Preventing Fairly Great Old Ones from waking up is a fairly major part of his job.




I'd agree about Liu Xi's technique, which is really about using void to pinch two bits of the sheet of timespace together for a moment. I'd argue that the Shoggoth and the elder gods work differently.

The Edler gods shouldn't be in the Parodyverse. They're a disease, a cancer. They can't exist within the laws of physics of a regular universe. While those laws previal, the elder gods "sleep" or are "dead". When they're awake what they do is rewrite the laws so they can exist, creating a place inimical to human life, where time and space and dimensions and mass and energy and life and death are meaningless. Without any of those reference points and bombarded with utterly incomprehensible alternative elements no human mind could cope.

The Shoggoth warps reality around him on a much smaller scale but he's essentially a pocket of different physical laws moving about the Parodyverse. The same is true of the other lesser elder beings. All of them can access the reality that would exist if the elder gods were awake and treat it as if it already existed - because if the elder gods do awake it always will have existed. They can travel through that reality but if they drag humans with them it's the equivalent of a human living in that altered set of physical laws, the mental equivalent of a body getting immersed in chlorine gas or sulphuric acid, something totally inimical to human wellbeing.

Now there are ways for humans to survive many inimical environments but they call for special equipment or training. The same is true for Shoggoth-travel. Any sensitive will find travel that way just plain wrong. Someone as telepathically open as Vespiir - with no training so far at all in any kind of psychic defence - is going to be the most vulnerable of all.

But see next issue.







There's likely to be a complication; but an interesting one.