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Here's a variation on the byakhee, a classic Cthulhu monster and one of my favorites.

One of the things that I loved about the old Chaosium game was that the supplements were written drily, like academic articles. They approached the beasts methodically, citing (fictional) sources and theorizing about their habitats. Even if the fantastic creature in question were from between the dimensions, they'd try to hypothesize about its native environment, something I hadn't seen outside of "Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials" (and wouldn't see again until his book "Inferno").

A byakhee's natural habitat, for example, is supposed to be on airless planetoids and comet nuclei. That is, until they get hungry.

Graphite and compressed carbon on Bristol. For Chaosium Inc.

Description
Here's a variation on the byakhee, a classic Cthulhu monster and one of my favorites.

One of the things that I loved about the old Chaosium game was that the supplements were written drily, like academic articles. They approached the beasts methodically, citing (fictional) sources and theorizing about their habitats. Even if the fantastic creature in question were from between the dimensions, they'd try to hypothesize about its native environment, something I hadn't seen outside of "Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials" (and wouldn't see again until his book "Inferno").

A byakhee's natural habitat, for example, is supposed to be on airless planetoids and comet nuclei. That is, until they get hungry.

Graphite and compressed carbon on Bristol. For Chaosium Inc.