Scenario IV (A Catastrophic Ride)
A Fire In The Sky
To Madison and Hartwood, for a moment, everything appears bathed in a red light before the mirage subsides into a magenta haze covering the underside of the night’s clouds like a dusting and rising like a mist from the surrounding farm fields pervading everything in sight. The moon is then blotted out as a deafening blood curdling howling sound screeches across the sky, so loud, it can be heard echoing off the mountains in the distance.
Later, Hull reflects on the bizarre description of what Madison explained he saw in the farm field on their ride back from Salem. He then recalls the explosion he remembers he heard himself . . . then dwells on the ammonium nitrate they discovered in the Oscillate warehouse, then it occurs to him . . . don’t farmworkers use that same explosive precursor in fertilizer?
The Elder Seal
“I’d like to take the opportunity to engage in some incantations that I believe will imbue the Desert Eagle with cosmic energies to prevent elder gods from crossing it’s path; it shouldn’t take more than an hour.” - - Dr. Enki Madison
Further Inquiries at The Boston Public Library
Hull spends the afternoon back at Boston Public Library. He has three research threads in mind, first, the history of exploration of Salem Harbor, on this topic Hull does find information about the building of Salem harbor when the area was first founded but, then, around 1692, around the time of the hangings at Gallows Hill, there are some more obscure historical texts suggesting that there was a contemporaneous belief that some of the witches were congregating around Salem Harbor for a ritual to summon something out of the water or, from the bottom of the harbor, particularly from an area referred to as the reef. Vague references are made to these so called ‘witches’ attempting to summon something called Nyogtha.
Jason, Desk Clerk - Boston Public Library, May 23, 1981
The Cable Connection
As Hull talks with Stankey his mind wanders for a minute, about what he was doing just before his blackout. The cables, the glyphs, he recalls, and comprehends now, that using the cables will bestow upon the user the ability to assume the likeness of any person freshly consumed by them, which Hull realizes will, of course, take several days. But indeed, Hull knows he could consume the likeness of several people, and, thereby, take on several guises.
“Yeah, and the cords, the cords that we’ve been finding everywhere, they say something about eating people and taking their shape.”
“What? If the cords eat people or if you eat people?”
“If you eat people. And the company I work for is definitely behind it.”
John T. Stankey - Leaving His Visit With Orrin Hull at The Boston Precinct
Hull continues to think about it . . . “If you can appear as anyone you consume with these cords and these cords are being built everywhere and it takes several days to do so and President Reagan was shot and now reappeared . . .”
“And what’s at the bottom of that harbor?” Madison thinking.
“Nyogtha?” Hull suggests.
“What?” Madison asks.
“Just something I read somewhere.”
