He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
"Well. Yikes. - lemme finish this history thing and then I'll get a Necronomicon, I guess. Why's it called that?"
"The title in the original Arabic is Kitab Al-Azif, I don't know if it's a literal translation."
"It was translated into Latin in the thirteenth century, maybe the translator had an overblown sense of the arbitrarily dramatic."
"Perhaps. I wonder what else is different in the Arabic. Anyway, Civil War -" He proceeds through the rest of the slideshow.
Lots and lots of really disturbing information.
The section Wilbur seems to be focusing on has a lot to say about Yog-Sothoth. Including instructions for a ritual that will summon him completely to this world and wipe out all life. Wilbur has skipped that and is intensely studying a set of pages that have more to do with his biological properties, insofar as a creature like Yog-Sothoth can be said to have a biology as humans would describe the field.
"Until I got you instead of a Hornet. But since I'd successfully summoned Hornets before I suspect an error on my part."
He physically drops the book in shock. (It stops before it can hit the floor, caught by some invisible appendage.)
"What?"
He takes the book back from his sister and flips hurriedly to page a hundred and four. "--That's missing from our old copy," he says.
"Yes, I figured since it was so surprising when I mentioned it. However, as a note of caution, I don't think the person who compiled this was terribly concerned with ethics, what with there being world-destruction rituals and sketchy telepathy and whatnot, so I don't think we can be positive they'd mention if there was some terrible side effect to going through this long ritual."
"Presumably, but I was thinking more along the lines of collateral damage. It's possible that, say, your dad wouldn't object to being fully summoned and ending the world, but the world would mind."
"--We can limit the damage, probably. There are wards--" he flips to a different section "--here, see, they don't last long before needing to be re-done but I can use them to keep Lucy in the house--it's why there weren't more casualties when--when we found out what happens when she gets so hungry her higher brain functions stop functioning. I don't know if they'd work on an ordinary human but someone who was resurrected might not count and even if they did the wards could be modified."