1001 Explainations of Thoon [Archive] - Wizards Community

1001 Explainations of Thoon [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
Return of the Flumph
07-27-07, 12:04 AM For those who haven't gotten a chance to leaf through the MM5, "Thoon" is a creature, object, concept, or ideal from the Far Realms that some mind flayers follow. It is supposed to be unknowable, unexplainable, and mysterious. Let's change that.

1. The name of the illithid spelljammer that first entered the Far Realms.

2. Cthulhu's ex boyfriend.
Talisman
07-27-07, 12:27 AM 3. The reverse of Nooht
4. The mind flayers' answer to fung shui.
5. Gary Gygax's secret identity.
Jamesks
07-27-07, 03:11 AM 6. The ultimate sandwich spread.
7. Man's first attempt at cheese.
8.That stuff that you find under things. You know, that stuff that is there. The Stuff....
TheAnthroDM
07-27-07, 03:15 AM 9. Thoon is Thoon! :mad:
Darth Syntax
07-27-07, 03:17 AM 10. Thoon is all!
11. The awakened entity composed of all the lost socks in the cosmos
12. The only constant in an inconstant world
13. The name of the host of the first neothelid tadpole to be implanted and thus the progenitor of the mindflayers.
skydin
07-27-07, 03:22 AM 14. Thoon is th unacknowledged bastard son of syrillis and cthulu, whos tenticals are made of all the universes lost gym-socks, and are slimy.
Slagger the Chuul
07-27-07, 06:34 AM 15. Unlike the normal illithids, which come from the far future, the Thoon is an entity of the near future.

Itth main functhon ith to therve ath a thource of amuthement for DMth ath they athk playerth if they'd like to fight thomething Thoon.
Warforged Goblin
07-27-07, 07:33 AM 15. Unlike the normal illithids, which come from the far future, the Thoon is an entity of the near future.

Itth main functhon ith to therve ath a thource of amuthement for DMth ath they athk playerth if they'd like to fight thomething Thoon.

*facepalm* Damnit, that shouldn't be funny...

16. Thoon is the legitimate child of C'thulu and Sune.
spncrbrrtt
07-27-07, 08:36 AM 17. Cthulu's Mother.
18. A wizard, having a big laugh over all this.
19. Donna Summer.
20. a... rumor?
lunoc
07-27-07, 09:18 AM 21 cthulhus sister, cousin, and girlfriend
22 an intelligent shade of the color purple
23 a drunk shade of the number orange
24 a ithlid rpg that translates to subways and seafood chefs
RealSorceror
07-27-07, 10:21 AM 25). Thoon is 4th Edition. :eek:
Amaril
07-27-07, 10:25 AM 26) It's a daelkyr thing. You wouldn't understand.
27) Monte Cook's ideal BBEG.
28) The sandwich a child didn't want to eat and hid under the car seat.
29) Tharizdun and Ghaunadaur's love child.
runestar
07-27-07, 10:33 AM 30) See my avatar.:D
Lyinginbedmon
07-27-07, 02:18 PM 31) No hot
32) Not ho
33) Oh! Not...
Haplo781
08-14-07, 03:46 PM 34. A collective delusion resulting from a failed Will save against a psychic storm.
ArgulFraster
08-14-07, 04:00 PM 35) The sound a Gnome Artificer's spring-loaded invention makes. "Let's see..." *crank**crank**crank* *THOON!*
Ogreman
08-14-07, 04:35 PM 36. The feeling a paladin gets when he trods on a kitten's tail. :bigeyes:

37. Explosive flatulence. (Somebody had to say it.)
GuyrtheadamantineOne
08-14-07, 05:12 PM 38. The original Daelkyr designer of the Illithidae: "WHAT!?! Thoon's there? Gotta get outta here!" Crazed, rogue Illithid hearing about Thoon's beasts being sighted.
Dracomortis
08-14-07, 07:40 PM 39) A creature from the part of the neighborhood Mr. Rogers doesn't like to talk about.
ArgulFraster
08-16-07, 02:58 PM 40) A spring-loaded scalpel. *thoon* "GOOD GODS IT'S IN MY EYE!"
tryco
08-16-07, 03:34 PM 41) Bugs Bunny, he, he's a thoon.
DrStalker
08-17-07, 06:16 AM 42) A small rabbit. The Illithid worship him 'cause he's so darn cute and fluffy!
KurenaiYami
08-17-07, 06:41 AM 43) It is simply the result of Elder Brain damage.
Insanity
08-17-07, 01:21 PM 44) Complete understanding of the nature of the multiverses
Raymond_Luxury_Yacht
08-17-07, 01:32 PM 45) What is demanded for the Thoon god.
Miscaleous
08-17-07, 02:01 PM 46) The title of the MMORPG that we D&D players do not realize we are all playing together across the multiverse.

