What is the fundamental difference between these two beings?
In a rare interview, Nyarlathotep, head of Crawling Chaos Industries, refuted claims that his continuing attempt to take over the world and leave it a smouldering, blasted wasteland, was wrong.
"Why is it that pokemon(tm) and furbies(tm) are treated as a 'cute craze' whenever they extend their tendrils of influence into this dimension and attempt to sway the hearts and minds of all who exist on this paltry excuse for a plane, yet whenever I take on a form from the hideous darkness and bestride the earth like a God, all I hear is complaints and all I see is legal action?"
The bitter, acrimonious fumes bubble and leap from the pit of alien slime which surrounds the indescrible alien form of the Soul of the Outer Gods. He leans back and casually bites the head from a screaming cultist, slowly regaining his composure, before continuing.
"Our operations are not always to the benefit of mankind as whole, I won't deny that, but where they work to the detriment of mankind, they work to improve the status of other races, more worthy, and certainly more devout." Questions were then directed at the writhing mass of unspeakable evil regarding his proposed plan to "destroy the earth, ye, and even to all the creatures upon it, high and low, from the shuggoths to every man" as detailed in the Ravings of an Illiterate Loon, an ancient text preserved against all likelyhood in a sock from pre-biblical Persia. Nyarlathotep merely dismissively waved a tentacle of the most utter darkness and remarked "Well, apart from that, obviously."
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What is the fundamental difference between these two beings? |
Nyarlathotep is currently at the centre of a class action against all the Outer Gods launched by the United Nations. The main argument of the action is that the constant invasions and counter-invasions of Earth are not conducive to the continued presence of mind and effective sanity of the human race as a whole.
This argument is based on the testimony of hundreds of those who have interactions over the last century with the Things That Should Not Be. Universally, each has put forth the belief that "waaagh, goobly goobly spnsht", an argument which legal minds across the world find strangely compelling.
When faced with the argument that the current legal action against the God with a Thousand Faces is an ongoing instance of persecution against one particular source of world domination and ignoring the ongoing efforts of other, just as persistent groups, Ms Hack Spit replied "Are you seriously drawing comparisons between cute, if annoying, toys from Japan and the being which instigated the fall of the Egyptian culture, which had survived 3,000 years?". Ms Spit then paused, and finally continued in a distracted voice "I'm sorry, I have to make a phone call."