Not So Happy Halloween.

[Holister]

Well, just as I thought, the can o worms marked Hell on Earth was opened last night. The nexus flared up to the worst I've I ever seen it. With it, came the baddies.

It started about midnight the night before, for about an hour things just screwy sll over town and for the folks in the outer lying homesteads. Phones ringing, car alarms going off, windows breaking, dog howling and running off into the night. Then that damn ground fog rolled in....not from the sea, but as if it was coming from the graveyard....and The Chamberlaine House.

Three hunters died that night. It was pretty bad. They were all torn up and drained of blood like a heard of vampires had a go at them. It wasn't a pretty sight. If we had to use seperate body bags, we'ld been there all day.

The worst was the phone call from the Jacob Farm. They saw something out in the mist...George went out with his shotgun to take a look...they found him without his head the next morning strung from the barn roof, and stripped of flesh.

That was only the beginning.

[Ron Caliburn]

You never got back to us about this one Ben.

[Holister]

No one seemed interested. I never did close that case. I even think it is still open.

Real nasty too.

No evidence, no DNA, no forensics evidence, just bodies. That dam fog came in that night....people died....end of story.

Molly said it was The Bad Man that lives in The Chamberlain House. I don't have the balls to go find out for myself. That place gives me the shakes just looking at it from a safe distance in broad daylight.

Maybe one of you fellas can take a look at the, um, evidence we do have when ya'll come up.

Hope ya have strong stomachs.

[Logan]

Well, I suppose that settles it. Send me the DR 1313's and I'll have a team on site before the sun crosses the horizon.

Please don't introduce me to anyone while I am there, Holister.

[Ron Caliburn]

No DR1313s

Everything needs to be out in the open.


That's the reason we exist.

[KonThaak]

Forgive my ignorance... What's a DR1313?

[Ron Caliburn]

Take a look.

[Sophoroto]

Mr. Holister maybe those of us that can see the astral or even go there could look at the house from a different perspective. At least then you could know if it is the cause of what happened.

Besides I like haunted houses.

[Logan]

KonThak, a DR 1313 is the form LEO's are supposed to fill out after an event that they can find no logical explanation for. Once they are in the system, they are then filed away in a locked room somewhere in the precinct and the locals by and large resort to underhanded tactics to make sure they don't have to think about or deal with the subject of the report.

A few small teams of specialists go out to try to provide final closure for those cases where the DR 1313 indicates that the mess might become public knowledge, that's what I do, I close cases that generate DR1313's, and do my damndest to "make the monsters go away" so that people living a quiet peacefull life can continue to do so.

[Ron Caliburn]

Which is a problem.

If the general public don't wake up and the government doesn't put the proper resources into this, when the time comes and all hell breaks loose, there won't be enough people with the know how to fight these things to go around.

It's brushing the problem under the rug instead of preparing for the disaster to come.

[GhostSpider]

It's brushing the problem under the rug instead of preparign for the disaster to come.

You were expecting better from the goverment????

Not even you are that naive Ron.

[Ron Caliburn]

I'm expecting better from us in forcing the government to be open about what's going on . . .that's one of the main reasons the Society exists remember?

[KonThaak]

I close cases that generate DR1313's, and do my damndest to "make the monsters go away" so that people living a quiet peacefull life can continue to do so.

I understand that sudden full disclosure to the entire public would be a bad idea...but as Ron said, if everyone continues living in the dark, then when everything hits the fan, everyone will be unprepared. There have been recent outbreaks of werewolf activity in the village of Huntley, IL, that have been, so far as I know, unsolved. This activity may be related to a werewolf attack that I narrowly survived just before this past Christmas, as far northeast as Woodstock, IL. Ron has noted an increase in activity here in DC. We have cult activities in Vermont, and a scared girl trying to make sense of it, and trying to get people to believe she's not insane. If the public were aware of these things, and were capable of dealing with it with minimal help from above, these things wouldn't be issues, and they wouldn't be problems.

As I said, full and sudden disclosure to the public would be a bad idea. It would be met with harsh criticism at best, and widespread panic at worst. However, something has got to be done... My best suggestion would be a slow saturation. Start small, and build your way up. I'm not entirely certain how one would begin such a task, but surely there's someone on a payroll somewhere who can at least begin to work on figuring it out.

Am I wrong? Does this make absolutely no sense whatsoever? I mean, I acknowledge the existence of this stuff, *and* I have a family, and go about living my life to the best of my ability. I may be a bit of a freak, but if I can do it, anyone can.

[Eilonwy Solstice]

No, I think you have the right idea, Josh. Unfortunately, one of the hardest problems is finding those who have the right disposition.