47) The collected remorse for lost Sundays due to hangovers which spontaneously bred illithids.

48) The most powerful entity from our twin multiverse wherein time flows backwards toward the Bigger Big Bang.
ArgulFraster
08-17-07, 08:37 PM 49) The literal translation of "qarfl" from Gibbering Mouther.
50!!) What Neo claims does not exist after he bites his tongue.
General_Ridley
08-17-07, 10:37 PM 51. Maanzecorian, reborn
JudgeDeadd
08-18-07, 01:35 AM 52. Me.
Raymond_Luxury_Yacht
08-18-07, 02:12 AM 53. Ted's secret identity.
shadowdirge
08-23-07, 04:34 PM 54: A bard, probably high, that rolled really high on his bluff check against a group of very lost mind flayers.
ArgulFraster
08-29-07, 10:14 PM 55) What happens when Theodore Geisel goes insane.
TheScapegoat
08-30-07, 02:35 AM 56) The monster for J.J. Abrams untitled movie project.

57) Actually it is the magical spoon that controls the future the galaxy. Illthids just have terrible lisps.
psidragon13
08-30-07, 02:56 AM 58) An elder brain created by combining parts of the minds and souls of Pun-Pun, Ted, and a drunken illithid.

59) A really, really, really, good high.

60) One of Elmo's multiple personalities.
DrStalker
08-30-07, 04:12 AM 61) Thoon is all the rules droppd when new editions of D&D were released. 4.0 will make him stronger.

How can you power attack that which requires THAC0? How can you kill one who can reincarnate as a random species? How do you bluff a being that knows only non-weapon proficencies?
Kyobusa_Glabados
09-01-07, 09:56 PM 62) You're Thoon, Thoon is You; You're a bit of each other really, but not completely.

63) Thoon is an analogram of extremely complex mathematical problems and scientific formulas that, if solved, not only drives those solving them insane, but detonates, tearing the multiverse a new one.

64) A midget duck
Disciple_of_Salsa
09-02-07, 03:22 AM 63) Thoon is a leading producer of hammerguns
64) 42
65) Thoon is the last digit of pi.
66) Thoon is the voice in your head that tells you to kill.
Lyinginbedmon
09-02-07, 06:55 AM 66) Thoon is the voice in your head that tells you to kill.

67) Thoon is the voice in your head that tells you not to kill :cool:
Rinian2
09-02-07, 09:16 AM 68) Thoon is the voice in your head that argues with the other voices in your head about what they should get you to do next.
69) Thoon is only the idea of Thoon, not the reality.
70) You know that feeling that you get when you think you've lost your wallet? That is Thoon.
71) Terrible Horrible Obnoxious Old Nightmare.
Dracomortis
09-02-07, 10:16 AM 72) Thoon is what you find in an Abyssal toilet after it has gone 666 years without being cleaned :yuck:
Bluehero
09-02-07, 12:05 PM 73) Thoon is gleemax
Necroramo
09-02-07, 03:31 PM 74. Obox-Ob was bored and messed with illithids to pass the time
Euclid
09-02-07, 09:25 PM 75. I envision the illithids viewing thoon as a virtue, like patience and cunning. So one might tell a seeker of what thoon is to get them three bowls of rice, a very thoon act. The seeker would return with the inedible to an illithid bowls of rice, and be congradulated on having shown great thoon, and told that accepting a robotic symbiote would also show thoon.
Robespierre
09-02-07, 10:48 PM 76. Thoon is the empty book you always want to write in, yet never nkow what to say.
BadCatMan
09-02-07, 11:05 PM 77. I am Thoon.
78. You are Thoon.
79. Thoon are me.
80. We are together Thoon.
81. Thoon is the Egg-Man.
82. Thoon are the Egg-Men.
83. Thoon is the Walrus.
84. Goo-goo-g-thoon. Goo-goo-g-thoon.
Toran_A_Sunder
09-03-07, 02:23 AM 85: Thoon is what Mialee is looking at

86: Thoon is the Illithid god of basketweaving...oh, and DOOM!

87: Thoon! It's whats for dinner!

