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.
"I'm not entirely sure. The Necronomicon mentions them a few times but doesn't go into great detail. Apparently they come from space."
The Mi-Go come from Yuggoth, which is not explicitly stated to be another planet but yeah it's another planet. Or planetoid. Or moon. It's a rock in space of some description, almost certainly. They fly through space. They do unspecified but ominously referred to things to people if bothered. Avoid.
"Yes, I was thinking maybe Ben Franklin or something, since he's on record as having wanted to pickle himself for later restoration."
"...It sounds like you need remains," Wilbur observes, frowning at his copy of the Necronomicon, now flipped back to the resurrection ritual. "I don't know if it has to be the original remains or just chemically identical, the phrase 'Essential Saltes' is ambiguous."
"I haven't read through the whole thing but I'm up for disinterring Franklin's bones if making a copy of his corpse in a fresher state doesn't work."
"I've never robbed a grave before and it will certainly be less tedious to do this entire ritual if I don't have to. Hmm..." He reads through it a little more carefully.
You can use either a basically intact corpse or the "essential saltes," which may be concocted using the ashes of the deceased. The spells are different depending on whether or not the body has to be reconstituted. In the latter case it's possible to banish the resurrectee back to the dead without infliction of further violence through use of a counter-spell.
There are incantations. The incantations invoke Yog-Sothoth.
"There's a ritual to summon Yog-Sothoth incompletely and temporarily, in Grandfather's copy of the Necronomicon. Mother used it. She wanted...she wanted children who would have more power than an unattractive albino and her widower father, neither with any formal education, living on cattle proceeds and a dwindled family fortune and despised by their neighbors, could aspire to. Instead she got...us." There is a soft rustling sound, as of snakeskin on snakeskin. "She loved us very much."