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INIQUITY: add mud environmental hazard, add "The Dreams in the Witch-House" possible reference

2017-11-14T02:34:48Z

add mud environmental hazard, add "The Dreams in the Witch-House" possible reference

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	The grey mud sea on the jagged plain of The Broken Lands is implicitly made up of Hoard colonies. These were "other standard" extra-planar entities known to exist on many planes, similar to the [[Rolemaster\|source material]] behind other creatures such as the [[magru]], [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], and [[crystyl\|crystyls]]. These all tended to have unknown homeworlds, the inability to be summoned or only accidentally, and being known for finding their way onto other planes of existence. Hoard, crystyls, and [[traag]] were only implicitly present in the game, whereas Uthex gave the others different names mostly in the dead language [[Iruaric]].		The grey mud sea on the jagged plain of The Broken Lands is implicitly made up of Hoard colonies. These were "other standard" extra-planar entities known to exist on many planes, similar to the [[Rolemaster\|source material]] behind other creatures such as the [[magru]], [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], and [[crystyl\|crystyls]]. These all tended to have unknown homeworlds, the inability to be summoned or only accidentally, and being known for finding their way onto other planes of existence. Hoard, crystyls, and [[traag]] were only implicitly present in the game, whereas Uthex gave the others different names mostly in the dead language [[Iruaric]].

	The following is what hoard look like on the jagged plain. There seems to be no way to interact with them, and telepathy does not work in The Broken Lands. It is impossible to "reach out with your senses" outside the workshop, because "something seems to be blocking them." When you are too close to the crystal dome transportation magic ~~like~~ [[Spirit Guide (130)]] stops working. These factors interfere with the possibility of communicating with the hoard, and perhaps even keep them bound to this plane of existence, which may explain why they have become a whole sea of mud.		The following is what hoard look like on the jagged plain. There seems to be no way to interact with them, and telepathy does not work in The Broken Lands. It is impossible to "reach out with your senses" outside the workshop, because "something seems to be blocking them." When you are too close to the crystal dome it interferes with transportation magic, sometimes [[Spirit Guide (130)]] stops working. These factors interfere with the possibility of communicating with the hoard, and perhaps even keep them bound to this plane of existence, which may explain why they have become a whole sea of mud.
	<pre{{log2}}>		<pre{{log2}}>
	[The Broken Lands, Jagged Plain]		[The Broken Lands, Jagged Plain]
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	The mud is predominantly a grey-brown color, but there are patches of green and orange mud here and there. A thick, grey steam rises off the surface of the mud.		The mud is predominantly a grey-brown color, but there are patches of green and orange mud here and there. A thick, grey steam rises off the surface of the mud.
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			The boiling mud is one of the environmental hazards on the Jagged Plain, suddenly raining down on top of you in a way that would not make sense for mud. It will also hit you in rooms away from the mud, which if not a bug would refer to the Hoard phasing ability. These hazards may have been turned off. This hazard and the random meteor effect were active on at least the test server in late 2017.
⚫	If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind the Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind the Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley.
			<pre{{log2}}>
			A torrent of thick sludge suddenly comes raining down on you! After a brief moment of surprise, you realize that the stuff is boiling hot!
			You are injured by the boiling hot sludge!
			... 5 points of damage!
			Minor burns to right leg. That hurts a bit.
			</pre>

		⚫	If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, possibly alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind the Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind the Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley.

