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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8289232" data-attributes="member: 42856">Simply considering that horror creatures are real and acting upon this knowledge would make the neighbours think one has lost his marbles. Let's suppose you buy a nice doll as a birthday present for your daughter, and despite being wrapped in a present package, you just trip on it while cooking fries... You were lucky not to fall and potentially kill yourself with the hot cooking oil.  You put the doll back in its package... then you see it by the chair in your living room, which is burning. Back in the package, AGAIN... You were sure it was inside, though... then you go take a nap and you're awaken by a sharp pain... the doll is in your bed, and a knife stuck in your leg... You take the knife, stab the doll, burn it in the fireplace until it's ash.Two hours later, your spouse get backs home and say "hey look, I've found a really nice doll on the stairs... it was surely abandonned, maybe we should give it to our daughter?". It is the doll, except with very slight traces of sooth on it. Chances are you'll yell in terror and smash the doll with a hammer. What will your spouse think? That you're not right in your mind. It has nothing to do with actual madness being contracted by being exposed to cosmic horror.If you know that 90° degrees angles attract hounds of Tindalos, it's rational to live in a round hut and put plaster over all the angles of your room. People will certainly comment on your mental health. If you know, on top of that, that an hostile distorted copy of you springs out of a mirror when you see your reflection in it and try to kill you, you'll smash them with a small hammer. At some point assault someone wearing mirrored reflective sunglasses. Explaining why you did that to a judge could lead you to being declared insane (after judicial experts can attest that you truly believe this nonsense and your ability to reason is abolished completely as a result). Same if you decide to protect yourself by tearing your eyes off to avoid the risk of having to hurt an innocent passer-by.I am not sure where the idea that looking at Cthulhu would make one catch a bona fide mental illness comes from. Mind crumbling totally seems more a trope of the original material than people suddenly getting anorexia seeing strange things in the woods... I guess it was introduced as a gamist penalty to have a SAN score lowered, to avoid a style of play where players say "it's alright, I'm at 90 SAN, I can tackle anything from the Myth without having to worry [and plan to retire the character around 30 SAN].</blockquote>

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