Elder SignsOOC
”Evil never dies. Darkness never retreats. In the cracks and the crevices of our society there are monsters undreamed of by the rank and file of humanity. I’ve been there. I’ve seen them. They exist in the spaces between things, in the folds of existence where we can’t find them. Sometimes they cross over, sometimes they manifest, and all Hell breaks loose. Only this is not Hell, nor Heaven. This is like nothing anyone has ever understood.”
Dearthwater, New Jersey
February 16, 1986
06:46:23
A grubby white box with two doors facing each other. The ceiling is too low for comfort, the room too brightly lit by blinding fluorescent lights. Damp creeps out of one corner and the plaster has erupted with flaking blisters, speckled with black mould. Someone had tried to scrub a long bloodstain from one wall, but hadn’t tried nearly hard enough.
In the center of this room sits an old man, his finely pressed suit somewhat clashing with his unkempt, grizzled demeanor. Perched upon a metal stool, behind a steel table, he peers down at a messy assortment of papers, files, and documents. He grumbles to himself, occasionally running his wrinkled hands through his patchy, unkempt white hair.
The deafening silence permeating the room is suddenly broken, as a speaker on the far wall crackles to life.
”Colonel? The contacts are here. Sending them down to you now.” As the sound dies away again, the old man slumps back. Haphazardly, the papers get sorted into messy piles as the sounds of five pairs of footsteps grow louder and louder. When the door finally opens, there is only one thing left on the center of the table: a large manilla envelope embossed with two words: DELTA GREEN.
”Sirs. Madam. Do please come in. Time is of the essence.”