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| − | '''Lurkers''', also known as "Dwarves" or "Dwarf Zombies".
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| − | Origin: First appeared in the ''[[Phantasm (1979 franchise)]]''
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| − | ==Description==
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| − | [[File:Lurker phantasm79.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A Lurker attacks Reggie]]
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| − | A "Lurker" is created through some strange alchemical process that involves crushing a (typically human) victim's body down to less than half its original size, using a mix of chemicals, and the high gravity and dense atmosphere of a specific, red, alien planet to which the body is delivered in a special drum-like container of chemical solution that softens the flesh and bones and renders them suitable for crushing. Other preparations to the body involve extensive surgery to remove most of the brain, destroying the original personality, creativity, and intellect of the victim, resulting in a short, stocky, shriveled, dwarven, powerful, feral, but easily controlled slave labor force suitable for work in factories, mines, and graveyards under the supervision of Mythos entities (such as the [[Shadow Man|Tall Man]]), cultists, etc. The wretched creatures are typically clothed and shrouded in heavy hooded robes sized to fit their dwarfish frame, which are mass-produced for the creatures in an unknown factory operated by cultists using Lurker slave labor for this and similar purposes.
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| − | In spite of the transformation, Lurkers often retain just enough recognizable features that people who knew the victims in life may, to their horror, recognize the shriveled, crushed face and form of friends, family, and loved ones in the diminutive, twisted, form of a Lurker. In spite of the physical resemblance, however, no part of the victim's original personality remains in the Lurker's brain or body. Instead, the cerebrums of the victims of this process, removed from the bodies in the process of the Lurker's conversion from a human body, is put to another use entirely: preserved, compressed, reprogrammed, and altered into an organic operating system that is then embedded into animated constructs such as the floating, metallic [[Sentinel Sphere]]s and other machinery, which may sometimes still retain enough personality and memory to recognize and contact or communicate with loved ones separately from the Lurker's body (See [[Sentinel Sphere]] for more information.)
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| − | ==Keeper Notes, Heresies and Controversies==
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| − | <!-- Optional. This is a good place to include non-canon and controversial aspects of the creature's mythos. Suggested Alternative Theories include: Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; "fanon" interpretations; unofficial humorous or eccentric versions; identification with "Real Life" mythological, religious, folklore, natural, and historical phenomena; rumor and speculation contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos.
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| − | * Alternative_theory. ([[source]])-->
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| − | ==Associated Mythos Elements==
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| − | * film franchise: ''[[Phantasm (1979 franchise)]]''
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| − | * deity: [[Shadow Man]]
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| − | * races:
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| − | ** [[Sentinel Sphere]]
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| − | ** [[Graver]]s
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