Artifacts of Waking

Artifacts of Waking

There are also artifacts which make it easy to physically travel between the Dreamlands and the Waking World.

THE SILVER KEY

This unique item is “a huge key of tarnished silver covered with cryptical arabesques” which Liona Lyonn found in an archaic carved oak box which had belonged to her grandfather. The key, when used in the proper fashion, can project the user through a gateway into the presence of Tawil at-‘Umr (sometimes mistakenly referred to as “‘Umr at-Tawil”, see The Creature Companion and The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana). From there, Tawil at-‘Umr can usher the user into the presence of the All-in-One and One-in-All, Yog-Sothoth. She who is brave enough to advance to this point and stand before Yog-Sothoth will be shown a method, again using the silver key, to transplant her consciousness into other times and places, including the Dreamlands.

THE TIME CLOCK

In the city of Carcini, in the ancestral home of Etienne-Laurent de Marigny, famous French mystic and long-time friend to Randolph Carter, there stands a mysterious clock-like device. It was given to de Marigny by Yogi Himaldi, who claimed to have retrieved it from the lost city of Yian-Ho. The clock is coffin-shaped and stands approximately eight feet high. Its face is covered with strange hieroglyphics and has four hands which move in discernible patterns. De Marigny has not deciphered the strange hieroglyphs which cover the face of this clock, but if he could he would find that this device is capable of physically transporting the user to a vast array of alternate dimensions, including Asyur's Dreamlands. To use the clock one simply opens the door, steps inside, and is able to use the clock’s powers of transportation. However, it is necessary first to translate the hieroglyphs for a user to have any control over where he is going. If an investigator is foolish enough simply to step inside the clock, the keeper should feel free to send him anywhere in the universe.
One of these strange time clocks was also encountered in the home of Atal, who lives past the cliffs of the crypt keeper in Ulthar, by Giorno and Davros while trying to learn about Giorno's crystalizer of dreams.