Real Cthulhu Running Game

"I didn't expect you to be able to meet her in the island country. I don't know if you are lucky or not."

The King in Yellow smiled, looked at Rendell's hand and said: "But in terms of results, your luck is actually quite good, because even if I meet the Mother of Stars, I might be caught by her if I don't pay attention. It was devoured completely and you only lost two hands, which is considered a very lucky thing."

so smart?

Liu Xing looked at the King in Yellow with some surprise. He didn’t expect it to comment on the Mother of Stars like this, because in Liu Xing’s opinion, even in the face of Cthulhu, the King in Yellow would not say such cowardly words. .

After all, for existences of the level of the King in Yellow, even if they cannot defeat those Old Dominators, they still have a high chance of escaping.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing couldn't help but ask: "Great King in Yellow, what is the origin of this Mother of Stars? Why have I never heard of her name? And she is now appearing near Nagoya, Will it affect the direction of the Gongwu War?"

The King in Yellow smiled, shook his head and said: "You can rest assured on this point. Judging from the current situation, the Mother of Stars cannot come ashore to affect the trend of the Gongwu War, and she will not affect the battle against you humans. There is no interest at all, because it can be said that the Mother of Stars passed by the sea near Nagoya is a pure coincidence, after all, under normal circumstances, the Mother of Stars is wandering on the ocean."

Having said this, the King in Yellow paused and continued: "According to you humans, the Mother of Stars actually has a well-known title - Ghost Ship."

When he heard the words "Ghost Ship", a yellow-green stone statue appeared in Liu Xing's mind. This stone statue looked like an abstract woman.

The reason why Liu Xing remembers this stone statue is mainly because it looks very similar to the ancient mythical beast in the second part of "Digimon".

Of course, at this time Liu Xing also remembered the origin of this mother of stars.

First of all, it is worth mentioning that the Cthulhu Mythology was laid down by the great God of Love Craftsmanship, and then carried forward by Drake. However, in addition to them, there are many authors who have contributed to the Cthulhu Mythology system, so today’s Cthulhu Mythology The system has grown so large that some of the Old Ones and mythical creatures created by other authors have become less famous.

This is just like everyone in China knows about Sun Wukong, but they don’t even know the names of some monsters in the Journey to the West mythology system, because most Chinese people are exposed to "Journey to the West" through animation and TV series. Due to length and other restrictions in animations and TV series, some less important plots are simply ignored. For example, the godmother of the two actors, Yalong Laoxian, only goes through a cutscene in the TV series and then disappears.

You must know that this Dragon-pressing Old Immortal is also considered a big figure among monsters in the original work. After all, everyone knows that Jinyin Erjiao was a boy under Taishang Laojun, so it means that this Dragon-pressing Old Immortal can become their godmother. Many things have been mentioned, not to mention that Jinyin Erjiao also mentioned that there are several magic weapons in the cave of Old Immortal Pressure Dragon, such as the Golden Rope.

Of course, this old immortal is pretty good, but some of the gods and monsters who appeared in the original work have never appeared in the TV series at all, so this has led to many people who only watch the TV series "Journey to the West" not knowing about them. exist, but these gods and monsters are indeed the characters in "Journey to the West".

Therefore, the situation of Mother of Stars is somewhat similar to that of Old Immortal Pressure Dragon. They are both named entities in the original works, but because they do not have much appearance time and roles in related works, many fans have wondered if If you don’t have a deep understanding of the relevant works, you won’t know they exist.

The reason why Liu Xing knew about the Mother of Stars was because when Liu Xing was a bystander in college, he had seen a module that Wu Lei participated in. The final boss of this module was the Mother of Stars, and this Mother of Stars The mother is also the most special old ruler in the Cthulhu mythology.

First of all, Kevin Ross, the author of Mother of Stars, can be said to be one of the best successors to Love Craftsman, so his related works are very consistent with the original works of Love Craftsman, so his works are not actually unpopular. . . It's just that Liu Xing is still a Cthulhu running game player who has become a monk in the end, so he knows the name Kevin Ross, but has never read even one of his books.

Well, of course, even among the works written by the master of craftsmanship, Liu Xing has only read the most famous ones, such as "At the Mountains of Crazy" and so on. . .

Ahem, let’s not talk about this anymore. If we talk about Liu Xing again, I feel that if I appear as a fake fan in the Cthulhu Run game lobby, I may be despised by other players.

Because Kevin Ross's writing style is similar to that of Love Craftsman, the setting of Star Mother is somewhat similar to the origins of the Old Dominators written by Love Craftsman. They all came from the boundless universe, and then Came to earth for some reason.

However, because Kevin Ross lives in modern times, his way of thinking and worldview are still different from those of the craftsman of the last century. Therefore, the origin of the Star Mother is very complete, unlike Csu Lu and other old rulers came to the earth with a "whoosh", and then they had only one goal of action - to destroy the earth. . . It can be said that the Star Mother is described in great detail.

The reason why the Star Mother is very special is because the Star Mother is almost the only real underage Old One in the Cthulhu Mythos.

Yes, the Mother of Stars was still in its infancy at this time. This was also an innovative move by Kevin Ross as a new generation author.

Of course, it is precisely because the Star Mother is still in its infancy that its abilities are somewhat weak compared to other Old One Dominators.

To put it simply, the Mother of Stars is a new generation of gods born in the depths of the universe. Her body is a stone the size of a baby, but she looks a bit like a plump woman.

Then hundreds of years ago, the Mother of Stars fell on the earth like an ordinary meteorite - as we all know, 71% of the earth's area is covered by water, so the Mother of the Stars fell on the earth unsurprisingly. In the sea, we happened to encounter a sunken ship.

