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I hunger. You hunger. WE CAN FEED EACH OTHER without eating each other.

Why I made this thread:

Years ago I started playing Dishonored. Soon after, I found myself sidetracked; not knowing when I'd return (with several Lovecraftian games in my brain's backlog too). I just started into Dishonored again. Upon noticing Lovecraftian elements in the game, I almost thought I heard some chanting from the darkness beyond. Typically, the chanting would be coming from one of my friends on Steam, to whom I could simply feed some soup in order to get the chanting to cease. But this time it was no such mundane encounter. It felt as though--if I'd only just consume a little more, and a little more of the noodles of darkness--I could... Well let me just leave that in the darkness for now. Maybe later it can be used for fuel too.

What do you have to offer? What have you brought to us?
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Lust for Darkness has a lot of Lovecraft themes, including a chant. Although they went a little more Japanes with their tentacles.
His cat has a funny name
Angel 27 Jun @ 4:29am 
He lies that waiting, a forum thread of poetry or of memes. Absorbed thyself by an ocean of thought, he was a fish, there in.

(Loved Dishonoured too, mainly the dialogue from "The Heart")
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Soap 29 Jun @ 3:09am 
Originally posted by steven1mac:
Lust for Darkness has a lot of Lovecraft themes, including a chant. Although they went a little more Japanes with their tentacles.

This is the sort of word one can feed on. Even two, if they can refrain from eating each other.

The monsters are real I tell them. Real they are, for when one remains in the darkness long enough it'll mark a cause for the light to create pain within the person. But is it the person who feels inclined to turn away from the light when it causes them pain? Or is it the monster? It's a forced choice for the unwitting, and a forced behavior if they stay in the darkness too long. But they never listen. All get eaten by the monsters. Ever clever were the monsters who removed the ticks, and the tocks from the clocks.
Soap 29 Jun @ 3:23am 
Originally posted by Vendicator Senpai:
His cat has a funny name

Where the dead rest, the difference between comedy and horror is made greater by the gradual separation of each bone from all the other bones. Unless of course, someone takes actions such as molding all the bones together into a throne and then sitting upon it.

I learned this deeply when I went to a doctor's office to be treated for a sudden illness, only to find the doctor had become a lich. He still treated me because he needed more coins, and I let him treat me because I needed the medicine. Once I was better, I realized it was the wafting stench from the doctor and his minions that had made not only me ill, but also many others in the region. Together we went back to the doctor's with some hounds. We let the hounds chew on him, and then his skeletal minions after they'd fallen to the ground. The hounds needed to chew on something. The lich needed his bones, and those of his minions, to be divided up evenly. We renamed them: Chew Toys.
The human body is 40 - 55$ water.
The Earth is 71% water.
So basically, we're all a bunch of bowls of soup, sitting in a much larger bowl of soup.
IDK who ordered all the soup, but it's probably a Shoggoth or something.
Soap 29 Jun @ 3:41am 
Originally posted by Angel:
He lies that waiting, a forum thread of poetry or of memes. Absorbed thyself by an ocean of thought, he was a fish, there in.

(Loved Dishonoured too, mainly the dialogue from "The Heart")
:deadrat:
A thread of many Things. :deadrat:
:deadrat:

For those who are hungry for fear, I recently came upon a 2019 movie starring Nicolas Cage called, Color Out of Space. It's based on a Lovecraft story with the same name.
> I hunger. You hunger. WE CAN FEED EACH OTHER without eating each other.

Yes, because theoretically, a duel between two Eldritch monsters of roughly the same power level would likely devolve into a slow, drawn-out stalemate. I wonder what such a nightmarish love would be like - perhaps they would be perfect for each other, locked in an endless cycle of devouring, their severed limbs and plucked eyes regenerating instantly, only to be consumed again.
Soap 30 Jun @ 10:51pm 
It's fascinating to me how much stuff has content inspired by the works of Lovecraft, or the related/collaborated content of his peers. It also comes with the realization that if I never played video games, I don't know if I would've heard his name a single time. Or, if I would've heard/seen the name, I don't think I would've paid it any mind.

Originally posted by Daenoxiis:
The human body is 40 - 55$ water.
The Earth is 71% water.
So basically, we're all a bunch of bowls of soup, sitting in a much larger bowl of soup.
IDK who ordered all the soup, but it's probably a Shoggoth or something.

People have this wonderful ability of being able to look at the world one way, in one moment, and then see it in a completely different way in the next moment. In a Lovecraftian story, the Shoggoth is one monster, but the soup you've defined could be another.

