We're celebrating Klordny Week, Superboy!

Do they usually continue trials on Sunday?

2006
[Aberrant] Stanley Jason "Brother Elias" Weltey, of St. Louis, is sentenced to six consecutive life terms without parole in connection with the kidnappings of six infants in the Springfield (MO) area; he is alleged to have eaten the corpses as part of an organized Church of Astaroth ritual.

Tomorrow's article in the Jefferson City Times-Dispatch will quote Amber de Rais (probably not her real name), one of Weltey's "sisters in Darkness", as opining that "Jason wouldn't have been given nearly as harsh a sentence if he'd been an apathetic sheep like the rest of you!" Defense counsel was less voluble about the verdict, but still called it "religious persecution, along the lines of the Salem Witch Trials" and confirmed their intent to appeal.

DEATH DEATH DEATH

1999
[Aberrant] The corpses of three members of death-metal band "Nails of Faith," along with seven others, are found in a "blood-garden" outside Gjovik [Norway] — badly mutilated, impaled on oak spikes, and left for the crows. Ragnar Vargerson, Bjorn "Kin-slayer" Geissler and Thorfinn "Bloodaxe" Hoffmann have all been given the blood-eagle.

This is mentioned in a news article reprinted in Aberrant: ReignofEvil.com, so I'm pretty sure it was Thor Gundolfsson's doing.

And so it begins...

1999
[Aberrant] [Pedro] Santiago, [Raoul] Orzaiz, and new recruits Marcel Delorimier (a French ultra-nationalist convinced of nova supremacy) and Caroline Fong (an Oxford-educated philosopher and business consultant) gather in Santiago, Chile. They will continue to meet every quarter or so for the next several years, joined by a few more like-minded novas every little while.

Great oaks from little acorns grow. And the next item is another example of that.

2000
[Aberrant] Thor Gundolfsson and Brian "Belial" Petford meet at Burning Man.

The counterculture event was starting to go mainstream by that point in TU history, but it hadn't quite been subsumed yet. Gundolfsson (né Letift Morgaanstern) and Petford met up in an orgy tent, shared "a few women and a lot of drugs," and went out into the desert to drop acid (six tabs each).

Gundolfsson, the relatively new jarl of Hagalz Hall (center of Norway's death-metal scene), saw the world consumed by fire, with demons flying everywhere. Five of those demons grabbed him, then beheaded and quartered him. When his blood struck the ground, it boiled into steam, steam that lifted his dismembered body higher.

Petford, the elfishly pale mystic and Lovecraftian, saw himself turn into a dark, towering figure, like Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos, howling with mad joy at the capering hordes beneath him. He saw himself delivering Earth into the hands of the Great Old Ones whose soul and messenger he had become.

( But that was just the beginning. )