The Irrurthia - The Inter dimensional Kraken Kind For The Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers Of Hyperborea Rpg

Number encountered: 1 

Alignment: Chaotic Evil 

Size: L 

Movement: 40/40
 They swim through the sky and land because they exist in six separate dimensions at once 

Dexterity: 14 

Armor: 7 

Number of attacks: (9 lashX9)

Damage: 1d4 (X9)

Saving Throw: 15 

Experience: 2,200 

Treasure: L
 Morale: 9 

Special : 

* They use their full allotment of attacks on foes
 *Each hit of an arm delivers damage and a curse of horror and depravity to the survivors they will be at -2 on all rolls unless a save vs death is made.

* Any one in contact with one of these horrors for more then an hour will lose one wisdom point per round there after unless the appropriate saving throws is made.
* Gaze causes confusion only the proper saving throws are made. 
* Will soul stripe any spells from wizards or magic users that it kills. 

A horror from beyond the borders of Hyperborea this terror from beyond the stars dwells in the Darkness Between the universes outside of space and time. Within the continuum of the Hyperborea these ancient weapons of terror are summoned by foolish or insane wizards and mages seeking power over their enemies. These ancient horrors were used by the ancients as weapons of mass destruction. They're very presence warps reality and makes time run like wax around them. They shatter men's minds by their very presence and trodden between the spaces of reality as they move across the face of a world. Even if banished they may leave sinister gaps in the dimensional fabric of the local world 
They have nine tentacles and rend anything with mouth ringed suckers which are hooked and barbed as well. Each  hit does 1d4 points of damage per strike as the horror rends flesh and bone. They will not retreat until all opposition is dead. They have very cold and dangerous alien intelligence. They are known to sit just outside of the local space time continuum and wait for the exact moment to strike a local community.  They will drag off children and men of the community to sew confusion and panic. They often attack the strongest targets they can find. Only the strongest blessings from the gods and saints of Hyperborea may banish these horrors. But often times their very presence rends the spaces around them so that the plane prime is open to other horrors from beyond. Such locations are often thought of as cursed or doomed. Colours Out of Space often accompany a summoning of one of these creatures within 1d10 days. They often have doomsday cults who make offerings of artifacts and relics to these horrors.
They are said to be the spawn of Azathoth and one of the Prime Kraken (The Khalk-XU'RU ). They are  created by his foul movements as he rolls in his mad idiotic dreams of nuclear choas, horror, at the center of the universe during the great migrations of the Kalk-Xu.
The Irruthia often feed upon wizards who travel between the dark of the stars and planes. Snatching and stripping the souls of anyone that they can catch for tid bits of magic. They often use spells taken from the minds of wizards to open doors between worlds to destroy.
 
The artwork is used without permission and is a tribute to Carlton Comics. It is for entertainment purposes only, this is a personal campaign creation and not afficated with North Wind Adventures. 

Splatter Punk Campaign Rpg Influences - Tom Sutton One Of Connecticut's Comic Book Artist's Extraordinaire

Once upon a time back in the 70's and 80's Carlton Comics produced some of the weird and out there titles for their audiences. They're the company who introduced me to HP Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. Tom Sutton was one of their stable of artists and his work spoke volumes to me. According to Wiki : 

"Thomas F. "Tom" Sutton (April 15, 1937 – May 1, 2002)^[1] was an American comic bookartist who sometimes used the pseudonyms Sean Todd and Dementia. He is best known for his contributions to Marvel Comics and Warren Publishing's line of black-and-white horror-comics magazines, particularly as the first story-artist of the popular character Vampirella" 

The monsters that Tom Sutton did are going be the way I'm imagining all of my Mythos monsters for the moment. Balls to the walls flat out horror 

He also did quite a bit of stuff for Warren and Marvel. Locally he worked for the 'Boys From Derby'. Carlton Comics were solid back in the 70's. They had a nice range of titles and their supernatural lines were very dark (for kids comics) but it was Warren that was my 'adult' choose. However, Tom Sutton illustrated my imagination's darkest nightmares. For a DM it was pretty easy to tell a player that 'this' is the monster your PC is facing down. 

