Shoggoth
The Shoggoth
It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train – a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
- H. P. Lovecraft, "At The Mountains of Madness"
The definitive description of shoggoths comes from the above-quoted story. In it, Lovecraft writes them as massive amoeba-like creatures looking like they're made out of tar, with multiple eyes "floating" on the surface. They are described as "protoplasmic," lacking any default body shape and instead being able to form limbs and organs at will. An average shoggoth measured fifteen feet across when a sphere, though the story mentions ones of much greater size. The Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred, found the mere idea of their existence on Earth terrifying.
HellMOO's Shoggoth is such a terrifying creature that dawdling anywhere even near it will cause fear and possibly mental illness. Shoggoths have a ravenous, unending hunger and their favorite food is babies.
If you aren't a woman, or can't seem to get knocked up, you could always look around for someone in the Crack Mansion willing to bear your children in return for food or drugs.
Shoggoths being what they are, look around for secret areas underground. They tend to leave piles of bones where they feed, and generally locate themselves near large amounts of children. Reliable sources say that taking or leading a baby to the Shoggoth's feeding place will cause it to rise up and suck the flesh off of the child's bones, leaving the grieving parent richer and more experienced...
