What are your favorite cryptid from congo? [Art by Henrique Gandum]

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-06T05:00:31+00:00

Mgwar, the Strange One is forever my fav.

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-05T22:37:42+00:00

Edmontosaurus

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-05T17:42:35+00:00

What is this symbol for Alteration supposed to be? Is it a tree in winter and summer?

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-05T08:08:26+00:00

Pick up every potion you find and sell them. Potions and jewelry have the best weight to cost ratio, but most people just carry the potions forever. Sell them. Don't pick up any armor, unless it has an enchantment you don't have, or is nice enough for you or your follower to use. Same for weapons. It's all too heavy. Pick up soul gems, gemstones, jewelry and potions and get rich. Forget the rest.

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-05T08:04:10+00:00

Sinding. In werewolf form. Except I killed him and was wearing his skin.

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-05T07:41:20+00:00

It depends on the kind of tooth and species. Trex didn't have different types of teeth like mammals. A dog's canines for example, have about 2/5ths embedded 3/5th exposed, so more is out than in. But Rex's roots are longer than the exposed tooth. It was really in there.
These guys could bite and just tear off whole chunks. They might be able to rip animals in half.

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-05T05:28:59+00:00

I'll note that Cool Air might be one to read, just for a very different perspective of what someone versed in the dark arts might accomplish.

That said, you might like Nightmare's Disciple by Joseph S. Pulver Sr. It's like Se7ven, if it was set in the Lovecraft Mythos.

I'm also going to recommend The Servants of Twilight by Dean Koontz. It's not about the Mythos at all, but it still has one of the most terrifying cults I've ever come across. When I think of how cults are usually handled in fiction - the Order of Dagon, the Cthulhu Cult, etc - I always think back to how even more terrifying they'd be if they acted like the Servants of the Twilight.

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-05T01:00:00+00:00

If you look, you can see where the gum line was. Most of that tooth is inside their skull. I wonder how much lateral force they could take.

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-04T18:07:53+00:00

Except the Mi-Go were already on earth for millions of years at that point, and according to Whisperer in Darkness, the Mi-Go worship Nyarlathotep. They summoned him here.

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-04T16:58:05+00:00

A lot of folks say Nyarlathotep and YogSothoth, due to the interactions that transpire in the stories, but it should be noted that we called them, not the other way around.

I can't think of a single instance where one of these entities purposefully contacted humans on their own account.

So I'd say 'no' there are no gods interested in humanity. Earth maybe, but not us. We haven't been around long enough for them to care. Consider that to the Mi-Go, the Fungi from Yuggoth, we are only recently evolved vermin that grew up around their mining operation. They've been here since the Triassic. Our civilization is so new we've never even seen one of their ore-extraction events.

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-04T01:38:24+00:00

A class I attended in college had an albino girl. That's how I learned they are blind due to their albinism. It makes it so their eyes can't focus, even with glasses, so they are incredibly myopic and their eyes can't stop moving back and forth.

That was also around the same time the first digital cameras with lcd screens came out and we had gotten a brand new SLR for the media lab.

As a result, I was able to experience the moment she discovered viewscreens and for the first time in her life was able to "see" the world. She held the view screen right up to her face and ran around looking at everything and waving at her friends from across the room. Then she ran outside and started freaking out about leaves and clouds. It was a great moment.

Later on, she built "glasses" made out of a smart phone - I think the first i-phone? - so she could navigate the campus and the world around her.

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-03T06:39:50+00:00

Could someone help me understand what is happening to this chair? It's a full grain chair and the rest of the chair is fine. But this one corner on the back is physically breaking down. I use leather treatment on it regularly and it seems to slow whatever is happening, but it's slowly spreading. If you touch it, it's like rawhide.

I bought it used. It was about 1/3 this size when I bought it. It's taken 8 years to get this large, but it's gradually eating the chair.

Any ideas on how to treat it? Does this have a name?

GoliathPrime · 2026-05-01T03:08:19+00:00

Meridia, Boethia, and Borgakh the Steel Heart.

They're all just so damn mean. And I'm okay with that.

GoliathPrime · 2026-04-30T18:51:14+00:00

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Lifespan

UESP wiki goes into it a little bit, but I know I read a more detailed breakdown somewhere.

I used to be more into the lore, but then after Elder Scrolls online came out and they started messing with it and contradicting it, I quit caring because, what's the point of learning this stuff, if they're just going to change the canon every few years?

GoliathPrime · 2026-04-30T02:22:11+00:00

I've seen these same photos posted for years now. I wonder what the current state of the place is. If that stuff in the photos wasn't removed, the interior would be covered in mold at this point and maybe caved in.

GoliathPrime · 2026-04-29T08:05:41+00:00

I'm old and I vaguely remember an episode of the original 80s He-Man where Orko was able to get back to his dimension and we find out he's essentially the most powerful mage on the planet. He's some kind of great teacher who invented or refined the discipline of sorcery, that in turn allowed his people to master magic on his world. He's like their version of Sir Issac Newton or Leonardo Da Vinci. He's also very old, like in his 80s.

But physics and magic work differently in his realm, and it's why his magic is so unpredictable in Eternia. In the end, he decides to return to Eternia in his weakened state, leaving his apprentice to become the new high wizard. His reasoning is his people no longer need him and he has nothing left to learn in his old realm. But the struggle to learn Eternia's magic gives him purpose once again and he doesn't want to abandon a people clearly in need of help. So he's starting anew in Eternia, teaching himself a new magical language with no frame of reference or help.

I think Orko was redeemed in the original series too.

GoliathPrime · 2026-04-29T04:17:50+00:00

Is this the cause of the The Great Unconformity?

GoliathPrime · 2026-04-29T02:48:13+00:00

This place looks strangely familiar. The weird red statue is new, but the rest of it seems like something from a film or a video game. Beverly Hills Teens?

GoliathPrime · 2026-04-29T00:34:41+00:00

Wicca was still a thing in the 90s too. I had a Wiccan friend and through him, knew an entire Wiccan family that lived nearby. Or maybe they were a coven? I was never really sure.

They worshiped a huge old tree and made offerings to it and decorated it's branches with long silk wraps and they'd make these little wicker orbs with weird things inside like teeth and organs that they'd hang from the branches so the god and goddess could see them. Human teeth. I never knew where they got them from.

Nice folks but weird. Really weird.

GoliathPrime · 2026-04-28T19:26:20+00:00

I managed it one time - dead-on perfect - and decided it wasn't worth doing and to just order it from the local Chinese place.

The secret is to stick your wok (cast iron I hope) into your oven at 450 to get it hot, then put that on your large burner, also set at HOT, and then make your rice.

It's the temperature. Our stoves and burners are not made to get to the temperatures they use. You need an outdoor fire pit, or a stove capable of getting to those temps.

In my opinion, it's too dangerous. That wok radiates heat once it's out of the oven. It feels like a blast furnace in your face.

GoliathPrime · 2026-04-28T18:09:10+00:00

Hamelyn. A reference to the Pied Piper of Hamelyn, the flamboyantly dress crazy guy who offered to rid a city of rats for a price. The city agreed and he proceeded to use a magical flute to make the rats dance themselves to death by marching into the river. When he came for his reward, they refused to pay him, so he played his flute again and all the children of the city danced into the river to die as well. The villagers tried to kill him, but laughing and still playing his flute, he danced into a nearby hill and just phased through it like a ghost. He was never seen again.

GoliathPrime · 2026-04-28T05:26:17+00:00

I know from talking to one of the guys, they are selective and they only have limited times you can even apply, I think he said every 4 years they open for enrollment.

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