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The ghost and his alien friend stood before a squat house
which vaguely resembled a toadstool with its overlapping roof. Behind them,
they could hear the lapping of waves on the shoreline of a beach littered with
debris and decaying fish. All around them in the gloomy twilight, they could
hear the tittering of ghouls. The air reeked of putrefying flesh.
“Shall we enter this structure, Ketil?” Yitzy inquired. “I
cannot say whether it would allow us safe harbor from the potentially nauseating
odors in this unpleasant environment, but I believe it shall take us to the
next point in our destination.”
“Yithian, make no mistake, I am most grateful for your
assistance,” Ketil declared. “Only I have a curiosity to know why you have
taken it upon yourself to join me in my potentially fruitless quest.”
~Cie for Naughty Netherworld Press~
Notes:
This snippet comes from Team Netherworld's WIP "Ketil and Yitzy's Adventure in the House of Lost Dreams." This will be the first published installment in our flagship series, "The Yadira Chronicles." It is slated for publication in early 2020.
Ketil Nagel is the spirit of a Swedish extreme metal musician who sacrificed himself to the vampire goddess Mormo on June 6, 1991; his twenty-fifth birthday.
Yitzy is a renegade member of the Great Race of Yith, exiled by his fellows for embodying compassion and empathy. The majority of the Great Race of Yith are known for their coldly scientific natures and belief in the superiority of their species.
Earth's Dreamlands, Mormo, Nyarlathotep, and Xura are the creations of H.P. Lovecraft. The Xura Dream House appears in the Call of Cthulhu RPG scenario, The Land of Lost Dreams, in the Call of Cthulhu Dreamlands supplement. Ketil and Yitzy are original characters created by Team Netherworld.
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