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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8363100" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, Stross' Deep Ones are a bit less 'out there' in the sense that you can NEGOTIATE with them. OTOH they are still completely incomprehensible, frighteningly powerful, and probably haven't destroyed us simply because we're just not important, like at all really. As for the 'Elder Things', there wasn't much talking to them in any HPL Mythos stuff, but they never seemed like a super malign race either, just weird and out there. In fact, few of the RACES actually are 'monstrous'. The Deep Ones were really the main targets of that meme. Great Race of Yith, they're cool. Beetle creatures from the far future, no problem. Fungi from Yuggoth, eh, kinda trippy, but as long as you make it clear you aren't interested in being containerized...It is the Great Old Ones themselves which seem malign, or at the very least extremely toxic, to us.</blockquote>