Originally posted by Cinnamoon_dragon:
> I hunger. You hunger. WE CAN FEED EACH OTHER without eating each other.

Yes, because theoretically, a duel between two Eldritch monsters of roughly the same power level would likely devolve into a slow, drawn-out stalemate. I wonder what such a nightmarish love would be like - perhaps they would be perfect for each other, locked in an endless cycle of devouring, their severed limbs and plucked eyes regenerating instantly, only to be consumed again.

Oh that's very tempting. You make it sound so delectably intellectual; Or, perhaps it would be better for it to be intellectually succulent. A grouping of words to stir the reader's desire towards wanting to taste a brain. Not literally of course, ha ha. I'm no illithid. Although, I'd so hate for a drizzle of maple syrup on a monster's temporarily cracked-open head to go to waste. It's not as if the brain will be able to taste the maple syrup before the skull seals itself whole, trapping the syrup inside. It would be a waste for the onlooker not to have a taste while the two beasts are distracted.
Originally posted by Soap:
Oh that's very tempting. You make it sound so delectably intellectual; Or, perhaps it would be better for it to be intellectually succulent. A grouping of words to stir the reader's desire towards wanting to taste a brain. Not literally of course, ha ha. I'm no illithid. Although, I'd so hate for a drizzle of maple syrup on a monster's temporarily cracked-open head to go to waste. It's not as if the brain will be able to taste the maple syrup before the skull seals itself whole, trapping the syrup inside. It would be a waste for the onlooker not to have a taste while the two beasts are distracted.


https://steamhost.cn/app/2334320/Cthulhu_Keeper/

I added this game to my favorites a while ago, but I’m not sure how good it is. Also, I don’t know if there are any monsters in the Lovecraftian pantheon with brains that look like liquid ultramarine, encased in crystalline glass - like a candy with filling. If such a creature exists, that would be incredibly cool!

I enjoy reading scary stories from time to time because horror and fear spark the imagination - though I never draw gore or macabre art myself.
Soap 1 Jul @ 4:26am 
Originally posted by Cinnamoon_dragon:

https://steamhost.cn/app/2334320/Cthulhu_Keeper/

I added this game to my favorites a while ago, but I’m not sure how good it is. Also, I don’t know if there are any monsters in the Lovecraftian pantheon with brains that look like liquid ultramarine, encased in crystalline glass - like a candy with filling. If such a creature exists, that would be incredibly cool!

I enjoy reading scary stories from time to time because horror and fear spark the imagination - though I never draw gore or macabre art myself.

It does look cool, I hadn't seen that one yet. Thanks.

I believe there are more than enough Lovecraftian monsters, as well as lack of widespread implementations of a portion of them--that I'm sure several at least could be adapted to have such brains without it being too much of a stretch. Then there are also those monsters who are able to take on other forms. So, I think there are probably many options, though I've no idea if there is one who already meets your description.
Originally posted by Affronter:
https://steamhost.cn/app/399810/Call_of_Cthulhu/
That game looks fun thanks! :steamthumbsup:

Originally posted by Cinnamoon_dragon:
Originally posted by Soap:
Oh that's very tempting. You make it sound so delectably intellectual; Or, perhaps it would be better for it to be intellectually succulent. A grouping of words to stir the reader's desire towards wanting to taste a brain. Not literally of course, ha ha. I'm no illithid. Although, I'd so hate for a drizzle of maple syrup on a monster's temporarily cracked-open head to go to waste. It's not as if the brain will be able to taste the maple syrup before the skull seals itself whole, trapping the syrup inside. It would be a waste for the onlooker not to have a taste while the two beasts are distracted.


https://steamhost.cn/app/2334320/Cthulhu_Keeper/

I added this game to my favorites a while ago, but I’m not sure how good it is. Also, I don’t know if there are any monsters in the Lovecraftian pantheon with brains that look like liquid ultramarine, encased in crystalline glass - like a candy with filling. If such a creature exists, that would be incredibly cool!

I enjoy reading scary stories from time to time because horror and fear spark the imagination - though I never draw gore or macabre art myself.
Will also keep an eye on that game. Thanks! :steamthumbsup:
i offer a meat seed, which if tended to properly will grow into a wondrous meat tree.

behold, this cool cosmic horror rpg:

https://steamhost.cn/app/3373660/Look_Outside/

my personal GOTY thus far
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