Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure

Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure

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The Butcher's Journal - translated from the original Wingdings
By Penemue
In chapter 6, you'll encounter a book that "had better not be written in gibberish."

It's crazy long, and I translated it - enjoy.
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MCHK THERE THAT IS THE CODE WORMS

I DARE YOU I DARE ANY OF YOU INSECTS
TO TRY AND PENETRATE MY INNER SANCTUM

WERE THE SHOGGOTH PITS NOT
DETERRENT ENOUGH

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO END UP ON MY
TABLE

JUST TRY ME TRY ME YOU FOOLS

IF YOU STILL WANT YOUR BIG
SUCCULENT MEAL YOU
HAD BETTER OBEY ME

STAY OUT OF MY LABORATORY

DR H OCCID

____________________________________________________


I DO NOT CARE

I DO NOT CARE THAT YOU ARE
HIGHER UP THERE WILL BE NO
MORE USING THE SHORTCUTS TO
THE EOD AND BAY FROM MY
LABORATORY

YOU ARE PRYING LITTLE
MAGGOTS WHO CANNOT KEEP
THEIR HANDS TO THEMSELVES

STAY THE HELL OUT OF MY
LABORATORY

[STAY THE] HELL OUT OF MY WAY

[obscured] WANT YOUR MEAL

DR H OCCID
The Butcher's Journal
PAGE 1

I AM BACK WRITTEN FRIEND

I TORE YOUR PAGES IN ANGER
WHEN THE NECRONOMICON
ESCAPED ME IT WAS WRONG I
KNOW I WAS FURIOUS I WANTED
TO BURN IT ALL DOWN AND GIVE
UP

WHAT A FOOL I WAS TO THINK I
COULD CONTOL THE WICKED
BOOK

I RETURN TO YOU NOW THAT I
KNOW WHAT TO DO

THE BOOK WILL CHOOSE WHAT
THE BOOK WILL CHOOSE AND
MAKE YOU WAY TO POINT NEMO
IN THE END

IT WAS ALL SO SIMPLE THAT I
COULD NOT SEE IT FIRST ALL I
NEED TO DO IS BE THERE EARLY
YES IT WAS ALL SO SIMPLE

I HAVE THESE EOD FOOLS
EATING OUT OF THE PALM OF MY
HAND THEY FEED THE LITTLE
ONE WELL SO THAT HE WILL
BE FULL GROWN BEFORE HIS
TIME

PRAISE THE GIBBOUS MOON


TODAY I LAUGHED HEARTILY I
LAUGHED WHEN THE IDIOT
WORM ALMOST FELL INTO THE
CHASM FORGOT HIS LEFTS AND
RIGHTS TRULY THEY ARE
STUPIDER THAN I GIVE THEM
CREDIT FOR THE WORM FORGOT
THAT ONLY I CONTROL THE
PASSAGE TO THE BAY AND IT WAS
NOT THERE


PAGE 2

LEFT TOWARD THE (IN TRIANGLES POINTED LEFT) B A Y

ALMOST FELL I LAUGHED ROBES
SNAGGED IN SOMETHING ALL
THAT SAVED THAT LITTLE WORM

A SMALL DISTRACTION THE
WORK CONTINUES


I WILL RAISE IT ADD THE PARTS
THE LEGENDS SPEAK OF AND
YOUR BOOK WILL COMPLETE
THE PERFECT TRIANGLE

PART HUMAN PART KRAKEN PART
DRAGON BROUGHT TOGETHER BY
THE NECRONOMICON UNDER THE
GIBBOUS MOON


I TINKER WITH FLESH TO MAKE
THE TIME PASS WHILE MY
AGENTS SEEK OUT THE
PERFECT PAIR OF WINGS

THE FLESH WILL NOT STAY
MARRIED WITHOUT THE BOOK BY
ITS SIDE DRIES THEY CALL
THEM

IT MATTERS NOT MAKING THESE
DRIES KEEPS MY HANDS READIED
FOR WHEN THE LITTLE ONE
WILL BECOME THE MIND
CONTROLLED HYPER KRAKEN

