20050803



W T O J N E W S T I C K E R
Wednesday January 14, 2004
Last Words from Antarctica
The crew of the American Antarctic coastal station has vanished shortly after a desperate email was dispatched to Washington, DC. The text of the email was simply, “The blood gods are here.” Communications with Palmer coastal station have been similarly silent.
Tuesday January 13, 2004
//intercept/source—GWNet//:
The Final Battle has arrived. Margrave Yuri Konietzko and Queen Tamara Tvarivich call all warriors of Gaia to join with them to defeat the Wyrm at last. Forces gather at the Sept of the Night Sky. Do not tarry!
Monday January 12, 2004
San Francisco Population Joins Spontaneous Rave
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—An unprecedented rave took place simultaneously at nearly every location in the city last night, drawing almost every resident into its wild revels. The so-called “Avatar Trance” was sponsored by two groups, the Waydown Viktae and the Bay Area Bacchantes. Police and FBI attempts to shut down the city-wide dance party failed completely, and authorities were baffled by malfunctioning equipment and the “conversion” of officers and agents to the ecstatic vibe.
Friday January 9, 2004
//intercept/source—unknown//:
Honored Bone Ancestor: In these darkest of times, I find the call of the Hundred Clouds has grown so loud I can no longer ignore it. The cycle is over. I move on. —Kuro-sama
Thursday January 8, 2004
Island of Hawaii Destroyed by Volcanoes
HONOLULU, HAWAII—The island of Hawaii was destroyed today in a massive explosion, as the volcanoes Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea erupted with more force than even the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. The eruptions are the latest in a series of freak volcanic eruptions, as active, dormant and even presumed extinct volcanoes across the globe erupt in full force.
Wednesday January 7, 2004
//intercept/source—radio broadcast 23 MHz//:
Help us! The sky has broken open over Ar-Ramadi and the sun is blotted out. It rains blood and fire. Demons walk the streets and speak the name of Vaniel, their master. Most of the population has been enslaved and made to tear down their homes to build a grand citadel to the Dark One. They’re coming for me—
Tuesday January 6, 2004
Italian Cultists Claim Responsibility for Kidnappings
PALERMO, SICILY—Members of the cult calling itself the Society of the Nascent Flood today claimed credit for a mass kidnapping, claiming that those abducted would be used to feed the thirsts of their undead masters.
Monday January 5, 2004
//intercept/source— hunter-net.org//
The time for our new world has begun. -- Witness1
Friday January 2, 2004
//intercept/source— amenti.org//:
My dear lady:
I’m afraid that I, too, am at a loss. As per the council’s request, I bent a considerable portion of my efforts of late to the task of getting a hold of Count Tjeby. As the Avenger knows, Tjeby has always been good about heeding both the will and the call of the council, and I had expected this occasion to be no different. After I had grown sure that conventional means would simply not suffice, I endeavored to discern his location through mystical means (which was, I assume, why you came to me specifically). What I was certainly not prepared for, however, was the utter failure of those means as well.
This turn of events leads me to a single, inexorable conclusion: Our esteemed brother is no longer among the living. This would be no cause for concern, but for the current state of affairs in Duat. If our old friend was indeed forced into a death cycle now—with Neter-khertet the way it is—I fear greatly what may have become of him.
Wednesday December 31, 2003
Bermuda Triangle Glows
MELBOURNE, FLORIDA—Satellite imagery, airplane over-flights and eye witnesses all agree that the Bermuda Triangle has been visibly glowing for the last week. This portion of the North Atlantic, defined by the southern tip of the state of Florida, the Bahamas and the Greater Antilles, has long been a region of strange phenomena, and oceanographers are at a loss to explain the yellow light now bathing the area. Reports of ships being pulled under the waves by huge tentacles, and of mythical mermaids swimming through the phosphorescent water, are only adding to the mania surrounding the phenomenon.
Tuesday December 30, 2003
Strange Airship Broadcasts Enigmatic Warning to Paris
