my cthulhu game

Chapter 272 The Judgment of the Mortuary

Deep in the mountains.

Along the long underground passage, Richard Pickman advanced to the depths alone.

The burrow is damp, rugged, shrouded in darkness where you can't see your fingers, and there is a faint rancid smell, but Pickman's heart is full of kindness and nostalgia.

New York, Boston, Arkham, Dunwich: Whether it is the underground waterways criss-crossing under the noisy city, or the bottomless natural caves in the quiet mountain village, every corner of the world is the base of the skeleton eaters All have a similar smell.

At that time, I was still an ordinary painter.His bloodline led him to explore and befriend the ghouls of his homeland, eventually becoming a member of the skeleton-eaters.

In the abandoned cemetery, on the wasteland of the dreamland, the residence of the skeleton eaters has a unique cave, hiding treasures unimaginable by human beings.For a period of time, Pickman lived in the dreamland and couldn't even speak English well, but the encounter with human friend Randolph Carter gave him a little interest in human society again.

With the magic of learning knowledge from the corpses of intelligent creatures, Richard Pickman returned to human society.He believes that the skeleton eaters should have a wider living space, instead of living alone and lonely in the dark with all the knowledge of the planet that has passed away.

The priests of the god of the burial place focused on keeping watch for hundreds of millions of years.Richard Pickman ended up being persona non grata and had to join forces with Mr. Shaney of the Shoggoths.

"Familiar smell." There was no sound in the underground passage, and Pickman murmured to himself.

In this era, I haven't been on the blacklist of the charnel house yet.This means that he can still use the channel of the skeleton eaters, and even ask for support.

Sudden--

"It's you." Pickman narrowed his red eyes.A smile spread across his face.

For a moment he genuinely feared that what had happened to the people of Dunwich had happened to Arkham.

However, when he saw the purple-robed elder wearing a silver mask and more than a dozen followers, he immediately felt relieved.

"It's me." He opened his hand.

The clansmen standing opposite did not speak.The headed purple-robed priest's face was covered by an exquisite mask, and his expression could not be seen. The other hunched ghouls stared at Pickman with their dark red eyes, as if standing there were not their companions, but a group of An intruder.

"What's wrong? It's me."

Pickman felt that something was wrong, even the air in the underground tunnel seemed to be a little colder than usual.

The priest chanted something in the Pansi language of the Dreamlands.

[Pickman failed the listening check 96/95]

[Pickman psychology check 44/85 success]

Pickman did not hear what spell he was chanting - but he felt the hostility of priest and kin.

"Could it be that……"

It was too late to escape.Pickman raised his arm to cast a spell, but it was too late...

The summoning ceremony had reached its final stage before Pickman's arrival.By eating the corpses of their dead kinsmen, the Dunwich countryside has long been filled with the silent magic of the ghouls, and when Pickman arrived, the high priest also completed the last "Mordiggian Invitation" ring.

"I still have to thank that future traveler." The high priest couldn't help but see Chen Qiang's shadow in his heart.

……

When Chen Qiang brought Bai Shaobao from the future to the 20th century, he did not only bring banknotes and other materials useful for time travel.

Through Uncle Xu, an employee of the ghoul, as an intermediary, Chen Qiang obtained the skeleton "hand letter" engraved with Pan Si's characters from the future god of the charnel house.

Leaving the clan, depriving the lives of innocent humans, and stealing the knowledge of the elders for their own use through the secretary of the clan.

The skeleton eaters of the 20th century haven't started chasing Pickman yet, but the message from the future is enough to attract their attention...

Although it's a bit embarrassing for Chen Qiang to use "super speed" to send letters - but in terms of deceiving people's eyes and ears, this trick is second to none.

That's right...

The skeleton eaters will not punish the "present" Pickman because he violated the family rules in the "future", but they will also not allow him to escape punishment in the past just because the "he who has committed crimes" has fled to the past.

Pickman didn't know about Chen Qiang's secret contact, but he threw himself into the trap.

According to the high priest, since Pickman has made contributions to the ethnic group in the past and cared about the ethnic group at the last moment, it is unlikely that the just God of the Shrine will sentence Pickman to death—after all, By the standards of intelligent creatures, Mordiggian, the god of the sanctuary, is a "gentle" god.

Chen Qiang was quite satisfied with the result—in any case, when dealing with Whateray Jr., Pickman also helped him.

……

Pickman fought hard, but the ancient god was far beyond the limits of imagination.

The ghouls who worship Nyarlathotep despise the ancient tribes who follow Mordiggian - in their view, Mordiggian is like other weak gods entrenched in the dreamland, but through " The blessing of "Crouching Chaos" barely occupies the position of God.

Only the most devout followers of Morkidian believe...

At the end of the universe, Morkidian, the incarnation of the concept of "corpse", will devour the decayed bodies of the lesser gods, and finally, together with other giant gods, swallow this lifeless world.

Is it an outer god belonging to the "future"?Or a particularly powerful Old One?no one knows.

This lonely god who is with the corpses is always watching the death of the planet and the universe quietly: it just follows the cold laws of nature and waits for the end to come.

"Do not."

Pickman struggled.The shadow under his feet, or rather, the darkness of the tunnel came to life.

Like the actual darkness itself.

With a strange sense of blinding, "Mordiggian" fills the whole space with a bone-chilling coldness completely like death and void.It changes rapidly, turns and whirls, like a vortex of dark and ancient energy, jumping and stretching, completely covering Richard Pickman.

Unable to resist, all magic is a joke now: the will of the old gods runs through his soul.

[Pickman Clarity Test 1D10/1D100]

[Verification 12/88 successful, current clarity 80]

Despite being in the most terrifying darkness even among the gods, Pickman could not believe that a swirl of colors with a faint iridescence emerged before his eyes, like the five-color spectrum of a gloomy sun, and a burning voice like a fire whispered in his ear.

Pickman laughed.

Just as he chose to become a ghoul and was cast aside by human society, now he has to pay the price for his choice.

"Wander in the endless wasteland forever." The elder has already understood the final fate of Pickman from the god of the burial place—the eternal exile on Leng Yuan.

……

Chen Qiang and his team rushed back to Dunwich in the rain.Explosions in the middle of the night terrorized the villagers, forcing even the most daring to close their doors.

The system prompt sounded just at this time.

[Mission: Stop Msisha, the coming of the overlord of Tindalos, completed]

[Mission: Complete the commission of Mordiggian, the God of the Shrine, completed]

*****
After discussing with the doctor and family members, I decided to dig as few new holes as possible and lead the book to the end as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)