Tuesday, September 16
Gates of Delirium: Part 2 – The Parting of the Veils
The basement contained cords of wood and a jumble of old furniture, including a broken rocking chair, a table and an old mattress. A furnace was installed as well.
The chanting was coming from beyond the mattress. Hammer shoved it aside.
Behind the old mattress was a small door in the wall, about four feet high and three feet wide. He pushed it open.
Beyond was a large, very dark room. It had been crudely expanded to its present size with pick and shovel.
A pentacle was inscribed upon the floor. Two candles – the only illumination in the room – flickered within the pentacle. Two men stood around the pentacle a few feet back. Tarrou’s assistant, a short Asian man, to Tarrou’s left. Dr. Tarrou slammed a metal rod against the floor several times and called out, “Unveil the universe, O Daoloth! And reveal the realities beyond as thou once did for the astrologers of Atlantis!”
Hammer’s flashlight caught the heavy presence floating over the pentacle. The thing in the pentacle was shapeless, so complex that the eye could recognize no describable shape. There were hemispheres and shining metal, coupled by long plastic rods. The rods were of a flat gray color, so that he couldn’t make out which were nearer; they merged into a flat mass from which protruded individual cylinders. As Hammer looked at it, he had a curious feeling that eyes gleamed from between the rods; but wherever he glanced at the construction, he saw only the spaces between them.
“Fools!” shouted Tarrou. “You’ve doomed us all!” [MORE]
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