Musings on the underground

[brighoff at lexecon.com]

At some point, in an earlier post, FDR was mentioned as a possible avatar.
I kind of like the idea of him ascending in the Oval Office and the Secret
Service trying to cover it up.  This creates a conspiracy within the Secret
Service which is trying to understand ascension.  They try to identify and
follow the Godwalkers and cover up their ascensions so the public doesn't
find out.  They're still not sure what to make of all this (even after 50
years), but they don't want anybody else to find out.  Nobody says the
great conspiracy has to be in the FBI or CIA, and the Secret Service is
older than both.  It could even go as far back as Lincoln (who wasn't shot
so bad, but ascended as the Martyr or the Wounded King or something).  That
way the Secret Service could be hiding ascensions since the 1860s.  Maybe
they're the ones who covered up for Tesla.

And of course, if someone bumps Lincoln out of his spot then he's back, and
ready for revenge.

Ben Brighoff





Tim Dedopulos <tdedopulos at carltonbooks.co.uk> on 02/23/99 04:26:50 AM

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>>Interesting issue; which historical characters did disappear, or had
>>suitably ambiguous deaths?
>
>Jesus
>Mohammed
>Buddha
>Ambrose Bierce
>Jimmy Hoffa
>Judge Crater
>Andy Kaufman (hey, hadda put it!)

You could add a load of people to that list
(such as:
   Lord Lucan
   Buddy Holly & The Big Boppa
   Christian Rosenkreutz (if he ever even existed)
   Shergar (A racehorse *grin*)
... just off the top of my rather odd head!)

But what about people who didn't vanish? Jacques De Molay and
Joan of Arc for example, burnt at the stake - who's to say if
they ascended or not? Maybe Kennedy ascended, and as he did,
he created a bullet-ridden lich to take the place of his corpse
for his own purposes?

Rasputin (as someone mentioned) didn't vanish though - he was
fed enough arsenic to kill a platoon, then shot repeatedly
at point-blank range, then beaten to a bloody husk with large
metal chains, tied in them, and dumped through a hole in the
ice in a river. They found his corpse several miles downstream,
where finger-marks showed that he had been trying to claw his
way up out of the ice... (*dislaimer* 8-) At least, that's what
my history teacher taught me). Pretty damn impressive, either
way.

Rasputin may not have ascended (but see Kennedy above) but a
man that resilient may well have been faking his own death
once he realised he couldn't get out of the ice. So he lies
there underwater in the frozen stream until Yussopov's bully-
boys dig him out and deliver him to the Tsar for burial,
gets buried, then quietly digs his way out of _that_ situation
and goes on his merry way, quietly, seemingly dead, with no
chance of anyone on his tail. I wonder where he could be
now... Holding court as the mysterious overlord of the
Underground in Berlin, perhaps? Alternatively, maybe he's gone
back to ground under his real name of St Germain...

Tim.

       Imagine there are two of you. Which one would win?

Tim Dedopulos, Project Editor **** tdedopulos at carltonbooks.co.uk