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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.
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. |
