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The Great Auld Ones

 
 
Anthony
21:03 / 11.06.06
does anyone have an experience of working with this mythos that they'd like to share? i am currently as other threads have revealed, re-grounding after a rather extreme experience with the nightside & will contribute to the thread i've begun on this occasion
 
 
All Acting Regiment
22:45 / 11.06.06
Not to piss on anyone's parade but I rather think it's better to look at what Lovecraft's entities represent rather than stirctly following the exact rules laid down in the books.

They're all tied in with the sense of old grimoires, exploration and so forth, things buried deep underground- I think perhaps actual fieldwork might be more beneficial...and as entities, aren't Cthulu and friends rather intimately tied in with thr notion of teenage geeks locked away in bedrooms? Which of course might be a good thing, but maybe not.

I need to think this through more, it's probably quite objectionable at the moment.
 
 
illmatic
02:54 / 12.06.06
"Auld" ones you say? Yes, I do have experience of working magic with Geordies. It's a heavy business, I can tell you.
 
 
Anthony
07:15 / 12.06.06
lol.
i saw this area being tied in with the notion of "imminentising the eschaton" which may be in the last instance only catalysing one's own nervous breakdown writ large. it borders on enochian stuff, the vision and the voice stuff and represents the destruction of human consciousness in the primeval night. and may have too much to do with being locked away in one's bedroom, who knows. i think they can be used as a means to cross the abyss. whereas i think lovecraft was ultimately a guy who saw above the abyss but was afraid to take the leap.
 
 
trouser the trouserian
07:33 / 12.06.06
Old thread on Cthulhuoid Creepiness
 
  
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