88: Thoon is the long lost and forgotten fourth primary color

89: The Thoon that is known is not the eternal Thoon
Radijs
09-03-07, 07:16 AM 90: Thoon is a conglomerate of a powerful US business venture and the great old ones.
Eshenaleros
09-03-07, 07:28 AM 91. thoon is
Babzidu
09-03-07, 06:36 PM 92. Thoon is the Gate, Thoon is the Key to the Gate, Thoon is the Gaurdian of the Gate. Ia! Yog-Sothoth! Thoon ftgn!
Radijs
09-03-07, 07:04 PM 93: Thoon is never Soap!
Count Nerindil Van Seraph
09-03-07, 07:20 PM 94: Thoon is what makes cereal stay crunchy in milk.
Dracomortis
09-12-07, 04:17 PM 94: Thoon is what makes cereal stay crunchy in milk.
95) Thoon is why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
KedynCrow
09-12-07, 04:41 PM 96: Thoon is why Cinnamon Toast Crunch loves kids. (Try not to think about that one too hard.)

97: Thoon was a pointless invention of the dark ages, an implement of torture that caused all of those unfortunate souls subjected to it to regurgitate in verbal form the sins and crimes of their past lives.

98: Thoon is a ritual item devoured by fetishists in the belief that it would enhance their kinetic and sexual powers.

99: Thoon is delicious on toast.

100: In Soviet Russia, Thoon explains you.
Dracomortis
09-12-07, 04:58 PM 101) Thoon is the only creature capable of defeating Chuck Norris.
102) Thoon is the reason why Samuel L. Jackson is always yelling.
103) Thoon is what happens when Hollywood tries to make a sequel and fails.
104) Thoon the square root of -1.
Raymond_Luxury_Yacht
09-12-07, 11:54 PM 105. If you can't see the Thoon, they can't eat you.
Bedlamtom
09-13-07, 11:10 AM 106: thoon is the other, other white meat

