este "Phingls’ melie'nath Cehalher Rlveh mgah'nagl fheagn” che hing man hissed at pou. You knew whae ie meane but che cules plans were foiled, cheir conspicacy undone. Later that day a sailor handed you a report of the dying words of anothee man on a different vessel that you had eneountered ‘oa hese in che seemingly endless Sourch Pacific. The eramccipe read :".. we have alrrars been and abays wil, hidden in distane wastes and unknown places... next time Ae will wake... when the stars are sight again..." Deep down you always knew this to be tue, the pecennsal dackness could nor be undone, the struggle againse srs agents cowld ave have beces aboue anyeluing other chas: a sixaple accessity. gereNiotiag, Tike scones have been case down and smashed apace. Below ‘you can see the remaining stone being hacked at by several ‘mea with pickares. The sig of Blzesu on its side faded compared :0 the blazing beightnces x possessed a fow nights ago when you stopped the sintal. The seemingly endless nights seadying ancient comes had been wosch it. The seposts of seeange sightings and missing liescock had stopped almost ovemighe seross the woeld. Ekewhoce you knew your sesociates were doing che samme as you. Removing samilac tives and ceasing any cocolloctoe of chen. Vou fone thet these couldn't ave been the only cus involved. In che obscuze comers of che globe, where blasphemous pagan sites aze podoaned, chere, che taine of che black goat, might again fstex NsSouheny The eldee sign was 00 be your salvation. Accoss the woeld you and your allies had compleced the woeld spanning symbol. Years of esotene research revealed that Yog-Sothoth was beyond abating, he could only be contained, as all he arcane dealings involved invariably load ro che Fuerhering of his incompechensible designs. Woadd ehis be erugh? Only time would cell and as Yog-Sochoth was time, well you couldn't trust time esther... Bat the woeld now bad a kind of stillness about sc. Your spells seemed less effective and everything seemed slightly. grey. Pochaps you were maong, pechaps che albin-one, one-iav-all should be embraced afer alltay The vessel pitched viclenely ones more as the gun decks Blazed. You clung on co a rail dighely, watching che poimordial hosrex fall apart sn a tinal, despesate barrage of shell fe. Soon cheers could be heard from amongst the sobbing of the many maddened. Looking out ore the sca sgship sell bumning, « ras cho mesokage of che foance dckening oil sick pollacing che diligene research and now this, was incontaoveeable evidonc: thin days naval desteoyee squadzons deopped hundeeds of hop sea explosives at che coordinaces you marked on che snaps. Thowsands had posished figheing che ching, but nom che seas woee calming and you hoped chis could be enough. races axound ie Your ae Nesey, You hold the talisman of Yhe in yous hands and the ehousand hoened beasts ace staggcced by ies powee. You Jincone the wosds you memorized “IMAS, WEGHYMNKO, (QUAHERS, XEWEFARAM!" With a deafening howl che neadly endless, foul mass of hoeeiffing abominations is swallowed by the imploding vortex Using yous onn blood you sczanl che decaded scaling-sign of Kock oneo che puccid masonsy and collapse, drained and exhausted. After having eon hauled away by youe comeades, you wake weeks later Aospitalised. You leaen that the colonial guard masched into the Fleace of Afvica shortly affes, jose r0 ind nothing other chase souse hook prines of peculiar size ‘e-Sothny You mece found days eee; naked and alone amidse symbols ecched into several lage stone conseaicts, a key carved into you chest by whse sppeaced to be youe own hands. They tied to tall 00 you ur all yous could say was "Telosed rhe gate. Yog-Sochoeh che gare: Iam now che key and _guacdian of che gate.” They tried to take you in ue. you escaped. You have a duty, you aze che guaidian of cho gate for now and all cia.Author You spoke it's sare name. at che appoinced place. at che designaced time... Could you be suse st worked? You've done all you can and you hope youe sescasch ras not in rain. Thae nighe you sleep well, che sound of the chin. monotonoas piping of an anscen Hace that Jas haunted your dessins foe poses has stopped. The switling spucals vanished. The woeld s guuecer now, the news is filled with mandane stosies, pechsps crosrthing is as ¢ should be, os at lease as ic used t0 bo... seemed to be. If only rou could now forget chat Badeous woed in which's nseuce ace all chings. All loads and ends only in che demon sultan. With 2 sarohol oreeseatfied with research notes, cescimonials and comobocating cvidence collected oves long peacs of sinvescigacions, you xush snco che agency Buea: "This is Big! A few dozen unsolved cases going back as far as a few decades ace all selatod and the peoot is cighe hoco." The implications of poate Bindings were immense. Over the following posts suapece places wece saided by lame enboccouneane globally ‘Howeves, other than an instance of successflly decained psyehouc indindual sutfecing fom an unknown affliction of che skin, cheie offores Became increasingly fauicles. Hlomovee secong the choory might have scomed at fics, mas now being labeled as coryccause based ors scune Fossekest lose.Aathou Teds hacd 00 say; agains all odds, chis bizasro, cule succeeded at is omnicical intent, or sf chis was going 10 be xegacdless of chs miceobial déeama chae rook place Thece was absolutely noching, anyone oc anything could do about ie The meraphysical court of Azathoth, in which limitless beings have danced co soothe ehe doe God for seaange and counties: cons, has suttéced the slightest of disturbances. With a single spasm the atomic hoxxor undid the whole of zealiey. Evesyzhine, pon or anyone else has ever known, was gone Fores As the incarnation of the archetypal snake god lay- now a pile of grotesque, waithing Acsh, you sarr i exupe sto counclss sogpents. The slicheeing sea quickly engulfed and tore mary of the frenzied heard men limb from lamb, only co vanish into the earth soon affes. You undeestood then, chat the ancient people again lost the favos of thete capaicious duty: Ie was a massacce. The newspapers wxote chat ovee thece handed weee killed and ‘even mote seciously wounded when a geoup of well acmed men pened fre onto a religious mass gatheaing in centcal Amecic Sexangely chese men were xpoxted co give chemselves in With time tte curse you had been steugeling against overcame you ‘encicelr. Whea the exccutioner opened your cell doos, « pyehon of unustal size could be found m your absence.