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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..."


Chapter 6: No rest for the wicked

Where as the beginning of their night was loud and filled with a raucous cacophony of screams and laughter, the ending was rather somber as the teens studied with an old Voorhees movie playing in the background on mute. The only noise being heard are the occasional arguments between Mike and Mari about who actually knows what they're talking about.

By the end of the study session Larry and Victoria have smoke rolling from their ears but feel like they can at least make a c+ which is all they care about since neither of them planned on going to college for a science related degree. They only made it into AP chem because they piggybacked off of the others in classes early on, but seeing as AP courses give college credit they won't back out for an easier class.

"So tomorrow you guys are helping me rehearse my lines for the play Thursday right?" Chelsea said while twisting her hands and looking over the table. Larry huffs and opens up another can of Dew. "haven't you been rehearsing since November? You should have memorized your lines by now, you only have a few lines anyways..."

"Few lines my @$$!! I'm playing sister Bessie Rice! that woman doesn't shut up. anytime she's on screen she's either singing or hollering about 'the good lord'" Mari starts giggling uncontrollably. "So you're playing a cougar? that's pretty funny seeing as you get hit on by old creeps all day when you're online."

Chelsea starts glaring at Mari while Mike and Larry start making cat noises in the background before Victoria speaks up " Perfect we can have Larry play as dude, Mike will be Lov, Tom can play Jeeter, While me and Mari take up the female roles in turn. but No dibs on Ada!!!"

"When did you become the casting director?" Tom asks while getting up to grab some leftover pizza from the fridge, before snatching a Dos equis and a bottle opener. "subject change for a sec guys, did I show you my latest 'toy'? this bad boy will dominate in the south east Battlebot open invitation."

Victoria and Chelsea turn their heads so fast it should have caused whiplash before Chelsea quips. "I swear to God if it's another cockroach robot I will end you myself, the last 'toy' you made gave me nightmares for a week". "Nah this one is waaaay better let me go get it I'm sure you'll love her.." Tom's voice trails as he runs to his room before anyone can stop him. A few seconds later whirring and clicking noises can be heard as his latest creation crawls across the floor on eight mechanical legs.

A mechanical spider the size of a small dog rounds the hallway corner leading to Tom's room. The movement is kind of gimpy and there appears to be a lime green glow emitting from the spaces in its pseudo exoskeleton, but other than these two 'minor' discrepancies Tom's latest creation looks just like a gigantic tarantula. "Check her out guys, I'm going to own the open invitational with this beauty."

"Tom I hate to break it to you but nothing about that... thing is beautiful. I feel like the only way in which this is 'better' than the roach is the fact that it actually gave me arachnophobia and will haunt my dreams for the rest of my life." Chelsea's muffled voice is barely heard from behind Victoria as she complained about Tom's newest invention before Vicky starts talking "I completely agree with Chelsea can you please put the monster away? like pretty please? You can show everyone on Sunday when I leave I'm sure they can wait."

Larry takes one of the rare chances to tease Victoria from a safe distance. "I don't know V you're always saying live in the now, what if something happens and I have to go home tomorrow or a meteor hits the earth and wipes out all of humanity? I would never get to see Tom's spider bot then". "I can guarantee that if a meteor wipes out life on Earth you would be able to spend all of eternity with that thing in Hell where it belongs!" Victoria says while backing away from the robot that ever slowly continues creeping forward.

Mike started laughing while he takes a jab at Victoria's ego. "I thought you were atheist? What Hell are you talking about?". No longer able to keep her cool Vic screams "THE ONE THAT F∆¢KING THING CRAWLED OUT OF!!!" and runs to the kitchen with Chelsea in tow.

Being quiet all this time Mari looks at Tom and sighs. "You know she's going to get you back for this right? and I thought you said you were done making robo insects?" "Eh I'm sure she's madder at Mike and Larry for egging her on.. and this is an arachnid count the legs." Tom messes with the controller for a second and the robot starts spinning in circles with the front two legs raised in the air.

"You guys won't believe all the weapons and tricks I got in this one, after Chelsea and Vick leave we can go to my test site and I can show off a little. Alright girls I'm putting her up you can come back now.." Tom walks his new robot back to his room and detaches the battery to set on charge, by the time he comes back everyone is sitting in the living room and switched the slasher flicks over to Mario party with a big bowl of popcorn in the middle. The teens played games until the sun came up and passed out till evening, seeing as this was their average weekend since middle school everyone had their own sleeping bags and spots while the girls took the living room the boys piled in Tom's room with Larry and Mike on the floor.

Mike woke up before everyone as usual so he sets about his normal routine of playing heavy metal while cutting on the lights. "Come on guys it's 3 in the afternoon, I wanna finish helping Chelsea with her rehearsal so we can get back to Mario, I was winning and I refuse to let you guys keep me from my gold medal".

"Ok ok ok just please kill the Slayer man my head is pounding.." Larry's muffled groans can be heard from his Caterpie sleeping bag as he inches his way out of Tom's room. After Larry makes it to the kitchen (still crawling) he finally stands up and unzips his bag to reveal the clothes he had on the night before. As Larry begins making a bowl of cereal Chelsea starts to nag him about going to clean up.

"No one wants to smell your stank @$$ first thing in the morning, just because you're a ginger don't mean you smell like Christmas.." Larry looks her dead in the eyes as if he could see her soul "Food first all else is secondary in this life mortal" as he holds his sleeping bag like a cape and stalks out of the room to enjoy his crunch berries.

Mike starts laughing while Chelsea stares a hole in Larry's back as he leaves, psshhh everyone can hear a shower getting cut on to which Victoria and Mari jump awake. ""SECOND!!"" they both scream and run to get in front of the bathroom door. While they wait by the door they hear a familiar clicking noise which causes Victoria to break out in a cold sweat.


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childhood how I miss it.. anyways wow over a thousand views.. I know that's not much for others but it has me excited thank you to everyone who's been reading hopefully I can make a great novel out of this

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