DRIES DRIES DRIES LITTLE
PUPPETS OF FLESH AND
MACHINERY THAT CRAWL
AROUND WITHOUT AIM OR
PURPOSE THEY AMUSE ME


PAGE 3

THE LITTLE ONE GROWS

EVEN NOW HE GORGES ON FISH
DOWN IN THE BAY

JUST PROMISE THESE EOD
FOOLS A MEAL FOR THEIR GOD
AND THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO
KEEP THE LITTLE ONE FED AND
GROWING AT AN INCREDIBLE
RATE

FEEDING YES I FEED THE PIT
BABIES TOO EVERY ONCE IN A
WHILE TO AMUSE MYSELF

THE FACT THAT THEY WERE
HERE WHEN WE TOOK OVER
MAKES ME THINK IT IS SOME
KIND OF ABSTRACT JOKE OF
OLMSTEINS BUT IT MATTERS NOT
THEY MAKE FOR A GOOD
DETERRENT AGAINST THESE EOD
WORMS THAT TRY TO ENTER MY
INNER SANCTUM

NOT MY CHILDREN YET I FEED
THE BABIES WELL OH HOW
THEY CRY DAY AND NIGHT THEY
CRY I KNOW NOT WHO YOUR
MOTHER IS OR WHO TO RETURN
YOU TO CRY LITTLE BABIES



OLMSTEIN IS IN MY THOUGHTS A
LOT

THIS CREATURE WHATEVER IT
IS ENJOYS ITS STORIES IT
WANTS ITS HEROES AND IT
WANTS ITS MONSTER TO SMITE

OH I WILL HAVE YOUR MONSTER
OLMSTEIN YOU WIL NOT BE
PREPARED FOR IT

PAGE 4

YOUR LITTLE BOOK OF STORIES
BRINGING YOUR FAVORITE
STORIES TO LIFE

DANGEROUS GAME TO PLAY
OLMSTEIN

YOU DID NOT TAKE INTO
ACCOUNT THE SHEEP THAT
STRAYED FROM THE HERD

DANGEROUS GAME TO SET THE
BOOK LOOSE FOR I KNOW HOW
TO LEVERAGE ITS BEAUTIFUL
CHAOS

I HAVE STUDIED THE
NECRONOMICON WELL ONCE I
HAVE IT IN THE PLACE WHERE
IT IS AT ITS MOST POWERFUL AND
WITHOUT YOU IN FULL
CONTROL I WILL BECOME ONE
WITH THE LITTLE ONE

CTHULHU FHTAGN CTHULHU
RISES



I SUSPECT BY NOW THE BOOK
CHOSE ITS ROLES WHOEVER
THEY ARE THEY ARE ALREADY
PUTTING THE PARTS TOGETHER
SLOWLY MAKING THEIR WAY
TOWARD THE FINAL DESTINATION

