{"id":30034,"date":"2024-08-17T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=30034"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:09:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:09:16","slug":"debate-in-dunwich-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/debate-in-dunwich-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate in Dunwich \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cthulhu-Trump.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30033\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cthulhu-Trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cthulhu-Trump.png 503w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cthulhu-Trump-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cthulhu-Trump-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the death of First Selectman Cthulhu a power vacuum has formed.\u00a0 But not a metaphorical one.\u00a0 The disappearance of Cthulhu has caused an actual rip in the fabric of space-time and various Great Old Ones and their allies and servants have been sucked into our space-time and hurled down to Dunwich.<\/p>\n<p>Sighted so far are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hastur; the polypous, ravenous floating mass endowed with tentacles, drills, and suckers, or more frequently, as the King in Yellow, a humanoid being wearing tattered, yellow clothes and a mask hiding the face. He is said to be Cthulhu&#8217;s (half-)brother.<\/li>\n<li>Idh-yaa; A gigantic, pale, worm-like horror dwelling beneath the crust of the star Xoth. She has been Cthulhu&#8217;s first bride, and with him spawned three sons\u2014Ghatanothoa, Ythogtha, and Zoth-Ommog\u2014and a younger daughter, Cthylla.<\/li>\n<li>Yog-Sothoth; The &#8220;All-in-One and One-in-All&#8221;, co-rules with Azathoth and exists as the incarnation of time in the cosmos, yet is somehow locked outside the mundane universe.<\/li>\n<li>Shub-Niggurath; The &#8220;Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Nyarlathotep; The &#8220;Crawling Chaos&#8221;, is the avatar of the Outer Gods, existing as the incarnation of space and functions as an intermediary between the deities of the pantheon and their cults.<\/li>\n<li>Azathoth; Sometimes referred to as the &#8220;Blind Idiot God&#8221;, is a dreaming monster who rules the Outer Gods, created them (along with many other worlds) and thus effectively serves as the supreme deity of the Cthulhu Mythos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With these Great Old Ones wishing to succeed Cthulhu as the leader of storied Dunwich, these demonic beings have each filled out the necessary paperwork and paid the fees to be placed on the November ballot for the office of First Selectman of Dunwich.\u00a0 The Town Clerk has posted the ballot in the Dunwich Complainer and a series of debates will take place.\u00a0 But not in the Town Hall as is typical but rather in an open field on Sentinel Hill where the larger Great Old Ones can more easily fit.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the short window for campaigning there was not sufficient time for any of the candidates to obtain the endorsement of either of the two major parties but since the Democrats are rightly considered the sowers of chaos, any monstrous entity would more or less qualify as a Democrat candidate.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted by the Complainer, only Hastur made himself available for comment.\u00a0 The polypous, ravenous floating mass endowed with tentacles morphed into his King in Yellow, humanoid wearing tattered, yellow clothes and mask hiding his face form.\u00a0 But before speaking he morphed into a very Trump-like monster.\u00a0 He was quoted as saying, \u201cThese debates will be the greatest debates and all these other Great Old Ones will be shown to be not very great.\u00a0 In fact, except for me they will all be terrible.\u00a0 They will all be like Sleepy Joe Biden; very confused and very stupid.\u00a0 Especially Azathoth who really is the &#8220;Blind Idiot God.&#8221;\u00a0 But he\u2019s not really blind.\u00a0 He\u2019s just pretending to be blind for the sympathy.\u00a0 Very sad.\u00a0 By the end of the debate all of them will drop out and I will be first Selectman.\u00a0 This I guarantee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We at the Dunwich Complainer will follow this race diligently and will shamelessly favor whichever candidate pays us the most advertising revenue.\u00a0 Stay tuned for this titanic struggle.\u00a0 Winner take Dunwich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the death of First Selectman Cthulhu a power vacuum has formed.\u00a0 But not a metaphorical one.\u00a0 The disappearance of Cthulhu has caused an actual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,5,3366,1289,818,1263,237,4,242,6],"tags":[3341,4638,255,168],"class_list":["post-30034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-current-events","category-life-in-dunwich","category-fiction-by-me","category-ocf","category-stuff-that-personally-interests-me-miscellaneous","category-reviews","category-sff","category-sff-book-reviews","category-trump","tag-dunwich","tag-first-selectman-cthulhu","tag-h-p-lovecraft","tag-humor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Debate in Dunwich \u2013 Part 1 - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/debate-in-dunwich-part-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Debate in Dunwich \u2013 Part 1 - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With the death of First Selectman Cthulhu a power vacuum has formed.\u00a0 But not a metaphorical one.\u00a0 The disappearance of Cthulhu has caused an actual\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/debate-in-dunwich-part-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-17T09:00:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-17T21:09:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Cthulhu-Trump.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"photog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@orionscoldfire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@orionscoldfire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"photog\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/debate-in-dunwich-part-1\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/debate-in-dunwich-part-1\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"photog\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d11e80f83f3825ce9fe38a5303eb64d3\"},\"headline\":\"Debate in Dunwich \u2013 Part 1\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-17T09:00:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-17T21:09:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/debate-in-dunwich-part-1\/\"},\"wordCount\":561,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Dunwich\",\"First Selectman Cthulhu\",\"H. 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