PARIS, FRANCE—A massive metal Zeppelin appeared above the city this morning, transmitting messages to every radio, television and computer screen in the region from a man calling himself “Czar Vargo, Master of the World.” In what he claimed was his “final message,” Vargo offered emigration to a new world of technological wonders for those who accepted his terms. “You denied my overtures for peace at the beginning of the last century. Now is your last chance. Accept universal brotherhood and join our hidden Utopia. Reject it, and you reap the ruin of your own unreason.”
Monday December 29, 2003
South Pole Rocked by Earthquake
MCMURDO COASTAL STATION, ANTARCTICA—A powerful earthquake, measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale, yesterday shook the polar plateau of Antarctica, opening a crevasse some 30 miles long and half a mile wide. A Russian scientific team crossing the plateau at the time is reported lost. In related news, stories are trickling in from across the Southern Hemisphere of people experiencing strange dreams the night of the quake, dreams of a shadowy figure emerging from frozen ground.
Wednesday December 24, 2003
‘Vampires’ Attack Parisian Crowd
PARIS, FRANCE—Members of a self-professed vampire gang known as the Sabbat demonstrated the supernatural powers at their command last night. Before an assembled crowd at a political rally, the Sabbat vampires proclaimed their superiority over the “kine,” and chaos ensued as the vampires attempted to feed on human blood. Those present reported manifest “tentacles of darkness,” the vampires moving at superhuman speed and exhibitions of superhuman strength, such as tearing a fire hydrant from its moorings and flipping a police cruiser. Whether this was an elaborate prank or not remains to be seen.
Tuesday December 23, 2003
Egypt Struck by Mysterious SIDS Outbreak
CAIRO, EGYPT—A mysterious and massive outbreak of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, has sparked panic and fears of an epidemic or worse in Egypt and throughout parts of the Middle East. Over the past week, over 600 newborns between the ages of six weeks and less than 24 hours have died of unexplained causes in hospitals throughout Egypt. Physicians and medical experts say that while sudden and unexplained deaths do occur with some infants, the breadth of this outbreak is completely unprecedented and may represent an unknown infection of some kind. “SIDS is not a contagious disease,” says Dr. Mariq Hanoush of Cairo. “This epidemic clearly involves something beyond simply random chance. Frankly, we’re at a loss.” Egyptian authorities have declared a state of emergency and called upon the assistance of the World Health Organization. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have also volunteered experts and resources to aid in both isolating and containing the cause of the fatalities.
Monday December 22, 2003
//intercept/source—SchreckNET//:
H: Yes, I’ve put Bell on the matter as a condition of his reinstatement. Beckett is as good as ash. --Pascek
Friday December 19, 2003
//intercept/source—radio broadcast 10.7 MHz//:
I think all of us fought to keep things as they were, to save civilization from the monsters and the darkness. But maybe that wasn’t the point, because civilization was where the monsters and the darkness came from—the things that controlled us and kept us ignorant. What we fought to protect was the same thing the creatures wanted to control.
Now it’s gone. The monsters have been dragged into the light, and they have to play on the same field as the rest of us. This isn’t just our reckoning, it’s theirs as well. We’re going from a corrupt and damaged world into something new, and it doesn’t have to be worse than this. It can’t be worse than this. Not if we’re there, on the ground, helping it take shape.
I drove past a broken-down truck on the way up this hill, a man and a woman walking away from it. I’m going to drive back down right now and find them.
Help them inherit the earth.
Soldier out.
Thursday December 18, 2003
Mexico City Gripped by Chaos and Mass Disappearances
PUEBLA, MEXICO—“The graveyards have given up their dead!” is the cry repeated over and over for the last three days, by a hysterical voice speaking on Mexico City’s Radio Joya, station XEJP. Phone service to the city is out, and over-flights by the Mexican Army report that parts of the city are in flames, but the streets appear deserted.
Wednesday December 17, 2003
Royal Speech Sparks Vigilantism
LONDON, ENGLAND—In a pronouncement made from the Tower of London to address the fears resulting from a series of recent purported “hauntings,” the Prince of Wales last night called on the population to take to the streets to defend their nation. “Britannia will always protect us,” he said, “but she hungers.” In the aftermath, dozens of vigilante gangs built wicker men all over the city. Hundreds of looters and vandals were captured and imprisoned inside the effigies and burned to death. Sources inside Buckingham Palace say that the strange pronouncement was written in consultation with a previously unknown society called the Harbingers of Avalon, who some claim are tied to the Knights Templar.
