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@Roklimber: Grr... the url isn't showing, so I'm uploading the picture directly. #horror
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If IO9 does another one of these things, they really, really need to use brackets next time. #horror
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And also Cthulu. Where's that guy been? #horror
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Everyone seems to ignore that witches need time and ingredients to cast spells. Things that Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, and Poltergeists don't need.
There is a reason that Witches are constantly getting their asses beat by precocious children. They're just normal people unless they've got days or weeks to prepare for something. Even if they do have that time, not EVERY witch has unlimited power. There is such a thing as a power scale here. You people seem to consider every witch in fiction powered over 9000. #horror
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And while I admit that Margaret Hamilton made me shiver when I was young, she wasn't the reason I had to sleep with the covers over my neck until I was 10. #horror
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@Unmarketable_Product: About those precocious children....
[jezebel.com] #horror
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Haven't had any luck finding any good ones lately though... Any suggestions of good books with witches in them? #horror
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Even in regards to competition I still feel very vehemently that unless the witch's power is defined than he/she can ultimately do whatever and nail any vamp to dust. All I'm saying: don't fuck with a witch. Never ends well. #horror
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The trolls call her Aaoograha hoa ("She Who Must Be Avoided"). #horror
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Obviously no one could do a damned thing to Head Six since she's non-corporeal but can still slam your ass into a mirror and is over 150,000 years old at least. #horror
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Usually, the summoning comes with ties that make sure that the creature doesn't attack the summoner and is sent back after it's bidding is done.
That is some powerful mojo.
No ordinary vampire could do that and few creatures could. The win still goes to the person who raises the powerful creature to do their bidding. #horror
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That's what makes them the Great Old Ones. #horror
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It's been a while since I've dabbled in D and D, but I remember coming up against some powerful wizards who culd summon and control some pretty nasty creatures.
Suffice to say, I blanket covered that process for all potential summonings when I shouldn't have.
Elder Gods are sure to have their own free-will, but if they show up, via someone's invitation/summons, that someone has either more power or more courage than your average vampire. Vampire's aren't inclicned to try something that ballsy, but witches might, even the lowliest, and that's what makes them dangerous. They are willing to play with Gods for the win.
@braak: Okay. The distinction between inviting, which would be politely asking a God to come to your assistance andsummoning, which would be ordering, is what I must have gotten confused on. I know if you're powerful or vain/stupid enough to call on one of the Great Old Ones, and he heeds your call, you're not someone I would ever want to trifle with. Again, not something normal vampires could do, but something a witch would undoubtedly attempt in the heat of a battle. #horror
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Here's what happens: not unlike Mephistophilus in Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, sometimes greater entities are "summoned" by lesser entities. What this means is, the greater entity has its attention attracted and then, for reasons unfathomable to us, plays along for a while. Why? Who knows? Certainly, since the Old Ones possess nearly limitless power, playing around with your mind isn't really anymore work than ignoring you.
Why not just destroy you on the spot? Well, probably a lot of people are destroyed on the spot, the way you or I might swat a fly that buzzes in our face. Naturally, not a lot of stories about that get passed around, because how would you report on it later on? It's not like the Old Ones issue a report of insects that they permitted some infinitely minor aspect of their personalities to annihilate.
And certainly, the witches are in no position to set the record straight. #horror
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Since the sprawling nuclear chaos that is Azathoth has existed since the beginning of time, and Cthulhu and his start spawn built R'lyeh nearly a billion years before human civilization, it seems more than a little unreasonable to posit them as a product of human belief structures. #horror
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