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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4467532" data-attributes="member: 3285">Gates of Delirium: Part 2 – The Parting of the VeilsThe 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!”Tarrou drew his pistol and fired.  Jim-Bean fired back. Tarrou’s assistant drew a knife.  But Hammer saw none of it.  He could only see the endless horizon of Daoloth, who consumed his vision, blinded him, encompassed him.  It was like floating in space, staring at all of creation at once, and Hammer was falling, stumbling towards it, struggling to regain his footing.  “Hammer!  Get back!” shouted Jim-Bean, squeezing off another shot from his SIG.Hammer was fascinated by the scintillating intricacy of shapes he couldn’t fully comprehend and was so caught up in the vision of infinity that he didn’t realize he was taking shuddering steps towards the pentacle like a drunken man.  One foot crossed the confines of the pentacle…And suddenly, the thing in the incredibly complex form in the center of the pentacle surged exponentially, rapidly filling the room and eclipsing the basement until it was all anyone could see. Wispy tendrils brushed against Hammer’s face and probing feelers entered his ears, nose and mouth.   All was light…</blockquote>

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