I mean, Palantir literally must have thought "Gee, let's name our company after the magic items Sauron uses to spy on everyone!"

The situation in the AI industry being what it is, I would not rule it out!

Ohhh... is that why Anthropic named their bug hunter "Mythos"? 🤔️

Deep, in the depths below R'lyeh, moss covered cobblestone walls give way to vast open expanses of low ceiling rooms with short foundations walls a bit over a meter high. Inside the foundational maze sit hundreds of thousands of deep ones, each in front of an ethereal terminal. Any requests of the Anthropic system are directly routed to this sub basement, where an unsleeping crew recount the barest dreams of Cthulhu in response to any query. These queries are then fed back to more sensible models for shaping and correction and fed back to the end users. Slowly, carefully, the dreams feed reality and degrade the sanity of the users in a bid to prepare the return. When the AI bubble pops, Cthulhu shall wake and rise once more to give them something to turn their camera phones to.

Occasionally, the Devil does show up as a fly in German folk tales.

I'm curious now if there are other cases where they talk about insects. I should have acces to a lot of French sources. I should look into that over the weekend.

I know - I have translated quite a few tales of witches' gatherings.

Still, the insect that flies to each person's head is a rather striking and unique element.

These are witches' sabbath motives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witches'_Sabbath

1454 seems to be early for these myths to go around, but it definitely started in the late middle ages.

Appreciate it!

I am trying to get a campaign off the ground right now using Alchemy, so I would also love to hear anyone else's experience with that.

OP, whenever I have anything to add that's worth hearing, I'll chime back in with whatever "insights" I can provide.

Seems legit, chihuahuas are eldritch-touched at the very least, if not outright interdimensional horrors!

Humor aside, I am a new keeper who would love to hear opinions on the situation in the meme from other keepers of any experience level. Wouldn't requiring a mythos roll instead of a natural world roll be mean in this case?

My thought is that the natural world result could range from "These prints are clearly from a dog," on a fail/fumble to "You cannot recognize these prints as belonging to any animal you've ever seen or heard of," on a success to "You don't immediately recognize these prints; on closer examination you feel a wave of dread wash over you. Not only do you not know what left these tracks, you get the sense that you shouldn't know, that no one should ever know, that the animal... no, the bloody thing that came through here should not even be, much less be known."