THE COVER IMAGE TO JOHN TYNES'S THE GOOD LIFE

Getting some "Big Trouble in Little China" Orangutan Demon vibes here.

Ken

Huh, that's actually cool to know. Currently running a 1960s campaign based off the The Fall of Delta Green timeline - and my guys have already seen "Yeti" from afar in 1960 Nepal in Op MALLORY and captured a "rubbery" ghoul in Op HOUND DOG (Chile). They also have seen a fanmade autopsy report I've slightly adapted, of a ghoul caught eating corpses in the aftermath Conception/Valdivia series of earthquakes [ https://i.imgur.com/qFqXCEN.png ]. This furry apelike form being the intermediary between the two will be a great surprise :D

Threefold Brush

Ghouls are MOST DEFINITELY NOT FRIENDLY DOGS. DO NOT PET.

Dennis Detwiller

The classic Lovecraft ghoul is more of less like the desiccated dog-man image, but DG posits the interim states between human and ghouls in a much more pronounced manner than Lovecraft (see GRU-SV8 and other references). Ghoul-dom is not a binary switch when it is brought on by slow consumption of human meat, but a blending from human to more inhuman, and more inhuman still until it reaches full ghouldom. There are methods to near instantly flip the switch of course (the symbol of Mordiggian, for example), but most ghouls were likely once men who began to expand their palate to encompass stranger tastes. This type of transformation takes a long time. As such, interim states exist, and exist for some time. I imaged some of them would be more ape-like, or yeti like, before the rubberiness and thinning down began in ghoul "middle age".

Dennis Detwiller

Hm, why furry ghouls, opposed to the "dessicated dog-man corpse" design from p. 199 HB? Is either of them "canon"?

Threefold Brush

Brilliant, brutal, gruesome. Well done

Meep.

Midnight Platypus

I have to admit that I always think of ghouls as being more like friendly dogs than vicious ones, at least as long as they’re left alone. The Good Life is a great example—the more human ghouls are the real problem. (I also loved the intergenerational conflict!)

Claire Connelly

That description of Bruning's encounter gave me the idea of coming up with a list of symptoms for characters when they fail a sanity check. It's not to change them but to explain sort of what is happening. For example I might roll on the chart and the result is "You suddenly feel that you're looking at yourself from outside your body, unable to grasp what is happening around you before you snap back into yourself and realize what is going on". I hope that makes sense but it seems like it would add a little more flavor to sanity loss rather than just an abstract loss of points.

Mike Nusbaum

Cheers Mike!

Dennis Detwiller

Very cool! Dennis I'm reading Denied to the Enemy currently and really enjoying it. I don't want to post any spoilers but when Bruning encounters the thing for the first time I think that's the best description of someone losing contact with reality and on the verge of insanity that I've ever read. It's the DG fiction I've been wanting to read and I'm glad I picked it up.

Mike Nusbaum

Sadly, this turned out to be the last image my Cintiq 24 ("Art Burro") would ever be able to let me make. It died a gruesome electronic death earlier this week. Hopefully the new one (coming today!) will survive a bit longer.

Dennis Detwiller

You had me at "aye-aye fingers".

Steve Burnett

yum

Duran

Holy hell that is unsettling but very good

Max Mason

https://www.patreon.com/posts/good-life-79287738

Dennis Detwiller

What is the good life?

Dalton Wong