Terminus: North Angier

O'my lost and beautiful silhouette, where have you gone?
January 14th, 2007
~Rob M.

Terminus: North Angier

THEM!
January 14th, 2007
~Rob M.

Terminus: Wylie Street

Glug-Glug: Thee Drunken Fish God ov thee Estorians
January 14th, 2007
~Rob M.

"...also know dear adventurer, that the Estorians worship a most terrible pagan diety, a wrathful sea monster whose inhuman thirst for wanton destruction can only be sated by strong mead, virgin blood and a side of tartar sauce. This creature was known to the simple people of Cabbage Town as 'Glug-Glug' or sometimes as 'Glug-Glug destroyer of all who stand before him!','Glug-Glug the quite irate' and 'Glug-Glug the anthropomorphic Fish God who is slowly trying to drink himself to death just to spite his own immortality'.

Glug-Glug is an imported Sea God, one whose origin lies somewhere along the coastal villages of the Baltic Sea. Early worship of Glug-Glug has been well researched by Professor Dale Andrews of the Miskatonic University Department of Hostile Sea Gods. Here we learn from the good professors journeys into the horribly abusrd and absurdly horrible, that Glug-Glug was actually a minor diety who bought smooth seas to the sailor and bountiful catches to the fisherman.

But that was only on the rare occasion when he wasn't drunk.

When drunk, Glug-Glug terrified the locales with tidal waves, red tides, gigantic phospherscent jelly fish who fed on small children and worst of all, Glug-Glug would occasionally enjoy luring villagers to the edge of the water with promises of sunken treasure, only to draw them in close enough to slap in the face with his immense tail.

When really drunk, the inebriated Glug-Glug would frequent dive bars to sing karoke and hit on the waitresses with tales of his Fish God Prowess. Know that Glug-Glug seldom went home alone!

But times quickly changed. Worship of Glug-Glug was quickly outsourced to foriegn deities such as Levithan, Neptune and even dread Cthulhu, in this case the locals figured that an extra dimensional squid faced super monster was a better bet than a Fish God with the DT's.

How such a diety found it's way to a small suburb in Atlanta however, remains a mystery that has baffled even the most learned of archaelogists.

The first recorded sighting of Glug-Glug in the area comes from the early days of Atlanta, back when it was a little railroad town with simple dreams of one day hosting the 1996 Olympic. This was when Cabbage Town was first settled in the early 1820's as a Hobo Stronghold (though Hobo's weren't called 'hobos' until the Great Depression, this was when they were simply refered to as 'Railroad Pirates' or 'Gentlemen of the Dust'). This Railroad Pirate Community had many rules that seem both strange and unnecessary to the modern reader. For instance it was illegal for any woman, who was not yet married, to be seen in broad daylight without a fake beard on. For a stranger to cross the Krog Street Tunnel one had to wrestle a horse to gain admittance into Cabbage Town. Mind you a quite irate horse at that. Capuchins were considered legal tender with the exception that they could not be applied to the purchasing of fake beards.

It should come as no surprise then that the then mayor of Cabbage Town, Herbert P. Cabbage, also decreed that on the corner of Wylie & Krog a temple shall be built to the Fish God Glug-Glug. The locals quickly accepted this rule, feeling that since they were so far removed from any significant body of water, worshipping a reprobate fish God couldn't do any real harm.

They were wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong."

~Excerpted from the "Psychogeographers Handbook of the Paranormal & cheap places to eat under 20 dollars in Atlanta", Dr. Damon Horatio Greer, Miskatonic Press, (c)1987.