Fungi from Yuggoth
Fungi de Yuggoth
Crustaceous bodies bearing vast pairs of dorsal fins or membraneous wings and several sets of articulate limbs, and with a sort of convoluted ellipsoid, covered with multitudes of very short antennae, where a head would ordinarily be.
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— H. P. Lovecraft A pinkish fungoid crustacean-like organism with wide, often fan-like wings, it typically has six main limbs and a featureless wrinkled head which can alter color. It can fly, but in Earth’s atmosphere does so clumsily and slowly. A Fungi speaks by rapidly changing the colors of its head. To talk long-distance, it projects varicolored beams of light. Many Fungi species exist, lacking wings or possessing different body features; all seem to work together amicably. The type illustrated here is the sole variety to visit Earth in any numbers. None are actually fungi. That is a traditional term adopted from the early work of Prof. Fallworth, of Miskatonic University. Selectively consulting with and employing humans, Fungi miners thereby avoid unwanted contact and maintaining secure operations. Habitat : Fungi science allows settlement anywhere. Nothing is known of any original habitat. Distribution : in the Mesozoic era, Fungi from Yuggoth invaded and colonized Earth’s northern hemisphere. Later they abandoned most of those settlements. Fungi are found today in a few remote locations on Earth, including the Himalayas, Appalachians, and Andes.
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Apart from Earth, these creatures have a vast interstellar empire of planets, dark stars, and less describable objects. Yuggoth (Pluto) is the major Fungi base nearest to their Earthly enterprises. Life and Habits : a Fungi is not composed of ordinary terrene matter. Prolonged effort generates extraordinary metamorphoses and transmutations, creating or deleting organs or body members. This, rather than ordinary evolution, may explain the Fungi’s various forms. Their voice-box organ was evolved for use on Earth, enabling Fungi to approximate human languages in weird, buzzing tones. These starfarers coexist in dimensions additional to our own four. Most Fungi visiting Earth have membraneous wings for pressing against a medium non-existent to us but which, omnipresent on a different plane, enables them to fly through space. Distinguishing Fungi from Yuggoth : •
Byakhee fly well, have four major limbs and definite faces.
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Elder Things have more than two wings.
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Nightgaunts are black, not pinkish.
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A Star Vampire may look pinkish while feeding, but has no wings and becomes invisible as it digests.
