Something for Consideration?

[Cybermancer]

Real sublte there, Petite Elfgirl.

[mrloucifer]

(I'm hoping Tabloid Hound or Ron might mention this on Lazlo, *cough* hint, hint *cough*

I would be honored to have Tabloid Hound post this... I'll try to get it in over lunch today. Thank you very much for finding this... TB would post more if I had time to find these items.

[mrloucifer]

Why thank you, sir! Who knew the esteemed Mr. Louis Cifer could be such a gentleman.

If you like, I'll dig around so often and email them to you (or post 'em here on the BTS site), if you want TH to have a more "active" role at Lazlo.

In the meanie wily, I'm just putting the finishing touches to my Closet Demon.

Closet Demon! Version: First Draft! Hopefully, up this Friday . . .

Oh.. there are many shades of Mr. Cifer my darling.

And yes, sending me email of the kewl links I could use on the society would be keen! Thanx Mucho Elf Girl!

[mrloucifer]

I have posted this (finally) on the Lazlo Society website.

this can go a lot of different directions as far where to go with it, but I did start with a hint where a supernatural creature might use fossils as its physical medium to wander the earth. So in theory a 43ft supernatural snake could easily show up in someone's game someday

Elf Girl rocks the Kazbah for finding this one!

[mrloucifer]

What about an entity that mutates any animal that it happens to possess, and its death sends the entity back to it other dimension, while fossilizing the victim?

Thats not bad!

[mrloucifer]

What about an entity that mutates any animal that it happens to possess, and its death sends the entity back to it other dimension, while fossilizing the victim?

Thats not bad!

Dibs on writing it up!

Just kidding. I think. Maybe.

I wouldnt dare take it from you PE, its yours.

[Lord Z]

I almost wrote stats for another giant alligator and a kraken-type of octopus for Court of Tarot, but the article was already being cut to the metaphoric bone due to running long. The possession-method is a better way of introducing crytozoology critters that how I was thinking about doing it. It fits the BtS mythos very well. I would definitely use such an entity. Don't forget some discorporation effects.

Go for it, P.E.G.!

[mrloucifer]

I almost wrote stats for another giant alligator and a kraken-type of octopus for Court of Tarot, but the article was already being cut to the metaphoric bone due to running long. The possession-method is a better way of introducing crytozoology critters that how I was thinking about doing it. It fits the BtS mythos very well. I would definitely use such an entity. Don't forget some discorporation effects.

Go for it, P.E.G.!

Giant alligators and krakens sounds pretty sweet to me!

[Jefffar]

The fossil record has even bigger crocs.

[Tearstone]

I have posted this (finally) on the Lazlo Society website.

this can go a lot of different directions as far where to go with it, but I did start with a hint where a supernatural creature might use fossils as its physical medium to wander the earth. So in theory a 43ft supernatural snake could easily show up in someone's game someday

Elf Girl rocks the Kazbah for finding this one!

There are a couple entity class creatures that can do the same, animate bones, machines, and fossils. Hmm... that gives me an idear.

[Lord Z]

This is only slightly off-topic, but it may be helpful in the giant cryptid discussion.

Here is some text from the theshadowlands.net:

In 1896., strange corpse was washed ashore at St. Augustine beach, Florida. Huge, deformed corpse arrived along with winter tides, attracted the attention of Dr DeWitt Webb from local Science and History society. Dr Webb prevented locals to do damage to the corpse until he coould identify it. That's how he saved first physical evidence that giant octopus do exist on the ocean bottom.
Dr Webb sent many letters to prof. W. H. Dall of National Museum in Washington. The corpse was stuck in the sand and doctor tried to turn it around first. "We couldn't move the corpse", he wrote, "and that means that it weighted six or seven tons, because twelve men with wheel and rope should be able to move anything under that weight." Later, dr. Webb came back with four horses, six men, three hooks, iron backups and with lots of hard wooden boards, and they barely made it to drag the corpse 40 ft. along the beach.
Now he could tell prof. Dall that this corpse has no backbone, beak, or anything else what could belong to a squid. The corpse was no squid. It was 21 ft. long and seven ft. wide, and the skin was 3.5 inch thick, and axe-proof. However, Dr Webb took samples of the tissue and sent them to Washington.
After short discussion, experts have pronounced that the corpse belongs to a whale. Smithsonian Institution conclusion was that "they cannot afford sending someone all the way down to Florida just to examine the corpse!"
But Dr Webb kept some of the samples in his basement. 75 years later, those samples were found by two scientific detectives, Joseph Gennaro and F.G. Wood, after they read about the event in some old newspaper. Gennaro, professor of the cellular biology at the University of New York, prepared samples for histological analysis. he looked at the samples through a microscope and immediately found out that this tissue doesn't belong to a whale. Neihter it was a squid. Looking one sample over the other, he was forced to conclude that the corpse really is an octopus. But, implications were almost unimaginable; the corpse of that size presented an octopus 200 ft. long, with legs the size of Broadway or Oxford Street.
Meanwhile, Wood reviewed the St Augustine documents. Yes, there were pieces of legs near the corpse; some of them were still fastened to the corpse itself. A local named Wilson saw a 32 ft. long leg western from the corpse, and three legs on the south. He said: "The one I measured was 32 ft. long and looked like it was fastened to the corpse, but I couldn't dig to prove it because it was quite deep in the sand, and I was very tired." Wilson's statement was honest and precise.
Ever since then numerous other corpses have been found, especially near Bahamas. People of Bahamas called that creature Lusca, and it is not a squid. It must have been an octopus.

I was a tour guide in Saint Augustine until a couple of years ago. I researched the lusca story and used it in my ghost tour. It was the only cryptozoology story in town at the time, and I think that no one has told the story since I left the company. It's a very well documented critter but not well known at all. What the above article doesn't mention is the connection between the lusca legends and hurricanes. According to the version of the legend which I read (source not referenced at the time), the lusca are giant octopi which live deep in the ocean off Bermuda and only come up to feed during hurricanes. A unseasonable hurricane passed near Saint Augustine on (as I recall it) November 30th, 1896. I mentioned the hurricane in the Court of Tarot article but not the lusca. The corpse was found around X-Mas. One U.S. Navy submariner on my tour told me that there is a particularly deep trench near Bermuda called the Tongue of the Ocean, and he said that he wouldn't be surprised if some type of giant octopus was living there.

This blogger did some excellent research on the subject here: Linkatron! The Wikipedia article is almost as good.

[mrloucifer]

An excellent Story Lord Z! It sounds like Cthulhu was buried to the the top of his head in the sand.