Mr. Sutton was right in the heart of the Warren revolution and at the door when Marvel had its Monsterous Seventies period. Once again Wiki: 

Sutton's first two comic-book stories appeared the same month. His first sale, "The Monster from One Billion B.C.", was published in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comicsmagazine Eerie #11 (Sept. 1967), though it was originally commissioned for Famous Monsters of Filmland (where it was reprinted four months later). He also illustrated the five-page anthological Western story "The Wild Ones", written by Sol Brodsky, in Marvel's Kid Colt, Outlaw #137 (Sept. 1967). It was one of many Westerns he drew for the company, including the introduction of the short-lived feature "Renegades"—The Fugitive times four, in the Old West—in Western Gunfighters #1 (Aug. 1970).

As Sutton recalled his breaking into Marvel, editor-in-chief Stan Lee

...looked at the stuff that I had brought in, [which was] stuff that I had done in the service for Stars and Stripes in Tokyo. I think he was rather impressed by the fact that I had actually done a daily comic strip for two years. He didn’t get many people who had done that. ... He just reached over and he pulled off this huge pile of blank paper. And he said, 'OK, do me a couple of Westerns and I'll see you next week. Have fun.' I remember that very well. 'Have fun.'^[3]

Sutton soon developed a trademark frantic, cartoony style that, when juxtaposed on dramatic narratives, gave his work a vibrant, quirky dynamism. That distinctive style helped establish the popular supernatural character Vampirella from her first story, "Vampirella of Draculona", written by Forrest J. Ackerman, with costume design by artist Trina Robbins,^[9] in Vampirella #1 (Sept. 1969).^[10] Later, with writer Archie Goodwin, Sutton helped transition Vampi from cheeky horror hostess to serious dramatic character in the 21-page story "Who Serves the Cause of Chaos?" in issue #8 (Nov. 1970, reprinted in color in Harris Comics' 1995 Vampirella Classicsseries).^[3][10]

Though well-suited to horror stories, Sutton was also admired for his work on such science fiction series as Marvel's Planet of the Apesmagazine and First Comics' GrimJack and Squalor, and for the humor title Not Brand Ecch, on which he appeared in nearly every issue with parodies of Marvel's own characters.^[10] He was not especially equipped to do superheroes, either by art style or temperament, once calling them "fascist".^[11] While he lent a hand very occasionally, Sutton stayed mostly on Marvel's supernatural heroes: Werewolf by Night, Ghost Rider, Doctor Strange (in the 1970s series, plus Baron Mordo backup stories in the 1980s Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme). With writer Steve Englehart, penciler Sutton introduced the new furrily transformed X-Men character the Beast, who starred in a superhero/horror feature in Amazing Adventures #11-15 (March-Sept. 1972).^[3][10]

A series in the 1970s black-and-white comics magazine Planet of the Apes, a licensed spin-off of the movie series, done with writerDoug Moench, was "recognized by many as Sutton's best", said comics historian and columnist Tom Spurgeon:

Together, they created the 'Future Chronicles' stories for Marvel's Planet of the Apes magazine. [For this] enormously elaborate and cleverly designed fantasy saga set on the world featured in the movies, Sutton worked with oversized originals to better show off his mixed-media work and allow for meticulous detail. The result was a lush, moody, and striking fantasy story to stand with any in mainstream comics history. ' He really made the work a joy, and pure fun,' Moench told [The Comics] Journal. ' This guy was so into the "Future Chronicles", he wanted to put so much detail into it, he worked on these gigantic boards. It was [a] black-and-white [magazine], so it was already bigger than regular comics pages. Then he did that series twice up, these enormous things that would cover my desk. Right there it made it something special, the sheer physical size of it. The enthusiasm you could see in every brushstroke just made it so exciting'.^[2]

 I used to walk down to the corner Dairy Mart with my weekly allowance and after dividing it in half. I'd get a couple of Carlton Comics. If I was really lucky Warren's Eerie or Creepy might be available. But it was always the Sutton covers that grabbed me. 



