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The House of Usher is not too far out from Arkem. Just down the lane and around the bend in the road with the big dead tree that's been there forever.

You may have heard of the place. Several paranormal professors at Miskatonic have stayed there over the years. Most of them distant members of the Usher clan, even if the Usher name has mostly died out these days.

 

Around to the back of the House you'll find a small, walled in, patch of woods. Small that is if you measure it around the outside. But if you go in... Well that's where things start getting... Interesting.

 

You may want to take a Crescent of Astare and/or some other protective charms with you.

 

You'll want to set out around sunset as it will be close to dawn when you get where you're going in there.

 

Where are you going ?

 

Well this is the Woodland of Weir.

And if you follow a certain alley of Cyprus

You'll come to the Lake of Auber.

Watch your step it's rather foggy down there.

 

Following the shoreline around will lead you to

The Tomb of Ulalume.

 

There's a Styx Horn hanging on a Rune covered Obelisk

Next to the Lake.

Auber is a sort of oxbow of the Styx close to where the Leth joins it.

Watch out for the cross current.

 

The Runes on the door-arch of the Tomb form a Gate

Leading to a place on the slopes of Mount Yaanek

Not too far from Leng and its fabled Library

 

If you take the Styx route

You will want to sound the Horn

About an hour before dawn

According to the stardial next to the Tomb

And it is best if you pick a season that

Puts the moon in Leo at that hour.

The Lethe crosscurrent isn't as bad then.

While I didn't plan it as such

The story thread hanging off of "on Nerfs and Gribbles"

Is open if anyone wants to try joining in.

I've run out of steam as to where it's going.

Hard call I've seen remakes that were improvements

And remakes that were a disaster

 

But in the end I'll go original

 

 

Venus or Mars ?

It's time to awaken

Come out and be alive

Too long you have been sleeping

Now it's time to grow inside

 

So far it's been a war of hope

Now prepare to cross the line

Knowing that the greatest danger

Is right there in your mind

 

Perhaps you tried to hide it

But the truth you can't denie

You've always had the Power

Now Spread You're Wings And FLY

 

Rise on wings of ecstasy

Rise into the night

Hear your spirit singing

As you soar on wings of light

 

Listen to the rhythm

Of the singing stars

And cry aloud with wonder

For the sky once more is Ours

 

So far it's been a war of hope

Now prepare to cross the line

Knowing that the greatest Power

Is the Power of your mind

 

Once we were hunted

Once we were afraid

But 'tho we had to hide it

The Power did not fade

 

In the time of hiding

That's when you were made

Now you know the secret

You need no longer be afraid

 

So far it's been a war of hope

Now prepare to cross the line

Knowing what you find there

Might just Blow Your Mind

 

Rise up all my children

And cry aloud your Name

Rise up in Full Glory

Like a Phoenix from the Flame

 

Rise up in Full Splendor

For the world is Ours to Claim

Rise up all my children

For The World Is Ours AGAIN

*note: this was inspired by "Last of the Giants" which can be found in

George R R Martin's Game of Thrones books. Sorry I don't remember which book.

 

Oooooh I am the First of the Giants

My people not yet given birth

The first of the great mountain giants

Who will one day rule all of the Earth

 

The Small Folk we'll drive from our forest

And chase from our rivers and hills

We'll tear down their walls in our valleys

And run them away from our rills

 

In stone halls they'll crouch by their fires

In stone halls they'll cower in fear

Whilst we will dance in the mountains

And hold reveals that go on for years

 

We will hunt them like dogs in the daylight

We will hunt them like vermen by night

Till these men who are small

Yet tryed to stand tall

Are driven forever from sight

 

Oooooh I am the first of the giants

So mark well the words of my song

For when my people are come

Your time will be done

And our time will go on and on.

