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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KingCroMag" data-source="post: 829821" data-attributes="member: 9997">Here is something of a challenge for you. I have always wanted to see a mock up of this city. I realize it is a difficult piece and if you did it too well we might all go insane<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> . But I think it would be really neat to see your idea of how it might look from the following description. R'lyeh. City of the Great Old Ones now lying under the Pacific Ocean. Castro, a member of the Cthulhu Cult captured in the swamps south of New Orleans on November 1, 1907, stated that the Great Old Ones slumber in their stone houses in the great city of R’lyeh, waiting for the time when the stars are right and the earth is ready for their return. He goes on to say that it is the spells of Great Cthulhu who preserve the Great Old Ones. For countless millennium R’lyeh sat abandoned and in deathless sleep, then a catastrophe struck and it sank beneath the waves. The uppermost pinnacles of the city and Great Cthulhu’s tomb are located at S. Latitude 47° 9’, W. Longitude 126° 43’, though the full size and extent of the city is unknown. On February 28, 1925 (EST), R’lyeh raised from the depth of the Pacific Ocean floor. There is only one recorded physical encounter with the city of R’lyeh, written in English text by Gustaf Johansen prior to his strange and untimely death. It is thought that he wrote the encounter in English to protect his wife from inadvertently reading it rather than providing a more accurate description (Johansen was Norwegian). Johansen encountered R’lyeh on March 23, 1925. Initially, Johansen describes a coastline of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry. At the pinnacle of the island stood a garganteous monolith that soared into the heavens. The monolith was surrounded by greenish stone blocks of unbelievable size. Though not describing any definite structure, Johansen describes broad impressions of vast angles and surfaces too great to belong to anything on this earth. This description collaborates with that of Henry Wilcox, who described the geometry of the place as wrong—abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions not of our own. Johansen describes the polarizing miasma of the place as mind affecting, creating illusions of insanity in conjunction with the crazily elusive angles of carved rock. He goes on to tell of climbing what he could only imagine to be a staircase made of titan oozing blocks which was meant for no mortal foot. Atop the monolith was an oddly angled door which he accidentally opened, releasing Great Cthulhu from his tomb. Johansen fled along with one other member of his crew, who later died. The island sunk again on April 2, 1925 and lies again as the tomb of the deathless Great Old Ones.This will be a great game aid for a game I am in.Thanks for your time-KCM</blockquote>

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