Boardgame Arkham Horror - Session 01 - 2/4- Ancient One Yibb-Tstll

So we've got Tony Morgan go to the Woods but it got lost there. Hank Samson as a bad luck and finds a Star Vampire he tries to evade twice and gets hit.  Diana Stanley draws a spell (Alchemy Process) and Daisy Walker Trades after an encounter with a scientist a skill. She gets +1 Will and Hank gets +1 Fight.

Unfortunally, Arkham is not an unforgiving place and instead a gate opening there was a monster surge. Four beings come out and storm the only gate I have on the board.... A Spectral Hunter; Elder Thing; Cthonian and Flying Polyp. And due to a a planetary aligment all spells cost 0 sanity. At least that.

Next turn Tony Morgan do nothing.  Hank Samson is a beast magnet but this time he goes to a place where a beast and gate appear and he is drawn into the Other World. Daisy Walker gain an ally Eric Colt that gives her +2 speed. And Diana Stanley  draws $3.

Another gate appears in arkham and a witch comes out. I have now 3 gates opened and 7 monsters. Every other monster will terrorize the outskirts.

The day begins anew and Tony Morgan  defeats A Star Spawn after he suppeddly appear in front on him. Diana Stanley becomes blessed and nothing of importance happens in the lives of Daisy Walker and Hank Sanson who traves in Great Hall Of Celeano.

So, we've got Tony Morgan , Daisy Walker, Diana Stanley with four clues each and Hank Samson with 1 clue but with a Elder Sign.

I think things are not that bad but all those monsters are going to be a trouble...

Now a bit of background on the creatures & Lore

Star Vampire 

It was red and dripping; an immensity of pulsing, moving jelly; a scarlet blob with myriad tentacular trunks that waved and waved. There were suckers on the tips of the appendages, and these were opening and closing with a ghoulish lust.... The thing was bloated and obscene; a headless, faceless, eyeless bulk with the ravenous maw and titanic talons of a star-born monster. The human blood on which it had fed revealed the hitherto invisible outlines of the feaster.
—Robert Bloch, "The Shambler from the Stars"

Cthonian 
Flowing tentacles and pulpy gray-black, elongated sack of a body...no distinguishing features at all other than the reaching, groping tentacles. Or was there—yes—a lump in the upper body of the thing...a container of sorts for the brain, basal ganglia, or whichever diseased organ governed this horror's loathsome life!
—Brian Lumley, The Burrowers Beneath

Star Spawn 
The bosun was the only one left alive. We dragged him screaming from the cargo hold. "That thing!" he wept, "Not a whale... not an island..."



Flying Polyp
[The flying polyps were a] horrible elder race of half polypous, utterly alien entities... They were only partly material and had the power of aerial motion, despite the absence of wings... [They exhibited] a monstrous plasticity and ... temporary lapses of visibility... [S]ingular whistling noises and colossal footprints made up of five circular toe marks seemed also to be associated with them.


The flying polyps came to Earth from space as conquerors about seven hundred fifty million years ago. They also inhabited three other planets in the solar system,[1] including possibly Yaksh (Neptune) and Tond (though Tond itself may lie outside the solar system, or may be possibly referring to Pluto, which was discovered only 6 years before the publication of the story). On Earth, they built basalt cities with high windowless towers. When they attempted to colonize the oceans, the polyps were driven back by the Elder Things. Thereafter, they restricted their habitats to the surface world.

Their senses did not include sight, but what senses they had could penetrate all material obstructions. They were only partially matter, but still solid enough to affect and be stopped by normal materials; this additionally gave them resistance, if not outright invulnerability, to normal means of damage, though they could be destroyed by certain forms of electrical energy. Their minds were so strange that the Great Race of Yith could not perform psychic transfers with them.

They are able to levitate and fly despite lacking any visible means of doing so, and leave telltale massive footprints when on the ground. Their amorphous bodies can turn invisible at will, though this ability appears somewhat negated by whistling noises associated with them in general. In battle, their ability to control and direct powerful winds is put to use as a weapon.

When the Great Race of Yith came to Earth, they warred with the polyps and soon drove them underground with their advanced technology. The Great Race then sealed the entryways to the polyps' subterranean abode with trapdoors, which afterwards were diligently guarded. The polyps' cities were left abandoned, perhaps as a reminder of the horrors that dwelt below.

Eventually, the polyps rose up and almost exterminated the Great Race, afterwards returning to their subterranean haunts. Having no conception of light, the polyps seem content to remain there, annihilating the few intruders that chance upon them. The entrances to their dwellings are mostly deep within ancient ruins where there are great wells sealed over with stone. Inside these wells still dwell the polyps.

Shoggoth
It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

The definitive description of shoggoths comes from the above-quoted story. In it, Lovecraft writes about them as massive amoeba-like creatures made out of iridescent black slime, with multiple eyes "floating" on the surface. They are described as "protoplasmic", lacking any default body shape and instead being able to form limbs and organs at will. An average shoggoth measured fifteen feet across when a sphere, though the story mentions ones of much greater size.

Mythos media most commonly shows them, although intelligent to some degree, dealing with problems using their great size and strength. For instance, the original one mentioned in At the Mountains of Madness simply rolled over and crushed giant albino penguins that were in the way as it pursued the characters.


The character of the Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred, found the mere idea of their existence on Earth terrifying.