Witch House Journal

The Witch House Journals are a group of three written documents that can be found within the Witch House in Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones.


 * A journal reaching years back.

Description
A journal detailing the owner's terrifying experiences in the Witch House.

There are three such journals that the character can collect during their time in the Witch House, each available upon progressing further throughout the house's illusions. They tell of the previous owner's experiences facing the illusions.

Contents

 * Witch House Journal (#1)

''This is most confounding, indeed utterly inexplicable! I'm sure as I am of my own name that the room downstairs is the very same chamber wherein I've always read the evening papers after returning from my daily stroll by the Miskatonic; but this time the room itself, with everything present in it, seems to suffer a bizarre case o spatial anomaly, completely disorienting me as I walked in. Some mysterious force seems to have simply willed it, flipping the room into a mirror image of its former layout! But wherefore? this house dallies with me, as with each creak of hidden timbers I can hear its scoffing, and through every damnable crevice I can sense it leering at me. Only the proprietor can vouch for the soundness of my sanity now. I shall summon him first thing in the morning.''

''If I am able to summon the will to put my morbid phantasies down on paper this morning, the reason is not bred by a desire to parade how singular an imagination I have, but by a probability of never again waking into the reality we all know, for I fear now that my plunge into the churning void of the unfathomable cannot be stopped. What has begun as a stroll through a gallery of alien-hued images soon became a frantic dash through a boundless abyss of ophidian dynamism where time itself became irrelevant. I know not for how long I followed that pair of undefinable grotesqueries around the lustrous labyrinth of vortices before I was brought before the gulfs of ultimate blackness. There, amidst the hellish chanting, I heard primeval rhythms of Time and the Universe, urging me to sign my soul away to the seething chaos beyond the darkness...''


 * Witch House Journal (#2)

''To what extent has my obsession with non-Euclidian calculus, quantum, physics, and my perusal of forbidden tomes like the Necronomicon contributed to my fascination with that which lies betwixt the crumbling eerily slanted walls of this place remains dubious at best, but regarding my heightened grasp of fourth dimensional problems, a correlation is possible. Perhaps the impressions left upon me by the unconventionally alien geometrics of the objects, wherewith my dreamscapes are filled, are responsible. Amongst all the distractions I've sought to alleviate the misgivings in which my mind is steeped, not even a recently developed knack for solving Riemannian equations can give me any comfort. Now sleep beckons me to its dimensionless abyss, from whose reaches well up the sardonic laughter of the old crone, ever closer.''


 * Witch House Journal (#3)

''By God, did my dreams reach an unprecedented Pinnacle last night! Through the intensifying violet phosphorescence, which bled out the crooked partitions, the repulsive aspect of Keziah Mason crystallized into sight from an infinitesimal point below the loft, whose singularly skewed angles could lead nowhere but to the 666 layers of Hell! Brown Jenkin creeped ahead, the furry abomination which must certainly be the witch's familiar. This maleficence yanked me from my bed and hurled me into a fantastic world beyond description, which I dare not further discuss here. My pious neighbor urges me to take a crucifix into my possession but it is useless, since as long as that abominable rodent-man Jenkin echoes ever louder in my nightmares, so will that faint voice of mockery that conspires against my consciousness.''

Obtaining

 * See Witch House for the location of each journal