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[camwyn]

... there are viruses that turn their victims blue. Iridescent blue.

Granted, it's mostly their invertebrate victims, since they just make their vertebrate victims (gouramis, cichlids, some frogs, etc.) horribly sick and die, but still- VIRUSES THAT MAKE THE VICTIM SHINY IRIDESCENT BLUE.

They call them iridoviridae. This is SO COOL.



... I want to infect the giant isopod with one.

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[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be easier to just paint an isopod?

Think of the custom effects you could accomplish that way.

And use photoediting software on the pictures...

[mephron]

I wonder how one of those would go over in Milliways.

A bright blue giant isopod, that is.

With a top hat and monocle.

[camwyn]

We have a trilobite tank, and they come in interesting colours, but no top hats and monocles yet... hm.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

You seem to be fixating on the isopod. I fear I have created a monster....

[mephron]

She was giggling gleefully reading Call of Cthulhu books.

It's not creating. It's just expanding.

[camwyn]

One day I'm going to either get my sketching mojo or my photomanipulating mojo together enough to patch a Grammaton Cleric seen from behind into a picture of one of the more horrific Great Old Ones rising, and then I'm just going to add the speech balloon: "Partridge? We need bigger guns."

ebony14, if it's any comfort at all, I was much like this about the Namib golden mole too, back when I first created the Killer Spleen Creature icon.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I remember. I was just concerned about being an enabler. I get enough of that with my roommates reading my comic collection.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

In reflection, I think the response to that comment would be, "Partridge has gone bye-bye, Preston. What have you got?"

[camwyn]

"A distinct sensation that if I hadn't taken enough Prosium to flatten a camel, I would be terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. Excuse me. I have to instigate a scene of unimaginable violence now."

[viridian.livejournal.com]

...

[camwyn]

Thought of your girl as soon as I saw my first iridovirus victim.

One of us! One of us!

[kittydesade.livejournal.com]

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[camwyn]

That, my friend, is truly gorgeous work.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

That's actually really cool. Pretty blue bug!

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[kittydesade.livejournal.com]

viridian pointed me to the post, I couldn't not do it.

For my next trick, Great Old One Green!

... actually, I still have the picture open... *messes*

[zwol.livejournal.com]

You mean like this?



(This is the best Cthulhoid monstrosity I could find on short notice. If you've got a better one, I'd be happy to splat whichever Cleric that is and his speech bubble on top of your image. Also, please forgive me if that actually is Partridge; I have not seen the movie.)

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

Oh good, and here I thought he was going to panic. :)

[camwyn]

I think that's ... aw, hell, that's Preston's evilnastybad second partner after Partridge gets shot. I can't remember his name. Still, it's a great start!

[camwyn]

Dude, the whole point of Prosium is to protect people from the Mythos. The nuclear war that nearly wiped out the human race? Instigated in a desperate but ultimately futile effort to stave off the onslaught of the Great Old Ones. Go far enough past the Nethers and out beyond Libria's known borders and you find lands where the world's gone strange, where rocks bend and twist around each other in shapes subtly wrong, where the rivers burble of things best left to lie in the remains of wrecked mountains and the stars fall one by one into line...

All the survivors agreed to the Prosium because it was the only thing that staved off the atavistic madness. One might not feel any more afterwards, or might feel all things blunted through the drug's haze and fog, but without that deep and primeval terror there would be no fountain of madness springing up at the thought of that which was steadily rising in a dark and terrible tide to overwhelm the world. Emotion was the key that allowed the things man was not meant to know access to the mind. It had to be stopped, if man was to have any sanctuary at all. It was for the species' own good, to buy time until- something; no one knew what. It was to buy time.

And it did, oh, yes, it did... right up until the day when something sang to DuPont in his dreams, and he put the dose aside, and learned such secrets as no man might ever recover from. He knew. He knew.

You don't seriously think Father died of natural causes, do you?

[zwol.livejournal.com]

That clearly won't do ... but that was the only still of a Cleric from behind in an appropriate pose that I could find. I don't suppose you could get me a vidcap?

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Dude ... how oddly Blood Wood. (Yes, the voices are still telling me to write that Earthdawn-themed roguelike.)

[ymfaery]

...

You're trying to make more people watch "Equilibrium," aren't you. Because the idea of crossing it with the Mythos is very.. intriguing. XD

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[ymfaery]

...

If you decided to make a whole series of colored Great Old Ones in Power Ranger colors, it would be the most disturbingly hilarious thing ever. XD

[camwyn]

It's a fun movie, and it's got Christian Bale putting bullets in people and frowning in puzzlement a lot while wearing impressively severe dark coats (which he's much better at than Keanu Reeves). And if you watch Dog Soldiers after watching Equilibrium your brain will do an interesting wrenchy thing as you try to reconcile the extremely profane but still friendly and decent Sergeant Wells with Father, 'cos the same actor played both men. It's best if you're into dystopias, though.

[camwyn]

I'll see what I can do. I've got the movie here, so maybe tonight.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Cool. Are you happy with the monster?

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[zwol.livejournal.com]

Did you have anything to do with http://syndicated.livejournal.com/bunnycomic/255504.html ?

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[camwyn]

No! But I am profoundly enchanted thereby.

Also I am adding that feed to my friendslist 'cos I didn't know about it before.

[camwyn]

It is an excellent monster.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

Just caught this today, and I reiterate, I really wish I had the time for Milliways.