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The Thing From Beyond Time

 
  

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gridley
14:42 / 29.07.02
why does Spooky Phil and the cult want Arthur? Why him specifically? Is this just general recruitment? Or is there something special they want from him? I had originally thought maybe they wanted to get him to steal some of the old man's more rare and precious occult texts, but it seems some of you are thinking the old man is in on things. Perhaps the old man represents a different, older, less hip magikal cult that is in some way opposed to Spooky Phil's cult. Perhaps Arthur is being used unknowingly by both sides to infiltrate the others?

just supposing....
 
 
grant
17:35 / 29.07.02
My feeling is that they're just into this shit and Arthur found the wrong/right book. They both got recruited by the same higher power.
 
 
deja_vroom
17:58 / 29.07.02
So, Arthur is gonna be their Insect Messiah, right?
 
 
deja_vroom
17:58 / 29.07.02
That sounds like something out of a Grunge Band Name Generator...
 
 
Logos
02:31 / 30.07.02
Gregor Samsa, meet Arthur Blake. Art, meet Greg.
 
 
ill tonic
00:22 / 31.07.02
Just checked out the blogs after being away for awhile. I love the roach theme going on with Stephen & Arthur. Great build up. To all involved, I'm sending good vibes ... keep it up.

Insect Messiah? I thought they broke up? :-)
 
 
gridley
15:55 / 31.07.02
So, Grant, I think Arthur should put Honey Badger on his Live Journal Friends list...
 
 
grant
22:14 / 03.08.02
I *think* he has.

god_dot_com regularly reads arthur's journal, and he's been asking about roaches-as-pets at the invertebrates community. (there are roach enthusiasts in this world. you learn something new every day.)
 
 
Captain Zoom
15:15 / 06.08.02
So are we ever going to hear from Art again?

Or is that it?

Zoom.
 
 
deja_vroom
15:46 / 06.08.02
As I see it, it's far from finished. I would suggest (and I think this is crucial) that the next posts are not related to the nasties from the other side AT ALL. Instead, quick insights on all matters pop, some funny links, considerations about life, that sort of thing, just like minty's blog. That'll bring back a sense of real world to his blog.
 
 
grant
17:18 / 08.08.02
I hear that.

I'm vacationing in the woods right now (logging in from a friend's house) so I can't write anything on the blogs. Go ahead and post stuff.

I did have an idea that Minty would visit Arthur's pad and have a Joe's Apartment experience - everything seems fine until she glimpses the SWARM.

I'd also like to have a sense of *entity* emerge, like Yog Sothoth or something, but only after a bit of real-world pop stuff & drudgery.
 
 
deja_vroom
16:01 / 09.08.02
Help me here, people. Can someone check my grammar and spelling at arthur's blog? Correct whatever you need, please.
Thanks!
 
 
Vadrice
22:48 / 11.08.02
7/7- 7/20 on Minty's archives.
Not there.

Broken, or merely nothing to archive?
 
 
gridley
12:24 / 12.08.02
Yeah, I noticed that too. There is definitely stuff there, and you can see it if you're logged in as Minty in Blogger. It just doesn't show up to the casual viewer.
 
 
deja_vroom
15:15 / 12.08.02
Updated today, children of the night
 
 
deja_vroom
14:01 / 13.08.02
*bump*

And again.

P.S.: I made the bugs go away from his apartment for a while. When Minty goes to visit him, however, they should return, and their number should have rised thrice times bigger. That'd be fine...
 
 
grant
14:33 / 13.08.02
Mmm. Tasty.

I should mention that he talked about going away for a week, and then talked about work and the boss being at a spa a couple days later. That can either be edited or else left, because he's nuts, after all.

Oh, wait - 2nd from 9th = 7 days. It's fine. I go now.

Did he go off with Stephen somewhere?
 
 
deja_vroom
14:36 / 13.08.02
(edited out)

Ok, then. Hey man, write some stuff!
 
 
gridley
16:01 / 13.08.02
Stephen's been gone for three weeks. I don't whether I'm worried about him or Elijah....
 