Then, the sunken ship was assimilated by the Mother of Stars, and the original sailors in the sunken ship were resurrected to become its subordinates. Finally, the "renewed" ketch reappeared on the water, and wandered around. Sailing around with a purpose.

Yes, this is a ghost ship.

Because the Cthulhu mythology system has existed for decades, and after hundreds of authors have jointly created it, the seafood market has almost been wiped out by the images of the old rulers and mythical creatures. This makes the most important thing for a master who loves crafts. Kevin Ross, the best successor, has a headache. After all, if he wants to emphasize his legitimacy in the Cthulhu mythology system, he has to make the Old Ones he created closer to the attribute of "ocean".

So Kevin Ross finally set his sights on the ghost ship.

Firstly, with the emergence of shipping technology, ghost ship stories have emerged one after another, and new ghost ships still appear from time to time, so there is a lot to say here; secondly, although ghost ships and seafood are both related to " "Ocean" is related, but one of them is a living thing and the other is a structure. This also satisfies Kevin Rose's idea of ​​​​wanting to be better than the blue.

After all, for a person with dreams, he will definitely not be satisfied with being called "so-and-so's second" or "so-and-so's reincarnation".

Of course, in fact, modern explanations of ghost ships are already very complete. For example, some ghost ships encountered icebergs like the Titanic, but they were not directly sunk, but happened to be "caught" by the iceberg, and then As the icebergs continue to melt, these ghost ships regain their freedom and begin to drift in the wind on the sea.

There are also some ghost ships because they carry some cargo that is relatively soluble in water or washed away by currents, and then the whole body sank into the water relatively intact due to storms, and then those cargoes either dissolved in the water or were passed through. The water flow carried it away, causing the weight of the ship to be greatly reduced at once, so the ship floated to the surface again, and then became a ghost ship.

However, in the Cthulhu Running Game Hall, ghost ships naturally exist. In addition to the ghost ship controlled by the Mother of Stars, there are various types of ghost ships sailing on the sea, some of which are They are used as sea bases or secret transport ships by the secret church, and some are really controlled by mythical creatures such as ghosts.

However, no matter how small an ant's legs are, they are still meat, so no matter how "young" the Star Mother is, she is still an old ruler, so the Star Mother has become the well-deserved leader of the ghost ship.

But there is one thing to say. Players who know the Star Mother will feel that the Star Mother is a bit weak, because it looks quite intimidating as a ghost ship, but it is actually an enhanced version of the pirate ship. Only when it is close to the target can it release vines. To control the target, if the target is also a ship, it will send out its subordinates, that is, a group of zombie skeletons and the like to engage in gang fighting, and then capture the people on the ship and bring them to the cabin, that is, in front of the main body of the Mother of Stars. Become nourishment, or assimilate into its new servants.

So for players, it is not too difficult to defeat the Mother of Stars. As long as they have enough weapons, they can kill the servants of the Mother of Stars. If there are some more incendiary bombs, they can release the Mother of Stars. The vines that emerged are driven away, and even if they are brought to the main body of the Star Mother, the players will not be eliminated immediately, because the main body of the Star Mother also lacks offensive means.

However, although it is not difficult for players to defeat the Star Mother, it is very troublesome to escape unscathed. After all, the Star Mother usually only wanders in the sea, so the player's ship is destroyed by the Star Mother's ghost ship. After the attack, players will be embarrassed to discover a problem, that is, there is no other place to stay except the ghost ship controlled by the Mother of Stars.

If the player chooses to hold a piece of wood and drift with the waves at this time, he will either be caught by the vines of the Mother of Stars before drifting very far, or he will be exhausted and sink into the water because there is no land nearby.

Therefore, if a module in the real world releases the Mother of Stars as the final BOSS, then if the author of this module belongs to the evil camp, the best ending of this module will be the group destruction, but the players will not Become a servant of the Star Mother; while modders belonging to the good camp will ask the player to temporarily defeat the Star Mother, find a lifeboat on a ghost ship that has assimilated many ships, and then return to land while drifting or be destroyed by other Boat rescue.

As for the module that Liu Xing once watched Wu Lei play, its author is a very evil guy, because after Wu Lei and other players dealt with the zombie servants on the ghost ship, they set fire to drive back the mother of the stars. He grabbed their vines, and finally took this opportunity to find a way to cut off the vines used by the Star Mother to control their ships, and then drove his own ship away from the ghost ship.

As a result, just when Wu Lei and others were congratulating themselves on escaping unharmed, they didn't know that a zombie servant had been lying on the bottom of their boat at some point, and the zombie servant's hand was the true form of the Mother of Stars.

As a result, the ship of Wu Lei and others turned into a new ghost ship, and the Mother of Stars was upgraded from a two-masted sailing ship to a modern cargo ship because of the "mecha" she controlled. Its abilities in all aspects were directly improved. Going up a level, and this also opened the door to a new world for the "young" Star Mother, so the Star Mother in this module soon began to be like Kun Kun in some mobile game advertisements. Devouring Evolution, it finally directly controls an aircraft carrier formation. Not only can its servants fly carrier-based aircraft to fight, but it can also bombard targets.

But then again, Liu Xing feels that the performance of the Star Mother as the old ruler of the new generation is also very successful. It not only injects new vitality into the Cthulhu mythology system, but also does not deviate from the Cthulhu mythology. The main line of the system.

But as far as Liu Xing knows, the current Cthulhu Run game lobby does not seem to have the Mother of Stars appear, because there is no mention of the Mother of Stars in the player forum, and nearly 100% of the modules are based on land. There are only a few modules that will place the venue on the sea, just like the Yueshi module that Liu Xing once participated in. The enemies are mainly deep divers and fanatical believers of the secret church.