A 2-hour audiobook summed up in a green-text-esque format. Nicely done.

That's assuming far too much active interest on Dread Cthulhu's part in what happens to this insect.

The cult has discovered your lineage, they're attempting to bring you "home". They're trying not to tip you off by sort of complying with your requests. The taxi is being driven by a deep one, or someone who is close to transforming.

That's my best guess

Drug smugglers have figured out ways to not only hide drugs inside statues, but to actually make drugs INTO statues. I remember reading about some Columbian drug gang that figured out a way to embed cocaine in a plastic in a manner that could be chemically separated once smuggled across the border. They were sending shipments of religious statues made out of cocaine. So I suppose that Cthulu statue could actually be 30% coke.

Most probably some Lovecraftian horror story / character reference.

It’s available as an STL that prints in resin quite well. I had to hollow the base and add a drain hole, but now I am very pleased with the doom I have brought upon myself.