Previous:   Purplecthulhu Next: Zmia Garinia It is a strange sort of mask. The outside is a featureless dome of unlacquered hardwood, stained dark by years of handling. The inside, however, is contoured to a human face and lined with mirror-polished silver- viewed from the right angle, its concave face would appear as the uncanny un-face of the viewer. The mask is sewn into a length of undyed linen, intended to be wrapped around the entire head like an all-encompassing turban. Worn by any other means, the mask is powerless. The ritual of putting it on is as much the source of its power as the object itself. Certain ascetics  have made it their lives' work to achieve an understanding of everything through the contemplation of nothingness, and like all worthy tasks, it is a challenge with no simple solution. So, like all challenges with no simple solution, some decided to cheat. This mask was their attempt, and it should be no surprise that such cheaters would be cheated themsel...

For Glaugust : Classic Monsters as Classes. Howard Phillips Lovecraft Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star-spawn—whatever they had been, they were men! They are foreigners to this planet, not made under this sunlight- things from the outer spaces, past the many glowing holes in heaven's blackened dome, where nascent un-gods struggle to be born. Long ago, they came as visitors, hiding themselves away in obscure corners of the earth to study this unfamiliar world; the things they left behind, their discarded tools and scraps, were the Promethean fire that raised the Serpent-Men to their most terrible heights.  Many left. Some remained, and like all things of flesh, they begat more like themselves, and those offspring lasted generation after generation in their hidden places. They have been forgotten and have forgotten much, but the Starmen will always know more . Starmen Skills: 1. Vivisection. 2. Mechanical Engineering. 3. Chemical Engineering. 4. Electrical Engineering. 5. ...