Phil is a 24 year old college student, who was at home during his vacations. His grand mother, an old and wise, nature bound being, had died two month ago. He went to her old mansion in the woods to got trough her old stuff, hoping to found something interesting he could use. So he stands, at a cloudy Saturday morning , on the dusty, cloudy, dark and stuffed attic searching for something interesting.
After an hour of searching he found an object of interest. A big old wooden chest, with high detailed ornaments he couldn’t really see because of dirt and missing light. It was heavy but he could bear it. The chest had an old heavy lock on it and no fitting key around. But Phil liked it and so he took it with him. He would try to open it when he was back at campus.
Back at campus he was sitting in his room, the big old chest to his feet, he carefully tried to open it with a pick lock and had success. The old chest was loud to open ( it needs oil ) and as he looked inside he was surprised. Inside were a dozen of jars, all filled with a cream or thick liquid, when he opened one and smelled it, an odor of old grease hit his nose and he quickly closed it. He found it labeled with a picture of a bear. As he looked for the others he found also some labeled with a wolf, horse, bull and a lion. Next to the jars were a smaller box filled with, what looked like ash and a leather bound book.
At first he took the book and flipped trough the pages, they looked old and fragile. The content was written in Latin, but some pages had pictures, what caught his attention. They showed a figure who rubs some of the content on his hands and in the next picture it warped into a paw. In the second row he ate bit of the grease and transformed fully into a creature. Under it was a sentence, he quickly translated with his phone “Refert autem in quantum” means “ It all depends on the amount”. Phil took a step backwards, this means this disgusting goo actually has the power to transform every body part that get in contact with it. This is ridiculous he said to himself but the temptation was too strong, he need to try it....