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What You See

Although Alhazred himself claimed that no shoggoths
existed in the world, the terrible truth is that these
protoplasmic monstrosities have been around for

This massive clot of luminous black
protoplasm surges forward, eyes
and mouths and limbs forming and
dissolving from its mass in a churning
storm. The smell of rot and corruption
assaults you, and equally disgusting
is the squishy, unwholesome sound
of fleshy pustules and tissue forming
and breaking apart. It is the sickening
sound of birth, growth, and decay all
at once.

eons, far longer than humanity. Originally created
by the elder things as beasts of burden and slaves to
aid in the construction of their megalithic cities, the
shoggoths gained enough intelligence and will over
the generations to rebel against their one-time masters,
rising up to destroy the civilization of their creators.
The shoggoths dwell still in these remote ruins,
splashing on the midnight shores of hidden oceans or
surging through lightless tunnels, and woe be upon
those who foolishly stumble upon their domains.
Shoggoths can vary tremendously in size, but a
typical shoggoth is around 18 feet across and weighs
about 50 tons.

"Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes - viscous
agglutinations of bubbling cells—rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinitely plastic and
ductile—slaves of suggestion, builders of cities—more and more sullen, more and more
intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative! Great God! What
madness made even those blasphemous Old Ones willing to use and carve such things?"
—H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness

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