Tuesday December 16, 2003
//intercept/source—GWNet//:
It rode out above Jerusalem in broad daylight. The Maeljin Incarna Hellbringer and none other. It is heading northwest, toward the Margrave. --Exalted-of-Gaia
Monday December 15, 2003
Atlanta Man Burns to Ash Under Dawn Sun
ATLANTA, GEORGIA—Witnesses reported that an unknown man was dumped unceremoniously in a Midtown park a few minutes before sunrise this morning. The man was bound and gagged. When onlookers came closer to help the man, he screamed incoherently. As the sun rose, the man burst into flame. The flames consumed him quickly, reportedly leaving only a pile of ash no more than a minute afterward.
Friday December 12, 2003
New England Town in Grip of Fanatics
According to the few residents who managed to escape, the small town of Temple Corner, Maine has been invaded by a religious extremists. This nameless group reportedly serves a woman named “Zhyzhak, Chosen of Green Dragon” and uses a wild dogs and wolves in its rites. One escapee reported that many villagers had been fed to these apparently rabid animals. He also said he was given a message from the enigmatic Zhyzhak, one destined for a certain “Albrecht.”
Thursday December 11, 2003
Radical Group Appears in Black Forest
FREIBURG, GERMANY—Groups of villagers from parts of the famed Black Forest have banded together to serve in a vigilante group calling itself the “Army of the Wise God.” Claiming to take leadership from a mysterious man named “ General Geoffrey,” this group has ejected all national authorities and held a series of lynchings of those they proclaim enemies. The bloodiest lynching was of the entire population of a neo-pagan commune that had lived peacefully in the Forest since right after the Second World War. The Army of the Wise God branded the commune’s members as “unwitting slaves of Samael and Moloch” and executed them all, sending photographs and other grizzly evidence to national media outlets.
Wednesday December 10, 2003
Population of Fog-Covered Roanoke, VA Disappears
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA—The Lynchburg police station has been inundated by reports from terrified motorists who report that the nearby town of Roanoke has vanished from the face of the earth. Travelers on highway 220 report that a strange, low-lying fog blankets the area. Cell phones will not function in the region, and radios emit an eerie sound that witnesses describe as the “howls of the damned.” Several reports also included sighting vehicles stopped at various points along the highway with their lights on, doors open and engines running, but no sign of their owners.
Tuesday December 9, 2003
//intercept/source—radio broadcast 2.4 MHz//:
We don’t have any electricity, except when Doctor Cole’s generator works. There’s no running water, but we’ve got the river and a good filtration system going. There’s food—we grow vegetables on the rooftops, and we’re never going to run out of Spam and processed cheese. And we keep getting bigger. Bit by bit, block by block.
We keep claiming ground, because of Lupe. She never stops fighting for us. Never stops finding ways to keep out the monsters and the freaks and the killers. And then there are her soldiers. She’s trained them to find the dens and hideouts; taught them to kill the monsters and stop them from invading our homes.
Monday December 8, 2003
Explosion Reveals Hundreds of Bodies in Michigan Factory
IRON RAPIDS, MICHIGAN—Local and national media today descended on the wreckage of the Iron Rapids Manufacturing plant after a series of explosions rocked the depressed steel belt town last night. Rows and rows of bodies, all with wooden stakes driven through their hearts, were found in a variety of windowless rooms, sources say. Law enforcement sealed off the area after one Detroit-area station broadcast footage of several of these corpses coming to life when the stakes were removed. Local resident Douglas Sands, arrested at the scene, screamed, “I got them, Faye!” to the cameras before being dragged away, apparently referring to his wife, abducted from their home last March and never found.
Friday December 5, 2003
Texas ‘Vampire-Hunter’ Sentenced to Life
HOUSTON, TEXAS—Judge Donna Brandenburg sentenced “vampire-hunter” Ernesto Gutierrez to life in prison Monday after a jury unanimously found him guilty

