to whoever it was who...

[richardthinks]

...made me aware of Cookie Monster's deep introspection, thank you.
...suggested I go hot air ballooning, double thank you.
...put that leaflet concerning the Hermione replica ship project among the tourist attraction leaflet at the hotel, professional thank yous (how did I not know about this?).
...and thank you, scottbot, for telling me about the

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[richardthinks]

For me, one of the main differences between CoC and Carcosa is that in the former, when things get too crazy your investigator gets taken away from you, but in the latter you keep playing

[cdk]

Since there was no disclaimer, I assume being a CWR participant doesn't disqualify me from offering my solutions:

1) Where do you think Byakhee come from, anyway?

2) Aren't Hounds of Tindalos made of evil? So I guess the question is whether evil is an essential salte or not - either you end up with essential evil lying on the ground, or essential evil in your saltifier gun. I'm guessing the latter doesn't work out well for you.

[richardthinks]

you've kinda seen the byakhee solution - give 'em more than they anticipated!
You're not far off with the Hound, either, actually.

I prefer not to know if the Byakhee come from Aldebaran or from the bottom of Lake Hali - rigt now they're creatively ambiguous or to use the proper Hitean term, bisociated. To collapse the probability function you'd have to go through the tear in the sky and take a look.

[richardthinks]

oh, wait - were you saying that the caster should have turned into a Byakhee? That would have been badass. Although rather demystifying regarding eldritch evil and all that.

[cdk]

Yes, that's what i was going for. And yeah, demystifying a bit, but it does serve them right. Also, presumably, the low odds are a result of a proliferation of Byakshee; back when there were fewer, all it took was a regular critical failure.

[tregenza]

The Roman Mapping Tool - http://orbis.stanford.edu/# - is a bit special. Thanks for the link.