That One Song

Hilarious mental image: 

Sheppard Riley in his night camo uniform, yelling at the recruits he's training for the CIA's secret paramilitary unit  . . . except instead of yelling, he's singing "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan.

You'd never actually get him to do it because he doesn't like singing in front of people. However, if the story was a musical for some reason, he'd have a song like that. At the beginning, before all the crazy stuff started happening.

More, Different Inspiration

I just looked at the blog and realized I haven't written anything about how much I love The Mothman Prophecies yet. Yes, I mentioned the movie as one of the driving forces behind the creation of this storyline, but the book is far, far better. It makes the paranormal make sense, at least up to a certain point. A certain very disturbing point, from some perspectives. 

So now it looks like we have two sets of forces to deal with: inter- and intra-reality beings. Naturally, there are relationships there, so the two groups team up or fight each other as the situation changes, and our heroes have allies among both types. And enemies.

New story toys: MNLs (Meandering Nocturnal Lights, aka UFOs), Garuda/Mothman/angel/demon-lookin' things, fake aliens & nonhuman MIBs, and "vampire" animal killings. 

Oh, and EM interference, particularly static. There's gonna be a whole section called the Summer of Static, in which we meet our first real recurring nemesis character.

Character Twitter Accounts

We now have Twitter:

Shep

Jake

Regan

Updates are in "real time", with the bulk of the story having already happened.