Blind Penguin of Leng - Revision history

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	==Associated Mythos Elements==		==Associated Mythos Elements==
	* might be found in the company of [[Elder Thing]]s or [[Shoggoth]]s in Antarctica		* might be found in the company of [[Elder Thing]]s or [[Shoggoth]]s in Antarctica
	* might be found on or near colder regions of the Plateau of [[Plateau of Leng]]		* might be found on or near colder regions of the Plateau of [[Plateau of Leng]], and in the [[Dreamlands]]

	==References==		==References==
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	[[Category:Races]]		[[Category:Races]]
			[[Category:Dreamlands]]
	[[Category:LovecraftMythos]]		[[Category:LovecraftMythos]]
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	Giant Albino Penguins: Blind Penguins of "[[~~Leng,~~ Plateau of\|Leng]]", ''Palaeeudyptes albus'', ''Palaeeudyptes klekowskii'', ''Aptenodytes albus''		Giant Albino Penguins: Blind Penguins of "[[Plateau of Leng]]", ''Palaeeudyptes albus'', ''Palaeeudyptes klekowskii'', ''Aptenodytes albus''

	Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, ''[[At the Mountains of Madness (fiction)]]'' (first and only appearance in Lovecraft's original fiction)		Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, ''[[At the Mountains of Madness (fiction)]]'' (first and only appearance in Lovecraft's original fiction)
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	==Associated Mythos Elements==		==Associated Mythos Elements==
	* might be found in the company of [[Elder Thing]]s or [[Shoggoth]]s in Antarctica		* might be found in the company of [[Elder Thing]]s or [[Shoggoth]]s in Antarctica
	* might be found on or near colder regions of the Plateau of [[~~Leng,~~ Plateau of\|Leng]]		* might be found on or near colder regions of the Plateau of [[Plateau of Leng]]

	==References==		==References==

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	[[Category:Races]]		[[Category:Races]]
			[[Category:LovecraftMythos]]
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	* ~~[[Five-Finger Gang\|Mikey "The Clock" DeHavilland]], leader of~~ the "Five-Fingers" cult/crime organization in [[Red Hook]], New York was supposed to have gone mad reading a tome that suggested that the Cosmic Divinity of Man and lineage to the Blood of the Great Old One/organic comet [[Tiamat]] could be proved by a series of "intentional mutations" that began with adding an extra finger to one's hand through the sheer force of will under meditation, and progressed through increasingly bizarre and irrational transformations until a yogi skilled and mad enough could transform into "a thing that Mikey said was a penguin, but instead took the form of a horrendous, towering, albino, waddling thing from out of a nightmare; looking nothing at all like a penguin, it would stare with one raw, red unblinking eye and grin with a mouth full of thoroughly un-penguinlike, needle-sharp, glittering, white fangs, and make waak-ing noises for hours until the cursed thing began talking in a voice that was Mikey's, yet wasn't even remotely human...." Depending on who you ask, this was either Mikey's last day on Earth as a human being, or her first, as the gangster would spend the rest of her life in the "true human" form of an ever-mutating amorphous horror, until destroyed by Prohibition agent Elliott Ness.... ~~([[CthulhuMud]])~~		* See the Discussion tab for fan theories and suggestions.


	==Keeper Notes==		==Keeper Notes==

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	Giant Albino Penguins: Blind Penguins of "Leng", ''Palaeeudyptes albus'', ''Palaeeudyptes klekowskii'', ''Aptenodytes albus''		Giant Albino Penguins: Blind Penguins of "[[Leng, Plateau of\|Leng]]", ''Palaeeudyptes albus'', ''Palaeeudyptes klekowskii'', ''Aptenodytes albus''

	Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, ''[[At the Mountains of Madness (fiction)]]'' (first and only appearance in Lovecraft's original fiction)		Origin: H.P. Lovecraft, ''[[At the Mountains of Madness (fiction)]]'' (first and only appearance in Lovecraft's original fiction)
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	==Associated Mythos Elements==		==Associated Mythos Elements==
	* might be found in the company of [[Elder Thing]]s or [[Shoggoth]]s in Antarctica		* might be found in the company of [[Elder Thing]]s or [[Shoggoth]]s in Antarctica
	* might be found on or near colder regions of the Plateau of [[Leng]]		* might be found on or near colder regions of the Plateau of [[Leng, Plateau of\|Leng]]

