I generally associate the tekeli-li sound with twisted Antarctic birds, but if a tentacled sea monster wants to use it I’m certainly not going to stand in its way. The really threatening thing is that if that thing is sleeping at the bottom of the relatively shallow and peaceful Mirrorsea Bay, who can imagine what lies in the depths of the bottomless oceans?
Harrek may be so surprised by the thing’s appearance that he forgot to stay berserk. Not to worry, I’m confident he will recover his senseless rage soon enough.
The sight of the linen seemed to affect him in a very singular manner. He could not be prevailed upon to touch it or go near it, shuddering when we attempted to force him, and shrieking out, “Tekeli-li!”
— E.A. Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)
… and when Harrek met the many armed Tekeli-li he challenged him to an arm-wrestling match, and Harrek beat all arms seperately and at the same time, and Tekeli-li soiled himself in Darkness and fled in shame through a narrow crack not even Eurmal could have fitted trough …
– Excerpt from “Collected Witnesses”, attributed to ‘Ranath the Not so Wise’ at Jonstown Library
You have to admire those summoners – standing fast with fanged death breathing down their necks. Next panel you see shreds of them flying through the air behind the rising tentacles.
Love the water runes on the tentacles.
Harrek, being Harrek, isn’t going to need a bigger boat.
Tekeli-li ? Sounds like a Shoggoth…
I like this page in general, i don´t like the “Tekeli-li” “sound-effect”, because that is Lovecraft, not Glorantha.
It is Poe actually. And what kind of a sound should a giant undersea god-monster inspired by Sandy Petersen make if not “Tekeli-li’?
I generally associate the tekeli-li sound with twisted Antarctic birds, but if a tentacled sea monster wants to use it I’m certainly not going to stand in its way. The really threatening thing is that if that thing is sleeping at the bottom of the relatively shallow and peaceful Mirrorsea Bay, who can imagine what lies in the depths of the bottomless oceans?
I guess Harrek has krakens for breakfast every Water-day…
I like the fish head mitre.
Very sumerian/babilonian style, yes.
By the way, where is the berserk aura of Harreck´s in the last panel? Has the thing already “beaten” it?
Harrek may be so surprised by the thing’s appearance that he forgot to stay berserk. Not to worry, I’m confident he will recover his senseless rage soon enough.
The sight of the linen seemed to affect him in a very singular manner. He could not be prevailed upon to touch it or go near it, shuddering when we attempted to force him, and shrieking out, “Tekeli-li!”
— E.A. Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)
I like it myself. Well done.
Does that mean the kraken’s touching cloth? I guess it should be.
It looks like it plans to touch something.
(IT WANTS TO BE DIRTY—really bad RHPS joke)
Who’s this T. Kelly-Lee?
I knew this was going to end in Shoggoths
The fact that Harrek is just saying, quite casually I may add, that its a big one, says that next panel may be Harrek feasting on some Calamari
… and when Harrek met the many armed Tekeli-li he challenged him to an arm-wrestling match, and Harrek beat all arms seperately and at the same time, and Tekeli-li soiled himself in Darkness and fled in shame through a narrow crack not even Eurmal could have fitted trough …
– Excerpt from “Collected Witnesses”, attributed to ‘Ranath the Not so Wise’ at Jonstown Library
Looks like sushi is back on the menu.
You have to admire those summoners – standing fast with fanged death breathing down their necks. Next panel you see shreds of them flying through the air behind the rising tentacles.