	These originate in globules of [[Ghostly pooka#Behind the Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"], which is a [[Moaning spirit#Behind the Scenes\|cross-reference]] with the shoggoths below the fallen red-litten city of [[Giant albino tomb spider#Behind the Scenes\|Yoth]], whose ruins were below the blue-litten Tsath. The bubbling grey mud, in the analog of the well of Shadow Valley [[Traag#Behind the Scenes\|filled]] with human and small animal skeletons, was described as: ''"The ooze and slime at the bottom seemed inexplicably porous and bubbling, and a man who descended on hand-holds with a long pole found that he could sink the wooden shaft to any depth in the mud of the floor without meeting any solid obstruction."'' Their basic omniscience along with the crystyl omnipresence, and the multi-planar coexistences of the analogous locations, implies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yog-Sothoth#Mythos Yog-Sothoth] who resembled [[Uthex Kathiasas#(B) Lovecraft\|iridescent globes]] and [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|corresponds]] to Kadaena.		These originate in globules of [[Ghostly pooka#Behind the Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"], which is a [[Moaning spirit#Behind the Scenes\|cross-reference]] with the shoggoths below the fallen red-litten city of [[Giant albino tomb spider#Behind the Scenes\|Yoth]], whose ruins were below the blue-litten Tsath. The bubbling grey mud, in the analog of the well of Shadow Valley [[Traag#Behind the Scenes\|filled]] with human and small animal skeletons, was described as: ''"The ooze and slime at the bottom seemed inexplicably porous and bubbling, and a man who descended on hand-holds with a long pole found that he could sink the wooden shaft to any depth in the mud of the floor without meeting any solid obstruction."'' Their basic omniscience along with the crystyl omnipresence, and the multi-planar coexistences of the analogous locations, implies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yog-Sothoth#Mythos Yog-Sothoth] who resembled [[Uthex Kathiasas#(B) Lovecraft\|iridescent globes]] and [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|corresponds]] to Kadaena.

			It is also possible that the Hoard are being cross-referenced with the mud footprints from something trans-dimensional in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dwh.aspx "The Dreams in the Witch-House"], which is a Lovecraft story possibly relevant to [[Castle Anwyn]] that is similarly themed to [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/tgsk.aspx "Through the Gates of the Silver Key"]. Shortly after the story mentions Azathoth and Nyarlathotep, the climactic figures from the "Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", it describes a dreamed otherworld scene identical to the jagged plain: ''"Gilman was half-involuntarily moving about in the twilight abysses with the bubble-mass and the small polyhedron floating ahead, when he noticed the peculiarly regular angles formed by the '''edges of some gigantic neighbouring prism-clusters'''. In another second he was out of the abyss and standing tremulously on a '''rocky hillside''' bathed in intense, diffused green light. He was barefooted and in his night-clothes, and when he tried to walk discovered that he could scarcely lift his feet. A '''swirling vapour hid everything but the immediate sloping terrain from sight''', and he shrank from the thought of the sounds that might surge out of that vapour."'' The prism-clusters would correspond to the crystal forest of [[crystyl]] entities.

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VANKRASN39: bts fix

2017-10-30T17:14:55Z

bts fix

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	'''Hoard''' were extra-planar collective entities in the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]], resembling seas or humanoid mud forms, while actually being [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Shoggoth colonies] of mutually self-aware single celled organisms. Hoard were able to sense all of the other hoard colonies across planes of existence, and when threatened would ''all'' know who and where to go if possible for retribution. In the humanoid form they were twelve feet tall, coincidentally the same height as the [[avatar\|avatars]] of deities, and when fighting could split themselves in half to increase their numbers. The colony would only die if its parts were too dispersed.		'''Hoard''' were extra-planar collective entities in the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]], resembling seas or humanoid mud forms, while actually being [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Shoggoth colonies] of mutually self-aware single celled organisms. Hoard were able to sense all of the other hoard colonies across planes of existence, and when threatened would ''all'' know who and where to go if possible for retribution. In the humanoid form they were twelve feet tall, coincidentally the same height as the [[avatar\|avatars]] of deities, and when fighting could split themselves in half to increase their numbers. The colony would only die if its parts were too dispersed.

