The Riven

According to a recent press release by the eccentric astrophysicist Max Drum The Riven will open again on the 21st  December.  The 21st is the Winter Solstice to the rest of us and to those that are religious well you know what you celebrate and why.

Reporters did ask Max what exactly the 'Riven' is and answer was and I quote: “The battleground between the forces of Good and Evil some sixty years gone.  The Evil is coming again, it will open the way our only salvation is The One.  The One will save us! Put away your pagan rites join The One!”

Well sixty year ago was 1952 and '52 wasn't the best of years.  The 'old' King died at such an early age of 56, there are a few conspiracy theories for the death.  Of course we then ended up with his son George VII, I won't go into the conspiracies regarding him otherwise I would be here writing this article all year. 

The peace treaty with Japan and the Empire is still considered by some as a completely pointless treaty.  1st May not a good day either with Germany insisting that they should reform the army purely for defensive purposes that was nearly World War III in the making.

Then there was the controversial banning of Andre Gide books by The Zoroastrians most people believe that the Empire influenced that particular decision, the Z's have always been whores to the Empire.  There was no comment from the other two faiths.

The HMS Nautilus (Dreadnought  class) is involved in the suppression of the Black Sea pirates, its slaughter can be compared to the events of '85.

July was a scary month, the Empire's capital in the New World/Americas was host to many strange lights in the sky and there was of course the earthquake during this time as well.  At the time there was much panic in the possibility that the Elder Gods had returned despite the Empire's suppression of any arcane knowledge regarding Lovecraft's histories.

The floods in Lynmouth another disaster in which 36 lose their lives, questions were leveled at the Empire regarding the origin of the floods since the Empire report of: “a storm of tropical intensity broke over south-west England, depositing 9.0 inches of rain within 24 hours on an already waterlogged Exmoor.” did not match the pattern of destruction the village received.  One local is reported to have said “Death came from the sea...”

October sees the death of 117 people in the 3 train crash in Harrow, several witnesses say they saw bright flashes in the sky before the crash.  One of my sources states the signals were jammed by a lightening strike in an otherwise clear sky.

An 8.25 Richter scale earthquake hits the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia during early November and several strange lights in the sky are reported by people in Norway.  The origins of the fireball that crashed into a backyard of Havelock North is still unknown to this day.

The Killer Smoke of '52 is well known indeed however there some conspiracy theories that suggest that this was in fact a test of 'bio' warfare by the Russians all part of the Red threat.  Similarly the outbreak of polio in the New World was another attack or test by the Red threat.  There are others that believe that both events were attacks from the Elder Gods, they point to the lights in the sky during both events and witnesses that saw grey ghosts in the fog.  Well anything is grey in a fog.