Mythos Engine Founder's Journal

02/15/72 - A child is born, Cthulhu stirs, the Year of the Rat begins. The Havelock line is resurrected with new blood.

12/25/89 - The child is grown. His interest in the occult becomes obsession. Several texts, including a third-rate copy of the Necronomicon, are acquired from various shady sources. His mother's interest is piqued as well.

05/04/90 - His mother's increasing madness is finally understood. She has succumbed to the powers of darkness, her mind held captive by Azathoth.

09/09/90 - He performs an exorcism with the aid of an old friend, Evad, a chaos mage who has glimpsed the sleeping Cthulhu in his dreams and survived the madness (almost completely). Taken from the Maklu Text, the exorcism is used specifically to ward off Azathoth and his emissaries. It has no effect. Though he is unaware at this time, his mother will remain mad for the rest of her life. But he will never stop seeking a cure.

08/05/91 - The forces of Cthulhu retract from about Havelock. This coincides with Evad's sudden trip to Texas and does not go unnoticed. Evad never returns.

10/09/93 - Former allies fall away, too weak to withstand the attacks of minions and madness.

04/03/97 - Havelock searches in vain for the whereabouts of his lost companion, Evad.

04/13/97 - Havelock's soul hovers above his body as he suffers from the loss of his spirit guide animal which is believed dead, killed by minions of darkness. For the first time, he finds himself not just inside the Pit, but buried beneath it. He looks up and can see only darkness.

04/17/97 - Unknown emissaries of light pull him from the Pit, restore his soul, and his spirit animal to him. Thus is born the first Dog of the Heavens on earth. Even mighty Cthulhu hears the cries of the Eternal Pack and begins machinations against him.

07/07/97 - Havelock's soul is imprisoned somewhere on the astral plane. It is a gradual decline, one which he is unaware of for some time. Not until much later does he realize who the hidden powers are that work against him.

08/17/99 - The depths of which he has sunk are now apparent to Havelock. With the theft and continual rape of his soul he is left with no choice; rather than fight the madness, he embraces it.

03/26/00 - Having survived his journeys to the Pit, he still suffers from bouts of madness caused by his soullessness.

05/05/00 - The focus of Havelock's madness is brought to fruition. Cthulhu Atari! is launched onto the internet. And for a time his madness is quieted. Eventually he discovers that the invoking stone he has obtained in open defiance of the Old Ones has lost its initial power and is now useless.

8/18/00 - Nine years later Havelock comes across traces of Evad's misadventures found scattered across the net. The rogue minion's current status is still unknown.

12/15/00 - Havelock journeys to the astral plane, fights his way through the Slums of Heaven, finds the chaos stone where his soul is imprisoned, and reclaims his True Self.

12/29/00 - Chaos surrounds him again. Various minor factions rise against him, only to fall from his renewed might.

01/01/01 - Blueprints for the Mythos Engine emerge in dreams. The evil seductions which have been haunting him receive a name: Cthulhu Myth Hoes.

01/07/01 - Several occult factions ambush Havelock. The losses are small but continual. No one source can be found and destroyed to stop the minor nagging flow of malevolence.

01/13/01 - Construction of the Mythos Engine has begun!

01/21/01 - The stars have aligned. The time is now. The Top 100 Cthulhu Mythos Sites is created.

01/22/01 - My search has ended. Although the initial cantations were a little sketchy, and the first major summoning seemed a failure, the Engine has been fueled and fired. Success!

01/23/01 - It is late last night, or early this morning, my mind has been Outof for a while now. But the last few glitches in the system seem to have been fixed. Now all that remains to be done is to gather the initial fighters for the Second Great Battle of the Mythos Wars. So let it begin.

01/24/01 - The Old Ones have stalled the carburator of the Mythos Engine! It will take us several days to drain and refuel. Spiritual corrosion and flooded souls are a constant source of aggravation here.

01/26/01 - The psychics were wrong! There was no infestation of minions as predicted. Gotta fix the speakers on that clairaudio stereo.

01/29/01 - Thwarted by Cthulhu's electronic minions (Excite/@home.com don't even have a HTML editor for the web hosting. You pay $40 a month for a cable modem and you can't even get a decent site through the service). Moved to darksites.com, can feel the insanity taking hold already. Ahh hah hah hah!

Everything is in place. We begin, again.

04/15/01 - Cthulhu Atari stirs in the unconcious mind of Lord Tentacle. It is beginning to to become its own entity, seperate from Cthulhu. Once believed to be a manifestation of the great Old One, who knows where it may appear??

04/29/01 - The Elder Gods are sending dream transmissions. Scooby Doom is growing in power as well.

05/05/01 - The Mythos Wars expands its borders further into the Dreamlands. Where as in the First Battle, Mighty Cthulhu was much weaker, his powers have grown infinitely.

05/07/01 - Cthulhu has discovered the astral location of the Mythos Engine! Emergency human sacrifices are made to prevent our total destruction. Though safe for now, for how long is the question.