	Hoard had a strange ability to sense dimensional warps they could travel through, and would wander across many planes of existence with no apparent homeworld. These had sorcerous and mentalist powers such as pain infliction, and physical contact with them would cause a [[706\|mind jolt]] kind of effect. While they did not have native plane shifting powers as did the [[dark vortece\|Nycorac]] and [[Crystyl\|Crystyls]], they did have innate [[Spectral miner\|phase powers]] which is relevant to [[Moaning spirit#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|the doom]] of [[Shadow Valley]] as it was originally near the portal. It was impossible to summon hoard, and they were immune to slashing and puncturing. However, those of [[The Broken Lands]] may have been artificial, owing to the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. Twelve feet is the height of the crystal dome as well as the statue of Morgu ([[Marlu]]) in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]].		Hoard had a strange ability to sense dimensional warps they could travel through, and would wander across many planes of existence with no apparent homeworld. These had sorcerous and mentalist powers such as pain infliction, and physical contact with them would cause a [[706\|mind jolt]] kind of effect. While they did not have native plane shifting powers as did the [[dark vortece\|Nycorac]] and [[Crystyl\|Crystyls]], they did have innate [[Spectral miner\|phase powers]] which is relevant to [[Moaning spirit#Behind the Scenes\|the doom]] of [[Shadow Valley]] as it was originally near the portal. It was impossible to summon hoard, and they were immune to slashing and puncturing. However, those of [[The Broken Lands]] may have been artificial, owing to the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. Twelve feet is the height of the crystal dome as well as the statue of Morgu ([[Marlu]]) in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]].

	==Behind ~~The~~ Scenes==		==Behind the Scenes==
	The grey mud sea on the jagged plain of The Broken Lands is implicitly made up of Hoard colonies. These were "other standard" extra-planar entities known to exist on many planes, similar to the [[Rolemaster\|source material]] behind other creatures such as the [[magru]], [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], and [[crystyl\|crystyls]]. These all tended to have unknown homeworlds, the inability to be summoned or only accidentally, and being known for finding their way onto other planes of existence. Hoard, crystyls, and [[traag]] were only implicitly present in the game, whereas Uthex gave the others different names mostly in the dead language [[Iruaric]].		The grey mud sea on the jagged plain of The Broken Lands is implicitly made up of Hoard colonies. These were "other standard" extra-planar entities known to exist on many planes, similar to the [[Rolemaster\|source material]] behind other creatures such as the [[magru]], [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], and [[crystyl\|crystyls]]. These all tended to have unknown homeworlds, the inability to be summoned or only accidentally, and being known for finding their way onto other planes of existence. Hoard, crystyls, and [[traag]] were only implicitly present in the game, whereas Uthex gave the others different names mostly in the dead language [[Iruaric]].

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	The mud is predominantly a grey-brown color, but there are patches of green and orange mud here and there. A thick, grey steam rises off the surface of the mud.		The mud is predominantly a grey-brown color, but there are patches of green and orange mud here and there. A thick, grey steam rises off the surface of the mud.
	</pre>		</pre>
	If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley.		If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind the Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind the Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley.

	These originate in globules of [[Ghostly pooka#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"], which is a [[Moaning spirit#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|cross-reference]] with the shoggoths below the fallen red-litten city of [[Giant albino tomb spider#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|Yoth]], whose ruins were below the blue-litten Tsath. The bubbling grey mud, in the analog of the well of Shadow Valley [[Traag#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|filled]] with human and small animal skeletons, was described as: ''"The ooze and slime at the bottom seemed inexplicably porous and bubbling, and a man who descended on hand-holds with a long pole found that he could sink the wooden shaft to any depth in the mud of the floor without meeting any solid obstruction."'' Their basic omniscience along with the crystyl omnipresence, and the multi-planar coexistences of the analogous locations, implies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yog-Sothoth#Mythos Yog-Sothoth] who resembled [[Uthex Kathiasas#(B) Lovecraft\|iridescent globes]] and [[The Dark Path#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|corresponds]] to Kadaena.		These originate in globules of [[Ghostly pooka#Behind the Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"], which is a [[Moaning spirit#Behind the Scenes\|cross-reference]] with the shoggoths below the fallen red-litten city of [[Giant albino tomb spider#Behind the Scenes\|Yoth]], whose ruins were below the blue-litten Tsath. The bubbling grey mud, in the analog of the well of Shadow Valley [[Traag#Behind the Scenes\|filled]] with human and small animal skeletons, was described as: ''"The ooze and slime at the bottom seemed inexplicably porous and bubbling, and a man who descended on hand-holds with a long pole found that he could sink the wooden shaft to any depth in the mud of the floor without meeting any solid obstruction."'' Their basic omniscience along with the crystyl omnipresence, and the multi-planar coexistences of the analogous locations, implies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yog-Sothoth#Mythos Yog-Sothoth] who resembled [[Uthex Kathiasas#(B) Lovecraft\|iridescent globes]] and [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|corresponds]] to Kadaena.

