No, just a regular steamboat to the face, and Cthulhu was down for the count. For an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething astern where - God in heaven! - the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting steam." There was a bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand opened graves, and a sound that the chronicler could not put on paper. The awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but johansen drove on relentlessly. There was a mighty eddying and foaming in the noisome brine, and as the steam mounted higher and higher the brave Norwegian drove his vessel head on against the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth like the stern of a daemon galleon. Knowing that the Thing could surely overtake the Alert until steam was fully up, he resolved on a desperate chance and, setting the engine for full speed, ran lightning-like on deck and reversed the wheel. Briden looked back and went mad, laughing shrilly as he kept on laughing at intervals till death found him one night in the cabin whilst Johansen was wandering deliriously.īut Johansen had not given out yet. Then, bolder than the storied Cyclops, great Cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency. Slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of that indescribable scene, she began to churn the lethal waters whilst on the masonry of that charnel shore that was not of earth the titan Thing from the stars slavered and gibbered like Polypheme cursing the fleeing ship of Odysseus. Neptune’s festival (Neptunalia) took place in the heat of the summer (July 23), when. His female counterpart, Salacia, was perhaps originally a goddess of leaping springwater, subsequently equated with the Greek Amphitrite. "Steam had not been suffered to go down entirely, despite the departure of all hands for the shore and it was the work of only a few moments of feverish rushing up and down between wheel and engines to get the Alert under way. Neptune, Latin Neptunus, in Roman religion, originally the god of fresh water by 399 bce he was identified with the Greek Poseidon and thus became a deity of the sea. Plus can't Cthulhu just go planetary size? It's weird, cause didn't that ship go really fast and tear through his head? Though I believe Cthulhu recovered like one second after that.
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