Sutton had his own demons to deal with as well as those he drew. Again Wiki: 

Original art splash page, Werewolf by Night #9 (Sept. 1973), one of two issues Sutton penciled and inked

For the horror-oriented Warren, Sutton drew dozens of stories early in his career. He moonlighted for Warren competitor Skywald Publications, drawing the Frankenstein-novel sequel "Frankenstein, Book II" (serialized in Psycho magazine #3-6, May, 1971 - May, 1972)—using the pseudonym "Sean Todd" (writer-penciler Sutton and inkers Dan Adkins, Jack Abel and Sutton himself), to avoid the wrath of publisher James Warren. A separate story inPsycho #4, written by Sutton and drawn by him and Syd Shores, was credited as "Larry Todd" (writer) and "David Cook" (art). This was the result of someone having inadvertently inserted the name of real-life writer Larry Todd rather than usual pseudonym Sean Todd.^[12]

For Skywald's short-lived line of color comics, Sutton wrote and drew stories for the Westerntitle Butch Cassidy and the horror title The Heap (no relation to the 1940s-50s Hillman Periodicals character later revived by Eclipse Comics). He drew Marvel's similar muck-monster Man-Thing as eight-page installments in the omnibus series Marvel Comics Presents during the late 1980s.^[10]

Later life and career [edit]

Living in Mystic, Connecticut, at some point,^[13] Sutton in the mid-1970s to early 1980s wrote and drew horror stories for the Derby, Connecticut-based Charlton Comics, including for such titles as Ghost Manor, Midnight Tales, Monster Hunters and The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves, also painting covers for some of these titles. In the mid-1980s, Sutton drew suspense stories for DC Comics' House of Secrets and House of Mystery which included the "I…Vampire" feature with writer J. M. DeMatteis.^[14] He penciled virtually all 56 issues of DC's licensed series Star Trek (1984-1988),^[10] a period in which, he said, "I know I was becoming an alcoholic."^[15] The desire to continue drawing, he said, overcame the urge to drink:

[Y]ou can be drunk as a fucking skunk and there’s a little voice that goes off in your head that says, “Would you like to draw pictures, or would you like to be drunk face down in the gutter? Choose one.” Those are the only two chances you’ve got. I had my own little miracle. I thank God for it to this day. I’m not making a big thing out of it. The only reason I even talk about it is the fact that I think there are other people out there who need to know this. That you can save yourself. You go to AA, and eh. I couldn’t stick with AA. Other people, that’s a great place for them.^[15] ... I ran out of bars. One by one, and there must have been a dozen in Newberryport, I was a persona non grata at ever single one of them [and] ... I would never sit home and drink. I had to have an audience.^[16]

Late in life, Sutton did commercial art for New England ad agencies, and under his "Dementia" pseudonym, which he adopted in 1994, he drew for Fantagraphics' Eros Comix line of adult comics.^[3] He was also a painter who had gallery showings of his bar-scene canvases.^[3] A limited-edition portfolio of six H.P. Lovecraft-inspired fantasy prints, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, was produced in 1978 and reprinted in the 2002 book Graphic Classics: H. P. Lovecraft. 

 

 The Carlton OSR Angle 

I've been pulling from my 'locally grown' artists and influences. I've grabbed many a Carlton comic plot and adapt it for OD&D, Chill, Call of Cthulhu, World of Darkness, and much more. Tom Sutton drew how I imagined the Mythos looked like along with the vampires, werewolves, and the demons of darkness that came out of Derby Connecticut  

For a balls to the walls Crypts and Things campaign 'The Carlton Influence is going to be dripping from the adventures. I never got the chance to thank Tom Sutton for all the great stuff he did. There's a sea side city state named in his honor in my campaign world. 

Ghosts, demon winds, and Lovecraftian horrors from the deepest darkest recesses of VHS hell are coming! Tom Sutton's finger print echos through my imagination. More coming up!