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INIQUITY: internal link

2016-06-23T08:53:24Z

internal link

← Older revision		Revision as of 03:53, 23 June 2016
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	If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind The Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley.		If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind The Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley.

	These originate in globules of [[Ghostly pooka#Behind The Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"], which is a [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|cross-reference]] with the shoggoths below the fallen red-litten city of Yoth, whose ruins were below the blue-litten Tsath. The bubbling grey mud, in the analog of the well of Shadow Valley [[Traag#Behind The Scenes\|filled]] with human and small animal skeletons, was described as: ''"The ooze and slime at the bottom seemed inexplicably porous and bubbling, and a man who descended on hand-holds with a long pole found that he could sink the wooden shaft to any depth in the mud of the floor without meeting any solid obstruction."'' Their basic omniscience along with the crystyl omnipresence, and the multi-planar coexistences of the analogous locations, implies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yog-Sothoth#Mythos Yog-Sothoth] who resembled [[Uthex Kathiasas#(B) Lovecraft\|iridescent globes]] and [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|corresponds]] to Kadaena.		These originate in globules of [[Ghostly pooka#Behind The Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"], which is a [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|cross-reference]] with the shoggoths below the fallen red-litten city of [[Giant albino tomb spider#Behind The Scenes\|Yoth]], whose ruins were below the blue-litten Tsath. The bubbling grey mud, in the analog of the well of Shadow Valley [[Traag#Behind The Scenes\|filled]] with human and small animal skeletons, was described as: ''"The ooze and slime at the bottom seemed inexplicably porous and bubbling, and a man who descended on hand-holds with a long pole found that he could sink the wooden shaft to any depth in the mud of the floor without meeting any solid obstruction."'' Their basic omniscience along with the crystyl omnipresence, and the multi-planar coexistences of the analogous locations, implies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yog-Sothoth#Mythos Yog-Sothoth] who resembled [[Uthex Kathiasas#(B) Lovecraft\|iridescent globes]] and [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|corresponds]] to Kadaena.

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]

INIQUITY: /* Behind The Scenes */

2016-06-20T08:22:02Z

Behind The Scenes

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	If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind The Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley.		If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind The Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley.

	These originate in globules of [[Ghostly pooka#Behind The Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"], which is a [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|cross-reference]] with the shoggoths below the fallen red-litten city of Yoth, whose ruins were below the blue-litten Tsath. The bubbling grey mud, in the analog of the well of Shadow Valley [[Traag#Behind The Scenes\|filled]] with human and small animal skeletons, was described as: ''"The ooze and slime at the bottom seemed inexplicably porous and bubbling, and a man who descended on hand-holds with a long pole found that he could sink the wooden shaft to any depth in the mud of the floor without meeting any solid obstruction."''		These originate in globules of [[Ghostly pooka#Behind The Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"], which is a [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|cross-reference]] with the shoggoths below the fallen red-litten city of Yoth, whose ruins were below the blue-litten Tsath. The bubbling grey mud, in the analog of the well of Shadow Valley [[Traag#Behind The Scenes\|filled]] with human and small animal skeletons, was described as: ''"The ooze and slime at the bottom seemed inexplicably porous and bubbling, and a man who descended on hand-holds with a long pole found that he could sink the wooden shaft to any depth in the mud of the floor without meeting any solid obstruction."'' Their basic omniscience along with the crystyl omnipresence, and the multi-planar coexistences of the analogous locations, implies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yog-Sothoth#Mythos Yog-Sothoth] who resembled [[Uthex Kathiasas#(B) Lovecraft\|iridescent globes]] and [[The Dark Path#Behind The Scenes\|corresponds]] to Kadaena.

