History of
Halloween in Virginia - The Beginning
By: Mr. Scream Freak
Release date 9/1/2011
2011 Minions
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Name:
Faunus Lotus
Alias: The
Shepherd, Sandman, Piper
of Pan,
The
Hunter
Place
of Origin: Dimension VI
The satyr Faunus Lotus entered
Earth Realm around the year 2,650 BC to bless the Fall Harvest for his
master, Hylinus the Great. Hylinus the Great was one of the most
influential leaders in ancient Greece society and brought peace and
prosperity to all
surrounding civilizations. He was even credited with the increased
innovations of advanced
technology throughout the world and had a hand in the architecture
behind the Great Pyramids of Egypt. One night Hylinus was visited by a
strange, but seemingly wise man wearing an amazingly white tunic. This
man claimed to have knowledge beyond that of the known world and
promised Hylinus the ability to end war and famine forever. All he
needed to do was bless the season from a son of the god Bacchus.
Unbeknowest to Hylinus, Bacchus was a fallen Scribe of the destroyed
Scurbian society, and had formed Faunus Lotus in the cursed Dimension
VI. Faunus was Bacchus’ most intelligent and evil creation and became
Bacchus’ right hand man until Faunus destroyed him in the Everlasting
Fire. Finally broken free of Bacchus’ control, Faunus turned his
attention to finding the Book of Knowledge, which included ways to
control all dimensions. Before this was able to happen, Hylinus
summoned him through the blessing of the season. This old magic put
Faunus under Hylinus control. After several hundred years, Faunus found
a creature from the depths of the ocean to once again set him free. Now
called upon by The Scream Freak, Faunus has been asked to Bless this
Fall Season. Be warned! His Shepherds Staff has been known to steal
screams! And with enough screams, The Shepherd will once again be free
to search for the ultimate power he so covets. |
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Name:
Clea Vaudou
Alias: Doll, Baby, Scream Freak’s Pet
Place
of Origin: New
Orleans
Clea Vaudou was a voodoo queen
living in New Orleans during the Victorian Era. During one of her
nightly rituals, the town folk came to burn down her house. Clea’s body
in flames and close to death, she ran out of the building in an effort
to save her soul, and was able to soul jump into a little girl’s doll.
Many years passed and the doll was passed along through generations,
eventually making it’s way up to the Commonwealth of Virginia into the
hands of Lord Byron Cooper. He had won it through a game of cards off
of a salesman in Arizona. The eyes of the doll looked almost lifelike
to him and he knew his teenage daughter would love to have it. After a
couple years passed, a strange southern gentleman with a large white
jacket knocked on his door claiming to be the original owner of the
doll. Lord Byron, disturbed by the gentleman’s odd request to reclaim
the doll as well as his general demeanor, asked the stranger to kindly
leave and closed the door in his face. That same night, Lord Byron was
woken up to the sounds of his daughter’s screams and ran upstairs to
her room. He burst open her door and was could not believe his eyes.
The same odd southern gentleman, now with a grotesque and decomposed
face, was standing over her bed and chanting a strange dialect. A
bright, glowing light was coming from a small object he was holding in
his hand. Lord Byron jumped at the intruder and suddenly a bright flash
enveloped his daughter and her doll. After wrestling with the man in
the white jacket, Lord Byron looked up at his daughter’s bed and in the
candlelight saw her eyes. He was shocked to see they now looked exactly
like the dolls. A candle knocked over onto the bed and caught the doll
on fire. Horror filled Lord Byron’s ears as he heard his daughter’s
screams again, this time coming from the doll itself. Then another
scream, deeper and older sounding, pierced through the room. This time
coming from the body that
used to belong to Lord Byron's daughter. The quickly spreading fire was
starting to consume her as well. In one motion the southern
gentleman snatched her up in his arms and they disappeared into thin
air. |
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Name: Esmeralda
Alonza De La Plya (Emerald, to conquer, of the Ocean)
Alias: Esmeralda, Esme, Dragon of the
Ocean
Place
of Origin: Deepest Depths of
the Sea
Esme's age is unknown even to
herself, as dragons can live for many millenniums. She’s known for her
sorcery skills and being able to shape shift into a human form has
allowed her to overthrow many kingdoms. Her first conquests were of
ships in the open sea where she was more commonly known as “The Green
Dragon of the Ocean”. Her greed caused her downward spiral. Sinking
ships and gaining their treasures left her yearning for more. This led
her to study human
habits on land. She learned different taboos of each kingdom with ease
and then would take the shape of the most beautiful maiden, ones
betrothed to the king. Once officially in that position of power, she
would bewitch them to do her bidding. This often meant starting wars
with other kingdoms and using them as pawns to gain even more control.
Over the generations, stories of this powerful dragon would travel far
and wide, but no king took them seriously. Esme used their arrogance to
her advantage. During her time in power, she
would often spend time with the kings' wizards to expand her magical
knowledge. Then once she had her fill of a kingdom and expanded her
power as far as it would go, she would cause its self-destruction,
essentially building her own history.