[Ron Caliburn]

Well the longer we go before a major breakthrough, the harsher the blow will have to be to get the world to listen.

[GhostSpider]

I've said it before: the only way the bulk of mankind will ever ackowledge the existence of the supernatural is when hordes of demons, and worse, are pouring into this plane of existence.

That's what it will take to get mankind to "wake up".

[Ron Caliburn]

and that's the nightmare that wakes me up at night.

There has to be a way to stop it before it gets to that.

Humanity knew once.

[KonThaak]

In some parts of the world, we still do... As I understand it, if a new business is doing poorly in China, they look for Dragon Lines that need cleansing around the place of business, they check for spirits that could be negatively affecting their business, they perform ritual cleansings, and only when every other possibility has been exhausted do they admit that their business may only be doing poorly for mundane reasons. Sometimes, their cleansings pay off, and business picks up; sometimes, they're forced into the realization that a DVD Rewinder was just a bad idea from the start...

I think there're other parts of the world where similar practices are engaged, as well. I'm not absolutely sure on that.

[GhostSpider]

Yes, humanity knew once.

But that was when it was a much larger world, with far fewer people in it and a much more open mindset for the supernatural. Mankind is simply not equipped to deal with the supernatural now. They'll panic and in their panic will cause more damage than any invasion of demons ever could.

[KonThaak]

I hate misquoting movies... I usually hate properly quoting movies, too, in the context of a serious discussion...but the world isn't smaller, now. There's just more crammed into it. More people, more ideas, and more stuff.

And if people don't figure out how to get equipped to deal with the paranormal, then that invasion of demons will *cause* a panic, and will do enough damage that the invading demons will sit back with popcorn and just watch.

Yes, I'm well aware that as a group, herd mentality tends to take over, and no matter how intelligent a person is, their IQ tends to be lost in the mess of panicked people. However, there have been stories of individuals who, in the midst of a crowd of enraged or panicked peoples, have gotten the herd's attention, and turned the herd's mood and intentions into something more appropriate to the situation. The fact that these stories are out there hint that we could make a difference in the demon invasion situation, but I'd rather not count on that... Instead, I choose to see that if even just a small group within the herd is capable of dealing with the paranormal, we can prevent the panic altogether. After all, how intimidating will the paranormal be to the average American, if their first taste of it involves a group of hunters taking out a monster using teamwork and cool heads?

[GhostSpider]

So what happens when the people find out that some of those people who are fighting for them aren't normal. That they have abilities that make them more like monsters than men.

Suddenly it goes from humans fighting monsters, to monsters fighting monsters. That's how people will see it.

[KonThaak]

Or angels fighting monsters... It all depends on the people.

[GhostSpider]

Angels?

[Ron Caliburn]

Last poll I read, most Americans beleived in angels.




Yeah, the initial panic will be horible, but it will be a lot less problematic than the demon invasion and the initial panic coming at the same time.

[Eilonwy Solstice]

I've said it before: the only way the bulk of mankind will ever ackowledge the existence of the supernatural is when hordes of demons, and worse, are pouring into this plane of existence.

That's what it will take to get mankind to "wake up".

If only they would do that. Sadly, they’re much too smart to attack humanity head on. But it’s not their way to show brute force; no, their main strength is in humanity’s disbelief, fooling us into thinking they don’t exist. Their “invasion” tactics will consist of a small trickle of “troops” before they quickly melt into the shadows and hide from sight. Then they will attack slowly, cautiously, when humans have their back turned.

[Logan]

We are already demonized about half the time we go out. Our after action reports are considered by local authorities to be "imaginative fiction" since the targets never seem to have the decency to leave a corpse that will stay dead, so we don't file the closure of a 1313 case with the locals any more - they are more happy to just file it away and forget it. At least we have managed to get locals to put the "weird shit" into the databases.

Oh and about the idea of full disclosure, who are you going have respond to all of the "my child says there is a monster under the bed/in the closet, ect" calls that will flood the emergency services lines?

[Ron Caliburn]

The usual first responders, tough they will now be trianed to spot the difference between overactive immagination and genuine supernatural manifestations and know the basics for containing supernatural manifestations until the specialists can get there to deal with it.

[Ethan Skinner]

I'm expecting better from us in forcing the government to be open about what's going on . . .that's one of the main reasons the Society exists rememebr?

What do you expect from "us"?

[Ron Caliburn]

I expect us to do one of the Society's main functions - educating the public and raising awareness.

When enough people latch onto it, the politicos will have to respond.

[GhostSpider]

Oh, they'll respond alright. They'll ruin all of us in smear campaigns and do everything humanly possible to keep the staus quo.