Prepare yourself.
The Te Papa Museum of New Zealand has a new specimen locked in a vault: a colossal squid that will be thawed and dissected (they think!) on streaming video.
Here is the necromantic chamber.
Wait! No protective runes, no array of emergency thuribles, no pentagram, no mysterious idols of jade and obsidian? This may not go well.
The geometry looks pretty Euclidean to me. It’s like they’re not even trying.
A few Elder Signs scattered about here and there might be advisable. As long as you draw the correct one.
I honestly thought this was going to be about the release of the new Godzilla Blu-ray. But it’s even cooler!
I’m suddenly regretting eating all that calamari…
Moggie wins at #1. Thanks for the laugh.
Yeah, look at all those right angles. Have no worries, though, it’ll all go non-Euclidean once the sleeper wakes.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
I think there’ something wrong with your eyes. You can’t see how the frjcim edge of that coffin is clearly sukxbrind by 37 hyperdegrees off true, in as far as truth applies or can be determined in the q6%th dimensional sense.
Either that, or I need my meds.
s?
Found these in a box under the ticket counter, I think they fell out of my last comment, sorry.
Ben Wright @2,
That door in the back has a biohazard symbol. If it means anything to the Old One, it might mean “lunch”.
@8 & 9 Caitiecat
THAT was funny. Thank you.
And hasn’t anyone noticed that either A) he’s already been out hunting, in disguise
OR B) he’s already eaten whoever was in that chair, and not just thrown back the rubbery bits, but arranged them in an oddly creepy manner?
Which of the Elder Gods had wellies as familiars? I think it was Nyarlathotep, or maybe Yog-Sothoth, or possibly Paddington Bear.
knownot, blessed are they who are eaten first!
16th? nah I plan on sleeping in with a hangover. Us Old Ones party hard.
If they were in California, they couldn’t have thuribles. Breaks our laws against indoor smoke. They could use an e-thurible, though. Works like an e-cigarette, although I’m not sure its effectiveness against Old Ones has been tested.
That’s because in these Modern Days, the pentacles are done with lasers, the protective wards all run off laptops, and the idols can be replaced by virtually-imaged models.
Additionally, you wouldn’t want to electronically propagate the ritual set-up. The Intarweebz are just full of Eyes, and Ears, who would misuse it.
Hence, the use of this, the Before picture.
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The wooden coffin in The Strain was cooler.
Um, they actually have two of Them — albeit that’s by boring integer counting so the actual number they have is something far more undefinable — and This One(?) is clearly just the decoy…
I hope I still have enough cred with the old boy to get a good place in the line to be eaten.
Again?
yup.
but again, as in, this has actually only happened twice, ever.
I’m one of those fortunate folks that just so happens to live right by the museum. Looking forward to it.
I was referring to the Return of the Old Ones.
Nah, the Merican counterpart to The Laundry has it covered. The anti-nastiness rhunes are on the other side of the room. Myself, I am so confident I will actually go to the dentist on the 16th, a much greater horror.
still fits.
…or have i said too much?
*shhh*