Monument To Ancient One Mysteriously Appears in Oklahoma

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**Ahtman**

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An Oklahoma City restaurant has a concrete problem in its hands.

Staff at Paseo Grill, located in Oklahoma’s historic Paseo Arts District, are still making sense of a mysterious concrete block that materialized on their front lawn last Friday.

The three-foot-high monument to the fictional deity Azathoth is rough to the touch. It appears as if it has been chipped loose from a base.

And it’s so heavy that three strong men could only make it budge an inch.

“This is not something you just drive by and throw out the window,” restaurant owner Lesley Rawlinson told The New York Daily News. “Someone had to come and set it down here.”

But no one knows who did it. Local police told Rawlinson that the block doesn’t appear to have been stolen, so removing it is the restaurant’s responsibility.

After news about the monument spread on KFOR, Rawlinson said she’s been getting calls from people who were excited about the find and from people who warned her about its dangers.

A bronze plaque attached to one side of the monument bears these puzzling words, “In the Year of Our Lord 2012 Creer Pipi claimed this land for Azathoth.”

Azathoth is a fictional being mentioned in science fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft’s stories. The primordial power is sometimes seen as the god of chaos.

**gunslingerpro**

Something stirs in the deep...

**SagesStone**

About time, it's a year late already.

**Iur_tae_mont**

I for one welcome our new Lovecraftian Overlords.

**motyak**

n0t_u wrote:
About time, it's a year late already.

Only in this dimension...

**Wyrmalla**

Elsewhere a small plinth dedicated to Nyctelios appeared in the bathroom of a Denny's. Nobody cared.

**Forar**

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!

**Nevelon**

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fthagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

<Gibbers mindlessly>

**Wyrmalla**

* Goes mad from reading all that.

Though I wonder how the parking lot cameras didn't pick up on a truck off loading that thing?

...That is unless it merely formed on that spot.

**RatBot**

I, for one, welcome our new overlords. May our inevitable demise be swift and painless!

**Avatar 720**

The only way it could have been better was if the plaque was written in comic sans.

**Mathieu Raymond**

Creer Pipi in French means to "create urine", literally.

**Cheesecat**

RatBot wrote:
I, for one, welcome our new overlords. May our inevitable demise be swift and painless!

Man, I haven't heard that statement a billion times before.

**Mathieu Raymond**

My fiancee asked the same question regarding the security cam... all I said was "Oklahoma."

**Mr Morden**

Cool start but Mysteriously appears is just "got dropped off" - was hoping for so much more

Call me when Big C actually wakes up and is looking for a partner in crime..............

**Gitzbitah**

A good start. The real trick is to bury the monuments in the midst of ancient ruins- imagine how much angrier everyone would be if this found at the apex of a Mayan pyramid!

**AduroT**

Cheesecat wrote:
RatBot wrote:
I, for one, welcome our new overlords. May our inevitable demise be swift and painless!

Man, I haven't heard that statement a billion times before.

I hear it every election season.

**The Dark Apostle**

Can someone explain all this lovecraftian stuff to me?

**Grey Templar**

Look up the works of fiction by H.P Lovecraft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraft

**Mathieu Raymond**

The Dark Apostle wrote:
Can someone explain all this lovecraftian stuff to me?

We could, but then we'd have to kill you.

**Gitzbitah**

The Dark Apostle wrote:
Can someone explain all this lovecraftian stuff to me?

Mankind emerged once the Great Old Ones died, or got bored and left this planet to other dimensions, death, or some other place. With them gone, civilization as we know it arose. But we exist on sufferance- any one of the Old Ones may return at any time, and when they do mankind will fill the role of cattle for them, if all cattle were quite mad. Various cults intermittently discover ancient texts, and attempt to resurrect, awaken, or summon the dark evils that predate the very concept of evil. So far, they have failed.

**MrMoustaffa**

Gitzbitah wrote:
The Dark Apostle wrote:
Can someone explain all this lovecraftian stuff to me?

Mankind emerged once the Great Old Ones died, or got bored and left this planet to other dimensions, death, or some other place. With them gone, civilization as we know it arose. But we exist on sufferance- any one of the Old Ones may return at any time, and when they do mankind will fill the role of cattle for them, if all cattle were quite mad. Various cults intermittently discover ancient texts, and attempt to resurrect, awaken, or summon the dark evils that predate the very concept of evil. So far, they have failed.

until now...

**Relapse**

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Mathieu Raymond wrote:
The Dark Apostle wrote:
Can someone explain all this lovecraftian stuff to me?

We could, but then we'd have to kill you.

Wouldn't have to. He'd go mad.

**Mathieu Raymond**

It's funny when you think of it, though. I'd have expected New York, Los Angeles, Dallas or Washington to be where it all started. Never in my wildest dream would it have occured to think Oklahoma City.

The times, they are a-changin' eh?

**master of ordinance**

[Goes completely mad]
NYARLARTHOTEPN,RWIRKJNFJKWETRFSAZZSFVXC AZZTHOTHOL YOGSOTHOTH AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGG
H

**azazel the cat**

I'd guess that the engineering department of the nearest state college is to blame. Once per year in Vancouver, the UBC engineers would all get together and hang a volkswagon Beetle from beneath one of the bridges leading into downtown as a traditional prank.

Or, y'know, the mad-with-terror thing. Either way.

**Orlanth**

Its not big or far from the road at all.

Midnight prank from some ex roleplayers with access to a flatbed truck, Scooby & gang would crack this one in 2 minutes.

**Kilkrazy**

It reminds me of the time some pranksters made an exact replica of Stonehenge 500 metres away. No-one could tell if they moved the original or not.

**KingCracker**

ALIENS DAMMIT! WHY WONT PEOPLE LISTEN TO ME!??!

**Iranna**

KingCracker wrote:
ALIENS DAMMIT! WHY WONT PEOPLE LISTEN TO ME!??!

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

They'll hear you.

Iranna.