The Salesman - Chapter 4 - An Evil Fog

01:22 p.m.

As I leave the General Store and head out to the Rivertown Street, I met someone in an Indiana Jones costume, complete with a bullwhip and a .38 running around. When he saw the glowing blue chalk the old shop keeper gave me, he walked towards me.

“You have an Elder Sign,” he said.

“A what?” I asked.

“You’re the chosen one,” he said.

“Who?” I asked.

He tried to walk closer.

“Don’t come any closer,” I said.

From a distance, he told me that he was Monterey Jack, a treasure hunter. He started talking about destiny, cultists who murdered his father, and all that jazz. He even took the arm of the cultist I shot earlier and showed me a tattoo symbol. He said that there’s a conspiracy going on a secret organization is trying to wake an Ancient God.

I told him I wasn’t much of a religious man and I didn’t believe in gods. He offered to help me in my “quest” and gave me some holy water, “to destroy evil horrors,” he said. I wouldn’t believe him so he poured a little on the dead cultist and it burst into flames.

I said, “No thanks.”

I didn’t want to handle homemade explosives in Catholic containers. I made my way to the graveyard and found two warlocks trying to raise the dead. A security officer tries to stop them, but they cast a spell of some sort to make him choke and die. These people don’t mess around. They see you, they kill you. So, the best course of action, I figured, was to shoot them before they see me.

Blam! Blam!

I reflect on the recent events and wonder whether I should be more affected by all that’s going on. But, I’m not. At most, this will sound a bit morbid, but I’m moderately amused. I feel like I’ve been liberated from a spell that has bound me for years – my organizer. Now, I’m free of it and everything is so different.

I move towards the warlocks and discover clues about what’s going on in the city. They were not trying to raise the dead. I realized that they were trying to open a portal. I realized too that if one walked close to a portal, that the portal would suck you in and take you to another dimension.