Issue 23, Page 32
Transcript
1: A computer screen shows the contents of an email from a contact known as Serpentongue.
???: Oh, hell…
E-mail:
sorry not a lot of time
i managed to hack the security feed on the private network for the sudan radiation lab and recorded this video
i don’t know what it is
ive also attached the telemetric data if you want to try to explore too
i have to go dark i was caught
will erach out when safe
-serpentongue
2: Julia is there, well dressed and holding a tablet with black-gloved hands. She’s staring at the screen and turning to one side to yell.
Julia: Mel, Mel! You really need to see this!
3: The video she has received, from Sal, is hacked security footage from a secure containment area of the Radiation Lab. Suspended by thick black cords of flesh is an embryonic bundle of Black Mass, curled up with its many bulbous eyes closed. Four stubby limbs are curled to its body, as is its tail. Behind the container, the wall reads “C-20”.
Julia: What the hell are they doing?
ISSUE END
Comment test
Oo, are comments back up? Sweet!
Comments weren’t working? What would have happed if I had tried to make a comment?
I tried a couple times; basically just redirected to a page saying that you couldn’t post comments.
Have you tried using Disqus for the comments section? I’ve only seen a bot on that once, they seem to have some pretty good spam filters.
Huh… Only good vibes from this!
Anybody else notice the box behind Sal before? Almost missed it.
What box?
When Sal was recording just now, in the dark. The camera was focusing on them, but also something in the shadows.
Facial recognition technology. It assumes it’s seeing a face in there someplace, and that is concerning.
Yeah.
I hope that a security guy didn’t send an attack snake after Sal. 🙁
Yeah this was a bit of a shock….
Every possible thing that thing could be is awful. None of the context from the chapter seems to make sense yet, but all the hints just make the possibilities worse.
Maybe, maybe not.
ToWC is a gigantic, ALIEN mind. It need not be a “wicked” mind.
What I AM certain of, though, is that Julia’s defiance triggered this – e.g. making ToWC fascinated at the idea that some reason exists one might want to stay apart. Time to experiment, on the anomaly (Earth sapients) ‘s own terms.
Either that’ or we’re seeing the Apostles of the Apoalypse being born…
Super-belated reply (which is weird since I keep checking here for updates but well)
Referencing Lovecraftian work itself, a mind doesn’t need to be malevolent to be antithetical. Cthulhu is explicitly not ‘evil’ in any way we’d understand the term, and barely qualifies as ‘hostile’.
The God That Crawls is horrific, but there’s nothing we’ve seen to suggest it is willfully ‘cruel’. And given all the experiments being done it feels just as possible this thing is the result of *sapient* interference.
Either way though, I still stand by ‘no good options’. Nyarlathotep ‘the Crawling Chaos’, the being the Idol seems to be a reference to, *is* one of the only Mythos deities to be actively malevolent, intentionally breaking down society to ruin.
And gathering apostles for their apocalypse, so damn fine reference either way.
Thanks! 🙂
Just saying… It is already impossible for things to NOT change, but “nothing good possible, period” it is a narrow-minded, dangerous stance to act on – one that cuts off ANY possibility of a future where they’re NOT WH40k levels of screwed.
Some new behavior from the Black Idol.
What happened to the comments section?
It seemed to be turned off for a few days.
I’m just curious.
*shrugs*
What happened to the comments section?
It seems like it was turned off for a few days.
I’m just curious.
*shrugs*
Oh, ok.
Maybe a stronger, vetting process is being done on the comments.
That’s cool.
Oh *dear*… I knew it was bad, but that is SO much worse than I expected!
Uh oh.
The lab has [?] 20 pieces of the black idol.
What will the earth do, if these pieces turn into TWENTY black idols/monsters?
“WE’re gonna need a bigger BOAT!”
Oh geez!
Well, at least we now know Sal wasn’t being hoodwinked by one of the bug folks.
I wonder if that black idol fetus is from the mixed family couple we saw a chapter or two ago?