CthulhuOfferings

As the equinox approaches the ritual begins. For four weeks and five days it builds, until Cthulhu awakens and one worshipper is rewarded greatly.

In the first two weeks, sacrificial amounts are placed in special, once-a-day blocks — a reward to the worshipper for the sacrifice made. In the third and fourth weeks the rewards build, small at first and then larger as worship swells with fervor. In the final five days — the Tharanak shagg, the “promise of dreamland” — the ritual reaches its final pitch, and the daily special blocks rise sharply.

At last, after the 665th offering has paid tribute to the Great Old One, Cthulhu will return and bestow a bounty deserving of Him upon one lucky worshipper. The ritual recurs every six months by the chain’s own reckoning — half a year, half the chain’s heartbeat — each finale landing on a block whose height ends in 666. So it was before the silence. So it shall be after the Restoration, forever.