I wanted to make a proper post here today, but time has not permitted despite wanting to get an early start on it beginning Monday. I have another post in mind regarding Josh, but it requires some of that blog being posted first. I have put thought into this years 13 Nights of Hallowe'en. I really want to start working on it now so that I'm not swamped in October and cutting corners--no pun intended.
Due to the slow posting schedule here and on my other blogs I did not take a month off to organise things in the background this year. At least not yet. Perhaps I should. I would like to go into Hallowe'en this year with a full set of tag files for all of the incomplete sets from previous years. There is also the matter of a lot of this blog's past still being hosted elsewhere on the web instead of my own server.
I'm going to call it here. I will be back soon in August without any foreseeable pause.
If you haven't been keeping up with Umbral Intentions, things have taken a dark turn and then an even more horrifying one. It's only going to get worse. You can catch up here. I'll wait.
Josh has to find the person responsible for the invisible and intangible mind control units. He has a number of psychic individuals with different powers at his disposal due to the high risk factor for lots of innocent people. Looking for an unknown individual who doesn't leave behind fingerprints, or DNA, or a money trail is an impossible proposition for normal investigative procedures, especially given the fact that the mastermind has likely never set foot in any of the place his or her plots have taken action. This last fact also baffles the psychic investigation possibilities.
The mastermind has excellent insulation from being read. The mastermind sends out a packet of energy. That energy is pure and untainted. The way it is assembled might be analysed and put to use later, but it's not identifiable to a manufacturer or location--it can't be read like a person either either.
In the next step of the evil plans the energy passes instructions to an unwilling participant. After that the energy makes a second unwilling participant answerable to the first one. This is even good insulation against clairvoyants, who see the future. The clairvoyance gift tends to focus on the psychic with the power, and people close to or important to that psychic. Sometimes clairvoyants will see big events or ones with far reaching consequence, but those still tend to be vague, and focused on the psychic too.
So what is Josh supposed to do? He has manpower. He most certainly has the drive to see this through. Will he catch a break? Will the mastermind of this terrible outward spiralling madness slip up somehow? Stay tuned to Umbral Intentions to find out.
Music: Let Me Here You Scream by Ozzy Osbourne. Or get MP3s.