On The Outside

I've noticed webs likes to fuck up my formatting when i copy and past things into here. No clue what that's about. 

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           I read somewhere that religion was all that separated humans from the lesser animals.Pure rubbish, of course, but if it were true then the Nightbreed would perhaps qualify for a degree of humanity (little that we would desire it). We have our myths and legends, although few are maintained any more. We have our god, Baphomet.Or at least, we think we do.

            Our most important myth? Oh, that’s easy. Cabal and Midian. I know, I know. Midian isn’t a myth. It’s a real place-or at least it was. Once we had a final strong hold,hidden in the deserted North. Imagine a labyrinth of underground tunnels stretching for miles, and miles, the tunnels painted and filled with music. Imagine huge,sweeping caverns that foster warmth and safety in their dark and dank depths. All around you is the sound of laughter and the knowledge that you are not an outsider. This is a family, and this is where you belong. Imagine a place whereyou do not have to hide behind glamours or masks. A place where god is real,and accessible for the few brave enough to seek him. That was our home.

            Then someone found out about it. I don’t want to go into the details. Midian was destroyed,and our god was sundered into pieces. Some of us still keep vigil, holding tightly to the remainders of our lord and waiting for the day Cabal will return to restore our god and build a new Midian. That was more than twenty years ago.

            And still we live in the shadows of Naturals. Still we hide from them, trying in vain to slake our hunger without drawing their attention. Nowhere is safe for us now.They hunt us, just as they always have. Oh, now they make up new reasons. No one ever says “he was a vampire” when they explain why they burned your safe haven down. But they come up with reasons, absolutely. They say “he was gay” or“she was an illegal”, but we know when they got one of ours. Sometimes they don’t even need reasons. We unsettle them. I know Patches does, the poor dear. Not that she can help it. It’s just in the nature of Naturals to be brutal to anything that is different. 

            So we hide.

            But not for much longer.

            Whether Cabal exists or not, it is clear he has failed in his duties. It falls now to us to create a new Midian. And if we can do that, why stop there? We’re going to create a whole new world. Let the Naturals have a taste of what it is like to be hunted and live in fear. We deserve better than slinking in the shadows.I just need your help. What do you say?