There have been instances where persons of great intellect have been
found to posses a substandard amount of brain matter floating in a
viscous fluid within the skull. And many "spectral visitations" or
"hauntings" have been cases where there has been a mind without any body.
Now, when considering the mind one should also consider the will. Particularly the aggressive will. Especially within the bounds of the supernormal, and the very real threat this poses to live humans.
My friends, the embodiment of this threat is the Baron.
The Baron possesses the obtuse ability to "not die" (which in itself is not unusual
in this modern age of HEROES) and a convenient degree of uncanny timing.
For over two hundred years, the actions of the Baron have been condoned by the world's authorities. I do not believe that this is at all a good idea!! I suspect there is another will within the entity we call the Baron, and it has been at work contrary to mankind for some time.
His official appearance as "supernormal” was at the battle of Lodi.
While being trampled under a cavalry charge the Baron grabbed a horse around it's middle and tore it in half. During the struggle the Baron lost his first limb: His left leg from the knee down. In time, the Baron would lose most of his limbs. Relying on prosthetics until he acquired The Paravetty Tree. (1)
Though sensational, all of this is hardly unusual for persons “supernormal”.(2)
His years spent gallivanting as a soldier of fortune solidified his dubious heroic reputation. One should remember the dead village of Bang Bok, who’s depopulation was attributed to “vampires” which the Baron "fought."(3)
During the Great War (1905 – 1918) his tactics were so aggressive no one was safe on the battlefield. (4)
In the years of reconstruction after the Global storm, the Baron served with the Earth Conference United and was present at the examination of meteorite #J2. It is at this moment the Baron became something truly inexplicable and the safety of the human race was compromised.
I now present a first hand account of the event by Dr. Jack Tezuka:
”The meteor was the size of Color-Wheel television and it glowed with a strange luminescence I had never seen before. It was still generating the weak radio signal that initially brought it to our attention. Captain Soinso maintained that we were looking at the charred exterior of a machine from outer space
At the sight in addition to Capt. Soinso and myself, there was Man 5 from The Defpotec Institute, the photographer Mac Dibley, a league-affiliated astronomer called Dr. Cramden, several of Soinso's Ready Squad attempting to keep curious locals at a safe distance, and the Baron. The six of us stood on the edge of the crater. I looked over at the Baron and noticed the air between him and the meteorite was shimmering. I pointed this out to Man 5. When I looked back, the Baron had started down into the crater.
”People were screaming at him not to go near the meteorite, others ran for cover. When the Baron reached the meteorite everything got very quiet. The air was shimmering all around inside the crater. I could hear some one in the crowd praying. Then there was an explosion. The Baron was covered in flames and a ropy mass of stuff from inside the meteorite.
”He was on fire when he crawled up out of the crater. His wooden limbs had fallen away and that stuff was all over him like burning snakes. When somebody put out the flames with a fire extinguisher a noxious thick black smoke belched out from between the coils.
”Man 5 had one hand presses to his massive turban and the other starched out at the Baron. The jewel in the turban had gotten to bright to look at! He was yelling about how the Baron had vanished from the Hypno Band! But something was still moving in the smoke. (5) I could see the limbs and trunk solidifying. And it was loud! As it stood up the racket it made was terrible!
”The only part of the Baron I could recognize was the top part of his face. His eyes looked calm. But he couldn't talk with what was his mouth. What were now his hands made the Indian signs for "I am the Baron. I am alive." (6) (7) Then he collapsed.
”Soinso suggested we pore the Baron into a bucket and get the hell out of there, but the Baron got to his feet and managed to follow us to the car.”
Because of this unholy congress with an unknown entity, an extra-terrestrial being with uncertain motives now shares the Baron's position, power, and influence.
Military engineers built a faceplate and voice modulator for the Baron to make him appear more friendly and enable him to communicate verbally. However, his utterances were found to be generally disconcerting, displaiyng a preternatural insight. Furthermore he displayed a perverse interest in marine biology.
The Baron was sent to MIT for tests abord the Atlantic steamer Earl of Chadwick. Somewhere east of Cape Cod the Baron went overboard and was presumed lost. However, two months later he appeared in London demanding that Nurenburg be bombed immediately. After that, the Baron came and went of his own accord, his movements unaccounted for, his appearances unexpected.
In 1937 in responce to distress signals the HMS Kandlestick found the Japanease waling vessel Takeshi-Maru adrift and on fire. On deck stood the baron covered in blood. What was left of the crew were hysterical. They said a magnificent blue whale had been hauled in. Upon cutting away the bladder the Baron was found curled up in side the womb.
I now present a first hand account of the event by the ships cook in his own words:
“He woke up and started killing everyone!”
When questioned about what had happened the Baron was apologetic but unrepentant. When asked what he was doing inside a whale, inside its womb, he replied, “ They sing songs and I tell them stories.”
Though obviously unsatisfactory his answer was considered acceptable as the worlds focus had now turned to the out brake of WWII.
But I pose this question. What is it that he tells them? What dose he mean by “stories”? For his habitual bestial behavior has not stopped.
It is well known to Biblical scholars that the whale or “leviathan” is an ancient enemy of man. (8) To conspire with the beast in the one primal element threw which not even thought can pass is the base and subversive act of a criminal mind! Or to put it another way; The anti human behavior of a mind driven by an alien will.
Yes. A will from outside our sphere. A force that has penetrated the Fukogawa Belt. The barrier no manned rocket can return threw without becoming a coffin full of monsters. (9) And it is a monster that laughs at us all behind the smiling facade of the baron. The leering face of the adversary!
Footnotes
1- The Paravetty Tree is a rare sapient vegetable.
2 –The 16th-century adventurer Count von Stroheim was famed for his
iron appendages. A traveling monk during the second Crusade had a gold
nose. And Proclus tells us of a reclusive master of philosophy whose
lower body was replaced by a flowering shrub after the man was cleaved
in half during a battle in his youth.
3 – Vampires are not real.
4 - The Baron's record includes several reprimands for recklessness, his
refusal to take prisoners, and unauthorized hurling of enemy soldiers
into enemy lines. The Baron was given a wide berth in battle due to his
tendency to kill anyone foolish enough to get within his reach. His
long military career indicates a deep-seated love of carnage in his
personality.
5 - His disappearance from the Hypno Band is a clear indicator that this
is the moment when the man known as the Baron died, and was replaced by
something else from Outside known as the Baron.
6 - It is well known to scholars of earth that such a protestation of
identity indicates that one is NOT who he claims to be. Why would the
real Baron feel compelled to insist that he is the Baron?
7- Baron; sign old, crazy, and brother.
8- Book of Job 3:8 "Lo let the night be solitary, let no joyful cry be heard in it. Let them curse it who curse the day who are ready to awake the Leviathan".
9--The Fukogawa Belt (Also known as the Horror Zone)
An invisible wound left by the Global Storm. (The meteorological aberration which marked the end of WWI.) The Fukogawa Belt is located in the upper atmosphere, it surrounds the earth with what the human mind perceives of as horror. It is considered to have a direct correlation with the super normal reality of this modern age.
The phenomenon of The Fukogawa Belt may be the residual presence of The Malignant Intelligence From Beyond The Spheres that drove the Global Storm close to an extinction level event.
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