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]

INIQUITY: /* Behind The Scenes */

2016-06-14T10:11:15Z

Behind The Scenes

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	The mud is predominantly a grey-brown color, but there are patches of green and orange mud here and there. A thick, grey steam rises off the surface of the mud.		The mud is predominantly a grey-brown color, but there are patches of green and orange mud here and there. A thick, grey steam rises off the surface of the mud.
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	If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind The Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley. These originate in globules of [[Ghostly pooka#Behind The Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"], which is a [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|cross-reference]] with the shoggoths below the fallen red-litten city of Yoth, whose ruins were below the blue-litten Tsath.		If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind The Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley.

			These originate in globules of [[Ghostly pooka#Behind The Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"], which is a [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|cross-reference]] with the shoggoths below the fallen red-litten city of Yoth, whose ruins were below the blue-litten Tsath. The bubbling grey mud, in the analog of the well of Shadow Valley [[Traag#Behind The Scenes\|filled]] with human and small animal skeletons, was described as: ''"The ooze and slime at the bottom seemed inexplicably porous and bubbling, and a man who descended on hand-holds with a long pole found that he could sink the wooden shaft to any depth in the mud of the floor without meeting any solid obstruction."''

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]

INIQUITY: behind the scenes, the colour out of space

2016-06-14T04:32:06Z

behind the scenes, the colour out of space

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	The mud is predominantly a grey-brown color, but there are patches of green and orange mud here and there. A thick, grey steam rises off the surface of the mud.		The mud is predominantly a grey-brown color, but there are patches of green and orange mud here and there. A thick, grey steam rises off the surface of the mud.
	</pre>		</pre>
	If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind The Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley.		If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind The Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley. These originate in globules of [[Ghostly pooka#Behind The Scenes\|"the colour"]] from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx "The Colour Out of Space"], which is a [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|cross-reference]] with the shoggoths below the fallen red-litten city of Yoth, whose ruins were below the blue-litten Tsath.

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]

INIQUITY: internal link

2016-06-07T07:31:32Z

internal link

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	'''Hoard''' were extra-planar collective entities in the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]], resembling seas or humanoid mud forms, while actually being [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Shoggoth colonies] of mutually self-aware single celled organisms. Hoard were able to sense all of the other hoard colonies across planes of existence, and when threatened would ''all'' know who and where to go if possible for retribution. In the humanoid form they were twelve feet tall, coincidentally the same height as the [[avatar\|avatars]] of deities, and when fighting could split themselves in half to increase their numbers. The colony would only die if its parts were too dispersed.		'''Hoard''' were extra-planar collective entities in the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]], resembling seas or humanoid mud forms, while actually being [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Shoggoth colonies] of mutually self-aware single celled organisms. Hoard were able to sense all of the other hoard colonies across planes of existence, and when threatened would ''all'' know who and where to go if possible for retribution. In the humanoid form they were twelve feet tall, coincidentally the same height as the [[avatar\|avatars]] of deities, and when fighting could split themselves in half to increase their numbers. The colony would only die if its parts were too dispersed.

