From Enigma (2nd place):
Location.....On the Roof of the Daimyo's Mansion.
Time.........12am, Day of Hatred, Month of the Samurai, Crescent Moon
The following components are added into a cast iron pot while repetatively chanting "Yog-Sothoth F'ai Throdog". They are continuously mixed together in a solution of blood and urine by a bamboo staff with a crystal of tourmaline on top.
1) Hair from a lion's mane, burnt to ashes.
2) A fish eye, frozen in water from the Dark Sea
3) Skin flakes from a grotesque goblin.
4) A handful of copper shavings.
5) Sulfur, as pure as possible.
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As the ashes and sulfur mix into the blood and urine, the scent of madness fills the air, pulsing with the name of Yog-Sothoth. The crescent moon's power as an agent of change, constrained by the honor of the samurai represented in the month and location eventually force the copper and skin flakes to merge into the bubbling mixture. As the fish's eye gradually combines to create an awful stew, the tourmaline begins to glow, and the gibbering voices of maddened spirits fill the air. With the Day of Hatred's rising from the nexus of midnight, a ferocity rises, calling on the kingly nature of the lion to form the concoction into a representative form. With the chant nearing completion, and the day turning, the tourmaline glows like a second sun, its bamboo staff falls to ash, and a crown of steel, encompassing insanity, ferocity and kingliness lies as the results of these efforts.
Long delayed "Brothers" Sign Quest entries and res
Long delayed "Brothers" Sign Quest entries and res
-EB
Your local know-it-all.
Your local know-it-all.
From Ducci (1st place):
LOCATION:
The incantation should ideally be performed on a burial ground overlooking a deep, placid pool under a full moon at midnight. I can't fit my schedule around that, so normally I just go down to the Calathar graveyard after a rainstorm. (Tip: If you squint at a half moon, it kind of looks full.)
PREPARATION:
1. Slaughter a she-camel for its lifeblood. I usually rent one, buy insurance, and then claim a dwarf killed it.
2. Add the sulfer, copper shavings, and camelblood to a steel bowl and heat. As the sulfer burns, lean over the concoction and deeply inhale. (You might want to let the apprentice do this part.)
3. Freeze the tourmaline with the breath of a frost drake and drop it into the mixture as the last of the copper goes molten. Don't worry, you can chip off the copper later and regift the crystal.
4. Go to the magic shop and buy a scroll that actually works. Just kidding.
INVOCATION:
(Brandishing the mixture.)
Yog-Sothoth F'ai Throdog. Hei ma'akajao-zha.
(Repeat 2x. Be sure to reverse Throdog's name--he doesn't want you wearing it out.)
INCANTATION:
(Dancing awkwardly.)
Hei ma'akajao-zha. Kata, cheiro, iofide, thee to worshe acheleou.
Kata, cheiro, iofide, thee to worshe acheleou. Hei ma'akajao-zha.
(IMPORTANT: Remember to do this final reversal if you don't want to summon something large and hungry!)
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The burning sulfur, mixed with the copper shavings and camel's blood, brings a whiff of the deep desert with its scorching heat and toughened residents. When the frozen tourmaline hits the mixture, spires of copper suddenly rise from its edges. These spires expand into full spikes, wicked and deadly, as Yog-Sothoth's blessing is called upon the mixture, the coating within it spreading into otherwise thin layers. During the dance, these seem to hover above the bowl, separating, yet somehow still connected, until the final phrase is uttered, when the form becomes a set of plated, spiked armwear, looking ready to flay flesh from bone.
LOCATION:
The incantation should ideally be performed on a burial ground overlooking a deep, placid pool under a full moon at midnight. I can't fit my schedule around that, so normally I just go down to the Calathar graveyard after a rainstorm. (Tip: If you squint at a half moon, it kind of looks full.)
PREPARATION:
1. Slaughter a she-camel for its lifeblood. I usually rent one, buy insurance, and then claim a dwarf killed it.
2. Add the sulfer, copper shavings, and camelblood to a steel bowl and heat. As the sulfer burns, lean over the concoction and deeply inhale. (You might want to let the apprentice do this part.)
3. Freeze the tourmaline with the breath of a frost drake and drop it into the mixture as the last of the copper goes molten. Don't worry, you can chip off the copper later and regift the crystal.
4. Go to the magic shop and buy a scroll that actually works. Just kidding.
INVOCATION:
(Brandishing the mixture.)
Yog-Sothoth F'ai Throdog. Hei ma'akajao-zha.
(Repeat 2x. Be sure to reverse Throdog's name--he doesn't want you wearing it out.)
INCANTATION:
(Dancing awkwardly.)
Hei ma'akajao-zha. Kata, cheiro, iofide, thee to worshe acheleou.
Kata, cheiro, iofide, thee to worshe acheleou. Hei ma'akajao-zha.
(IMPORTANT: Remember to do this final reversal if you don't want to summon something large and hungry!)
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The burning sulfur, mixed with the copper shavings and camel's blood, brings a whiff of the deep desert with its scorching heat and toughened residents. When the frozen tourmaline hits the mixture, spires of copper suddenly rise from its edges. These spires expand into full spikes, wicked and deadly, as Yog-Sothoth's blessing is called upon the mixture, the coating within it spreading into otherwise thin layers. During the dance, these seem to hover above the bowl, separating, yet somehow still connected, until the final phrase is uttered, when the form becomes a set of plated, spiked armwear, looking ready to flay flesh from bone.
-EB
Your local know-it-all.
Your local know-it-all.
