I want to take my players to Yuggoth in search of the Shining Trapezohedron. Have any published resources described what it would be like there or what they might encounter?
Basically the title. Aside from Whisperer in Darkness and Shadow over Innsmouth.
Yuggoth is said to be the home of the Mi-Go, as well as the place where the Shining Trapezohedron was created. It's a planet on the outer rim of the Solar System.
My question is, is Yuggoth ever mentioned to be a 'wanderer', or a 'stranger' or 'outcast' or any similar words? Additionally, is it said to be a planet that wandered into the Solar System, and not a true planet in orbit around the sun?
It doesn't have to be very specific, anything with the above themes will do.
I know this is a pretty odd request, but it's essential to a theory on another fandom.
Edit: Also, is any of this imagery associated with Nyarlathotep?
I am currently reading this campaign as part of my drive to enlarge my "portfolio" of ready-to-run campaigns (I have run Masks, Eternal Lies, Tatters of the King, The Two-Headed Serpent, some of them multiple times, and I read SoYS, HotOE, BtMoM and WitW in the past). I cannot help but notice that the scenarios seem to be very loosely interconnected, with a bit of a monster of the week feeling, and a somewhat uneven pacing. On the other hand, it does touch upon some interesting plots and locations, and I am wondering whether some Keepers out there remixed/edited the material to create a more cohesive campaign. I would like to hear about what changes you tried and how did it work out. Also, if you think my impressions are wrong and that I am not getting some of the awesomeness of DotB, I would also want to hear from you.
In my upcoming strategy game Hyperspace one of the playable civilizations are the Fungi From Yuggoth. As we know, the Fungi surgically carve their own species into various forms for special purposes. They are also willing to use their surgery and science to modify other beings (their infamous brain cylinders are an example of this).
As a kid, I saw the movie Angry Red Planet, and really liked it. About halfway through is one of the greatest cinematic monsters in history, usually called the ratbatspider. I decided to include an homage to this critter in my game, so I posited that the Fungi took a natural animal (the ratbatspider) and modified it into a bio-weapon. Of course it is also infected with fungus growths in the process.
I expect the fungi added a plug-in for a brain cylinder to control the beast, but it doubtless also retains its own brain for autonomic functions. I am sure it also has mechanical devices added, such as force fields, ranged weaponry, etc.
Anyway, here is the image we are using for the figure.
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Lovecraft states outright that the Fungi who fly to Earth are not the highest order of their species, and that most of the Fungi creatures do not fly through space (except I suppose in a brain cylinder). So me and my team constructed one of the more typical, and presumably more numerous planetbound creatures. Note the attached machinery (radar?).
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Intelligence report #181220
FROM: Admiral Georges Gates
TO: Special Agent Abraham Mannen
SUBJECT: Discovery of a ninth giant planet at the edge of the solar system
As you may remember from briefing #200314, astronomers have theorized the existence of a ninth large object orbiting the Sun beyond the Kuiper Belt. This region of space is beyond the reach of optical telescopes, and so vast that radiotelescope can't map it entirely. Instead, they observed that a handful of transneptunian objects (TNO, small objects which orbit partially or entirely beyond Neptune) had unusual trajectories, indicating the presence of an unknown gravitational force deviating them from their usual orbit while they pass throught the outer region of the solar system. Thus, the existence of a massive undiscovered planet have been theorized. In march 2014, our contacts in NASA expressed their concern about this new theory, for two reasons:
Nemesis
Some remembered the "Nemesis hoax" of 1997, where an unknown planet suddenly appeared and started moving directly toward Earth, only to be mysteriously deviated before impact. Althought we ignore the fate of the object, we always had strong suspicions that it remained somewhere in the vicinity of Earth. If the ninth planet is Nemesis, this would mean that an unnatural entity four times the size of the Earth is lurking at the edge of our solar system.
Yuggoth
Others link this new planet to "Yuggoth", a legendary celestial body described in rare unnatural texts. Yuggoth is supposedly home to an unknown and powerful alien species. While we believed that Yuggoth was Pluto, based on the testimony of Albert N. Wilmarth in 1931 along with many occultists and astronomers statements, this may have been a mistake. This new discovery correlates with statements from EBE1 (colloquially called "Grey"), who claimed that they came to Earth from a place "beyond Pluto". At first, this was interpreted as a way to say they came from outer space, as Pluto was considered the ultimate frontier of the solar system back then. In light of this discovery, this may mean the EBE1 are indigenous of the ninth planet or established a colony on it, and whatever alien intelligence controling them from afar is the "powerful species" living on Yuggoth.
Current development
Our contacts in NASA suggested in 2014 t
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Hullo all!
I'm running some adventures in Malta, and while researching to see if there were any published adventures set there, I found that the German version of Day of the Beast features a Maltese chapter in Book 2: Die Träume des Nophru-Ka that isn't in the English version.
Has anyone played or read the German version? Do the additional chapters improve the campaign? And -- specifically -- is the new Malta chapter of any use outside the campaign?
This is a short vignette I wrote in which a human space traveler meets the Fungi from Yuggoth.
THE FUNGI
The cylinder spoke: “Sometimes the ignorant call them Yuggothans, because they were once known as the Fungi from Yuggoth. But Yuggoth is just Pluto – an old forward base for the fungal scouts. The Outer Beings – which we Terrans know as Fungi, are the most marvelous organic things in all space and time – a cosmos-wide race of which all other life-forms are merely degenerate variants. The Outer Beings are more vegetable than animal, if these terms can be applied to the sort of matter composing them, and have a fungoid structure; though the presence of a photosynthetic pigment and its unusual nutritive system differentiate them from true fungi. Indeed, they are composed of a form of matter alien to this part of space.”
It continued its lecture, droning on as I looked surreptitiously at my timepiece. “Only a few species of the Fungi have the ether-resisting wings enabling them to fly through space, and these are by no means the most highly developed. They dwell in mighty cities – great tiers of terraced towers build of black stone. The fungus-beings need no light – they have other, subtler senses. Their prodigious surgical, biological, chemical, and mechanical skills enable them to modify their own forms, growing or carving them into useful functions, or attaching devices.”
Growing bored, I walked up and switched off the speech machine. What was the point? The brain, trapped in its glass cylinder, would just continue to propagandize about its masters. A panel opened in the ceiling and a pinkish monster dropped into the room. It scuttled on crab-like legs. It was repulsive, resembling a large crustacean infected by some terminal fungus illness. Spore bodies sprouted from its carapace, and its head was simply a mass of diseased-looking filaments. Machines of unclear purpose were cemented into its body. I watched cautiously, one hand on a hidden weapon.
The creature scuttled to the table and plugged the speech machine into a port on its own body. It itself began to speak through the machine, in a buzzing voice. “The human brain has failed. We have come down from the Seven Suns to seek a human agent. You shall be rewarded for guiding our messenger among mankind. He shall put on the semblance of man, the mask and robe that hides. Guide him.”
I backed away. It waved its limbs in a ritual pattern, entranced by its own rhetoric. “You must comprehend. Come w
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