	==References==		==References==

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	* [[Five-Finger Gang\|Mikey "The Clock" DeHavilland]], leader of the "Five-Fingers" cult/crime organization in Red Hook, New York was supposed to have gone mad reading a tome that suggested that the Cosmic Divinity of Man and lineage to the Blood of the Great Old One/organic comet [[Tiamat]] could be proved by a series of "intentional mutations" that began with adding an extra finger to one's hand through the sheer force of will under meditation, and progressed through increasingly bizarre and irrational transformations until a yogi skilled and mad enough could transform into "a thing that Mikey said was a penguin, but instead took the form of a horrendous, towering, albino, waddling thing from out of a nightmare; looking nothing at all like a penguin, it would stare with one raw, red unblinking eye and grin with a mouth full of thoroughly un-penguinlike, needle-sharp, glittering, white fangs, and make waak-ing noises for hours until the cursed thing began talking in a voice that was Mikey's, yet wasn't even remotely human...." Depending on who you ask, this was either Mikey's last day on Earth as a human being, or her first, as the gangster would spend the rest of her life in the "true human" form of an ever-mutating amorphous horror, until destroyed by Prohibition agent Elliott Ness.... ([[CthulhuMud]])		* [[Five-Finger Gang\|Mikey "The Clock" DeHavilland]], leader of the "Five-Fingers" cult/crime organization in [[Red Hook]], New York was supposed to have gone mad reading a tome that suggested that the Cosmic Divinity of Man and lineage to the Blood of the Great Old One/organic comet [[Tiamat]] could be proved by a series of "intentional mutations" that began with adding an extra finger to one's hand through the sheer force of will under meditation, and progressed through increasingly bizarre and irrational transformations until a yogi skilled and mad enough could transform into "a thing that Mikey said was a penguin, but instead took the form of a horrendous, towering, albino, waddling thing from out of a nightmare; looking nothing at all like a penguin, it would stare with one raw, red unblinking eye and grin with a mouth full of thoroughly un-penguinlike, needle-sharp, glittering, white fangs, and make waak-ing noises for hours until the cursed thing began talking in a voice that was Mikey's, yet wasn't even remotely human...." Depending on who you ask, this was either Mikey's last day on Earth as a human being, or her first, as the gangster would spend the rest of her life in the "true human" form of an ever-mutating amorphous horror, until destroyed by Prohibition agent Elliott Ness.... ([[CthulhuMud]])

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	* [[Five-Finger Gang\|Mikey "The Clock" DeHavilland]], leader of the "Five-Fingers" cult/crime organization in Red Hook, New York was supposed to have gone mad reading a tome that suggested that the Cosmic Divinity of Man and lineage to the Blood of the Great Old One/organic comet [[Tiamat]] could be proved by a series of "intentional mutations" that began with adding an extra finger to one's hand through the sheer force of will under meditation, and progressed through increasingly bizarre and irrational transformations until ~~the~~ mad ~~yogi~~ could transform into "a thing that Mikey said was a penguin, but instead took the form of a horrendous, towering, albino, waddling thing from out of a nightmare; looking nothing at all like a penguin, it would stare with one raw, red unblinking eye and grin with a mouth full of thoroughly un-penguinlike, needle-sharp, glittering, white fangs, and make waak-ing noises for hours until the cursed thing began talking in a voice that was Mikey's, yet wasn't even remotely human...." Depending on who you ask, this was either Mikey's last day on Earth as a human being, or her first, as the gangster would spend the rest of her life in the "true human" form of an ever-mutating amorphous horror, until destroyed by Prohibition agent Elliott Ness.... ([[CthulhuMud]])		* [[Five-Finger Gang\|Mikey "The Clock" DeHavilland]], leader of the "Five-Fingers" cult/crime organization in Red Hook, New York was supposed to have gone mad reading a tome that suggested that the Cosmic Divinity of Man and lineage to the Blood of the Great Old One/organic comet [[Tiamat]] could be proved by a series of "intentional mutations" that began with adding an extra finger to one's hand through the sheer force of will under meditation, and progressed through increasingly bizarre and irrational transformations until a yogi skilled and mad enough could transform into "a thing that Mikey said was a penguin, but instead took the form of a horrendous, towering, albino, waddling thing from out of a nightmare; looking nothing at all like a penguin, it would stare with one raw, red unblinking eye and grin with a mouth full of thoroughly un-penguinlike, needle-sharp, glittering, white fangs, and make waak-ing noises for hours until the cursed thing began talking in a voice that was Mikey's, yet wasn't even remotely human...." Depending on who you ask, this was either Mikey's last day on Earth as a human being, or her first, as the gangster would spend the rest of her life in the "true human" form of an ever-mutating amorphous horror, until destroyed by Prohibition agent Elliott Ness.... ([[CthulhuMud]])


