What would happen if you drained a Great Old Ones POW to 0

[vebor]

would they still reform, or is winning theoretically possible?

[jeferi]

Winning is not possible, you are only delaying the inevitable.

[Wood]

The only way I could think of where you could conceivably do this would be if you were in fact playing Stormbringer and your character was Elric, wielding the Black Sword (and in fact, towards the end of the Elric saga, Elric drains the soul of a god which bears a passing resemblance to Cthulhu. Elric is knocked out for days, his magic sword vanishes; meanwhile, the god is not destroyed; it is simply banished from Elric's plane for the time being).

Given the odd geometry and peculiar mathematics of a Great Old One's existence, draining POW would only remove it from one of its many dimensional facets. So yeah, I think that they would reform. Eventually. However, what are you doing introducing Great Old Ones to Stormbringer?

In a standard Cthulhu game, without Stormbringer's entertaining god-slaying shenanigans, there should be no way whatsoever one could achieve the act of draining a Great Old One's soul. Even if it were possible, the infusion of the soul energy of a pan-dimensional malevolence would in fact consume you, replacing your own soul and making you simply no more than an extrusion of the Great Old One, a tiny impermanent limb, waiting to be joined with the greater darkness of the whole. And working towards that (assuming the cosmic malevolence didn't immediately kill you or mutate you into something no longer even earthly).

But again, how the hell were you intending to achieve this? I mean, who do you think you are? Titus Crow?

[thor]

Calm down wood. I think he was just asking because it came into his head. But yes, since Great Old Ones (and many servitors) exist in more then one dimension, it would simply be gone for a while until it reformed itself.

[Wood]

Calm down wood.

Calming... dow-ia! ia! fhtagn! ia! ia-[slap] - calming... down...

OK. I'm calm now.

[thor]

Excelllent. Now, I'm going to count to 10. On 10, you will be under my command. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Good. Now, your going to give me your entire CoC collection. Yes that includes Beyond the Mountains of Madness. No I won't settle for Before the Fall...

[The_Usernameless_Horror]

If you drained a Great Old One's soul, it might well reform - starting with your newly ensouled body as a basis...

[Wood]

Excelllent. Now, I'm going to count to 10. On 10, you will be under my command. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Good. Now, your going to give me your entire CoC collection. Yes that includes Beyond the Mountains of Madness. No I won't settle for Before the Fall...

I'm not that calm.

Besides, I've already sold my copy of BTMOM to a mate. For a tenner.

[Cthulhudude]

I know what would happen to me, I’d look for a new keeper to run the game.

[David_Conyers]

I think there is a passage in Cthulhu Now which explains what happens to Cthulhu if he is hit with a nuclear weapon. I'm sure the same would apply if he or any of the Great Old Ones were reduced to ero POW. Also, the scenario "Bad Moon Rising" in The Great Old One tells us that the GOO and Outer Gods will survive through to the next universe.

[vebor]

So, basically, it still woudlnt work.
*was thinking of posting this in mankind vs the mythos threads*

[TheKingInYellow]

Theoretically, could a Great Old One destroy another Great Old One?

[Sinclair]

Destroying a GOO is theoretically possible, but come on. Their territory will just be taken over by the next unknowable horror.

"Hey, Flayer-of-Souls, didja hear that Trcthrntchn bit it?"
"No way! His couch made of the still-living flesh of pitiful human young is SO MINE!"
"Better stay away from his wife, though! I have to, uh, "console the grieving widow" with my, uh, mighty pseudopod."
"His wife? Her protoplasm is all chunky! Your taste in technically-females is HORRENDOUS!"
"Yeah, like you'd know about that, what with your avatar wearing PINK FREAKIN' ROBES."
"F*** you."

[FunGuyfromYuggoth]

I know what would happen to me, I’d look for a new keeper to run the game.

Oh ye of little faith! Can't you see that the Keeper is obviously building up to something truly fantastic? Wouldn't you want to take over R'lyeh and curl up on Cthulhu's posturpedic stone slab? You would be the King. All hail the King! :P

Given the odd geometry and peculiar mathematics of a Great Old One's existence, draining POW would only remove it from one of its many dimensional facets. So yeah, I think that they would reform. Eventually. However, what are you doing introducing Great Old Ones to Stormbringer?

Haha! Obviously, if that's the casen, then Elric's universe has a shortage of infernal, capricious, Lords of Chaos!

Seriously, I refer this thread to:
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/modules.p...ewtopic&t=2285 for further evaluation until we are sure it isn't a risk to itself or other threads.

Next patient!

[Wood]

Given the odd geometry and peculiar mathematics of a Great Old One's existence, draining POW would only remove it from one of its many dimensional facets. So yeah, I think that they would reform. Eventually. However, what are you doing introducing Great Old Ones to Stormbringer?

Haha! Obviously, if that's the casen, then Elric's universe has a shortage of infernal, capricious, Lords of Chaos!

Have you read the Elric novel where the world ends? He takes out about a half-dozen gods singlehanded. Including Cthu-*cough* Pyaray. Serious deity depopulation, man.