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The Tongueless, the Divine, and the Damned
Okiyama Odi's new tongue works almost too well. Ever since the Blue Flame regenerated what that Boise horror vaporized, he's developed a habit of narrating his meals like a food critic - including my terrible coffee. ("Burnt despair with notes of existential dread.") We meet in diner booths where he coordinates his underground transport network between bites of pie.
Chad Thunder still hasn't recovered from our last negotiation. When I demanded 10% of ThunderCorp's profits for homeless housing instead of healing his yacht injuries, his face did something truly spectacular. The security team's escort left me with nothing but a Floyd-shaped hole in his ego. Worth it.
Sam Cassius meets me in motel parking lots, always leaning against that '67 Impala like he's in some noir film. The jiangshi venom in his ribs still flares up, but the man would rather chew glass than admit weakness. Our latest deal: his cursed athame for my healing.
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).