INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
The last thing that an FBI agent expects is to encounter a series of cases that do not feature motivations or capabilities that are recognizable as humanly possible. Even your average serial killer has some reason to pick his victims and some sort of mental trigger that activates his need to kill.
A man that is psychically talented will sometimes sense things that don't fit the definition of entirely human, but usually, the actions of these inhuman things are possible to understand, as motivated by the need to fulfill a fundamental organic or non-organic entity's needs.
What if the world was in contact with an entity that did not fit either paradigm? If the entity had an almost infinite power, could the motivations and vulnerabilities of the creature be determined before its effect on the world become irreversible?
We humans like to think that we are special and that we live in a loving universe. We create concepts such as sin and gods and karma to let us believe in a comforting lie.
We want to believe that our qualities make us valuable to the world. We want to believe that we are not just one more species of animal on the planet. Even though we go to horror movies to feel the fear that comes from being the prey, we like to believe that we are above such things.
We are not prey because we are too strong. We are not predators because we are too kind. We know that neither of these assumptions is true. These assumptions are just lies that we tell ourselves because they comfort us.
When we walk along a trail, we rarely worry that we are crushing ants beneath our feet. Some of us might avoid such destruction, but the ants are so small that they pass unnoticed, one more little tragedy in a cycle of life and death.
Most of us do not concern ourselves with the lives of little things. When we get an infection, we go to the doctor to get a substance that is poisonous to the bacteria. Who among us have not intentionally killed thousands of cockroaches in our time, just because we detest them?
Just as there are creatures that are tiny in comparison to us, we are small and insignificant as compared to other creatures that exist. Some beings are bigger than worlds, and our lives or deaths are of no consequence to them at all.
There is a fabric to reality, and it is not always a rigid barrier to those outside who may want to enter our world. In places, the fabric of reality is thin, and things that are not of our world can sometimes pass through to our reality.
Most of the time, such travelers are not a problem. They come from places that are similar to our world, and most of them do not even realize that they are not in their own reality anymore.
From time to time, a man or woman appears that holds a passport to a country that does not exist, or they have an unknown currency in his wallet, or they remember history differently from us. They come from a world very close to our world, and the laws that govern his or her reality are the same as ours.
Some worlds are vastly different from ours, where the rules of existence are drastically different from our own. It is harder to pass from their world to ours because to do so requires that something must change to allow the passage.
Usually, this means that the thing that enters our world must change to allow it to survive our reality. If it does not, it will fade away into nonexistence, and vanish from a world where it cannot exist.
Sometimes, that which seeks to enter our world is as vast as it is strange, and in that case, there is a struggle between the laws of our universe, and those of the other universe, to see which rules will dominate our world. If the cosmic entity, which hungers to enter the gate between worlds, is hungry enough and powerful enough, then our universe can lose the fight.
If the laws of our universe changes in this struggle, then the thing, which seeks to enter, will be free to come into our realm, and everything we love in this world will be wiped away. The idea of such uncaring gods has been with us since the beginning of time. Maybe the reason for this is that it is a real danger.
Dr. Stephen Hawking is only one of a huge number of people that suggests that we should not advertise our existence to any alien species out there who might be listening. I agree with that worry since there is no way that we can know the concerns of a species that is alien by definition.
In an infinite number of infinite universes, there can be no limit on the scope and power of living creatures. In far dark worlds, there are vast and chaotic demon gods who hunger to enter our world. Their coming will mean our extinction.
That would put a definite damper on Super Bowl Night. If it is a choice between the coming of Yog-Sothoth, and going fishing, I will go get my fishing rod.