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	==Associated Mythos Elements==		==Associated Mythos Elements==
	* might be found in the company of [[Elder Thing]]s or [[Shoggoth]]s in Antarctica		* might be found in the company of [[Elder Thing]]s or [[Shoggoth]]s in Antarctica
	* might be found on or ~~hear~~ colder regions of the Plateau of [[Leng]]		* might be found on or near colder regions of the Plateau of [[Leng]]

	==References==		==References==

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	* [[Five-Finger Gang\|Mikey "The Clock" DeHavilland]], leader of the "Five-Fingers" cult/crime organization in Red Hook, New York was supposed to have gone mad reading a tome that suggested that the Cosmic Divinity of Man and lineage to the Blood of the Great Old One/organic comet [[Tiamat]] could be proved by a series of "intentional mutations" that began with adding an extra finger to one's hand through the sheer force of will under meditation, and progressed through increasingly bizarre and irrational transformations until the mad yogi could transform into "a thing that Mikey said was a penguin, but instead took the form of a horrendous, towering, albino, waddling thing from out of a nightmare; looking nothing at all like a penguin, it would stare with one raw, red unblinking eye and grin with a mouth full of thoroughly un-penguinlike, needle-sharp, glittering, white fangs, and make waak-ing noises for hours until the cursed thing began talking in a voice that was Mikey's, yet wasn't even remotely human...." Depending on who you ask, this was either Mikey's last day on Earth as a human being, or her first, as the gangster would spend the rest of her life in the "true human" form of an ever-mutating amorphous horror, until destroyed by Prohibition agent Elliott Ness.... ([[~~CthulhuMUD~~]])		* [[Five-Finger Gang\|Mikey "The Clock" DeHavilland]], leader of the "Five-Fingers" cult/crime organization in Red Hook, New York was supposed to have gone mad reading a tome that suggested that the Cosmic Divinity of Man and lineage to the Blood of the Great Old One/organic comet [[Tiamat]] could be proved by a series of "intentional mutations" that began with adding an extra finger to one's hand through the sheer force of will under meditation, and progressed through increasingly bizarre and irrational transformations until the mad yogi could transform into "a thing that Mikey said was a penguin, but instead took the form of a horrendous, towering, albino, waddling thing from out of a nightmare; looking nothing at all like a penguin, it would stare with one raw, red unblinking eye and grin with a mouth full of thoroughly un-penguinlike, needle-sharp, glittering, white fangs, and make waak-ing noises for hours until the cursed thing began talking in a voice that was Mikey's, yet wasn't even remotely human...." Depending on who you ask, this was either Mikey's last day on Earth as a human being, or her first, as the gangster would spend the rest of her life in the "true human" form of an ever-mutating amorphous horror, until destroyed by Prohibition agent Elliott Ness.... ([[CthulhuMud]])

