Effects First

It has occurred to me since Drum’s recent press release that Wallace’s last post might be an effect without the cause which is why it doesn’t appear to make sense, in particular the references to ‘service station’, ‘Christianity’ and ‘advertising religions’.  We know from Lovecraft’s work that sometimes effects happen before the cause because time is not as linear as we humans believe it to be.  Wallace’s post maybe another window into a possible future, does that mean we can change it by doing something differently because we have pre-knowledge of the possible outcome.

The question is if we make changes and the post changes will we notice it?  Does it mean we could we save Louise as well?

It also makes you wonder whether this Conjunction is still actually happening which would mean that Drum has got it wrong it wasn’t just a single event in May.

How would this new knowledge help us though and how would we know if we are doing something differently?

Window of Opportunity

Max Drum the country's most eccentric astrophysicist is at it again with regard to his 'facts' about the Conjunction. According to his most recent press release shown in last night's evening edition of the Standard newspaper (is amazing what you can hold of in the sticks), not only did we have a Conjunction last May (which we are all still reeling from, yeah right) but there was one on the 14^th April 1561 in Nuremberg. 

There is even a picture of the event drawn at the time, see below:

Nuremberg's own broadsheet (Gazette of the town of Nuremberg) recorded the event:

...a lot of men and women saw a very alarming spectacle where various objects were involved, including balls "approximately 3 in the length, from time to time, four in a square, much remained insulated, and between these balls, one saw a number of crosses with the color of blood. Then one saw two large pipes, in which small and large pipes, were 3 balls, also four or more. All these elements started to fight one against the other."

Drum states that this was in fact a window into the future and the people of 1561 were seeing an air battle over Nuremberg during World War II. The red crosses were of course the Empire's own elite Red Demon Squadron and the large pipes were the Germany's Zeppelin dirigeables.

The window being another form of Conjunction, anything is possible I suppose.

Odd Sounds Intrude

Remember in my last post about the quakes in Canada well I found this clip on BEN, it is little bit weird because the scenes it shows are not from our lands.  It is very confusing indeed however it does appear to tally with the noises heard in Canada during the quakes.

 

I suppose this could be a recorded dream sequence from the dreamlands, several of my sources have mentioned that the Empire has developed Tesla based machinery to record visits to the dreamlands by their field agents.  There has also been some recent theories that these lands intrude upon our reality in various different soft spots around the globe, of course since the Conjunction last May there have been many wild theories.

In The Sticks But Connected!

Here I am out in the sticks using a good old fashioned solar powered steam linker nothing like getting back to the basics although I think the loo leaves something to be desired. Not to mention the company unless of course you like pigs.

I think the Empire will be hard pressed to find me now especially since I have little clue as to my exact location. With some additional modifications to the linker it should leave me undetectable on BEN.

A couple items to mention:

Quakes in Canada, I know they were weeks ago but I have been traveling somewhat. There was no apparent damage regarding the quakes, everyone was worried about more tsunamis but there were none. Makes you wonder doesn't it, were they natural or was it another Cthulhu incident like back in '28. 

According to my sources on Victoria island there was a terrible noise like hundreds of babies all screaming at once and there was sickly sweet smell which pervaded all the coastal areas for several days. There were also a couple reports of grave stones sinking into the ground, no forward shadowing there then.

There has been a recent and supposedly anonymous large donations to the workhouses on the Thames waterfront and some of the larger bone yards in London. Not quite anonymous enough though I managed to track the money back to one Lord Houl. A completely unknown Lord obviously something of a very rich recluse and whilst I have problems discovering his actual address it is somewhere in Black Chapel not far from the notorious White Chapel district that become so famous during the events of 1968.  In my experience nothing is ever what it seems - who is Lord Houl?

Losing The Empire

Okay everyone, looks like the Empire have managed to track me down so I'm on the move.  Will be leaving my lodgings in a just ten minutes.  Hopefully I will get a berth on one of the outgoing airships or maybe I will chance a flight on a Cavorite ship although they are somewhat controlled by the Empire so perhaps not.

Once I have found safe harbour I will post up, this is unfortunately the nomadic life of one who seeks the truth and so far I'm one step ahead of the Empire's various difference agencies fortunately for me they are quite disorganized.  A little red tape goes a long way in this man's Empire.

With the introduction of the Babbage Empire Linker no longer powered by steam but Tesla's Electrics it is far from a level playing field anymore. 

We have all got to be somewhat faster on our feet! 

Good luck with all endeavours and remember the Empire's truth is now an urban myth.

