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Starling's Journal
This stupid ankh thing burns
Well it's been a few days since the first Contract.
I've mostly spent it trying to figure out what this stupid ankh thing is. All the books say it's some key to life from some egyptian god.
I miss living in a world where this kind of crap was fictisious and the rules of physics governed the universe.
Now some dumb bit of metal burns me every time i touch it and I have to live with the reality that there really might be a bird headed man out there that makes the sun rise. Or not. No one seems to know what to believe anymore.
I don't feel any different, the Harbinger said I'd get powers, although that trollop Marcia at the lab did seem to react to me telling her I thought she was a sad and pathetic individual more strongly than I was expecting. So I guess maybe I should investigate that.
I wonder what Cadillac is up to.
The Sons of Salem
We swear to secure our people against the wickedness and evil of the invisible world.
We swear to aid the afflicted.
We swear to stay ever vigilant and seek out the abominable witchcrafts committed in this country.
We humbly pray to be blessed by God to hold all those who consort with the Devil accountable. Amen
—Opening and closing prayer for Sons of Salem meetings.
The Sons of Salem is a loosely-organized conservative populist movement in the United States that preaches violent opposition to anything they perceive as witchcraft, demonic, or monstrous.
Blowhard podcaster Ted Gundy and former general of the mercenary group “Hognose,” Roland Rush, founded the movement in 2010 after a series of violent werewolf attacks and unexplained, supernatural murders in Tennessee. Memberships grew quickly, stoked by Ted’s fiery doomsday rhetoric on his podcast "Truth Seekers" and the aspiration of the masculine power embodied by Roland.
Although they speak of duty, honor, and maintaining the “natural order” of things, the Sons of Salem are driven by fear. They collect guns and appear at protests en-masse as a way of easing the all-consuming terror of their powerlessness. At the same time, they have conditioned themselves to respond to fear with “strength” (read: violence).