Much like she did with the
ships
in the ocean, Esme kept the treasures of each kingdom, often wearing
her favorites as trophies. Keeping a human shape did use a lot of her
power and in all her conquests she searched for something that would
allow her to sustain this shape for longer periods of time. Over
several hundred years, she learned of a treasure that would make her
the most powerful entity in the entire world, The Book of Knowledge. A
satyr from Dimension VI promised Esme knowledge of this book after she
agreed to help free him from his servitude to Hylinus the Great. Soon
after helping him escape, she became aware of an attack on her powers
by another creature. A spell of ancient magic was called to keep her in
human form. At first the effect was minimal, but over time her powers
started to fade. Soon "the green dragon of the ocean” became nothing
more than an old legend told to children. Using information provided by
the satyr, Esme searched the Earth for this Book of Knowledge, for she
was certain the spell needed to break her human curse would be found
among its contents. This research led her to the awareness of capturing
screams to help temporarily sustain her powers. |
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Name:
Insanity
Alias: Crazy, Delusion, Disturbed,
Unbalanced mind
Place
of Origin: Unknown
I've been here since the
beginning, not that I can remember all the way back that far! Sometimes
I feel quite peaceful and think back to the first time I saw a living
thing kill another just to watch it bleed. Sometimes I can barely
remember where I am now and that makes me very angry! I'm what happens
when a strong imagination is left to rot in a perfectly good head. I
met silly ol' Mr. Scream Freak in England at Bedlam sometime in the
late 1800's. He was very nice. He told me he wanted to play! He said he
could show me lots of fun creatures who would play with me too, and
promised I would never be alone! I've followed him across many
dimensions and filled my pill bottle with the screams of so many
humans. Hehe! When I hear them scream it's like a Merry-Go-Round and I
yell, "MoRe, MoRe" and watch the people fall to the floor.... ah, but
now I can't write anymore. :( My head hurts and I lost my
medicine! HaHaHa!@@! |
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Name:
Croatoan
Alias: The Wolf
Place
of Origin: Black Forests of North America
Croatoan's true origins are foggy at best. His lineage is suspected to
come from a long line of half-man beasts, werewolves, demons, and the
like. Worshipped by ancient European and American tribes, these
creatures were brought sacrifices to satisfy their thirst for human
blood. Included in some of these historical tales of worship, there was
one about a tribe's leader that became so obsessed with the power the
beasts possessed, that he wanted to become one himself. After several
nights of planning, he set a trap for one of the wolf-like creatures.
The trap seemed to work at first, as he caught the beast and was able
walk up to it and attempt to steal its blood. Suddenly the creature
broke free and was about to end the human's life with one swipe of its
claw, when a bright light shown from deep in the woods, blinding the
creature. It sprinted away quickly, leaving the tribe leader to wonder
what happened. He turned towards the light and saw a man walking
towards him. The man, dressed in white, commended the tribe leader on
trapping a Son of Lucion. Then he offered him a deal. This strange new
man would give the tribe leader the power he craved, if the tribe
leader could in turn help the man in white gather screams. Using a
pendant that the man in white handed over, this tribe leader would need
to collect screams until it glowed without fading, then his debt would
be paid. The man in white said he'd be watching and disappeared into
the night.
Croatoan's handy work has been the cause of many mythological tales and
campfire stories over the years. His name comes from the story of the
Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. That name was the only thing left of the
colony, scratched into the bark of a tree. Rarely seen by human eyes,
Croatoan mostly comes out when the night is at it's darkest. |
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Name:
Katerina Ivanhoff
Lupinaninski
Alias: KIL, The Gypsy
Place
of Origin: Russia
Katerina was part of a
traveling
gypsy troupe, a tight nit group of talented psychics and healers. At a
very young age she was gifted with medicines and fortune telling.
People would come from miles around to visit the traveling team to
obtain potions, good luck, charms and fortunes from her. Very rarely
would a person come to visit the troupe and not walk away with a
satchel or bag of charms made with Katerina's talent. In her own group
she was a tonic
woman and a midwife. She was a well-respected member of her community
and a talented healer until tragedy gripped everyone she had given
care. Many women were having stillbirths and those who possessed one of
her charms started becoming deathly ill.
The villagers blamed her for
the
disease now spreading within their small existence and deemed her not a
healer, but a witch. She was ousted from her group and set out on her
own to die in the cold mountains. On the last night of her life, as she
sat freezing on the edge of the mountain, she cried for help one final
time. Then a demon in the form of a timber wolf approached and made her
an offer to save her life so she could enact revenge on those who had
ousted her. In exchange, she would need to collect the screams of her
victims in the pendant he was wearing around his neck. Once the
pendant’s light shown brightest from the screams, she would have to
return it to him and then she’d free to live her life. Some say the
wolf was the devil himself, others say his name was Croatoan, the
creature known to have caused massive human disappearances throughout
the centuries.
