On Thu, 6 May 1999, Christopher D. Nichols wrote:

Not quite the roster I'd've pulled up, but passable.  Y'golonac's pretty 
weak; Cyaegha might have been a better choice.  Since its buried in Germany, 

Two reasons:
1.  Neither of us has ever read whatever story Cyaegha shows up in.
2.  Cyaegha is stupid looking.
3.  We have a specific story idea relating to Y'golonac.  He's not going
to be trying to duke it out in hand to hand combat with the EVAs, I'll
tell you that much.  

Also, I don't see Daoloth as a particularly good choice (see below).  Other 

Again, we have a specific story planned; Daoloth will not be engaging in
hand to hand with our heroes :)

options might be Glaaki, Nyogtha, or Zoth-Ommog.

Haven't read original story, haven't read original story, and (haven't
read original story and stupid looking in Cthulhu RPG book :))
 

Cthugha'll be difficult.  As a being composed entirely of plasma, with no 
solid mass, the Eva will be unable to touch this GOO nor can physical 
attacks hurt it.  Also, beam weapons are a doubtful prospect, and would most 

Keep in mind that EVAs produce AT-Fields.  We've seen EVAs physically tear
apart energy fields in the Anime as well.

likely pass through Cthugha with no damage or be absorbed.  In a ST:TNG 
fanfic I saw, the Enterprise killed Cthugha be teleporting hundreds of fire 
extinguishers into the center of Cthugha's cloud-body.  Somehow, I doubt 
that's a viable answer to this problem.

Well, besides dumping sand on him...:)
But yes, we have a plan for him too.

Hey, are the Eva's going to travel to the GOOs, like they did with Ithaqua?  

Yes, like they did for Ghatanathoa.

Because, as you may know, some of these Great Old Ones aren't found near 
Japan.  Yig and Tsathoggua are buried under North America in K'n-Yan and 
N'kai.  Yig's tomb in K'n-Yan is supposed to be under Oklahoma.  Y'golonac's 

Yep.  NERV-USA will be obliterated somewhere along the way :)

Lastly (in this section at least), while Cthulhu is really cool and all, I 
think that you really ought to place him before Nyarlathotep.  While he's 
got a lot of name recognition, his power level much less than 
Nyarlathotep's.  The biggest threat should come last.

Can't explain this without spoilers, but there are reasons why Cthulhu is
after the big N.  I'll just say that unlike most of the others,
Nylarathotep knows what is really going on here.
 

Actually, Daoloth is also an Outer God.  Although I really wonder why 
Daoloth would even bother turning up.  Only people who take drug that shift 

If the mountain will not come to Mohammed...

them into phase with higher dimensions are ever bothered by Daoloth, or 
occasionally folks who muck about with funny-looking sculptures.  And how 
would Evas be any use against something that effectively IS a higher 
dimension, and like Yog-Sothoth or Azathoth is probably a fundamental part 
of reality?

Who says they're going to slug it out mano a mano?  Or that everyone on
the list necessarily dies? 
 

And Hastur will either be the next one, or the one after. According >to the 
charts, that is.

Tokyo-3 in phase with Carcosa!  Film at 11.

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