Mi-Go

Overview

They came from Yuggoth, our Pluto, though the name is older than any human tongue, and they came for what the Earth contains: minerals, secrets, and minds worth preserving. The Mi-Go are not precisely organic, not precisely machine. They are fungoid, crustacean, and something else besides, and they regard humanity as a resource to be harvested with the care of expert surgeons.

The brain in the cylinder is not dead. It travels. It speaks. It remembers.

Description

Witnesses describe a central mass like a great crab, with writhing appendages and wings that fold against the body when not in flight. The head, or what passes for a head, is a cluster of short, pinkish tentacles arranged in a convoluted ellipse; colour shifts in bands, as though emotion were displayed in hues the human eye was never meant to read. In the Vermont hills they were seen at dusk, rising from the forest like obscene bats.

They do not speak with mouths. They speak with devices, or with the brains they have already taken. Their science can excise a brain without killing it, seal it in a cylinder of exotic metal, and transport it across the gulfs between worlds for consultation with minds that have seen the centre of the galaxy.

Historical Record

Albert Wilmarth of Miskatonic University followed the Akeley correspondence into the Black River country and emerged with a story the public never heard in full: the Mi-Go mining the hills, the brain cylinders in the shuttered house, the voice on the phonograph that was Henry Akeley and was not. The government did not intervene. The Mi-Go withdrew, or seemed to.

They have been reported since, in the Andes, in the Himalayas, wherever the mountains are lonely and the telescopes turn upward. They trade knowledge for cooperation. They take those who refuse.

Archive Notes

Brain cylinder storage is prohibited outside Annex Theta. Personnel offered 'transport' or 'preservation' by entities matching Mi-Go description must decline regardless of promised knowledge. Wilmarth's papers are essential reading and disturbing reading. Remember: the thing speaking from the cylinder may still be a man. It may still want to come home.