Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: wolf@cheshire.oxy.edu (Clinton Richard Wolf) Subject: Great Mother: Even Ultra-powerful Cthulhoid entities make mistakes every once in a while... Message-ID: <1992Jun8.174019.8804@cheshire.oxy.edu> Keywords: Kron, Great Mother, Seer, Blink, Lucas References: <1992Jun8.162238.23922@rice.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 17:40:19 GMT Seer hurried into the catacombs beneath the Low City, cursing as some of the sputtering pitch of his torch dropped onto his arm... Great Mother had summoned him, and for the first time Seer had noticed a strange new emotion in her telepathi connection to him: one of worry, and, yes, perhaps even fear... Seer had never known Great Mother to fear, and doubled his pace to reach her as quickly as possible, and get rid of whatever it was that was causing her such anguish. Casting aside the torch heedlessly, he hurried into the chamber and knelt before the massive, heaving bulk of his Mistress... "What is it, oh Mother?" asks Seer, the light of rapture in his eyes as he gazes upon her alien beauty... Great Mother's bulk shifts (uneasily? wonders Seer)... Different portions of her pasty flesh arise and attack each other, shrieking in rage as their rest is disturbed... A N O L D E N E M Y H A S S E N T F O R T H A P A W N T O D E - F E A T M Y P L A N S... (consternation) (worry) "Surely one of your power need not fear, Mother... If the pawn is mortal, that is..." I T I S P R E C I S E L Y T H I S T H A T C A U S E S M E W O R R Y... T H E P A W N S E E M S I N F I N I T E L Y P A T H E T I C A N D W E A K... (confusion) (bewilderment) "Then why fear, great lord?" M Y E N E M Y I S N O T A F O O L... T H E R E M U S T B E S O M E T H I N G M O R E T O T H I S P A W N... T H E P A W N M U S T B E R E-M O V E D F R O M P L A Y U N T I L K R O N I S S A F E L Y W I T H I N M Y E M B R A "As you wish, Great Mother... The Wasters and I will see to it immediate-ly... Who is this pawn you seek?" A P R I E S T, C U R R E N T L Y R E S I D I N G I N T H E D R A G-O N ' S I N N... Y O U W I L L K N O W H I M B Y H I S H O L Y S Y M - B O L... A W O O D E N R A B B I T... (smugness) (satisfaction) "A wooden rabbit? Umm... uh... YES, Great Mother! He shall be attended to, and shall regret ever having crossed your path..." G O O D... G O, A N D A C T Q U I C K L Y... a pseudopod rises out of Great Mother's mass once again, forming into Kron's long lost love... "For nothing must come between me and my dear Kron," she says, and laughs... and the bulk of Great Mother quivers with the laugh, pouring out a sea of hatred and delight into Seer's mind, following and echoing after him as he runs for the surface once again... To do a favor for his dear mother, as any good boy should...