Tag: chakota

  • Chakota

    As the unholy memories of
    Silas flowed into his mind, James began to lose his sense of self. It
    was as if all the underground ceremonies of the past few years were
    happening at once, and each of them coming to their climax. They were
    others in the soul receptacle, and he saw through their eyes. He was the
    cultist, chanting forbidden abominations of ancient perverted cantrips.
    He was Silas, raising his knife and controlling the guardians. He was
    Mukunga, slowly raising the lid of the sacred well. And finally, he was
    the victims, struggling to escape this crawling horror coming from the
    depths of the well, the Chakota, the thousand-faced wormlike abomination
    made from the faces of its victims !

    This was the last vision of James Benneth before losing his sanity.
    May his soul rest in peace, ‘tough is not, we now it.

    – Excerpt from “The Masks of Nyarlathotep” Chaosium/Sans-détour “Call of Cthulhu” RPG campaign

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook from my Great Old Ones & Their Kin series for an upcoming Elder Gods Tarot project