tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post5568986371647516529..comments2024-03-25T22:48:31.750-04:00Comments on Dreams in the Lich House: The Black City: Who were the Greys?Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18031181424520125213noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-61879316553172683812013-03-14T17:33:19.172-04:002013-03-14T17:33:19.172-04:00A little late, but have to add this:
http://stran...A little late, but have to add this:<br /><br />http://strangedaze.comicgenesis.com/d/20040607.html<br />http://strangedaze.comicgenesis.com/d/20040608.html<br />http://strangedaze.comicgenesis.com/d/20040609.html<br /><br />An episode from a now defunct web-comic, a shame, as it was full of weird madness,right at home at your dungeon or Carcosa.Phaidroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05133331249007614168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-34295503427108408022012-12-31T15:35:27.254-05:002012-12-31T15:35:27.254-05:00Using sorcery to get Yog-Sothoth to help with inte...<br />Using sorcery to get Yog-Sothoth to help with inter-dimensional travel? Awesome! Feeding on the fungi which grows upon corpses? Extra awesome! The race driven to madness by some Dark Goddess? Awesome times 3! Although, I'd stop calling them "greys" pretty soon. Reading that word just evokes old X files episodes and laughable UFO chasers - not unutterable horror.<br /><br />VS<br />Venger Satanishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04447932700800930510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-16453978661170727922011-01-16T05:45:07.072-05:002011-01-16T05:45:07.072-05:00I prefer the racial suicide myself. It has more of...I prefer the racial suicide myself. It has more of that Lovecraftian nihilism to it.<br /><br />You could combine them. Perhaps the "suicide" was only of the mind, so they annihilated their own consciousness(es), leaving the bodies behind. Most decayed over the aeons (or maybe they didn't, and the Black City is full of alien corpses with no outward sign of the cause of death), but some lingered, mindless but somehow still animated. These are the Slaughter-Greys. Perhaps they're the rare few who resisted the call to suicide, and their bodies are now driven by a mindless rage.<br /><br />Or something.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-10778199298920984962010-12-30T08:39:08.270-05:002010-12-30T08:39:08.270-05:00I hadn't gotten that far in my thinking, but t...I hadn't gotten that far in my thinking, but those are some really good ideas.<br /><br />One of my goals will be to present the surface and upper levels of the dungeon fairly straight up, with some creepy atmosphere and weird elements, but save the awful truths about the creators of the city (and their demise) for the deeper areas within the dungeon.<br /><br />Once all the killing was done, these "Slaughter-Greys" or whatever their eventual name, would have retreated to the dank, warm depths and gone into hibernation, stasis, formed cysts, laid eggs, done whatever seems to make sense to allow them to lie in wait for (hapless) adventurers in the present day.<br /><br />I recently read CAS's "Vaults of Yoh-Vimbis" and really like the idea that the destroyers of the ancient race are still dormant in the ruined city.<br /><br />Another reason I don't want them to be presently active, is that I want some other creatures to have taken residence in the upper levels.<br /><br />One of my concerns is whether the Slaughter-Greys would have left the city's technology intact - I want to achieve part of the weirdness by having automatons and servitors still operating in areas of the city and dungeons.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18031181424520125213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-25943179923949105292010-12-30T01:06:41.163-05:002010-12-30T01:06:41.163-05:00I really like the direction this is going to!
Per...I really like the direction this is going to!<br /><br />Personally, I'd go for the second option for their extinction, as this would add a rather nasty signature-monster to your dungeon. I'd imagine them about 3 HD, but FAST and STEALTHY, surprising PCs with great ease and crawling on the walls and the ceilings. Think of Alien(s), just with Greys!Omer Golan-Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09242085820257230639noreply@blogger.com