Muller time! ... why talking to Muller can be dangerous to your health! And on the Story forum the Nazis, the occult and the Thule Society and why did Jason Jones say that? The tru7 h... is out there!

The Muller mystery continues...

Section 8 <kevinma@em-os.com> makes an interesting post on the Story forum regarding the similarity between the glass vial containing the essence of an imprisoned demon in Pathways Into Darkness and a Jack Kirby (Marvel Comics) creation from the 1970's. Here's the full post: Comic-Booky related Evil-Force-In-A-Vial Thing Posted By: Section 8 <kevinma@em-os.com> Date: 5/12/05 12:19 a.m. Seriously doubt this is the source, but, heck, maybe someone read Marvel comics? (Or someone at Marvel played PiD?) The whole vial and pyramid thing rings a bell. "Encyclopaedia Olympianna: The Dreaming Celestial" http://www.geocities.com/brenni_au/D.html#Dreamer "Formerly named Tiamut, this Celestial's true name has been removed from all records. He has been rumored by some to have created the Deviant Tantalus. He was once golden in color, until he committed some crime, which resulted in the other members of the 2nd Host turning "the Weapon" upon him, destroying him. This act was witnessed by Valkin and Sigmar of the Polar Eternals, and the Celestials allowed them to take possession of a vial, containing Tiamut's essence. Valkin constructed the Pyramid of the Winds to contain both the Vial, and "the Weapon, and crafted a security program that would notify his nephew Ikaris, should the Pyramid ever be breached. Tiamt's body, now colored black, was placed beneath the mountains of California, unable to move, only able to dream. He became known as both "the Black Celestial" and "the Dreaming Celestial". The Deviants came to believe that the Celestial's crime was creating them, and the priesthood developed an entire system of belief around him. Ghaur hoped to challenge the might of the Celestials by obtaining the essence from the Vial, but instead, the Dreamer took over Ghaur's actions, and tried to force him into freeing him from his vault, but the Eternals and Avengers stopped him, and the essence was re-sealed into the Vial. He recently began a war with Ashema for control of Counter-Earth, and was defeated by Dr. Doom and Mr. Fantastic. In an alternate future, the Dreamer awakened, and overloaded Galactus' powers so that he would devour the universe, but the Fantastic Four tricked him into being devoured by Galactus himself. -Eternals (v.1)#18, What If (v.1)#23, Eternals (v.2)#11-12, Silver Surfer Annual#2, Amazing Spider-Man Annual#23, Fantastic Four#339-340, Heroes Reborn: Ashema, Fantastic Four (v.3)#25 Coincidence or... ?

In a Story forum post Forrest Cameranesi <forrest@bungie.org>makes an interesting discovery. Could this be the source of the Headless sounds? Here's the full post: Source of Headless Sounds Posted By: Forrest of B.org <forrest@bungie.org> Date: 8/29/05 10:51 p.m. I'm sure Bungie probably got the Headless screeches off of some stock sound CD as they did so many Marathon sounds, but I recently discovered entirely by chance what those sounds actually are. Bird calls. There's a type of sea bird in my area called the Snowy Plover, that's apparently an endangered species, but you can still go walking on the beach near their nesting grounds. The only other birds around there are brows pelicans and western gulls, and their calls are uninteresting and can be heard all over. But walking down along that beach the past couple of days, I kept hearing Headless screeches (the kind of sound they make when you shoot them). I traced the source of them to see if maybe someone was playing PiD on the beach, but no such luck... it's just bird calls! And since the only non-gull, non-pelican around there are the Snowy Plovers, it's gotta be them. Being endangered would explain why I've never heard them before I moved here. I think that the Headless screeches may have received a bit of post-processing on top of the regular Plover calls, but they're so damned similar, the same exact pitch-shift for *both* of the headless screeches, that I'm sure the Headless sounds were taken from these Plovers.

Mentioned in a Story forum post ... this little humoress tidbit. The Red Velvet Bag Posted By: Nova <aingeal_na_gealai@hotmail.com> Date: 7/29/05 6:49 a.m. My brother and I have always wondered that, surprisingly, nobody has ever mentioned how the Red Velvet Bag, being: - red - able to hold infinite amounts of stuff - able to make weightless anything put inside Resembles "suspiciously" to Santa's bag... :) Check the full thread for some way out theories. Was Santa really at the pyramid. ;-)