my cthulhu game

Chapter 267 The first element of summoning foreign gods
Arkham.

Xila finally stopped being addicted to reading novels.

She now has a new pursuit...

Do it yourself and write a novel.

The young (by the standards of the gods) old rulers wandered the streets of Arkham, writing down something in a notebook (provided by Chen Qiang, with the eye-catching Sanity Bastion "SAN" trademark printed on the cover) from time to time.

Today’s human society is also an interesting subject (ω)
"What novel do you think she will write?" Xiao Yezi, who followed behind to protect her, asked enthusiastically.

"I saw a subtitle. It seemed like "The fish that became extinct on earth 7000 million years ago"..." Qin Lingxue's expression looked troubled.

"How did she get such irrelevant material from Arkham?" Sayoko was shocked.

Qin Lingxue spread her hands.

how could I know……

"Besides, it's a thesis or a novel..." Sayoko muttered, "It doesn't sound very interesting..."

Clearly Keshela reads all the popular literature of various eras, so she should understand that novels adopting such themes probably, maybe, might hit the street, right?

"It's not our problem." Qin Lingxue recalled Chen Qiang's instructions. Their task was just to keep an eye on Keshira, and they only had to notify Chen Qiang if there was any danger.

……

Whateley's old farmhouse.

The grocery store in the middle of Dunwich village is five kilometers away, and the nearest other dwellings are two kilometers away.For a long time, Old Whateley lived alone on this remote hillside with his daughter Lavinia and grandson Wilbur.

The elder Whateley's wife died in a mysterious homicide more than 20 years ago, and bad rumors have hung over the family ever since.They are said to have some connection to the fire that burns above the hills and to the strange howling that echoes through the village in the middle of the night.

The good news reporter from "Arkham Advertiser" even included this "Dark Mage in Dunwich Village!" "Gossips appeared in the newspapers - but for the Arkham people of this era, there were so many similar rumors that they became a bit boring as a pastime after dinner.

Who believes.

And so what if you believe it——Said the people who eat melons.

This is a wild era, where real and fake news are mixed together. In these days when everything is changing with each passing day like a roar, people can no longer distinguish between the real and the fake, and do not want to try to distinguish them.Only a remote place like Dunwich has maintained its unchanged appearance for a hundred years.

……

Although the population has been shrinking again and again, the villagers of Dunwich are still farming.Before Wilbur Whateley Jr. was born, the old Whateleys were more or less doing some farm work on the barren farmland on the hillside.

Then, after Lavinia gave birth to little Whateley, they got into the cattle business.The family took out rusty old gold coins to buy cattle and horses from the villagers, and sometimes purchased goods from other places.Yet the Whateleys' barns and stables were never full of stock.

In this regard, the feelings of the villagers are of course...

I don’t have any objections. People are rich and willful. If they raise livestock to death, it’s none of my business.Why didn't my ancestors leave me so many gold coins that I don't have to run around for food and live on my own? It's really not possible for me to get lucky and make a fortune by discovering an ancient Indian tomb, ugh. Oh, so angry.

……

Of course the old Whateley family had plenty of money, but even Yog-Sothoth couldn't save them without money these days.

They raised Wilbur Whateley's monster brother in the big farmhouse. This big eater devoured the bought cows and horses wantonly. He couldn't let him go out and bite people casually, right?

Whateley's grandparents also wrote letters to bookstores and libraries around the world asking for books. However, the book collectors were unwilling to provide the most critical books to strangers. This "academic ethics" made Wotley Trey's grandson had a headache.

Whateley's brother was getting older and could not help the family much.From being in a shed, to being in a second floor cubicle, to having to remove all the partitions on the second floor to accommodate it, there will come a time when it can no longer be hidden.In a sense, the family is also racing against time.

Summoning the Outer Gods is always inseparable from money (or enough supplies and available people), time (a long time to prepare, or at least finding a secluded and undisturbed place) and knowledge, all of which are indispensable.

In modern times, time and knowledge can often be purchased with money.

Eventually, Whatray's albino mother Lavinia discovered to her dismay that money played a vital role in their ability to summon Yog-Sothoth.

The problem is, his stubborn father and son don't realize this at all.

Money travels all over the world!

Possibilities beyond Earth!

As long as you have enough capital and patience, and at most a little luck, whether it's "Thriller Black Hole", "Final Void", "Lightless Frontier", "Tindalos City", "Skyho Bay" or "Lalai Yeah" Where can "Carcosa" go?

Of course, money on the earth can only "buy" a one-way ticket.

Commonly known as: There is no return.

For the Whatley family, the inheritance of their ancestors cannot be brought into Yog-Sothoth's "Final Void" anyway, so they might as well find ways to spend it early.

Anyway, Lavinia thought, if you could hire the best thief in the country to steal the Necronomicon, or just bribe the people involved to get those stubborn librarians to go, why risk being noticed by the watchdogs? The danger of going into battle in person?

Maybe Professor Armitage, the librarian at the University of Miscanitok, is a hardhead, but the papers say that the president of the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina has gone bankrupt and is in urgent need of funds.

Maybe he'll be interested in the ancient coins at home...

The helpless son's empty head couldn't listen at all. He had never left ten kilometers outside Dunwich in his life. As for old Whateley, this gray-haired old man still lived in the Middle Ages and couldn't even open a bank account.

Recently, an Oriental businessman from Boston came to the village to distribute medicines for free, but neither his grandfather nor his grandson were willing to go.

"Sigh." Lavinia sighed as she thought of her son gradually getting out of her control.

...It seems that this kind of life for my family will continue for the time being.

...Originally, this is how it should be.

Until yesterday, that strange woman in red brought brand new products to the family and recommended a new assistant.

……

on the other hand.

Chen Qiang and others who went to support Qin Yixian did not waste too much time on Gu Shun and Hong Zhou. After Hong Zhou distributed the small pills, he dragged Gu Shun and left directly amid the villagers' pleadings.

Wearing gloves, Helena carefully took out a pill from the vial.

[Helena Chemistry (Island) check 59/74 successful]

Much like "Liao Dan", she thought.

"Liao Dan" can project the user's mind to a distant time and space; after receiving the education of the Yisi people, the modified "Liao Dan" configured by Helena can be used in turn to avoid the sight of Tindalos hounds; The form and effect of the drug are a little different.

"It will take some time to decide." She thought carefully.

"Brother Qin." Chen Qiang found Qin Yixian on the grass on the hillside.He leaned against a damaged wall, his expression clouded.

　Difficult question: In Lovecraft's "Dunwich Horror", there is a sentence in Whateley's diary: "Today I learned 'Aklo.for.the .Sabaoth), I don't like it. The hills will respond to it, but the air will not." Which spell does this correspond to in the seventh edition of the Call of Cthulhu rules? (The answer will be written in the author’s note in the next chapter)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)