As you walk through the shop, you discover a book... A strange one, titled the King in Yellow. Recalling some of the epithets you've heard for your foe, you purchase it, retiring to a comfortable hotel to peruse it. As you read through, it appears to be a play... One with illustrations. As you study it, you read through the illustrations. RELATIVELY speaking, the first act is both tame, and unilluminating. As you enter the second section, you read through it, learning much of his techniques and his plans for earth, and his home on Aldeberan- Eternal orgies, hedonism without end, a harem of thousands of species. Then you turn a page, and it shows Hastur standing over your sister- illustrated perfectly. You can figure that he is about ten feet tall... Because you are in his arms. You stare, transfixed by the obscene treatment he gives you, a fire building in your body, begging to be released however you can...<br/>---<br/>OOC Lost one sanity, and perhaps needing to satisfy herself. :-P. Got plenty of Tokens there, though. Also, if you travel to the Unnameable, you'll get enough clue tokens there to be guaranteed of being able to seal that gate, heh.<br/>---<br/>The night, for once, is quiet. As you sleep, you feel better, almost... blessed. During the night, another portal opens, this time out in the woods, a portal to the dreamlands- Relatively peaceful and calm, though a rogue nightmare disappears into the outskirts to join it's bretheren. The ghouls, at the same time, run into the merchant district together, howling wildly. The next morning, you feel almost cleansed, the awful desire and memories of your ravaged body in the book fading like a bad dream. The day even seems brighter... Your entire body feels revitalized, a wholesome, healthy feeling of satisfaction surrounding you.<br/>---<br/>OOC: The two ghouls are now in the merchant district... And you're blessed! Or perhaps Blissed. :-P. But you succeed on a four, so you're getting ever better. Anyway, if you do get into a fight, you don't get to move after you fight, but it's essentially impossible to sneak past these guys. At the very least, you should be getting some more Toughness soon- And be a little less likely to have any nasty creatures breaking the Outskirts.