a suburb of R'lyeh, cloaked from the licit spectrum of light and involuted through other spaces and dreams.
2
an arcology hidden beneath a great brine pool, wherein life from an earlier eon of the Earth is preserved.
3
a network of noxious alveoli down the throat of a black smoker.
4
an unmappable web of grottoes & flooded tunnels.
5
the rusted hulk of an oil rig, which sank after it exploded.
6
an alabaster maze carved out of a bleached coral reef, patrolled by abdead gestalts of sea life.
D6
These deep ones have an arrangement with a human community
1
to use their advanced biological magico-science to cure their ailments and injuries and prolong their lives.
2
to dredge up treasures and artifacts from the ocean floor to bring to them.
3
to hold at bay an extra-dimensional entity that would otherwise deliver unto them a fate more terrible than mere death.
4
to provide them with arcane knowledge.
5
to provide them with food, security, and weird gross fish-man sex.
6
to act as their intercessors with "true divinity", bestowing atrocious blessings and smiting their enemies.
D6
For their end of this arrangement, these deep ones
1
use the humans as their proxies in terrestrial occult circles.
2
are provided with the surface-drugs to which they are depressingly addicted.
3
intermarry with the humans so that they avoid inbreeding in their population.
4
are allowed to effectively LARP their days as humans among the community, satisfying some nostalgia & regret.
5
harvest psychic nodules from the minds of dreaming humans.
6
get the humans to infiltrate, surveil, and subvert surface-organizations which might present a threat or opportunity to them.
D6
The human community which these deep ones have an arrangement with is
1
a once-booming luxury resort town, now inundated by the
rising sea-level, with only a relative few clinging on to the sodden
remains, because of a memory of past glory or because they just can't
move anywhere else at this point.
2
a marginal neighbourhood in a crumbling coastal city.
3
a shanty-town populated by stateless castaways and climate refugees.
4
a permanent spiritual wellness retreat/cult compound founded by a podcaster with a messiah complex.
5
a communized yet simultaneously libertarian ship-breaking port and militia base.
6
an old, sleepy, mostly-forgotten stilt-village in a salt-marsh.
D6
The human community which these deep ones have an arrangement with
1
is growing resentful, believing the deep ones have given them the short end of the stick and are taking advantage of them.
2
blindly worship the deep ones as more-evolved beings,
and are planning a terrorist attack in their name, unbeknownst to the
deep ones.
3
are convinced they can rehabilitate the image of the
deep ones among other humans - they lovebomb visitors, and have a
bizarre "museum of curiousities" which documents their shared history in
a somewhat-deniable way.
4
believe they have been infiltrated by government agents, and so are paranoid and occupied by an ongoing witch-hunt.
5
has been sussed out by a wizard, who is in the process of figuring out how best to exploit them for personal empowerment.
6
have been contacted by another sort of mythos entity, who have made a competitive offer if they turn on the deep ones.
D6
These deep ones worship
1
a great shoggoth-mass which lurks beneath the Earth's
crust, which they believe will rise at the final extinction to
assimilate all life, replacing the blind branching of evolution with
panpsychical harmony.
2
Cthulhu - classic-style. They believe that at Cthulhu's
awakening they will be consumed and reborn as his star-spawn, able to
swim the void between worlds as easily as they now do the Earthly
waters.
3
the idiot-god Azathoth, as a sort of hyochakushin
drifted in from some incomprehensible higher reality, whose death and
rot feed the whole cosmos, and whose final consumption shall mean its
end.
4
Shub-N-word-ath, believing that fecund mutation is the
correct response to the changing world. This is a recent development for
them, the result of a charismatic movement.
5
Jesus, as part of a strange mystical sect of
Christianity, believing He is the child and incarnation of their
primordial progenitor Dagon, and discovered a way to survive the
destruction of this universe and into the next one.
6
the plasmic intellects of invisible stars which shimmer
with neutrinoic ghost-light - communing with these intellects through
vast subterranean pool-arrays.
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