens and eldrich horrors could accomplish in a lot of respects (though not all).

Cthulhu is not a god, but rather a high priest of a number of alien dieties. He came to earth in our pre-history with humans as his slaves. He wound up waging a war against The Great Race Of Yith which defeated him and his species and imprisoned them in eternal slumber after many epic battles. The Great Race Of Yith, who were a group of mind-projecting time travellers were themselves semi-overcome by the Flying Polyps, they pretty much returned their bodies to their own time/world and left the cone headed beings they possessed to fend for themselves, and being more or less mindless they were overrun and the civilization the Yithians built fell into disrepair.

The result being that the humans, who were numerous, wound up being the most advanced creatures on the planet, and slowly came to dominance, though by these concepts we also lost a lot of what we were. In a story HP Lovecraft edited called "The Mound" a human civilization that was fairly untouched was revealed to have been living underground and the people there had things we forgot (but could learn) like line of sight telepathy, and the abillity to turn ourselves and other objects intangible. Not to mention the abillity (apparently though science) to reanimate the dead.

At any rate, the weapons that humanity possesses right now are far more powerful than those of the 1920s and even more powerful than those used by races like the Yithians and Mi-Go in many respects. Sure, we can't psionically time travel, but in terms of raw destructive output our current technology is greater than them all. The old comment from the CoC RPG about "what would happen if you nuked Cthulhu? He'd reform 15 minutes later, radioactive and mad" is a bad joke and doesn't really match the lore.

Right now we've got guns that could blow holes the size of a basketball in Cthulhu from close to a mile away, to say nothing of tanks, artillery, and even assault weapons and armored vehicles used by the police. A gang banger with an Uzi would absolutly shred a lot of the mythos monsters (albiet not all of them).

Pretty much Cthulhu would rise up, and last roughly long enough for someone to realize that he was a potential threat and respond in force, at which point he'd be hit by so much firepower that he'd actually miss the Yithians that kicked his butt the last time.

As far as insanity goes, while some sources have turned it into something of a joke, where Cthulhu is treated as driving people insane just by looking at him, in reality the idea of the insanity surrounding the Mythos in the novels was the realization that such things could exist compare to the psyche of the time. While a lot of people would be somewhat shocked to see such things, today people are jaded enough, and familiar enough with concepts like space aliens and monsters wher we would adapt fairly quickly as opposed to having our mind shredded that something as intelligent as us (or more so) and obviously inhuman could possibly exist. Even those who don't believe in aliens, at least acknowlege the hypothetical possibility nowadays and wouldn't be shattered to the point of dysfunction if proven wrong.

Ah well, enough rambling. This is probably too serious an answer for the discussion.

Give this man a medal, someone who wouldn't take Cthulu's s**t and would actually stand fighting, rather than serve the alien priest.

And how would his image turn us insane, he's a dude with a squid for a head, and dragon's wings...that's pretty much something similar to a Chimaera.

 

[linkzeldi]

Tell him to clear out all the enemies in a particular scribblenauts level. Duh.

 

[Oodleew]

On a serious note however, if that dude were to materialise on this plane of existence, I probably too would brown my boxers.

 

[Daestar]

I would hand him my DS, which has Scribblenauts in it, and explain how easily he's exploited in that game and doesn't so much as get a royalty. Fifthcell would explode within a day.

 

[Therumancer]

Gibber a bit. Then go find a steamboat.

Cthulhu ain't a god btw, he's an Old One. There's actually things that he worships as gods.

Like what?

Good question. HP was never very clear on the whole hierarchy above the Old Ones. Probably the Elder Gods. Or the Outer Gods. Azatoth'd be a good guess, or Yog Sothoth.

Well it depends on what you read. The thing about the Mythos is that it doesn't just include stories that he wrote, but also stories that he edited. In giving other writers advice a lot of things got co-opted into the Mythos.

As I understand things, Cthulhu primarily followed Nylarthotep/The Crawling Chaos I can't remember all his names but a lot of the deities like Azathoth are supposed to be forms assumed by that god. This is why they named one of the adventures for the RPG "Masks Of Nylarthotep" since it involved various guises of the same evil deity in differance places even though they were all basically the same thing and taken from the books.

The various gods are not buddies, which is one of the themes explored in the books. Deities like Bast and Yig are concerned with specific creatures and animals. Bast for example does not get along with the Azathoth aspect, and protects cats and to a lesser extent those who like cats. Yig is the same way except with snakes, and to a lesser extent native Americans. Yig also has a lot of demi-gods running around of various bloodlines. The story "The Journal Of Alonso Typer" (I think I have that right) dealt with a guy being lured to a mansion so he could be god-raped to pretty much restart one of the dying lines.

Yog Sothoth, Shub Niggerauth , and other deities all have their various roles, and truthfully keeping track of which ones are actually other deities can be hard. I used to remember it all a lot better.

As I understand thing the closest thing to an ultimate force is the deity known as Hastur which pretty much exists at the center of the universe. He's hardly benevolent, being pretty much above everything. As I recall Cthulhu's god basically wants to supplant Hastur and effectively rule all that is, which makes Hastur and it's minions an enemy of Cthulhu by definition. The idea being that the motivation for a lot of the conflicts that are behind the events in various stories are so far beyond humanity that it's ridiculous. The point being that we're here, worrying about our silly little lives, which are important to us, while there are all these forces around us that are so much greater and which are actively jousting for stakes no less than reality itself. The idea is supposed to make one feel irrelevent in comparison, and part of the concept is that our relative freedom and independance is because nobody notices us due to the level of the conflict. Should it end in any direction it's bad for us poor little mistakes who get to be enslaved again at the best, or wiped out/soul sucked/unwritten from reality at the worst. On some levels Cthulhu is kind of one of the more "benevolent" forces since by definition he'd re-enslave humanity and reduce us to comparitively uncomfortable existances of pain and terror as tends to happen to the slaves of higher beings. That's "nice" when compared to other potential fates as we at least get to survive, and in theory some could actually flourish going by the history of the Remnants in the story "the Mound" (ie if they hadn't gone insane, and maintained all their technology instead of falling prey to decadent degeneration).

 

[Simon1]

I for one welcome our new Eldritch overlords.

XD Simsons is the best show ever

 

[Oodleew]

You've done your homework lol.

 

[tehroc]

Go insane and murder you. It's nothing personal.

 

[Magnalian]

Realistic answer: I'd run like hell.

Awesome answer: I'd try to mount him. Then we'd fight crime!

 

[sb666]

i would call the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9z_ykYCxP4

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

Nothing.
I'd just die like everyone else.
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