robertgeiger wrote:

Hmmm.  I don't know about Yig. Yig has acted against the GOO/OG several
times.
It seems to be more independent.

Means little.  The Old Ones are not exactly a united confederation of
nastiness.  In fact they can act just like Sailor Moon villains, always 
feuding with each other.  

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From: Christopher D. Nichols <chrisnicls@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: ffml@fanfic.com
Subject: Re: {C&C} [FFML] [EVA] Children of an Elder God #8
Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 6:47 PM

Mercutio wrote:

Just so you everybody knows, if you follow the link to COAEG from

John's

site, you get a bunch of animated gifs that basically tell >you exactly
what GOO they will be fighting, and in a rough sort of >ordser, too.

Just for information's sake, the list, as it appears in the first

animation,

is as follows.

Atlach-Nacha
Rhan-Tegoth
Ithaqua
Ghathanothoa
Hastur
Yig
Tsathoggua
Y'golonac
Shudde-M'ell
Cthugha
Daoloth
Nyarlathotep
Cthulhu

Not quite the roster I'd've pulled up, but passable.  Y'golonac's pretty
weak; Cyaegha might have been a better choice.  Since its buried in

Germany,

this would have supplied much fodder for the Make Asuka Miserable

Foundation

(membership $9.99; call today).

Also, I don't see Daoloth as a particularly good choice (see below).

Other

options might be Glaaki, Nyogtha, or Zoth-Ommog.

Cthugha'll be difficult.  As a being composed entirely of plasma, with no

solid mass, the Eva will be unable to touch this GOO nor can physical
attacks hurt it.  Also, beam weapons are a doubtful prospect, and would

most

likely pass through Cthugha with no damage or be absorbed.  In a ST:TNG
fanfic I saw, the Enterprise killed Cthugha be teleporting hundreds of

fire

extinguishers into the center of Cthugha's cloud-body.  Somehow, I doubt
that's a viable answer to this problem.

Stand in the middle of it, then rapid expand your CF Space field.  You'll
get fried, but Cthuga gets torn apart.  

Hey, are the Eva's going to travel to the GOOs, like they did with

Ithaqua?

Because, as you may know, some of these Great Old Ones aren't found near
Japan.  Yig and Tsathoggua are buried under North America in K'n-Yan and
N'kai.  Yig's tomb in K'n-Yan is supposed to be under Oklahoma.

Y'golonac's

avatar can appear anywhere, but his physical form is imprisoned somewhere

under England (or in one story Siberia).  The rest shouldn't present any
major problems location-wise.

Lastly (in this section at least), while Cthulhu is really cool and all,

I

think that you really ought to place him before Nyarlathotep.  While he's

got a lot of name recognition, his power level much less than
Nyarlathotep's.  The biggest threat should come last.

I've never seen much indication that Nyarlathotep is more powerful, 
even in his combat forms.  He spends far too much time dealing personally
with insignificant humans to be a real heavy hitter.  He is, however, loads
more intelligent and subtle than the GOO, and he has a real powerful buddy.
Besides, Kaworu _was_ the most dangerous angel.  Did any of the others get
that close?