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	* [[Five-Finger Gang\|Mikey "The Clock" DeHavilland]], leader of the "Five-Fingers" cult/crime organization in Red Hook, New York was supposed to have gone mad reading a tome that suggested that the Cosmic Divinity of Man and lineage to the Blood of the Great Old One/organic comet [[Tiamat]] could be proved by a series of "intentional mutations" that began with adding an extra finger to one's hand through the sheer force of will under meditation, and progressed through increasingly bizarre and irrational transformations until the mad yogi could transform into "a thing that Mikey said was a penguin, but instead took the form of a horrendous, towering, albino, waddling thing from out of a nightmare; looking nothing at all like a penguin, it would stare with one raw, red unblinking eye and grin with a mouth full of thoroughly un-penguinlike, needle-sharp, glittering, white fangs, and make waak-ing noises for hours until the cursed thing began talking in a voice that was Mikey's, yet wasn't even remotely human...." Depending on who you ask, this was either Mikey's last day on Earth as a human being, or her first, as the gangster would spend the rest of her life in the "true human" form of an ever-mutating amorphous horror, until destroyed by Prohibition agent Elliott Ness.... (CthulhuMUD)		* [[Five-Finger Gang\|Mikey "The Clock" DeHavilland]], leader of the "Five-Fingers" cult/crime organization in Red Hook, New York was supposed to have gone mad reading a tome that suggested that the Cosmic Divinity of Man and lineage to the Blood of the Great Old One/organic comet [[Tiamat]] could be proved by a series of "intentional mutations" that began with adding an extra finger to one's hand through the sheer force of will under meditation, and progressed through increasingly bizarre and irrational transformations until the mad yogi could transform into "a thing that Mikey said was a penguin, but instead took the form of a horrendous, towering, albino, waddling thing from out of a nightmare; looking nothing at all like a penguin, it would stare with one raw, red unblinking eye and grin with a mouth full of thoroughly un-penguinlike, needle-sharp, glittering, white fangs, and make waak-ing noises for hours until the cursed thing began talking in a voice that was Mikey's, yet wasn't even remotely human...." Depending on who you ask, this was either Mikey's last day on Earth as a human being, or her first, as the gangster would spend the rest of her life in the "true human" form of an ever-mutating amorphous horror, until destroyed by Prohibition agent Elliott Ness.... ([[CthulhuMUD]])


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	* Typically only used as a source of humor and comic relief or even a sort of mascot among Lovecraft fans, but keepers could play on the absurd horror of being attacked by packs of primordial, bloated, ravenous, towering, blind, albino birds with razor-sharp claws and blood-soaked beaks in the darkness of subterranean Antarctic caverns and tunnels....		* Typically only used as a source of humor and comic relief or even a sort of mascot among Lovecraft fans, but keepers could play on the absurd horror of being attacked by packs of primordial, bloated, ravenous, towering, blind, albino birds with razor-sharp claws and blood-soaked beaks in the darkness of subterranean Antarctic caverns and tunnels....
			* Perhaps rare specimens of this species are brought from the Antarctic by explorers, and turn out to be vectors for some exotic disease, hosts for some horrific parasite, monsters in disguise (e.g. a [[Thing]])....


	===7th Edition Statistics===		===7th Edition Statistics===

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	===7th Edition Statistics===		===7th Edition Statistics===

	Giant Penguins, ''Palaeeudyptes albus''~~<br>~~		Giant Penguins, ''Palaeeudyptes albus''
	* STR 110 (3D6+12 ×5)		* char. averages rolls
	* CON 50 (3D6 ×5)		** STR 110 (3D6+12 ×5)
	* SIZ 80 (3D6+6 ×5)		** CON 50 (3D6 ×5)
	* DEX 75 (2D6+12 ×5)		** SIZ 80 (3D6+6 ×5)
	* POW 65 (2D6+6 ×5)		** DEX 75 (2D6+12 ×5)
			** POW 65 (2D6+6 ×5)
	* HP: 13		* HP: 13
	* Average Damage Bonus: +1D6		* Average Damage Bonus: +1D6