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Monday December 23, 2003
World Experiences 24 hour Long Commercial Break
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — Millions of viewers all over the world were shocked to discover that all television (as well as cable) transmissions have suddenly ceased for nearly 24 hours. Cable providers and television networks all over the world gave varying reasons for the sudden transmission failure, stating everything from technical problems, Y2K echoed surges as well as malicious hackers but many international authorities noted the factor that all occurances were said to have occurred within 2 minutes of each other. At least ten studio executives have reportedly committed suicide in various places in the world. All transmissions and broadcasts were resumed to normal midnight, December 22nd.

20040112

Saturday December 19, 2003
//intercept/source—SchreckNet//:
They were offering how much for those three caitiff?!?
Are you serious?
Why do they need those trash anyway?
What makes the thin-blooded bastards we're selling rather than just killing worth twelve thousand dollars each? - Gesing "the Loud-Mouthed"
Friday December 18, 2003
Earthquake strikes Hollywood, Sign damaged
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — A 6.6 Richter scale earthquake abrupty struck Los Angeles around 3:00am this Friday morning. The Hollywood sign that has been on the Hollywood hills for years was heavily damaged, with most of its letters falling down the eastern side of the hill. Three landslides struck the area, nearly fully burying the eastern side of the hill completely. There were no reported casualties in the event. Only the first two letters and the fourth and fifth letters of the sign remain visible and undamaged.

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Sunday December 6, 2003
intercept/source—proj-odyssey.com//:
Be advised. We have isolated the detected Aberration dubbed DarkWater0129-Cs@1 and have discerned that it seemingly possesses a form of limited intelligence. The aberration has eluded all attempts to shine upon it any form of light within the visible spectrum. Attempts to use light within the infra-red spectrum were disastrous, resulting in numerous repeated occurrances of mechanical and technological failure, as well as the unexpected sudden demises of agents in the field. Proceeding to step two of investigations. Insertion of living agents into aberrration to proceed in two hours. Note: Aberration remains in same location as originally found. There has been a noted 80 foot radius of movement from the exact spot when first located in Roanoke, Lynchburg in Virginia.

Wednesday December 3, 2003
Church Desecration and Ironic Justice Stuns Onlookers
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — Attendees of a Christian congregation watched in stunned disgust as four individuals broke into the ongoing ceremony and desecrated the proceedings. The four teenages were described to be dressed in "rebellious, gothic, anti-Christ garb" and were sprouting obscenities when they first appeared at the scene. Disrupting the sacrament of the Homily, the four climbed upon the altar and exposed themselves to the congregation. Before any could act, the four then began relieving themselves upon the priest and the Holy Sacrament. "We wanted to act," Geraldine Thryos, a frequent parishoner, commented, "But the act just really shocked us all from doing something." Just as the four teens were finishing, an unexpected twist of fate led to an ironic sense of Justice. "The 2,500 pound Cross suspended above the altar suddenly fell, hitting all four kids and knocking them down to the ground. It was Divine Retribution," REv. Holden Gawsoe offered but quickly added, "Those kids, if they recover from this, should know they are still welcome to join the Parish."

The four kids are currently hospitalized for serious injuries.