 
Ariadne
10:18 / 14.08.02
I've been following this, and it's scaring me even though I know who's behind it. Plus it's making me doubt every other blog I read. Good work, keep going!
 
 
deja_vroom
12:12 / 14.08.02
So, let's come up with answers to the questions: a) where Arthur have been with Stephen? and b)what happened whule they were out of town?
I'll toss some ideas:

+ Arthur feels increasingly sick as they move farther away from the city (his attachment to the psychical beacon located in his city was created when he swallowed the bug. Now, leaving town hurts him a little bit)

+ Stephen insists he's seen "two odd-looking guys" in the distance, several times during the day, like if they were been followed

+ Stephen wakes up to find Arthur naked, sitting in the distance, staring blankly towards the stars. When he approaches, Arthur hears him coming, and turns to him, and says, with a sad, knowingly tone of voice:
"They are nesting in my brain". Then he passes out. The next day, he doesn't remember anything.

+ There is a fight between them (reason yet to be establihed)

+ In Stephen's blog, there should perhaps be a rant about Arthur "joining a fucking cult, fer god's sake!"

I'll brainstorm and come up with more stuff. Please add more events, so that we can pick up the best and start pushing Arthur closer to the edge.
 
 
gridley
13:45 / 14.08.02
Great stuff, Jade. If I may suggest one small tweak:

Arthur (sitting naked in the grass) starring off blankly into the woods, says, "They're nesting."

Stephen kind of follows his line of sight, but doesn't see any animals. "Where? What's nesting?"

"I don't know, Stephen. All I know is they're building nests. And I don't even know what they are..."
 
 
deja_vroom
14:32 / 14.08.02
Ok, gridley. But we need Elijah to show up and write about this, since Arthur doesn't remember a thing.
Elijah might as well give us the keys to Stephen's cerebellum, don't you think?
 
 
grant
14:33 / 14.08.02
I just emailed Elijah about Stephen, and have written something about the trip from Arthur's point of view. Someone else was writing about old jazz at nearly the same time, which is kind of cool.

We have to follow up on the hints about Arthur's job - I'm under the impression that he thinks he's going to work, but he isn't, really.
 
 
deja_vroom
14:51 / 14.08.02
The jazz bit would be me
 
 
deja_vroom
17:15 / 14.08.02
From Mordant's link:

-The Thing Beyond Sweden
-Two Guys Running and Screaming From Space
-The Colour Beyond the Christmas Parade
-At the Mountains Out Of Lake Michigan
-The Shambler Under Canada

I love the Internet.
 
 
Refos Gun
19:54 / 14.08.02
Can someone please send me a link to this project? I've been a member for 1 day now and I'm blown away. I've got some really good suggestions, but I wanted to wait and see where the project is at before I start blurting. Got room for one more creative mind?
 
 
deja_vroom
12:31 / 15.08.02
Refos:

Arthur's blog: here
 
 
deja_vroom
19:12 / 15.08.02
Folks: er... what if Art changed his pic from the cute butterfly to...



Watch it, it's gonna change several times.
 
 
gridley
19:31 / 15.08.02
I like it, Jade. Especially, the drawing.

Curiously enough, Minty is going through a metamorphosis as well.

Butterfly Farming is now Mintyzilla.

The reason is here. Yes, you can blame Grant. hehe....

Now, while I was reworking things, Blogger took their editing tools offline, so many things are still in need of having their colors tweaked and experimented. Also, the archive has temporarilly disappeared from view, although it is definitely still there (I checked).
 
 
grant
20:44 / 15.08.02
The cockroach pic has my approval. You should be able to figure out how to upload it pretty easily....
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
14:38 / 17.08.02
sorry guys, ive been pretty ill for a while now, someone else can pick up stephen as i have been slacking, just send me a PM or an email, i need to update my profile since the yahoo addy is pretty useless thanks to spam...
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
14:38 / 17.08.02
oh, and im going to put a post up about how he couldnt blog anything because blogger wouldnt let hime log in
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
14:55 / 17.08.02
ok, i made the post, let me know if its a little to over the top
 
 
grant
17:16 / 19.08.02
It seems great to me.

So what's the next step?

When does Arthur bite it? How?
 
  

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