The Earley Republick, Section 3

Section 3 - Mr. Washington goes to Washington
Chapter 1- The Rise of Dagon
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A little boy, only nine, was walking with his father and the family lobster in Boston, 1741. They came outside the "MASONIC LODGE OF BOSTOM."
"George, hwait outside, I'll be out in a short hwile," his father said cheerfully, taking the lobster with him.
And so little George Washington waited for three hours outside of the MASONIC LODGE.
And when the fourth hour stuck, George determined that he would go into that LODGE and find what he could find, as it was raining outside, and the rain was red, like blood, and there were strange shapes in the clouds, like demons, and it was bad.

He slowly opened the door, and heard a chanting...a strange chanting sound within so strange and so peculiar that his head spun. And then George, possessed by some otherworldy strength, flung open the heavy lead doors, and he viewed the horror within.

On a great altar, there was a pot of boiling oil. Dressed in a black robe, a figure stood above it with the beloved lobster, the figure of George's father. Upon seeing his startled son, the figure jumped, startled, and dropped, perhaps by accident or perhaps with intention, the lobster into the pot. George ran up to the pot and pushed it over, but it was too late, the lobster lay there, motionless.

But then, but then, the lobster began to twitch and shake. The other men in robes came around it, and they began to chant, "all hail lord Dagon, all hail!" And then the lobster began to change and shift. It grew out tendrils and tentacles and spines, and a hideous mouth. And then it was as big as a dog, and then as big as a horse, and then it smashed through the roof of the building and scuttled off into the sea. But as it left, it hobbled on its tentacles and accidentally smushed George's closet necromancer father.

Four decades later, when Washington ran for president of the newly born United States, this memory was still at the forefront of his thoughts, and he knew that an insidious force had shaped the constitution, a force that had to be destroyed. Dagon, in the shell of his beloved childhood lobster, had returned, and this time, it was all or nothing, personal, no going back now.

But Dagon also knew of Washington's intentions. And upon his inauguration, Dagon rose forth from the frothy waters of the Boston sea port and set out to seek Washington. Sensing a change in the winds, Washington stood up during a dinner party and announced, "he is coming, Dagon is coming." With these words, he called upon his arabian body guards (who have special knowledge in the necronomicon) to fetch the book and the spear of destiny from the cubbord.

End of Chapter 1. Stay tuned for Chapter 2, the final battle, and see Washington's old friends come back to fight Dagon for the final time.
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(OP: Ben, January 26 2008)