Grian feels the Entity mocking him as he groans and leans back against a cold, unforgiving spike of bedrock at the bottom of Doc’s cold, unforgiving pit. He has tried three times to contact help, but everyone who is online or looking at their communicators is either busy or would get stuck themselves, or maybe they just aren’t getting his messages, and he has a stupid sprained or possibly broken wing and the slimes are avoiding him for some reason so he can’t even get them to kill him so he respawns properly and god, he’s miserable and hurting and hates that he hadn’t thought through diving for diamonds and -
He makes a frustrated groan as his message to his friends doesn’t go through again and, in a brief moment of stupidity, throws his communicator. It bounces off the stone. Makes him feel slightly better, but not much.
Slowly, he feels something lethargic curl in the back of his mind. Well. There he is, facing the consequences of his actions.
Oyunchimeg aka Yun, halfling aberrant mind sorcerer.
He’s my BF character in the game I DM. He’s a little weird guy, looking creepy, but very cheerful, with a kink for dwarf daddies… He’s recently acquired the Cloak of the Depths and Twinkleluck’s Hat of Surprises, homebrew magical objects you can find on Luca’s Emporium of Magic Treasures.
was explaining to my mom on the phone the concept of a cosmic horror and she hit me with the one hit k.o. of “oh you mean like horton hears a who?”
Explain???
me: yeah so basically a cosmic horror is the fear of a godlike being or entity so much bigger than yourself and your perception of the universe that your brain cant possibly comprehend it, often leading to some sort of madness in the stories because of this “break” in your perception of reality because this entity is so incomprehensible to your limited worldview. the concept is credited to h.p. lovecraft because of stuff like cthulu but the guy was also a massive-
my mom, interjecting: ah, so like horton hears a who. i get it.
