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 ==Description==
-[[File:Mythos zoogchieftain.png|thumb|150px|right|"Zoog Chieftain", illustration by [[John Snyder]]
+[[File:Mythos zoogchieftain.png|thumb|150px|right|"Zoog Chieftain", illustration by [[John Snyder]]]]
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 In the tunnels of that twisted wood, whose low prodigious oaks twine groping boughs and shine dim with the phosphorescence of strange fungi, dwell the furtive and secretive zoogs; who know many obscure secrets of the dream-world and a few of the waking world, since the wood at two places touches the lands of men, though it would be disastrous to say where. Certain unexplained rumours, events, and vanishments occur among men where the zoogs have access, and it is well that they cannot travel far outside the world of dream. But over the nearer parts of the dream-world they pass freely, flitting small and brown and unseen and bearing back piquant tales to beguile the hours around their hearths in the forest they love. Most of them live in burrows, but some inhabit the trunks of the great trees; and although they live mostly on fungi it is muttered that they have also a slight taste for meat, either physical or spiritual, for certainly many dreamers have entered that wood who have not come out.

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 ==Description==
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 In the tunnels of that twisted wood, whose low prodigious oaks twine groping boughs and shine dim with the phosphorescence of strange fungi, dwell the furtive and secretive zoogs; who know many obscure secrets of the dream-world and a few of the waking world, since the wood at two places touches the lands of men, though it would be disastrous to say where. Certain unexplained rumours, events, and vanishments occur among men where the zoogs have access, and it is well that they cannot travel far outside the world of dream. But over the nearer parts of the dream-world they pass freely, flitting small and brown and unseen and bearing back piquant tales to beguile the hours around their hearths in the forest they love. Most of them live in burrows, but some inhabit the trunks of the great trees; and although they live mostly on fungi it is muttered that they have also a slight taste for meat, either physical or spiritual, for certainly many dreamers have entered that wood who have not come out.

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 Zoogs are capable of forming uneasy treaties with those who are willing to bargain with them:  trading in secrets, news, information, good stories, books and scrolls, guides who will lead Dreamers through the Dreamlands, intoxicating Zoog Moon-Wine, and curious treasures carried over from distant places in the waking world.
 ==Heresies and Controversies==
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 Zoogs are from H. P. Lovecraft's ''[[Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]]''.
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 * Unfortunate Zoogs are sometimes enslaved by Witches and Wizards and bound to them as [[Rat-Thing|Familiars]].  (fan theory)
 * In some cases, the Thing Under Your Bed is merely a curious, or hungry, Zoog.  The dark spaces beneath beds and nearby closets are often among those places where the boundaries between Dream and Day are thin.  (fan theory)
-* Zoogs cannot usually travel far into the [[Daylands]], but are intensely curious about it, and explore it and bring back small trophies from it whenever they can.  If you've ever noticed small objects gone missing or having been moved around when you weren't looking, it was probably taken or borrowed by a questing Zoog.  Zoogs are particularly fond of socks, and will carry off one from a pair from warm, dark laundry rooms, back to the Dreamlands, where they make comfortable caps, hoods, and other clothing from them.  (fan theory)
+* Zoogs cannot usually travel far into the [[Daylands]], but are intensely curious about it, and explore it and bring back small trophies from it whenever they can.  If you've ever noticed small objects gone missing or having been moved around when you weren't looking, it was probably taken or borrowed by a questing Zoog.  Zoogs are particularly fond of shiny trinkets, which some Zoogs like to hoard; Zoogs are also fond of socks, and will not infrequently carry off one sock of a pair from warm, dark, Dayland laundry rooms, carrying these prized treasures back into the Dreamlands to be worn as comfortable caps, hoods, and other Zoog clothing.  (fan theory)
 ==Keeper Notes==

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 ==Keeper Notes==
 <!-- Optional. Suggestions for using these creatures in the CoC RPG, and in fan-fiction. -->
 Zoogs might make nice introductory monsters for a new group of investigators - after all, they're small, relatively weak, and don't travel very far into the waking world.  (I think of Zoogs as one possible "Thing Under the Bed" to haunt the nightmares of children.)
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 Zoogs might also make untrustworthy but interesting allies - being easy to "buy off" with shiny trinkets or a good story, but prone to getting into mischief, turning on their 'allies' when food gets scarce or the allies seem vulnerable, wandering off when things get tough, and so on.
-Zoogs might generally serve well as slippery and sinister guides through the [[Dreamlands]].
+Dreamers might get caught up in the uneasy politics between Zoogs and Cats, when something begins killing the Zoog hostages held in the [[Temple of Cats]] in [[Ulthar]] with cats being the only obvious suspects, or cats begin disappearing and Zoogs are unfairly blamed....
 ==Associated Mythos Elements==
 * [[Cat]]s are among the Zoogs' more fierce enemies; an uneasy truce between Zoogs and Cats has been maintained after a Cat victory in war against Zoogs, in which hostages were taken and kept in the [[Temple of Cats]] in [[Ulthar]]
 * [[Moon-Wine]] brewed from the fruit of a tree grown from seeds dropped from the moon, a Zoog specialty
 ==References==
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 * Fiction: [[Brian Lumley]], ''[[Titus Crow]]: The Clock of Dreams''
 * Fiction: [[Daniel Ranier]], "[[When Riseth Cthulhu]]"
-* Sourcebooks:  Cats of various sorts are described in more detail in [[S._Petersen%27s_Field_Guide_to_Creatures_of_the_Dreamlands|Sandy Petersen's Field Guide to Creatures of the Dreamlands]], [[H.P._Lovecraft's_Dreamlands|H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands]], and [[Malleus Monstrorum]]
+* Sourcebooks:  Zoogs are described in more detail in [[S._Petersen%27s_Field_Guide_to_Creatures_of_the_Dreamlands|Sandy Petersen's Field Guide to Creatures of the Dreamlands]], [[H.P._Lovecraft's_Dreamlands|H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands]], and [[Malleus Monstrorum]]
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