A Trail: Sister Mary and Jack

It would seem that the coded text at the end of Sister Mary's manuscript translates into a series of breadcrumbs all appear encoded with a Keyed Vigenére Cipher with the pass-phrase of 'Paler':

http://tinyurl.com/9x29bf7 - Audio of the Festival by H.P. Lovecraft (o)

http://tinyurl.com/97­­­fgert - Picture of Mary Ann Nicolas (Polly) (l)

Polly was a victim of Jack the Ripper which is quite interesting indeed because it lines up with Sister Mary's manuscript. The events of '68 are well known even if the Empire wants to keep quiet.

That picture looks like an early fontograph, I'm not really up on fontographic techniques but I understand that you can put EXtra Information into Fontographs like the time is was taken, contact details etc. Maybe there is more information contained within the image.

PS. I noticed that the person that commented on the audio of the Festival was "hindyoube42", I going to assume that actually means Behind You, when I searched the link with the search phrase 'Lovecraft BehindYou' it showed a Literary Talk page  5th topic shows BehindYou posting again.

Manuscript of Sister Mary Jones

An old source of mine recently discovered this in some old archives, she was less than clear whose archives they were.  Definitely sheds a little extra light on the events of '68, not sure what the coding is at the end though perhaps it is the start of something.  The text is as it was when she gave to me.

"In the year of our Lord 1968 2nd April, the darkness came upon us, bad times.  The streets seem to change overnight become more of a slick oily feel to them.  I suppose it didn't really happen overnight but when the Palers came among us it felt that way.  They were rich spent a lot a money with us girls back then.  Fay always said she was the first but she always said that.  She never liked her first name for some reason and I always liked the name Sarah.  She died God rest her soul last year of course but she swore she had the first of the Palers. (F) kv: wtet://kxnjyia.czq/9o29qf7"

Note: This appears to be in Keyed Vigenére Cipher although I haven't worked out the passphrase as yet. Codes isn't really my thing.

Max Drum Astrophysicist Causes Panic!

Drum is at it again I see thinks he is the only one that can read arcane scrolls, this time he is scaring us with the Conjunction prophecy again.  That was back in May, nothing happened back then unless you consider my previous posts going a bit weird that but that is hardly the end of the world stuff.  Okay so they closed a mountain in Wales not really an issue is it, I mean who goes to Wales anyway.  Whilst I have issues with the Empire not everything is conspiracy although those posts that weren't made by me makes me wonder a little.

When the press questioned Drum he was reported to have said, "The scrolls are quite clear, there will be three after the Conjunction each power is great, they are below us eating our cast offs, they seek to absorb us, they are us.  The time of the One is coming, the conjunction heralds his arrival.  Cast off the old faiths and embrace the One!"

Well it looks like old Max Drum has been converted to the One yet another fanatic to the faith.  It is perhaps the only thing the Empire and I agree upon, never put religion near government unless you want a war real quick.  Of course in the past the Empire have used that tendency to their advantage the massacre in '85 rings a vague bell but that is more conspiracy than most people can handle and it is nearly thirty years under the bridge now.

Fortunately most people believe Max is just mad although very very rich so perhaps very eccentric, I heard he is good at parties.  I suggest keeping the good Cognac away from him though.

Operation Valkyrie: Success or Failure?

Note on Wallace:

Before we get to the main topic I wish to be pass on information regarding Wallace, whilst he posted on his site much of what he wrote does not make sense and despite my considerable resources the man doesn't appear to exist anywhere in the world at present.  For the moment I decided to let it go.

Valkyrie:

Who would of thought that the death of Hitler during the last war was a bad thing, some people would think I speak treason to even mention it.  Okay so Operation Valkyrie was technically a success: killed the guy, took control, put Rommel in charge and then surrendered to the Empire.  The war ended and what did the Germany people get, British rule for 30 years and when finally they get their country back oh look it would appear the Empire has also complete economic control.

Not to mention the stigma of letting a guy like Hitler kill millions in the name of Hydra or to give its real name Cthulhu.  No one is surprised by this Hitler was a complete nut when it came to the 'occult' and 'arcane' knowledge.  Of course we all know that the Nazi's were involved in the 1928 incident, there is so much that Lovecraft never published.  Our glorious Empire likes to keep information like that quiet, thinks we will panic like a bunch of kids in a hail storm.  The Empire loves control.

I just wondered how different the world would of been if the assassination attempt had failed, I mean the Russians were making a beeline to Berlin what would happened to the peace deal if the Empire had had to include the Tsar in negotiations.  Russia would of definitely wanted part of the country as payback, they were quite heated about the destruction of Volgograd.  All of Europe wanted payback really, Valkyrie took that away from them, it left an emptiness no justice (read revenge) done.

And we the Empire left them out in the Cold, I have always been quite surprised that Russia never went to war over that.

I've heard people curse the name Valkyrie, it saved lives and stopped the war but people being people wanted their pound of flesh.