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‎Associated Mythos Elements

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 <blockquote>
-I hear the music, daylight disc; / Three [[Men in Black]] said, "Don't report this." / "Ascension," and that's all they said, / Sickness now, the hour's dread... / I'm in fairy rings and tower beds / "Don't report this," three men said. / Books by the blameless and by the dead, / [[King in Yellow]], [[Queen in Red]]....
+I hear the music, daylight disc; / Three Men in Black said, "Don't report this." / "Ascension," and that's all they said, / Sickness now, the hour's dread... / I'm in fairy rings and tower beds / "Don't report this," three men said. / Books by the blameless and by the dead, / [[King in Yellow]], [[Queen in Red]]....
 <br>— [[Blue Oyster Cult]], "E.T.I."
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 ==Description==
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-Adele answered the door.  It was a tall man, in a black suit and tie.  An insurance agent?  Maybe, but he looked more like an undertaker.  His complexion was strange... his eyes were stranger.  He stood motionless, staring as if into a great depth or distance....  "Hello?", prompted Adele.  The man jerked into action.  "Do you have insurance?"  He asked; there was something wrong with his voice, too:  a strange monotone, each word carefully measured and broken off emotionlessly, without inflection.  "Do you have insurance, and is it... now?"
+It was a tall man, in a black suit and tie....  His complexion was strange... his eyes were stranger... his makeup-covered skin, now damp with sweat, was smooth, like porcelain....  Something was wrong with the way he moved, as if he'd forgotten how to walk.  He used his hands to help move his legs....  At the threshold, he stopped, turned, and told Adele, "Watch the lights!"  And then he was gone, vanished somewhere down the street - no man could have moved so quickly, especially not in his condition....
 <br>&mdash; Anonymous account of an encounter with a Man in Black
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 Tomes:
 * Men in Black are often the topic of bizarre manifestos, articles, e-mail chains, and books written by paranoid conspiracy theorists; these tracts can occasionally contain enough Mythos content to count as Tomes.
 ==References==

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 ** [[Deep One]]s
 ** [[Lloigor]]
-** [[People of K’n-yan]]
+** [[People of K'n-yan]]
 ** [[Dero]]s
 ** [[Dark One]]s
-* Sorcerors, Wizards, [[Witch]]es, and [[Human Cultist]]s (perhaps using some form of Mythos magic to conceal their real identity or form)
+** [[Crawling One]]s
 * [[Devil]]s, [[Demon]]s, [[Angel]]s, etc.
 * [[Ghost]]s, spectres, phantoms, etc.
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 Tomes:
 * Men in Black are often the topic of bizarre manifestos, articles, e-mail chains, and books written by paranoid conspiracy theorists; these tracts can occasionally contain enough Mythos content to count as Tomes.
 ==References==

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 ** [[Dero]]s
 ** [[Dark One]]s
-* Sorcerors, Wizards, Witches, and Cultists (perhaps using some form of Mythos magic to conceal their real identity or form)
+* Sorcerors, Wizards, [[Witch]]es, and [[Human Cultist]]s (perhaps using some form of Mythos magic to conceal their real identity or form)
-* Devils, Demons, Angels, etc.
+* [[Devil]]s, [[Demon]]s, [[Angel]]s, etc.
-* Ghosts, spectres, phantoms, etc.
+* [[Ghost]]s, spectres, phantoms, etc.
 * [[Vampire]]s, [[Lich]]es, [[Mummy|Mummies]], etc.
 * The [[Mothman]], [[Shadowman]]

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 ==References==
 * Film:  ''[[The Mothman Prophecies (2002 film)]]''
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 [[Category:Mythos:Cults|Cults]]

