VI Mythos Items and Artifacts the researcher casts a spell to conjure or control such a creature, that creature takes a -1 penalty on saves to Complexity 21; Shock 15 Skills Knowledge (religion) and Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher); Bonus +2 resist the spell Price 5,400 gp Complexity 21; Shock 15 Skills Knowledge (arcana and dungeoneering); Bonus +2 BOOK FIVE This book lists entities of time and other dimensions It contains spells for conjuring up hounds of tindalos as well as a pharmacopeia of drugs that allows users to glimpse other times and to survive space travel The researcher doubles the duration of a spell that modifies time or conjures a creature separated from time's normal flow Price 5,840 gp Complexity 21; Shock 15 Skills Craft (alchemy), Knowledge (geography), Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher); Bonus +2 Item Instructions Plutonian drug BOOK SIX This book explains the plateaus of Leng and Kadath, as well as their histories and inhabitants It includes the formulae for gates that lead to these areas and also to the Dreamlands The researcher adds to the DC of the chosen spell when it targets a creature from Leng or Kadath Price 5,940 gp Complexity 21; Shock 15 Skills Craft (technology), Knowledge (engineering, history, and planes), and Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher); Bonus +2 Item Instructions gate (Kadath and Leng) BOOK SEVEN This book is devoted to the general pantheon of Mythos gods, focusing especially on Nyarlathotep and Azathoth It invents a very bureaucratic organization for these deities The researcher adds to their caster level for a chosen spell associated with Nyarlathotep and Azathoth Price 5,400 gp DE VERMIS MYSTERIIS Written by Ludvig Prinn, an ancient alchemist and necromancer who was burnt, De Vermis Mysteriis is an eldritch and bizarre spellbook Its pages are full of spells and rituals that summon strange entities, familiars, and creatures from beyond space and time It also has a number of rituals for contacting and dealing with Great Old Ones, Outer Gods, and their minions A witch can research each of the spells command of the bloody tongue, implant dark young, remortification, and shrivel in this book to teach it to her familiar Price 10,785 gp (3,125 gp without rituals and spells) Complexity 27; Shock 18 Skills Knowledge (arcana, dungeoneering, and planes) and Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher); Bonus +4 (untrained) Rituals 2nd—call servitor of the Elder Gods 5th—dragon ascending, dragon descending, essential salts 7th—the Red Sign 8th—call hunting horror 9th—call Azathoth Spells 3rd—shrivel 4th—command of the bloody tongue, remortification 6th—implant dark young 9th—temporal energy nexus VON UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN Also nicknamed “The Black Book,” this work is most concerned with the history and nature of cults of the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods, including their organization, beliefs, ceremonial practices, areas of operation Many extinct cults are described, but also many active ones Some spells and rituals are here, as well as information on matters like where the corpses of ancient, once-worshiped alien beings are interred 161