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What You See Although Alhazred himself claimed that no shoggoths existed in the world, the terrible truth is that these protoplasmic monstrosities have been around for This massive clot of luminous black protoplasm surges forward, eyes and mouths and limbs forming and dissolving from its mass in a churning storm The smell of rot and corruption assaults you, and equally disgusting is the squishy, unwholesome sound of fleshy pustules and tissue forming and breaking apart It is the sickening sound of birth, growth, and decay all at once eons, far longer than humanity Originally created by the elder things as beasts of burden and slaves to aid in the construction of their megalithic cities, the shoggoths gained enough intelligence and will over the generations to rebel against their one-time masters, rising up to destroy the civilization of their creators The shoggoths dwell still in these remote ruins, splashing on the midnight shores of hidden oceans or surging through lightless tunnels, and woe be upon those who foolishly stumble upon their domains Shoggoths can vary tremendously in size, but a typical shoggoth is around 18 feet across and weighs about 50 tons "Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes - viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells—rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinitely plastic and ductile—slaves of suggestion, builders of cities—more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative! Great God! What madness made even those blasphemous Old Ones willing to use and carve such things?" —H.P Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness 376