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This is a creature known as a "Flying Polyp", created for my illustrated Lovecraft bestiary. [The flying polyps were a] horrible elder race of half polypous, utterly alien entities... They were only partly material and had the power of aerial motion, despite the absence of wings... [They exhibited] a monstrous plasticity and ... temporary lapses of visibility... [S]ingular whistling noises and colossal footprints made up of five circular toe marks seemed also to be associated with them.
—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Out of Time"

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Great! Too many people copy the inaccurate Chaosium Field guide with these guys. and give them eyes ...or don't even consider "polyp" is also a marine biology term and that H.P lovecraft had a fear of the ocean. Who's to say their basalt towers were'. Though lately I have been reading the lovecraftianscience blog archives and intrigued by the idea of them being part matter and antimatter or partially plasma (ionized gas) lifeforms. Would explain why no trace of them is left when hit by the lightning guns.