Katerina wanders the land
searching for more screams and killing off the bloodline of those who
left her to die, the pendant secretly transformed into a trinket hidden
on her person. Was she only tempted to blood magic to save her life or
was she inherently evil to the core – a real witch before being cast
out? Her story lives on today as a warning to those who would dare
cross a gypsy that's traveling with an eclectic troupe during
October. Do you dare ask for your
fortune to be told? |
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Name:
Aleister
Holmes
Alias: Chalchiuhtotolin
Place
of Origin: Unknown Dimension
Formed in an unknown dimension,
the
Chalchiuhtotolin was called upon by the Aztec tribes of the 14th
century. Called to Dimension III or Earth upon to take out enemies of
the tribe, this trickster soon turned the tables on the tribe and
became known as god of disease and plague. Now realizing his new powers
in the Land of the Living, he traveled the world searching for more
methods of torture and sickness. Sexual deviant, disgusting, perverse,
grotesque, vile are just some of the
adjectives used to describe this creature over the years. Located by
Mr. Scream Freak while he was creating the Great Plague of London,
Scream Freak offered him a human body. In exchange, Chalchiuhtotolin
would have to capture and collect screams for Mr. Scream Freak. The
agreement was made and Aleister Holmes was born. The name has changed a
few times over the years, but this current version was chosen in the
1970's. Holmes favorite acitivies are watching his victims become
violently sick, but not quite bad enough to die. Pray this bringer of
pain and suffering grants you mercy and makes it quick. |
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Name:
Lazaretto di Poveglia Isola
(Po-vay-lee-ah)
Alias: Dr.
Lazaretto
Place
of Origin: France
Born in Marseille, France in
1726, Dr. Lazaretto (birth name unknown) grew up in the midst of post
bubonic plague outbreak. As a child, he was told many stories of lost
loved ones and the grotesque horrors the survivors endured as the
disease took control of the city. Curious, as most children are, he
would often go the mass graves in hopes of finding bones or other
artifacts left behind by the ill. With one disappointing visit after
another, he grew obsessed with the idea of finding human remains. The
idea of having in his possession, a piece of a person, driven to an
agonizing death grew to unstoppable hunger that followed him into
adulthood. By the time he reached the age of 20, his secret hiding spot
held 12 complete human skeletal remains.
Highly intelligent, he became
fluent in many languages and excelled in mathematics and sciences in
school. He also developed an interest in the progressiveness of the
medical field of the 18th century, he then was one of the few to gain
acceptance into the University of Edinburg’s Medical School. He studied
under some of the greatest doctors of the time and assisted them as
many medical advances were discovered and treatments created. Even as
the atmosphere around supported only the ideas of health and healing,
his sick obsession with illness, disease, death and suffering never
wavered.
In the 40 plus years to follow
he traveled Europe with his official title of Doctor, being called upon
to heal the sick. While successfully healing most of his patients, many
believe his purposefully watched as others fell intensely ill and died,
all the while professing to the family he was doing all he could but
the patient was too ill to save. It was when he was occasionally
accused of doing so; for fear of being caught he would move far away
only to take up these sadistic practices again and again.
Then in 1793, when a small case
of the Bubonic plague appeared in Italy, he quickly offered his
services as he was reminded of the childhood stories and ached at the
thought of watching a plague victim wither and die. Transported to the
lazaretto quarantine facility on Poveglia Island, he took up residence
as the only doctor willing to treat these soon-to-be victims of the
plague. The locals began to call him Dr. Lazaretto. He took to wearing
the same doctors mask those of the original and most devastating Black
Plague doctors wore. In the months to follow all those in quarantine
died, and he remained on the island long after. The locals grew
curious. One day a man named Holmes came to town looking for Dr.
Lazaretto. He claimed to have “the answers the doctor seeked.” The
locals sent Holmes to the island, but after a few days neither the
doctor nor Holmes returned. Had they contracted the disease? Had they
even treated any patients? Town folk were too afraid to go to the
island, so these questions went unanswered. Years later, and still no
sign of Dr. Lazaretto, some did get the courage to go. They found no
trace of the doctor, his tools, or the man named Holmes, only a few
articles of clothing. The boat left at the island for the doctor’s use
was also gone. Dr. Lazaretto was never seen or heard from… for 140
years.
A man appearing in Nazi Germany
just prior to Adolf Hitler’s reign as Chancellor of Germany, calling
himself Dr. Lazaretto, offered his services to aid the Chancellor in
his endeavors. Hitler accepted his offer. Whenever the Doctor was seen,
he wore that same mask claiming to always be prepared, for anything. He
became one of the official overseers of the mass murders of millions of
people ordered by the Nazi’s. It is said that this Dr. Lazaretto
appeared to exhibit a disturbing sense of enjoyment towards his
position. He insisted on wearing a gas mask to ensure the deaths of
these people held within the gas chambers, he needed to be inside with
them just before their last breaths. He became jealous of Hitler’s
power and control over the country and also had interest in the new
German technology that Hitler was developing with creating a superior
human race and biotechnology. Yearning for more power and technology,
and to control the slow and painful deaths of others for his sick
pleasure, was an addiction like no other. Having seen a weakness
develop within Hitler over time, it is believed the doctor had a hand
in Hitler’s death. His actions after Hitler died were those of some
attempt take power over and enslave the human race.
The 140 years between one Dr.
Lazaretto and the next remain a mystery. However it’s hard to ignore
the similarities between the men, with the same occupation and the same
name. |
   
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