	Hoard had a strange ability to sense dimensional warps they could travel through, and would wander across many planes of existence with no apparent homeworld. These had sorcerous and mentalist powers such as pain infliction, and physical contact with them would cause a [[706\|mind jolt]] kind of effect. While they did not have native plane shifting powers as did the [[dark vortece\|Nycorac]] and [[Crystyl\|Crystyls]], they did have innate phase powers which is relevant to [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|the doom]] of [[Shadow Valley]] as it was originally near the portal. It was impossible to summon hoard, and they were immune to slashing and puncturing. However, those of [[The Broken Lands]] may have been artificial, owing to the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. Twelve feet is the height of the crystal dome as well as the statue of Morgu ([[Marlu]]) in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]].		Hoard had a strange ability to sense dimensional warps they could travel through, and would wander across many planes of existence with no apparent homeworld. These had sorcerous and mentalist powers such as pain infliction, and physical contact with them would cause a [[706\|mind jolt]] kind of effect. While they did not have native plane shifting powers as did the [[dark vortece\|Nycorac]] and [[Crystyl\|Crystyls]], they did have innate [[Spectral miner\|phase powers]] which is relevant to [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|the doom]] of [[Shadow Valley]] as it was originally near the portal. It was impossible to summon hoard, and they were immune to slashing and puncturing. However, those of [[The Broken Lands]] may have been artificial, owing to the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. Twelve feet is the height of the crystal dome as well as the statue of Morgu ([[Marlu]]) in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]].

	==Behind The Scenes==		==Behind The Scenes==

INIQUITY: shadow valley tie-ins

2016-06-07T07:17:46Z

shadow valley tie-ins

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	'''Hoard''' were extra-planar collective entities in the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]], resembling seas or humanoid mud forms, while actually being [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Shoggoth colonies] of mutually self-aware single celled organisms. Hoard were able to sense all of the other hoard colonies across planes of existence, and when threatened would ''all'' know who and where to go if possible for retribution. In the humanoid form they were twelve feet tall, coincidentally the same height as the [[avatar\|avatars]] of deities, and when fighting could split themselves in half to increase their numbers. The colony would only die if its parts were too dispersed.		'''Hoard''' were extra-planar collective entities in the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]], resembling seas or humanoid mud forms, while actually being [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Shoggoth colonies] of mutually self-aware single celled organisms. Hoard were able to sense all of the other hoard colonies across planes of existence, and when threatened would ''all'' know who and where to go if possible for retribution. In the humanoid form they were twelve feet tall, coincidentally the same height as the [[avatar\|avatars]] of deities, and when fighting could split themselves in half to increase their numbers. The colony would only die if its parts were too dispersed.

	Hoard had a strange ability to sense dimensional warps they could travel through, and would wander across many planes of existence with no apparent homeworld. These had sorcerous and mentalist powers such as pain infliction, and physical contact with them would cause a [[706\|mind jolt]] kind of effect. It was impossible to summon hoard, and they were immune to slashing and puncturing. However, those of [[The Broken Lands]] may have been artificial, owing to the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. Twelve feet is the height of the crystal dome as well as the statue of Morgu ([[Marlu]]) in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]].		Hoard had a strange ability to sense dimensional warps they could travel through, and would wander across many planes of existence with no apparent homeworld. These had sorcerous and mentalist powers such as pain infliction, and physical contact with them would cause a [[706\|mind jolt]] kind of effect. While they did not have native plane shifting powers as did the [[dark vortece\|Nycorac]] and [[Crystyl\|Crystyls]], they did have innate phase powers which is relevant to [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|the doom]] of [[Shadow Valley]] as it was originally near the portal. It was impossible to summon hoard, and they were immune to slashing and puncturing. However, those of [[The Broken Lands]] may have been artificial, owing to the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. Twelve feet is the height of the crystal dome as well as the statue of Morgu ([[Marlu]]) in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]].