Because the one I waited for

Chose not to wait for me

I am left here waiting

For a future I can't see

 

On the dreary shore I'm waiting

Here by the Sunless Sea

And how long I'll go on waiting

I no longer can foresee

 

Oh dreary fog depart

That my longing eyes may see

The sail of Hope approaching

From beyond Eternity

 

Oh good ship come a sailing

Across the Sunless Sea

Oh Gray Ship come and take me

To that Land Beyond the Sea

That distant Land that here

All call Eternity

Would you walk the shifting line

Is it Power that you seek

Then be warned for the shifting line

doth bridge the Burning Deep

There are those who have looked down

and now they fear to sleep

 

Would you walk the shifting line

Is it power that you seek

There are far better ways

To escape from being weak

 

There is Power all around you

And brightly does it shine

How can it be, my friend

That you are so blind

 

So shun I say the shifting line

And the horrors of the Deep

And you shall have true friends

To guard you while you sleep

 

Listen well to what I say

For I know of what I speak

For I have walked the shifting line

And gazed into the Deep.

 

*********

 

Would you walk the shifting line

And gaze into the Deep

Would you dare to find there

The answers that you seek

 

The Burning Deep can show you

The Dark Heart of your soul

But such a view is bought

At a heavy toll

 

If you must

Then Look,

And find what you may See

But remember

On the Line, You'll have no place to flee

 

And this is sadly also True

You will be forever haunted by

The memory of that view.

I am One with the Heart of the Darkness

I am One with the Heart of the Fire

I am One Who Dances in Darkness

I am One Who Dances in Fire

I am One who Sings to the Darkness

I am One Who Leaps from the Spire

I am One who runs with the Shadows

I am One who can hide in the Fire

I am One who dances on rooftops

And I do with the Fates Conspire

Return from the Shadows

Rise from the Ashes

Rekindle the Flame

For

All Things Change

All Things Pass Away

All Things are Born Anew

And Seasons Greetings to Snyp hope your recovery goes well.

 

And Happy Holidays to anyone else reading this.

Nice.

 

Makes me think about trying to find the time to try learning another language.

 

Then again maybe I should work in mastering "English" a bit more fully first

I like the feeling/sentiment I get from the translations

 

Sorry I don't know the original language

And so can offer no help there.

 

Would love to hear it in the original

So as to hear/feel the rhythm and flow

As originally intended

 

But even limited to reading the translation

I find it a lovely bit of free verse.

I've never watched the movie.

And this quick look at it tells me

My instincts were right.

I'd hate watching a story like this.

 

To help lighten another's burden is one thing

Overburdening yourself while you're at it is another.

In the Gribble breeding grounds...

 

Zatar turned to the gargoyle "Thanks for agreeing to this on such short notice, Gus. But I didn't know who else to call."

 

"No Problem." Gus rumbled with a voice like a gravel pit,

"You've done me plenty of favors; and you always pay good."

 

"Right then. There are Nerfs in the other chamber, one a week should do for keeping this batch feed. Anyone gets in here with out my ok, stick them in the Nerf pen until I can get down here."

 

"Got It Boss" and the gargoyle settled himself down to keep watch.

If someone is already doing this topic let me know.

 

Anyway I was looking at a thing on magic in here somewhere

And it got me thinking about the whole ancient lost science idea.

 

And while I don't buy everything from that show on the History channel

They do make a good case for ancient advanced science.

 

It's the alien part I tend to discount.

Not to say that aliens aren't out there or may have come here

 

But the aliens "gods" they tend to point to in the series

Looked human acted human mated with humans.

Look at all the half gods in the Greek stories.

 

So I hold to the view that most of these "aliens" were humans

Who just happened to have higher level technology.

 

Easy enough to see how that could happen

 

Take the world as it is now.

Pick a disaster. End of civilisation level.

Wait oh... 50 years or so; and then come down from a space station

Or out from under a mountain.

 

We have modern tech while the other survivors are people in remote jungles and such who didn't have much tech to start with...

Would we not be taken for "gods" ?

 

 

Maybe I'll take a shot at trying to write a story along that line.