I JUST NEED THE RIGHT WINGS
JUST FIND ME THE DAMNED WINGS




SO THAT IS WHERE YOUR NAME
COMES FROM YOU STRANGE
CREATURE

A STORE OVER FISHMOUTHS
ROBERT OLMSTEIN HOW
FITTING

YOU TRULY ARE A LOVER OF
LITERATURE ARE YOU NOT


PAGE 5

FASCINATED BY OUR STORIES
WANTING THEM TO BE REAL IS IT
SICK OR JUST ENDEARING

I SUPPOSE YOU NEEDED A NAME
FOR ALL THESE FOOLS TO CALL
OUT WHEN THEY REALIZED THIS
WORLD IS CHANGING

I SUPPOSE IT IS AMUSING

BUT IT MATTERS NOT

THE QUEST FOR WINGS
CONTINUES



I AM IN TRANSYLVANIA UNDER
THE ASSUMED NAME OF BARON
FERENCZI

WE FOUND THEM
THE PERFECT PAIR OF WINGS
WE DUG AND DUG BUT THEY ARE
HARD TO LOOSEN FROM THE
EARTH

EXPLOSIVES MUST BE THE WAY
THOUGH RISKY I CANNOT WAIT



IT WORKED THE WINGS ARE MINE



I HAVE RETURNED FROM
TRANSYLVANIA WITH MY
PRECIOUS QUARRY NOW THE
SEWING AND MELDING BEGINS


PAGE 6

PRAISE THE GIBBOUS MOON HE
WALKS ON METAL LEGS OF MY
CREATION AND HE FLAPS THE
DRAGON WINGS OF LEGEND IT IS
WITHIN REACH IT TRULY IS
WITHIN REACH

THEIR STUPID FESTIVAL DRAWS
NEAR AND SO DOES TIME FOR THE
LITTLE ONE AND I TO DEPART TO
WHERE THIS USELESS WORLDS
UNDOING WILL TAKE PLACE



WE LEAVE TONIGHT

WE WILL BE THERE BEFORE
THE MOON IS FULL ALL IS
ALIGNING

FAREWELL EOD YOU HAVE
SERVED ME WELL THE LITTLE
ONE GREW BIG AND STRONG

ENJOY YOUR IDIOTIC FESTIVAL

SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL
THE FISH

THEN ALL WE WILL DO IS WAIT
AND HOPE THAT THE OTHER
PAWNS REALIZE QUICKLY
WHERE WE ARE AND REACH
POINT NEMO IN TIME

THEY WILL THEY ALWAYS
HAVE

ALL SHALL COME TOGETHER AT
THE RIGHT TIME UNDER THE
GIBBOUS MOON THE BOOK
SEEKS POINT NEMO IT DRAWS US
ALL THERE ALL ACTORS IN THIS
FARCE

I WILL STEP OUT FROM
BETWEEN THIS STORYS LINES
AND BRING THIS WORLD TO ITS

PAGE 7

THAT OLMSTEIN THING WILL
HAVE TO GIVE UP ON THIS
WRETCHED PLANET AND MOVE ON
TO PLAY WITH ANOTHER WORLD

CTHULHU FHTAGN
16 Comments
Arcadian 14 May, 2021 @ 11:57pm 
Weird thing about the cipher is that most of the characters resemble the actual letters when you look carefully. By the time I had deciphered the two documents, I was able to just read the book unassisted (albeit slowly).
Asuś 28 Nov, 2020 @ 3:35pm 
Thank you friend for your work ^^
Zealina 16 Jul, 2020 @ 11:32pm 
So long and thanks for all the fish:steamhappy:
leisureX 17 Apr, 2020 @ 8:15am 
That's great, thanks :)
Penemue  [author] 16 Apr, 2020 @ 9:12pm 
Updated with pages from the desk - thankfully, I had a quicksave in that room. :D:
Penemue  [author] 16 Apr, 2020 @ 10:03am 
I don't recall those pages off the top of my head - I'll have to see if I have saves around there, or if I can find screenshots
leisureX 15 Apr, 2020 @ 4:41pm 
@Penemue thanks for this effort! This text actually helps clarify some of the confusing plot points of this game (I just finished chapter 6).
By the way, in addition to the book, there are also two pages on the desk (one of which contains the English letters - MCHK), can these pages be translated in-game somehow?
Bagorolin 12 Mar, 2020 @ 11:27am 
Awesome Work
Penemue  [author] 12 Mar, 2020 @ 3:26am 
IIRC, the original cipher was (probably) about 30-45 minutes. The rest of the translation accelerated quickly though, since after the first page or so, I stopped needed to look at the cipher key so much. Probably 2-3 hours total, including getting interrupted for dinner.
Jarlaxle456 11 Mar, 2020 @ 8:17am 
Thank you, much appreciated. I'm curious, how long did this take you?