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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kipling" data-source="post: 1224967" data-attributes="member: 14955">More threads to tie it togetherGhouls would work in a meat-packing plant, and they have masks on so nobody can tell they're ghouls, but they all have that vaguely slumped dispirited look.Or Tcho-Tchos. Because I read somewhere that too much refined sugar has ruined the taste of long pork (from the viewpoint of cannibals), so they have a specialized plant to get health food afficionados, for the primo cuts. People who have sworn off refined meats. And the Tcho-Tcho people are associated with Hastur, which ties into another thought I had last night...Suppose someone on the bus has a copy of the King In Yellow? And during that long stretch in the Midwest where (to eastern eyes, anyway) every town looks pretty much like another, the town they're starting to resemble is Carcosa? Every set of city boundaries is that much closer to Carcosa... But, darnit, I can't find the Carcosa references in the d20 rule book right now. It's okay, there's no rush, but it irritates me that I can't find them.And then suppose that there's someone else who gets on the bus who has taken the Unspeakable Oath, kind of like the sample Chosen of Hastur template. At any time, if necessary, he can burst forth with terrible tentacles and all, if Hastur (or the gamemaster) deems it appropriate.Which is about the time they find out that the bus driver has been dead for some time, even though he's still driving the bus....And when they recover from that, they think the adventure is over, but they still haven't arrived at the destination city.Okay, I was never a big Hastur fan, but I'm seeing a lot of possibilities here, along with having a kid do the Name Game using Hastur's name...Hastur Hastur bo-bastur, banana fanna fo fastur, fee fie mo master, Hastur.Edit: And doesn't the name Yahweh mean something like "He Who Is Not To Be Named"? I like the idea of the cultist hiding in plain sight as a fringe Christian cult...though of course the idea might be repugnant to some, it won't offend my players. (Not quite...the belief is that the name of Yahweh was too sacred to be pronounced, so the Bible substitutes "the LORD" or Adoni in the Hebrew. But close enough for crazy cultists; they're like Mikey: they'll eat anything.)</blockquote>

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