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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1556553" data-attributes="member: 4144">Answering more or less as Yeats would, just paraphrasing (what I'm saying is italicized:Creatures from the Astral, apparently, that came through the rift Thomas opened.  Some people believe that localized rifts can open briefly from time to time, and that the creatures are what's responsible for some of the mysterious bites or scratches associated with poltergeists, or those occasions (I read about a few of these in Charles Fort) where a dead body is found covered in small wounds.  Some, most notably those in the Golden Dawn, believe that the so-called 'psychic vampires' are types of those creatures as well.  I honestly forgot about the one in the icebox.  But it's still in fairly good shape, it hasn't vaporized or anything. Don't know fully, as we haven't yet experimented with everything.  What we know so far indicates that many things can be accomplished, usually involving speaking with spirits (who sometimes claim to be ghosts, sometimes demons, sometimes angels, but extradimensional intelligences at any rate).  Nearly every magical effect is believed to be merely an exercise of will (In game terms, nearly all magic is psychic in nature).  But it's safe to say that the more spectacular things like turning lead to gold and calling down lightning are impossible.  The magician is usually incapable of actually influencing the physical world, though he can affect the minds of people so that it seems as such (For example, the Golden Dawn version of invisibility was willing another person not to see the caster).  More subtle things.Apparently the Thief of Forms mentioned in the diary.  Among the West African natives, the predominant use of the root is in shamanic trances.  They believe that the root allows them to see into the spirit world.  Thomas may have utilized it in the early stages of the experiments with the Astral which eventually opened the rift.  The root is usually not fatal, if used in small quantities and in a well-ventilated area - in the case of the Cornish Horror (The Adventure of the Devil's Foot, Doyle), the problem was that mass quantities of the root were used and the people saw too deeply into the Astral.Excellent. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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