	==Behind The Scenes==		==Behind The Scenes==

INIQUITY: suggest magru may be absorber/hoard hybrids

2016-06-07T07:01:41Z

suggest magru may be absorber/hoard hybrids

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	'''Hoard''' were extra-planar collective entities in the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]], resembling seas or humanoid mud forms, while actually being colonies of mutually self-aware single celled organisms. Hoard were able to sense all of the other hoard colonies across planes of existence, and when threatened would ''all'' know who and where to go if possible for retribution. In the humanoid form they were twelve feet tall, coincidentally the same height as the [[avatar\|avatars]] of deities, and when fighting could split themselves in half to increase their numbers. The colony would only die if its parts were too dispersed.		'''Hoard''' were extra-planar collective entities in the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]], resembling seas or humanoid mud forms, while actually being [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Shoggoth colonies] of mutually self-aware single celled organisms. Hoard were able to sense all of the other hoard colonies across planes of existence, and when threatened would ''all'' know who and where to go if possible for retribution. In the humanoid form they were twelve feet tall, coincidentally the same height as the [[avatar\|avatars]] of deities, and when fighting could split themselves in half to increase their numbers. The colony would only die if its parts were too dispersed.

	Hoard had a strange ability to sense dimensional warps they could travel through, and would wander across many planes of existence with no apparent homeworld. These had sorcerous and mentalist powers such as pain infliction, and physical contact with them would cause a [[706\|mind jolt]] kind of effect. It was impossible to summon hoard, and they were immune to slashing and puncturing. However, those of [[The Broken Lands]] may have been artificial, owing to the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. Twelve feet is the height of the crystal dome as well as the statue of Morgu ([[Marlu]]) in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]].		Hoard had a strange ability to sense dimensional warps they could travel through, and would wander across many planes of existence with no apparent homeworld. These had sorcerous and mentalist powers such as pain infliction, and physical contact with them would cause a [[706\|mind jolt]] kind of effect. It was impossible to summon hoard, and they were immune to slashing and puncturing. However, those of [[The Broken Lands]] may have been artificial, owing to the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. Twelve feet is the height of the crystal dome as well as the statue of Morgu ([[Marlu]]) in the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]].
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	The mud is predominantly a grey-brown color, but there are patches of green and orange mud here and there. A thick, grey steam rises off the surface of the mud.		The mud is predominantly a grey-brown color, but there are patches of green and orange mud here and there. A thick, grey steam rises off the surface of the mud.
	</pre>		</pre>
	If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism.		If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism. This idea of the shoggoth mist actually arising from the "blasphemous, horror-fostering abyss" [[Night mare#Behind The Scenes\|appears]] also in [[Shadow Valley]]. As the [[Dark vortece\|dark vorteces]] may be an unnatural hybridization of the Nycorac and [[Blacar]], the [[magru]] may be of Absorbers and Hoard (shoggoths are globs of cells.) The sea of mud would be sleeping or dormant magru, much as the streams and ponds with color variations in Shadow Valley.

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]

INIQUITY: explain fog/mist, misleading boiling mud

2016-05-16T11:29:55Z

explain fog/mist, misleading boiling mud

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	The mud is predominantly a grey-brown color, but there are patches of green and orange mud here and there. A thick, grey steam rises off the surface of the mud.		The mud is predominantly a grey-brown color, but there are patches of green and orange mud here and there. A thick, grey steam rises off the surface of the mud.
	</pre>		</pre>
	If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language.		If the hoard correspond to something from [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"], it might be when the quest seeker "sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the mud of nether earth." The forest in this context would be the "crystal forest" of crystyls to their north, with the two seemingly avoiding each other. It is interesting because [[Iruaric]] is actually a telepathic language. While the boiling sea forms a dense fog, the mist circles the crystal dome and thins to the north, alluding to being hunted by [[Magru#Behind The Scenes\|shoggoths]] in [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx "At the Mountains of Madness"] where the haze is mistaken for volcanism.

	[[Category:ICE Age]]		[[Category:ICE Age]]