Demon Cam meets the Cthulhu Mythos
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"Huh. I guess. Well. I don't think you want to live on a space station forever - it'd make you permanently dependent on stuff I make, and teaching you to maintain it all would be a big project - but we don't have to come back here in particular when we're done up there."

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Nod. "Somewhere else would be better." 

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"Maybe Mr. Franklin will have input. We shall see. Go ahead and pack up whatever you wanna bring, here's some bins and a float pallet." Voilà.

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Wilbur packs. It doesn't take long, apparently the whole house is just this one big room and a cellar. 

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Cam makes a spacious spaceship and reads more of the Book of Ignorance.

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Azathoth is really big and dangerous and at the center of the galaxy! He has an Other Name that can give you thus-and-such powers (the Other Name itself is not included). He may or may not actually be conscious in any real sense. 

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Are the powers any good?

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The description is a little flowery and roundabout but basically it gives you mastery over the kinds of beings that don't exist fully within this plane of reality. How complete the control is depends on the power of the being in question--the wielder of the name could strip all free will from some lesser beings, but only make greater ones go away and leave you alone. 

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What, pray tell, are the horrible side effects of having the name handy such that it was redacted?

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Not listed. The name itself is described as "unfathomably terrible" but that's not very specific. 

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He supposes he will hold off until he finds himself staring down an abomination of some kind.

When the twins are ready to go he closes the ship's hatch, makes some mist to cover the ascent, and takes off.

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If there are any windows Lucy will be extremely glued to them. 

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There are windows! They can watch the Earth fall away.

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"This is amazing," Lucy says in a hushed, reverent voice. 

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"Earth! It's lovely!"

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"Yeah. I could never have imagined..."

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"Well, you are the first people to see this Earth from space. Unless you count Mi-Gos, which may not have ventured this far."

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"They've probably ever been to Earth or how would we know about them?"

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"Azathoth's reportedly at the center of the galaxy, did he take a jaunt to Earth in particular too?"

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"I guess probably not. But I don't think the Mi-Go feature in occult chants the same way as the Outer Gods..."

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"I'll turn on all the paranoid scanners and whatnot and if we see anything we can bolt," he suggests, putting them into geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic.

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Yeah there's something. 

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Okay! Let's aim a telescope at something!

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"Yup. Creepy space monster. Do you want to carry on and see if it bothers us, or land and see if the sky's clear another day?"

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