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General / Re: Tchort
« on: November 05, 2018, 10:09:44 pm »
thanks guys
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Oh.. damn
Thanks !
Really appreciated
You... you do realize he's joking, right?
If you've read Baxter's Ultima, I think something like the inter-dimensional space fungi that live in the interior of planets and have hive mind send a detachment in a meteor to colonize Earth. Those fellas caused Earth's Orbit to destabilize on impact and that produced severe weather changes, which resulted in agricultural disaster where plants were absorbing too much CO2 from the atmosphere and less and less minerals/vitamins from the soil because of slowed osmosis. In some regions the soil was rapidly ensalted because of the changed terrain and became downright inhospitable. Pockets of humans survived mostly because of forced adaptations of GMOs and a project was started to move the rest of the humans underground.
In the mean time the fungi were absorbing organic matter(it needs to be said that because of the chemisry of the Universe organic--that is carbon-based, life is statistically MOST likely) in order to increase their size and capacity, but in doing so they inadvertantly absorbed something else from the humans--self concious egoism. They became Tchort.
That's about the size of it.
Some of us are, indeed, fans of Lovecraft and we do draw inspiration from his stories and use his language, so to speak, when brainstorming or further developing ideas and concepts for the game.
I guess the Tchortists have a vaguely Lovecraftian-cult vibe to them, but only to a point. They're actually relatively approachable and willing to talk about Tchortism, where most cults to Lovecraft's Elder Gods are pretty insular.
Tchort itself is not much of a cosmic horror/eldritch god. Even though some parts have extraterrestrial origin (psionics, possible assimilated Godman DNA) you pretty much learn what Tchort is (whereas eldritch horrors are shrouded in mystery essentially by definition), and once you encounter the being itself, it's actually quite vulnerable (in contrast, it would be effectively impossible for a human to "defeat" an Elder God, and never in a million years would you be able to harm one with conventional weapons).
The cube is slightly closer, by merit of its unfathomability and mysterious origin, but I'd place it closer to Roadside Picnic (Strugatskys) than Lovecraft, as it's not presented, in and of itself, as something terrifying/fundamentally wrong.
Well... something Japanese comes to mind with one of the tentacles, at least...