WWUD if Hastur came looking for Old Man Henderson shortly afterwords?
Tell the yellow robed sissy to go away. Dorfs don't like reading.
Or become a dabbling reader. SCIENCE and FUN ensued
What would the ELVES do if Urist sold them the nice leather bound tome (menacing with spikes of literature) the weirdo in yellow left behind?
Care to explain movie/book/game refernce?
Old Man Henderson is an iconic character from a Call of Cthulhu campaign posted in /tg/ of 4chan a few years ago.
A drunken and scottish, possibly insane marysue character that managed deeds that no CoC player should be able to. Had a gnome fetish. Killed Hastur
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Old_Man_HendersonThe King in Yellow is a being from Robert Chamber's book The King in Yellow (1895). He had borrowed the name Hastur from some previous writer I can't remember and used the name a couple of times (but not for the King in Yellow character) Later Lovecraft inserted both the name and the play King in Yellow (a play that "plays" a central role in The King in Yellow) into his Cthulhu mythos but I don't think that he never diractly called the King in Yellow character 'Hastur'. Then August Derleth started calling the King in Yellow (the character) 'Hastur' and used it in his Cthulhu mythos books.
Basically Hastur is a character from The King in Yellow that was later named and inserted into Cthulhu mythos. An eldrich beign that covers itself in a yellow robe and doesn't show its face. The first act of the King in Yellow play (a play script) within the King in Yellow book is supposed to be extremely interesting and makes the readers eager to continue reading. When they start reading the second act things start getting a bit strange and squigly...