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 * 7th Ed. Weapons: 1911A .45 pistol 47% (23/9), damage 1D10+2
 * Skills: Coverup Evidence 33%, Cthulhu Mythos 4%, Dodge 37%, Fast Talk 35%, Hide 62%, Intimidate 40%, Listen 45%, Manipulate Internet Content 30%, Occult 23%, Stealth 57%, Speak/Write Bizarre Manifesto 18%, Spot Hidden 40%.
-* Spells:, Cloud Memory, Contact Alien (e.g. [[Mi-Go]]s, [[Grey Alien]]s, [[Reptilian]]s, [[Dero]]s, etc.), Contact Deity (e.g. [[Nyarlathotep]], [[Mothman]], or [[Shadowman]]), Implant Fear, Mental Suggestion
+* Spells:, Cloud Memory, Contact Alien (e.g. [[Mi-Go]]s, [[Grey Alien]]s, [[Reptilian Alien]]s, [[Dero]]s, etc.), Contact Deity (e.g. [[Nyarlathotep]], [[Mothman]], or [[Shadowman]]), Implant Fear, Mental Suggestion
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 * The [[Mothman]], [[Shadowman]]
 * other Mythos [[Investigator]]s and [[Delta Green]] agents, perhaps using magic, covering up the truth to protect themselves or in a well-meaning attempt to protect the sanity of the witnesses and the safety of humanity from Things that Man was Not Meant to Know
-* [[Grey Alien]]s, [[Reptilian]]s, and other standard UFO conspiracy extra-terrestrials
+* [[Grey Alien]]s, [[Reptilian Alien]]s, and other standard UFO conspiracy extra-terrestrials
 * Natives of the [[Dreamlands]], experiencing and reshaping our "reality" in their Dreams

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 Origin:  The modern era of Men in Black sightings have been a staple of UFO conspiracy theories since the 1950s, but similar reports describing "demons" and other supernatural beings date back into ancient history.
-==Description==
+==Introduction==
 [[File:Meninblack.png|200px|thumb|right|The men in black; "Don't report this."]]
 <blockquote>
 Adele answered the door.  It was a tall man, in a black suit and tie.  An insurance agent?  Maybe, but he looked more like an undertaker.  His complexion was strange... his eyes were stranger.  He stood motionless, staring as if into a great depth or distance....  "Hello?", prompted Adele.  The man jerked into action.  "Do you have insurance?"  He asked; there was something wrong with his voice, too:  a strange monotone, each word carefully measured and broken off emotionlessly, without inflection.  "Do you have insurance, and is it... now?"

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-Men in Black (or M.I.B.s) are sinister, humanoid beings, typically dressed in black, who appear to witnesses of strange, unnatural events, and make vague (or sometimes direct but remarkably strange) threats to coerce the witnesses into silence.  Men in Black typically dress in black suits, ties, and hats, and are often described as having strange, glowing or otherwise unnatural eyes or wearing dark sunglasses even at night (presumably to hide their eyes).  Witnesses sometimes describe their appearance as "exotic", with features that might be described as vaguely "Asian" or "American Indian".  Their movements tend to be stiff or otherwise unnatural, "robotic" or as if they are unused to moving in this form, and their speach is often strange, mechanical, and unnatural as if they are unused to speaking in English and perhaps any other spoken language.  Witnesses sometimes also report seeing wires, tubes, and other devices embedded in the skin of Men in Black, and these beings have been known to appear and vanish suddenly.
+Men in Black (or M.I.B.s) are sinister, humanoid beings, typically dressed in black, who appear to witnesses of strange, unnatural events, and make vague (or sometimes direct but remarkably strange) threats to coerce the witnesses into silence.  Men in Black typically dress in black suits, ties, and hats, and are often described as having strange, glowing or otherwise unnatural eyes or wearing dark sunglasses even at night (presumably to hide their eyes).  Witnesses sometimes describe their appearance as "exotic", with features that might be described as vaguely "Asian" or "American Indian".  Their movements tend to be stiff or otherwise unnatural, "robotic" or as if they are unused to moving in this form, and their speech is often strange, mechanical, and unnatural as if they are unused to speaking in English and perhaps any other spoken language.  Witnesses sometimes also report seeing wires, tubes, and other devices embedded in the skin of Men in Black, and these beings have been known to appear and vanish suddenly.
 By some accounts, M.I.B.s seem to be capable of shape-shifting from the form of amorphous monsters into humanoid shape, sometimes choosing to look like specific, recognizable people and celebrities; their presence is often marked by sense of dreamlike surrealism, as if the witness is "watching a film" about the events they are experiencing, or as if seeing something projected from a great distance in time and space, and some theorists speculate that the Men in Black do not exist in "consensus reality", but instead as a projection from a [[Other Side|higher reality]].