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	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn
	Posted By: Godot	Date: 3/26/22 11:31 p.m.
	In Response To: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacnter (UrsusArctos) : Looks to me like there are Lovecraft references in Marathon that go beyond : the familiar Cthulhu mythos, in this case from the story "The Rats in : the Walls". In this story the protagonist keeps hearing phantom rats : in the walls and comes to a horrifying discovery about his family : heritage. It ends with the protagonist incarcerated in an asylum (which is : no spoiler to anyone remotely familiar with Lovecraft's work!) uttering : the following classically Lovecraftian lines - : They must know it was the rats; the slithering scurrying rats whose : scampering will never let me sleep; the daemon rats that race behind the : padding in this room and beckon me down to greater horrors than I have : ever known; the rats they can never hear; the rats, the rats in the walls. : This doesn't sound all too different from this sentence in Tfear's : description of the W'rkncancter's assault on Aye Mak Sicur in the failed : timeline, does it? : But the trackless whisper chattering through : the hollow space in these cursed walls buzzes : and threatens madness. : Given that the W'rkncacnter is a creature of total chaos and is associated : with doubt too, that it should also cause mental madness right out of a : Lovecraft story seems appropriate. : Also, the association of an unearthly, buzzing voice or sound with madness : comes out of Lovecraft too. There's the novella "The Whisperer in : Darkness", which features choice descriptions of the voice of an : extraterrestrial being, which, while not remotely as monstrous as Cthulhu : or the W'rkncacnter, is nevertheless well capable of driving people mad - : : I think I am going crazy. It may be that all I have ever written you is a : dream or madness. It was bad enough before, but this time it is too much. : They talked to me last night—talked in that cursed buzzing voice and told : me things that I dare not repeat to you. Interesting. The Lovecraft story "The Rats in the Walls" has been mentioned in relation to the Gheritt White terminal but not the W'rkncacnter. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/gheritt.html : Perhaps Greg K. or someone else at Bungie was into classic Lovecraft? These : really don't seem to be a coincidence in light of the previous : thinly-veiled allusions to Cthulhu. The Lovecraft references/allusions are certainly ramped up in Marathon Infinity. So I am thinking this is Greg K with some help from Chris G. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/cthulhu.html Cheers Hamish

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	Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacnter	UrsusArctos	3/26/22 6:49 p.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	Godot	3/26/22 11:31 p.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	UrsusArctos	3/30/22 5:11 p.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	Godot	3/30/22 11:54 p.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	Baileyi	12/1/23 8:53 a.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	Godot	12/1/23 9:42 a.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	Lion O Cyborg	3/29/22 1:05 p.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	UrsusArctos	3/30/22 4:43 p.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	Durandal_1707	3/31/22 12:06 p.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	Lion O Cyborg	3/31/22 1:47 p.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	UrsusArctos	3/31/22 5:29 p.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	Lion O Cyborg	3/31/22 1:43 p.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	UrsusArctos	3/31/22 5:29 p.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	Durandal_1707	4/1/22 4:50 a.m.
	Re: Another Lovecraft reference with the W'rkncacn	Lion O Cyborg	4/1/22 2:48 p.m.

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