"Dreads"
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"Dreads"
10th May 2016, 11:01 PM in Season One - Part 4: Havenport Hardcore
Average Rating: 5 (8 votes)
Author Notes:
Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
The fruits of Mercy's labors, gentlebeings! I present to you Dreads and the rest of the Shoggoths.

I will tell you that they were a lot of fun to design. :)

And as much fun as it would be to stay and play with them, it looks like Mercy found another part of the bigger puzzle. Yes, the Shoggoths are the ones who have been putting a lot of those flyers up...

Next: Mercy calls it in...

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SarahSophia
SarahSophia
Valentine and Absinthe belong to the Shoggoths? Boo! Well, maybe we'll see them evolve in the future.
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User comments:
Rd Ashes
Rd Ashes
What exactly is that thing on their symbol?
:-o
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
That is a stylised shoggoth. It would be very dangerous to show an non-stylised shoggoth. :P
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lirvilas
lirvilas
The bad guys, as usual, are having more fun than the good guys.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
And the good guys are all "why are we the good guys again?"

(SPOILER: Bad guys don't get to come to the big parties thrown by, alternately, Pogo and Marie-Ange Lebeau).
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anonymous coward (Guest)
Uhhh... only if you find insanity and BDSM-hierarchy fun I think. I understand that it's different strokes for different folks, but the kind of creeps who get off on kidnapping and ritual murder just disturb me.
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lirvilas
lirvilas
@AC: OK, OK, you have a point. I like my murders to be fresh and impromptu, not some hidebound chore.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
To be perfectly honest, these guys are all about chemical vacations.

I'll save that kind of creep for later...
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anonymous coward (Guest)
Well isn't this just a big mess? A criminal gang recruited as acolytes by an insane cult just screams, "The man fucked up, he fucked up bloody and scatological!"
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
A big mess? Welcome to Autumn Bay, man. :)

There are levels and levels behind all sorts of things. You never quite know what threads, when pulled, are going to unravel which bits of the tapestry. Sometimes, it's hard to know who your friends are, or who the good guys are in a scenario. Other times it couldn't be more clear.

So yes, this gang was recruited by the Church of the Starry Wisdom. These things happen. :)
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anonymous coward (Guest)
The definition of 'good and evil' is always crystal clear, good is the people on my side and evil is the people opposed to me. Appropriately assigning people and phenomena to those categories however is always difficult at best.
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Delta-v
FIVE Shoggoths? That doesn't leave much room for the "I don't know what's going on, but I want to belong to SOMETHING!" crowd. I was expecting a larger gang with a core group and lots of expendable extras. :)

Tweedledee and Tweedledumber obviously weren't Shuggoths themselves, or Mercy would have picked up on the location sooner.

And, no, I'm not disappointed--just a little surprised. ^^
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Who says this is the entirety of the Shoggoths? This is just the group hanging around Dreads right this moment!
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Delta-v
*Headscratch* Um, YOU did. You called them, "...the REST of the Shoggoths..." (emphasis mine). Of course, I'm happy either way. ^^

And they look like a pretty ornery bunch. :)
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Ah. I see. So sorry. I shall endeavor to be more careful in my word selection from now on. This was intended to be simply the Shoggoths hanging around Dreads right this minute.

And we will most likely see them again at some point.
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Milk
Milk
Happy 100th page, Prof! I hope you have the good fortune and ironclad determination to get even higher!
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Thank you, my friend!

I promise this one goes until the wheels fall off!

This is technically page 96 (the four extras are covers). But still, thank you! :D
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Milk
Milk
Update 100 then. I've got my eye on you! (b_d)
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SarahSophia
SarahSophia
Woo hoo!
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anonymous coward (Guest)
Gotta say, this author is already mainlining H.P. Lovecraft. How much higher do you expect Etheric to get and what kind of drug would could actually achieve that without killing him in the process?
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Microraptor
Microraptor
It's like poking around in a wasp nest - and vipers come out!
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
That is a very apt description. :)
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Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit
Ohh... They have some really cool designs.:D
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
ThankieS! :D
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Nef
Nef
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The green girl looks exactly like someone I know, except she's not green. It's uncanny!
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
Is this a good thing? Please tell me it's a good thing...

(It does me some good that my people look enough like people for this comment to be possible!)
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melaredblu
melaredblu
Even Mercy know when not to jump in.
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Professor Etheric
Professor Etheric
If she didn't, she wouldn't be making good money as a Shadowlight investigator. She's be worm food.
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