As he lay asleep, he travelled longer and further than any man. He witnessed sights and experienced events that no man was ever meant to. He reached for Kadath, yet never came closer. Nyarlothep whispered thoughts, which Carter came to believe were his own. His search had brought him nothing and had made him a pawn of the Old Ones.

The messengers and tools of the Old Ones take many and varied forms. Carter happened by the Ogre, Ooth'Nargai, while he travelled through a small town. He'd never wondered at the strange coincidence. As he suddenly thought of the need for a larger presence in his team, he happened upon a group of men playing a game in the street. Within their ranks, the large form of Ooth'Nargai towered above, pushing aside the feeble challenges of his opponents as he charged across the line. Somehow Carter knew that he'd found the missing link in his team.