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Description
I think their predominant
colour was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were
mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly.
Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were
the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed.
At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long
paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and
sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than
four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for
articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which
their staring faces lacked... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of
the nameless design - living and horrible.
The Deep Ones are
humanoid, amphibious men-fish, cold-blooded creatures of great
strength. They can attack with their clawed, webbed hands, or wield
weapons. They can see into the infrared end of the spectrum (SR = 3
meters) as well as in normal light. They live near the land on ocean
shelves and are able to travel to the land at any time and for as
long as they wish.
They have been known to interact with humans
and interbreed with them. This results in human-appearing offspring
who undergo a gradual transformation after the age of 21 that causes
them to become as the Deep Ones who spawned them. The Deep Ones are
soulless and apparently immortal. They continue to grow (albeit
slowly) throughout their lives, and rumor holds that truly gigantic
specimens exist in the depths of the sea.
These creatures promote
evil in preparation of Cthulhu's return. They do this by collecting
treasures from the sea and using them as funds to spread the cult of
Cthulhu and the Old Ones.
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