Chapter 5: Clocks and hammers
After the ladies filled the boys in on the situation of the planet. "So Carl can you think of any way to nullify the permanent nap time effect on this planet?" Anya asks in her usual haughty elven-kin are better than everyone else tone.
"Well I don't know knife ears did you think of casting a zone of anti-magic to reduce the flow of magic around yourself?.."
Everyone pauses to look at Mike as if he was made of gold. "What? it's a spell that clerics AND mages share? you telling me the self proclaimed all knowing witch queen Anya forgot about it? we could both cast it in turns to keep our party safe until we finish the summoning".
At this point Chelsea speaks up and causes true despair for the party. "So who knows how to actually summon Yog sothoth?, cause I'm pretty sure his isn't as simple as a Beetlejuice summoning".
Larry turns to Victoria "Well? you know more about this stuff than we do, what's the answer?" Indignantly Victoria responds "Why don't you go read a book and figure it out huh? this is all H.P. Lovecraft so far and I only read a couple short stories... Hell I was surprised when Tom pulled that name out of his @$$".
Mike gets up to grab some candy from Victoria "So he's not real? I mean like not a real mythology right? cause I was starting to wonder if you joined a cult or something".
"Seriously? you know I'm atheist, why would I suddenly start believing in some 'Higher being' now? especially from Lovecraftian lore, no I'm not in a cult genius I was googling crazy authors and found a whole Reddit page on this dude, thought he wrote love stories... while he's not as dark as Poe or marquis de Sade he was a wack a doodle nonetheless, and by the way at least Lovecraft says his 'gods' are aliens from a higher plane of existence".
Tom decides to break up the 'Billionth' religious debate between Mike and Vick by passing the blunt. "Look guys what's my rule down here?" Larry stands up quickly and rolls his dice "I scan the surroundings for enemies here's my perception check" 9 "You see and hear nothing just like us watching you chatter your teeth right now.. also you trip on another pebble just for trying to be a hero"
"As your party travels across the planet protected by the field of anti-magic you come upon a group of people sleeping on the ground in the middle of nowhere wearing strange gray cloaks with what appears to be runic symbols stitched into the hemming around the hood and sleeves."
"As you approach the group of sleeping strangers they begin to stir due to the anti-magic zone preventing them from connecting to the Ley lines, what will you do?"
"I observe the runic markings to see if I can recognize them." Mari says as she takes a hit and passes to Mike. "I'll check as well in case they're religious zealots instead of mages". "both of you need to roll for Wis...".
As the night progressed the party managed to identify the strangers as worshipers of Azathoth who came to this world to ask the great old one questions in his dreams. Upon learning of Yog sothath's anger at this world they gave the party an ancient tome with the summoning rituals of several Eldritch gods and left as quickly as they could telling the adventurers that after they summon Yog they should make their way to Golarion and gave them a key and the location of the portal to lead them there.
The summoning of Yog sothoth was a very strange ritual, involving the precise timing of smashing clocks and hourglasses in specific intervals in a counter clockwise circle. Upon the completion of the ritual all time seemed to stop as the sky ripped open and rainbow colored lightning screeched out from the tear.
An immeasurable mass of writhing wriggling tentacles and one giant eye began to slowly pull itself from the tear laughing in a voice that could instill madness into all that hear it before turning it's gaze upon the party.
"Mortals you have exceeded my expectations in this tasks completion, as a reward I shall give you a small boon of my favor and one day to leave this planet before I release my wrath upon these pathetic irritating fools."
As Yog sothoth finished speaking five streaks of light race from his eye and burns an image of an eye wreathed in tentacles upon the wrists of each party member, each tattoo being a different color than the rest.
"These marks will allow you to slow time to a halt depending on the amount of magic channeled into them, use them with caution mortals for time is not something your kind was built to trifle with."
"Thank you oh great Yog we will take this gift and treat it with great responsibility and reverence and shall leave right away so as not to waste any more of your time". After Victoria made her little speech she laid her hands on the table, looked at Tom and begged "Can we please just say we went to Golarion and call it a night?, I'm beat and you guys promised to help me study for my AP chem test."
"Alright everyone made it safely to Golarion no need for saving rolls blah blah.. game, go ahead and get your books Vicky we're going upstairs since my dad's out of town we can throw some old slasher flicks on the big screen." Tom and Mike start cleaning up while everyone else heads upstairs to get the movies set up.
"Dude so you gonna talk about it?" Mike asks after they finish cleaning and grab the cooler full of soda. Tom smirks knowing Mike is just following the bro code. "Nah I'd rather be dark and broody about it, see if that will get the goth chicks to look at me". "Dude you got till Monday to get the Emo edge going, at least fake a smile otherwise Mari's gonna get all moody, you really wanna deal with that?". They stop at the door and Tom looks Mike dead in the eye "Dad gave me mom's necklace before he left.." "Oh.. you wanna cancel the night? I can fake sick and puke on Victoria's for you". Mike pretends to gag before Tom laughs "Yeah watching you get stabbed to death might cheer me up, Nah man it's all good I just needed to wrap my head around it for a second, let's head in Mrs. Crink's tests are Hell..."
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