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The Turn of Midnight Waters

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The idol in the Australian Museum

 

 

The crouching image with its cuttlefish head, dragon body, scaly wings, and hieroglyphed pedestal was preserved in the Museum at Hyde Park; and I studied it long and well, finding it a thing of balefully exquisite workmanship …. I thought … about the primal Great Ones: ‘They had come from the stars, and had brought Their images with Them.’
H.P. Lovecraft, ‘The Call of Cthulhu’.

Sydney, 1926, that wild and haunted city. There are gangsters on the streets of the Big Smoke. There is a mysterious idol in the Australian Museum. There is something nasty in the Harbour. And stone the crows, it’s coming ashore.

Check our our briefing page for The Turn of Midnight Waters, a two session Lovecraftian horror module to be run at Phenomenon, 10-13 June 2015.

(Idol model rendered in DAZ Studio and Photoshop).

Sydney Museum, 1925

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‘The crouching image with its cuttlefish head, dragon body, scaly wings, and hieroglyphed pedestal, was preserved in the Museum at Hyde Park; and I studied it long and well, finding it a thing of balefully exquisite workmanship, and with the same utter mystery, terrible antiquity, and unearthly strangeness of material which I had noted in Legrasse’s smaller specimen. Geologists, the curator told me, had found it a monstrous puzzle; for they vowed that the world held no rock like it. Then I thought… about the primal Great Ones: ‘They had come from the stars, and had brought Their images with Them.’
H.P. Lovecraft, ‘The Call of Cthulhu’.

Draft render for a Lovecraftian roleplaying project, DAZ Studio and Photoshop. (Click for full size image).

Roitina the Ceremonialist

roitina2A young Heortling Riotina ceremonialist. ‘No one ever knew what Roitina would do, but she always did it.’ DAZ Studio and Photoshop. (click for full size image).

Dark

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Phenomenon 2014 is here. And this long weekend, I’m running Dark.

Doing the Math

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No postwork! DAZ studio render, all hologram effects done in situ. A character illustration for Dark.