- Fiona: The octopus was delicious!
- Ye Thuza: Yes… octopus…
- Ye Thuza: Since you were so fond of my octopus, I may as well give you a little jar!
- Fiona: Uhh, thanks.
- Ye Thuza: … Or even two!
- Fiona: Ooph!
- Yuna: See, mommy, summoning Shub-Niggurath wasn’t even so bad in the end!
- Ye Thuza: Bed time!
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Heh never underestimate the tenacity of the human race to outright genocide a species if they taste good.
@ Crestlinger:
I’m afraid than the good taste isn’t necessary 😋
Alan Richmon wrote:
If they taste good we try to farm it if we can… Now if we think it is a aphrodesac though…
Yes, eat the god. That won’t be bad at all.
Just because you can get the sale item home, doesn’t mean that it’ll fit in the refrigerator.
Oh, it’s totally fine eating an eldritch horror. It has many health benefits!
Warning: Side effects may inculde, telepathy, telekinesis, ability to stare into the outer realms of you universe, became aware of other horrors of the outer realms while simultaneously they become aware of you, losing the ability of discern yourself from all your other selves in the infinite multiverse, and becoming insane!
I have to worry about the hidden consequences of eating an elder god… XD
@ badbloodkiller:
The list of side effects is already indicative of insanity, so the end is tautological.
A person experiencing telepathy, telekinesis or becoming aware of intelligencies outside our universe is, socially and functionally, insane, regardless of the external reality of their perceptions. In our society, sane people simply don’t have such experiences. Instead, they behave like Ye Thuza: cheerfully donating parts of eldritch horrors as octobus preservatives. Her reaction is a masterful example of sanity.
Ye Thuza killing Shub-Niggurath?
Consider my suspension of disbelief broken…
Fiona… Fiona… ah, the mother of Matthew!
Hopefully Fiona got over the black hole incident. I especially liked that Matthew was implied to be rather religious & was getting along with Yuna.
Crestlinger wrote:
While taste has occasionally been the cause of a human-driven extinction, the usual reason is carelessness.
Lovecraft had an entire story about why eating the eldritch horror is a bad idea.
@ ServantofNorthia:
Trust me. Ye thuza is a strong woman!
bzzt…crackle#### hahahaha, come to grandfather Nurgle….####…crackle….
@ ServantofNorthia:
Actually based on the appendages ending in tentacles without claws, these might come from its youngs that were sent through the portal first. This would mean the portal was simply sealed and some parts of the youngs that were cut down in the process remained there. Otherwise the suggested protocol for these ramains is officially to “burn them all” and i mean not in the oven as food. (the required flamethrowers for this task are present in most religious households belonging to the order of Elon™ and in almost all east european evangelical protestant villages)
Good to see Fiona again, then Yuna hopefully still can play with Matthew. 🙂
I have moral issues with eating Octopus. They’re as smart as a 3-year old (one of only 4 species on the planet that get at least that smart – being humans, dolphins, african grey parrots, and octopus).
So, I have issues eating anything on a human level of intelligence.
However, bets are off if it tries to eat me first.
So, probably opposite to most people eating this comic, I was horrified at the beginning, and then pleasantly happy about the reveal.
@ Lurker 2:
Hm telekinesis is a measurable thing. So definitely NOT insane…
Kidnapped and hidden away in a secret lab maybe, but not insane.
Careful eating outer gods can have unexpected side effects like crazy dreams or suddenly being able to use magic
627235 wrote:
Yes, the carelessness of being noticed as a threat by humans.
Harmony wrote:
There is no consensus the the African Grey is smarter than the Kea nor the Caledonian Crow
@ Crestlinger:
mmm yummy meat. tasty
Dogs are clearly as intelligent as 2-3 year old humans and given vocabulary boards construct sentences of equal complexity. This may or may not be a good thing. Do you want to live with a two-year-old for twelve-fourteen years?
@ Crestlinger:
If you’re Dutch, this includes dodos and prime ministers.
Uh
*insert uncomfortable flashbacks to Diebuster here*
@ Valkeiper2020:
I believe the cause is usually greed.. The animal has parts that are valuable. Or they have the unfortunate luck of living somewhere that humans want to inhabit. (basically everywhere) Or maybe their head looks good hanging on a wall, or their skin looks good on the floor, etc…
@ Valkeiper2020:
We reserve this treatment only towards viruses.
Then again, nowadays only the viruses are a real threat anyway.
Alifer wrote:
It’s all good fun. Right until those who ate a piece of tentacle start having horned babies.
Assumptions about truly alien entities can be like that.
@ Algiz:
Trust me, not that strong 😉
@ guest:
This explantion I could accept…
“Iä! Shub-Niggurath! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!”
@ ServantofNorthia:
Just a minor manifestation.
Since it was summoned by a minor…
So this is how one is introduced to the World of Darkness
@ Brett Bellmore:
+1
Wonder if the pun-ishment will be major?
@ Harmony:
As you should.
Self-defense, everybody.
@ Novil
I still wanna see a comic addressing the current situation in Myanmar.