The threshold exists in every hour

The Yog-Sothoth Chore Gate

Fulfill mortal obligations. Gather Insight. Open the Gate. Ask a favor of what waits beyond.

A record outside linear time

The Essential Salts

Three knocks have opened a minor and profoundly inadvisable appendix.

Y'AI'NG'NGAH, YOG-SOTHOTH H'EE-L'GEB F'AI THRODOG UAAAH

No deceased obligations were recalled from the record. Probably.

Minor ritual incompetence

The Summoning Was Botched

The incomplete summoning pulled the unfinished echo of an obligation through the Gate instead. This is inconvenient rather than catastrophic.

OGTHROD AI'F GEB'L-EE'H YOG-SOTHOTH 'NGAH'NG AI'Y ZHRO

No chores are deleted, blocked, or made harder. The ritual merely reached the wrong thing.