When Lovecraft Met Fandom - BDE Announcement

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West of Arkham, the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight. On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges; but these are all vacant now, the wide chimneys crumbling and the shingled sides bulging perilously beneath low gambrel roofs.

The old folk have gone away, and foreigners do not like to live there. French-Canadians have tried it, Italians have tried it, and the Poles have come and departed. It is not because of anything that can be seen or heard or handled, but because of something that is imagined. The place is not good for imagination, and does not bring restful dreams at night.

There was once a road over the hills and through the valleys, that ran straight where the blasted heath was; but people have ceased to use it and a new road was lain curving far toward the south. Traces of the old one can still be found amidst the weeds of a returning wilderness, even after half the hollows were flooded for the new reservoir.

Now the dark woods have been cut down and the blasted heath slumbers far below blue waters whose surface mirrors the sky and ripples in the sun. The secrets of the strange days are one with the deep's secrets; one with the hidden lore of old ocean, and all the mystery of primal earth.

But beneath the waters, what was, remains -- and no secret stays untold forever.

( Something BDE this way comes... )

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Edited to add! Please note that the sign-up deadline for the following groups will be Wednesday, July 27th, at 11:59 pm Eastern: Team Help With SKIENCE (Jane and Hermione's initial group), Team Detective (the Arkham and Miskatonic group), the Finale Defenders (Science/Magic and Fighters) and Finale: Crazy Friends Turned Monsters (what it says on the label, for which we've added a sign-up thread now!)

Library researcher and clinic volunteer sign-ups have no end-date; they're just a general head-count, and you're welcome to play that by ear if you make a latebreaking decision. We'll ask the regular clinic poster to add a thread for volunteers to ping in, each day, so that sick people can approach them if they choose, rather than running the regular staff off their feet!

[And the OCD, she is UP!]