See how long I can keep people guessing as to when it's taking place

Ancient past or post apocalyptic future.

 

Anyone else who wants to try something along this line;

Go for it.

If you want help with such a project; I'll do my best to be useful

And if you don't want/need help; well, let me know about it anyway

as I'd love to see a good story done along this line.

And so far all I've got is the concept.

 

When it comes to magic vs religion

I see it as being a question of which can best

Explain the other.

 

A: can do "magic" because we are created in the image of GOD.

 

B: any "God", "Devil", or "Spirit" you run into is a thought form

The someone or some group built at some point or other.

 

Question is once you have a complex enough thought form

Can it start thinking ?

Storm tossed moon overhead

I should be home in bed

Yet I follow the Call of the Wild

 

Moonlit trail beeneth my feet

I no longer need to sleep

When I follow the Call of the Wild

 

Will you follow the Call of the Wild

 

Some people are filled with fright

When they hear the Call at night

Have you heard the Call of the Wild

 

Will you follow the Call of the Wild

 

The Call comes from deep inside

So it cannot be denied

Come follow the Call of the Wild

 

It's calling;

It's Calling to You.

Old Tom doged to the right and ducked down behind a bolder.

The monster ran by following the others.

Old Tom pulled out his pistol.

He'd only get one shot.

Praying that the part about silver bullets wasn't true

He took aim...

So what do I need to do to get in on one of these ?

 

And if you are attacked by a wolf what are the odds of

Becoming a wolf vs getting killed ?

In a gloomy hallway not too far from the Vaults of Time...

 

Zatar pulls a fragment of magic out of the Gate spell leading to the Gribble breading grounds.

The fragment crumbles to nothing the moment it is free of the Gate.

 

Zatar frowns, there are enough old spells down here that a fragment could have broken off at just the right moment to have gotten lodged in the Gate like that.

 

And I might find a winning Galactic Sweepstakes ticket down here too.

 

Looks around for one...

 

Yea, that's what I thought too.

 

*sigh* Now I'm going to have to find a guard for down here.

 

And pulling his cloak around himself Zatar vanishes with a soft "pop!"

Weird creepy

Twilightzoney

 

I like it

And am sort of creeper out by it

At the same time

 

If that was the effect you were going for

Well done. You nailed it.

A thought on the idea of 10 dimensions.

Up/down, forward/backward, side to side

That's the 3 we see everyday

Time is counted as 4

And the other 6 are said to be

Curled up

Wouldn't that make them rotation

Roll, pitch, and yaw

Counted twice

Once for clockwise and again for counter.

But if time is the 4th

Then it should get 2 rotations like the first 3

Which gives a total of 12.

 

But what does it mean to rotate around the

Time axis ?

What happens when you do ?

 

My thought

Time freeze

One way everyone is frozen but you

Other way you are frozen.

 

Anyway it's an idea.

Hail to the Bright Shining Lady

Hail to the Queen of the Stars

Hail to the Bright Shining Lady

Guiding our steps from afar

 

I follow the Bright Shining Lady

For She is lighting the Way

I follow the Bright Shining Lady

So you can not lead me astray

 

Come and Hear the Song of the Lady

Come and Learn what She has to say

It's a Song of Mercy and Love

Head not what the hatemongers say

 

When you Live the Song of the Lady

Life just starts going your way

I Sing the Song of the Lady

And my work is as easy as play

 

Come Walk in the Ways of the Lady

Come Follow Her Shining Footsteps

When you Walk in the Ways of the Lady

Your Life will be free from regrets

 

Come Live in the Ways of the Lady

Her Ways are Gentle and Strong

When you Live in the Ways of the Lady

Your Life will be Wondrous and Long

 

Come Sing a New Song to the Lady

In Her Moonbeam and Fairydust Hall

A Song to the Bright Shining Lady

A Song to the Queen of us All

Good opening hook.

Keep going.

And if you followed all that

With out going too crazy

You may see a few clues about who or what Zatar is and why he's lurking about here.