107: Dr. Zoidburg's evil twin
elondir
09-13-07, 11:55 AM 108. The villain in a major 4th edition campaign metaplot.
Angel Black
09-13-07, 12:04 PM 109. Thoon is the Illithid name for Chuck Norris.
Radijs
09-13-07, 05:55 PM 110. Thoon hides in all pointy hats
KedynCrow
09-13-07, 06:52 PM 111: Thoon hides in all pointy ears...
Hellsbells
09-13-07, 07:05 PM 112. Thoon is the ilthid in the background giving a thumbs up.
ArgulFraster
09-13-07, 07:20 PM 112) Thoon is Bill Nye's proudest creation.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Return of the Flumph 07-27-07, 12:04 AM	For those who haven't gotten a chance to leaf through the MM5, "Thoon" is a creature, object, concept, or ideal from the Far Realms that some mind flayers follow. It is supposed to be unknowable, unexplainable, and mysterious. Let's change that. 1. The name of the illithid spelljammer that first entered the Far Realms. 2. Cthulhu's ex boyfriend.
Talisman 07-27-07, 12:27 AM	3. The reverse of Nooht 4. The mind flayers' answer to fung shui. 5. Gary Gygax's secret identity.
Jamesks 07-27-07, 03:11 AM	6. The ultimate sandwich spread. 7. Man's first attempt at cheese. 8.That stuff that you find under things. You know, that stuff that is there. The Stuff....
TheAnthroDM 07-27-07, 03:15 AM	9. Thoon is Thoon! :mad:
Darth Syntax 07-27-07, 03:17 AM	10. Thoon is all! 11. The awakened entity composed of all the lost socks in the cosmos 12. The only constant in an inconstant world 13. The name of the host of the first neothelid tadpole to be implanted and thus the progenitor of the mindflayers.
skydin 07-27-07, 03:22 AM	14. Thoon is th unacknowledged bastard son of syrillis and cthulu, whos tenticals are made of all the universes lost gym-socks, and are slimy.
Slagger the Chuul 07-27-07, 06:34 AM	15. Unlike the normal illithids, which come from the far future, the Thoon is an entity of the near future. Itth main functhon ith to therve ath a thource of amuthement for DMth ath they athk playerth if they'd like to fight thomething Thoon.
Warforged Goblin 07-27-07, 07:33 AM	15. Unlike the normal illithids, which come from the far future, the Thoon is an entity of the near future. Itth main functhon ith to therve ath a thource of amuthement for DMth ath they athk playerth if they'd like to fight thomething Thoon. facepalm Damnit, that shouldn't be funny... 16. Thoon is the legitimate child of C'thulu and Sune.
spncrbrrtt 07-27-07, 08:36 AM	17. Cthulu's Mother. 18. A wizard, having a big laugh over all this. 19. Donna Summer. 20. a... rumor?
lunoc 07-27-07, 09:18 AM	21 cthulhus sister, cousin, and girlfriend 22 an intelligent shade of the color purple 23 a drunk shade of the number orange 24 a ithlid rpg that translates to subways and seafood chefs
RealSorceror 07-27-07, 10:21 AM	25). Thoon is 4th Edition. :eek:
Amaril 07-27-07, 10:25 AM	26) It's a daelkyr thing. You wouldn't understand. 27) Monte Cook's ideal BBEG. 28) The sandwich a child didn't want to eat and hid under the car seat. 29) Tharizdun and Ghaunadaur's love child.
runestar 07-27-07, 10:33 AM	30) See my avatar.:D
Lyinginbedmon 07-27-07, 02:18 PM	31) No hot 32) Not ho 33) Oh! Not...
Haplo781 08-14-07, 03:46 PM	34. A collective delusion resulting from a failed Will save against a psychic storm.
ArgulFraster 08-14-07, 04:00 PM	35) The sound a Gnome Artificer's spring-loaded invention makes. "Let's see..." crankcrankcrank THOON!
Ogreman 08-14-07, 04:35 PM	36. The feeling a paladin gets when he trods on a kitten's tail. :bigeyes: 37. Explosive flatulence. (Somebody had to say it.)
GuyrtheadamantineOne 08-14-07, 05:12 PM	38. The original Daelkyr designer of the Illithidae: "WHAT!?! Thoon's there? Gotta get outta here!" Crazed, rogue Illithid hearing about Thoon's beasts being sighted.
Dracomortis 08-14-07, 07:40 PM	39) A creature from the part of the neighborhood Mr. Rogers doesn't like to talk about.
ArgulFraster 08-16-07, 02:58 PM	40) A spring-loaded scalpel. thoon "GOOD GODS IT'S IN MY EYE!"
tryco 08-16-07, 03:34 PM	41) Bugs Bunny, he, he's a thoon.
DrStalker 08-17-07, 06:16 AM	42) A small rabbit. The Illithid worship him 'cause he's so darn cute and fluffy!
KurenaiYami 08-17-07, 06:41 AM	43) It is simply the result of Elder Brain damage.
Insanity 08-17-07, 01:21 PM	44) Complete understanding of the nature of the multiverses
Raymond_Luxury_Yacht 08-17-07, 01:32 PM	45) What is demanded for the Thoon god.
Miscaleous 08-17-07, 02:01 PM	46) The title of the MMORPG that we D&D players do not realize we are all playing together across the multiverse. 47) The collected remorse for lost Sundays due to hangovers which spontaneously bred illithids. 48) The most powerful entity from our twin multiverse wherein time flows backwards toward the Bigger Big Bang.
ArgulFraster 08-17-07, 08:37 PM	49) The literal translation of "qarfl" from Gibbering Mouther. 50!!) What Neo claims does not exist after he bites his tongue.
General_Ridley 08-17-07, 10:37 PM	51. Maanzecorian, reborn
JudgeDeadd 08-18-07, 01:35 AM	52. Me.
Raymond_Luxury_Yacht 08-18-07, 02:12 AM	53. Ted's secret identity.
shadowdirge 08-23-07, 04:34 PM	54: A bard, probably high, that rolled really high on his bluff check against a group of very lost mind flayers.
