A Boba tea store on Lombard Street in San Francisco was struck by a sudden and inexplicable wave of violence yesterday, as late last evening a gunshot was reported outside of a store by the name of Bobasaurus. Police arrived 30 minutes later to discover the dead bodies of at least 15 individuals - several found with gunshot wounds that were deemed to not be of a supernatural nature by authorities - and dozens more injured. Medical staff have reported patients with strange patches of yellowed, infected skin and many living and dead individuals alike have been found harbouring parasites deemed to be common tapeworms.
Segments of released bodycam footage show an armed mob that threatened police, who were incorrigible and unable to be communicated with and properly de-escalated by the officers present at the scene.
The Occult Wildlife Landing organisation has claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that they were responsible for transmitting a mutagenic virus into the California water supply, in order to protest the recent removal of multiple trees in Yosemite National Park as a method of preventing further wildfires, although this claim has been doubted in all official statements put forward so far.
Popular podcaster Ted Gundy has come out condemning the "deranged scheming" of OWL, but has not yet left out the possibility of a spreading zombie plague to manage.
For now it is left unclear to the public the true nature of this frightful attack. Yet another wave of berserk supernatural violence, or the signs of a more sinister machination?
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).