Thursday, February 21, 2013

Meet the Deep Ones

Deep Ones from Necronomicon

The next part of the story is up on the Raven Sorceress, the Call of Cthulhu game log. In this part of the story, you meet the Deep Ones, fishmen, which is displayed in the image. They journey further into town to discover more things about their predicament for both better and worse.  Afraid I can't state more without possibly spoiling the story.

However I can talk more about the art. There has been lots of interpretations of how the Deep Ones look from Lovecraft's stories. This being my own. They are described from H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" as follow:

"I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design - living and horrible."
This image is overlaid upon a paper texture to be on the gold pages of Necronomicon. Many of you who know H. P. Lovecraft's stories know what that is; for those of you who don't, let's just call it an encyclopedia of creatures and other related knowledge.

So enjoy the next installment of the story.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Welcome to Cthulhu

dark vision dream of world and door opensHello one and all. This day has been long awaited for myself. I had this idea at the back of mind for the longest time and it has finally taken form to reality through this blog and the ones it connect to. Since I'm just starting up I'll be starting with only one of the games I'm playing. I will add others and plan to add games I've previously played. All of which will have my art to go with the story, which will serve as an extra element as well as great practice and fun for myself.

This blog will hold updates for all the game story blogs as well as any none story related updates to the game. Which means all out of character things, extra information, postponements of updates, extra art, or other such things, will be here on this blog. This will help keep the story clear of any other postings as well as make it easy to track any of my stories by just watching this blog instead of every one you may be interested in. Of course, I'll always encourage watching any or all of my blogs.

So you can click on either the Cthulhu tab or here for the post of the first part of the continuing story. Feedback, opinions, and comments are appreciated. Enjoy