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Reply Subj: Re: Indeed. Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 at 07:45:09 pm EST (Viewed 319 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: Shoggoths are risky, that's all. Chris has drawn his character inspiration from both the Lovecraft mythos and the Call of Chtulhu roleplaying game, in which even seeing an elder being can drive a human insane.Quote: I never read that stuff, so I've been going with what I see here. A few people have encountered the Fairly Great Old Ones, and the Shoggoths are regularly interacted with. So I've been going with that the *average* person would go insane encountering one. Our heroes are generally not the average person.Chris differentiates between when the Shoggoth is "cloaking" himself - trying to mask the sanity-shredding aspects of himself - and when he doesn't. He also maintains that people can be trained to interact with Lovecraftian beings without going insane. The Shoggoth is training the population of Lemuria in that fashion so they could retain their wits to repel an elder race assault on the Parodyverse. Quote: Then there's the secondary theory - that certain types of people are highly analytical and logical, and others thrive on the creative and abstract. The analytical/logical types are the ones who are easily driven insane by a Shoggoth because they try to hard to resolve it in their minds.Quote: Remember that movie Cast Away with Tom Hanks? He spent so long on that island that he couldn't deal with civilization right away. I imagine it like that, only it takes a few minutes and not months or years.I don't think I ever saw it but I get the analogy. Quote: It's something I came up with based on the law of conservation of energy - that the universe has all the energy it needs, etc. I extended that to believe if there are multiple universes, each one would try hard to hang on to its own energy - meaning Lara would have to leave every universe almost entirely drained. She recharges quickly, but it weakens her quite a bit to expend that much at once.By that analogy the elder beings essence is surplus to any universe's balance and every universe would be trying to spit it out. Quote: Quote: Quote: So the biggest problem for Lara would be how to avoid absorbing enough foreign Shoggoth energy that she can single-handedly corrupt part of the Parodyverse. It's like being radioactive and figuring out how to decontaminate so you don't kill everyone around you.Quote: Quote: A useful analogy, but don't forget that radiation also kills the carrier.Quote: If she couldn't purge it, it might. It's fortunate in her case that she does have the ability to purge the energy in her body.She'd need to purge the concepts from her mind too. The elder beings have that psionic and conceptual infection too. | |||||||