Tuesday December 2, 2003
Hundreds Commit Suicide at Stroke of Midnight
MANILA, PHILIPPINES—Panic broke out throughout Metro Manila early this Tuesday morning at literally hundreds of families awoke to find a member of their family having committed suicide. Reports range from pills to self-inflicted wounds as the means of activity. Confusion continues to shift through the communities considering many of those who were found to have committed suicide were individuals of stable nature, if not active members of the community. Though still unverified, all victims are said to have committed the act of suicide around the stroke of midnight. As of the continuing investigation on the matter, a total of 589 deaths have been confirmed.


20031203

December 2003
"The Winter of the World"
#65
"As the Children of the Great King of Blood scorned their sires So
the outcasts of the rejected strike by night.
The seven suitors, bested by the tribe of Mind
See the grip of Reason crack even as it hardens.
And when a nation calls to arms, Not of the Wolf, but of wolves
themselves, you shall know:
The time comes not in generations, but in decades."

Monday November 24, 2003
Madmen Cry In Eriee Unison
LOS LUNAS, NEW MEXICO—Patients of the Los Lunas Asylum for the Clinically Insane have reportedly been speaking in a disturbing unison chorus for the last four days. Doctor Manuel Delas Vega, chief presiding psychologist at the Asylum commented, "The Thirteen patients are speaking a strange yet familiar language. Though we have not figured out what the words mean, we have noticed that the patients are chanting the words in a repretitive pattern. Thirty distinct syllables have been noted from their repeated chantings though we have yet to discern the meaning, if any, behind them." When asked to relate what manner of utterances the patients have made, the doctor could only add, "It is hard to tell. Some sound more like the screaming of animals or the cries of a child, only to shift to a humming sound. Like those of bees. There is a pattern, that is clear. What the pattern means I can only speculate."

Sunday November 23, 2003
//intercept/source— alt.conspiracies//:
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. - Tazdiz

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Saturday November 22, 2003
//intercept/source— alt.conspiracies//:
Al - Mirzaba is coming. 32 degrees North Latitude, 103 degrees East longitude. Be prepared for its coming.

Tuesday November 18, 2003
Research facility spontaneously combusts
OSAKA, JAPAN—Mikitochi Research and Study Facility suddenly erupted in flames during a public presentation of the Red Star magnified upon a large white canvas. Using a powerful telescope, the Facility was redirecting the image of the Red Star upon a large white tarp raised for the event when the telescope and tarp suddenly erupted into bluish flame. Witnesses claim to hear strange gutteral sounds and baying voices as the flames consumed both structures. No one was harm in the incident.

Saturday November 15, 2003
‘Sea Monster’ seen in psychic's dreams weeks earlier
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK— Mariella Giovanni, medical practicioner and veterinarian, reportedly has been having nightmares of strange octopus like shapes and pale white polyps for the past three weeks. "I saw it coming," Mariella commented, "I saw it rising from the tunnels, having been forced to flee by a torrent of living fire. I saw it burn and scream and flee, seeking its siblings and feeding on its personal horror." When asked what the thing is, Mariella could only shake her head and whisper, "What do you think?"

Thursday November 13, 2003
//intercept/source—unknown//:
The Camarilla in New York is gone.
A Giovanni has taken over.
Mommy, I want to go home now.

Wednesday November 12, 2003
//intercept/source—unknown//:
Lucita, I cannot explain it. Your Sire's remains have... changed. The ashes that we have kept in the tomb has dissolved into dark whisps of shadow. I'm not quite sure what I am supposed to do now. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated! - Diego de Silva

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Monday, November 10, 2003
//intercept/source—hunter-net.org//:
Manila is falling into chaos. Something is causing everyone to simply do what they think is best regardless of how insane it would seem to an outsider. Even with corruption and taint blatently visible in the streets and the news, no one seems to be acting! We need help. We're not sure what manner of monster is doing this.

Sunday, November 9, 2003
//intercept/source—unknown//:
The thing must be stopped. The Morningstar's appearance over New York is proof of this. They are the survivors of the Time of Atrocities; bastard children of the Watchers. The Grand Experiment must end. - disconnected phone call from a figure identifying himself as Tanthalus