ArgulFraster 08-29-07, 10:14 PM	55) What happens when Theodore Geisel goes insane.
TheScapegoat 08-30-07, 02:35 AM	56) The monster for J.J. Abrams untitled movie project. 57) Actually it is the magical spoon that controls the future the galaxy. Illthids just have terrible lisps.
psidragon13 08-30-07, 02:56 AM	58) An elder brain created by combining parts of the minds and souls of Pun-Pun, Ted, and a drunken illithid. 59) A really, really, really, good high. 60) One of Elmo's multiple personalities.
DrStalker 08-30-07, 04:12 AM	61) Thoon is all the rules droppd when new editions of D&D were released. 4.0 will make him stronger. How can you power attack that which requires THAC0? How can you kill one who can reincarnate as a random species? How do you bluff a being that knows only non-weapon proficencies?
Kyobusa_Glabados 09-01-07, 09:56 PM	62) You're Thoon, Thoon is You; You're a bit of each other really, but not completely. 63) Thoon is an analogram of extremely complex mathematical problems and scientific formulas that, if solved, not only drives those solving them insane, but detonates, tearing the multiverse a new one. 64) A midget duck
Disciple_of_Salsa 09-02-07, 03:22 AM	63) Thoon is a leading producer of hammerguns 64) 42 65) Thoon is the last digit of pi. 66) Thoon is the voice in your head that tells you to kill.
Lyinginbedmon 09-02-07, 06:55 AM	66) Thoon is the voice in your head that tells you to kill. 67) Thoon is the voice in your head that tells you not to kill :cool:
Rinian2 09-02-07, 09:16 AM	68) Thoon is the voice in your head that argues with the other voices in your head about what they should get you to do next. 69) Thoon is only the idea of Thoon, not the reality. 70) You know that feeling that you get when you think you've lost your wallet? That is Thoon. 71) Terrible Horrible Obnoxious Old Nightmare.
Dracomortis 09-02-07, 10:16 AM	72) Thoon is what you find in an Abyssal toilet after it has gone 666 years without being cleaned :yuck:
Bluehero 09-02-07, 12:05 PM	73) Thoon is gleemax
Necroramo 09-02-07, 03:31 PM	74. Obox-Ob was bored and messed with illithids to pass the time
Euclid 09-02-07, 09:25 PM	75. I envision the illithids viewing thoon as a virtue, like patience and cunning. So one might tell a seeker of what thoon is to get them three bowls of rice, a very thoon act. The seeker would return with the inedible to an illithid bowls of rice, and be congradulated on having shown great thoon, and told that accepting a robotic symbiote would also show thoon.
Robespierre 09-02-07, 10:48 PM	76. Thoon is the empty book you always want to write in, yet never nkow what to say.
BadCatMan 09-02-07, 11:05 PM	77. I am Thoon. 78. You are Thoon. 79. Thoon are me. 80. We are together Thoon. 81. Thoon is the Egg-Man. 82. Thoon are the Egg-Men. 83. Thoon is the Walrus. 84. Goo-goo-g-thoon. Goo-goo-g-thoon.
Toran_A_Sunder 09-03-07, 02:23 AM	85: Thoon is what Mialee is looking at 86: Thoon is the Illithid god of basketweaving...oh, and DOOM! 87: Thoon! It's whats for dinner! 88: Thoon is the long lost and forgotten fourth primary color 89: The Thoon that is known is not the eternal Thoon
Radijs 09-03-07, 07:16 AM	90: Thoon is a conglomerate of a powerful US business venture and the great old ones.
Eshenaleros 09-03-07, 07:28 AM	91. thoon is
Babzidu 09-03-07, 06:36 PM	92. Thoon is the Gate, Thoon is the Key to the Gate, Thoon is the Gaurdian of the Gate. Ia! Yog-Sothoth! Thoon ftgn!
Radijs 09-03-07, 07:04 PM	93: Thoon is never Soap!
Count Nerindil Van Seraph 09-03-07, 07:20 PM	94: Thoon is what makes cereal stay crunchy in milk.
Dracomortis 09-12-07, 04:17 PM	94: Thoon is what makes cereal stay crunchy in milk. 95) Thoon is why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
KedynCrow 09-12-07, 04:41 PM	96: Thoon is why Cinnamon Toast Crunch loves kids. (Try not to think about that one too hard.) 97: Thoon was a pointless invention of the dark ages, an implement of torture that caused all of those unfortunate souls subjected to it to regurgitate in verbal form the sins and crimes of their past lives. 98: Thoon is a ritual item devoured by fetishists in the belief that it would enhance their kinetic and sexual powers. 99: Thoon is delicious on toast. 100: In Soviet Russia, Thoon explains you.
Dracomortis 09-12-07, 04:58 PM	101) Thoon is the only creature capable of defeating Chuck Norris. 102) Thoon is the reason why Samuel L. Jackson is always yelling. 103) Thoon is what happens when Hollywood tries to make a sequel and fails. 104) Thoon the square root of -1.
Raymond_Luxury_Yacht 09-12-07, 11:54 PM	105. If you can't see the Thoon, they can't eat you.
Bedlamtom 09-13-07, 11:10 AM	106: thoon is the other, other white meat 107: Dr. Zoidburg's evil twin
elondir 09-13-07, 11:55 AM	108. The villain in a major 4th edition campaign metaplot.
Angel Black 09-13-07, 12:04 PM	109. Thoon is the Illithid name for Chuck Norris.
Radijs 09-13-07, 05:55 PM	110. Thoon hides in all pointy hats
KedynCrow 09-13-07, 06:52 PM	111: Thoon hides in all pointy ears...
Hellsbells 09-13-07, 07:05 PM	112. Thoon is the ilthid in the background giving a thumbs up.
ArgulFraster 09-13-07, 07:20 PM	112) Thoon is Bill Nye's proudest creation.