The Gentleman From Hell |S2 (Part 1) | Ep. 20
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What is the introduction to the Gentleman From Hell about?
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Are you seeing anything behind us?
Nothing so far, but that thing has a tendency of showing up when it's least expected, so I'm not putting the binos down anytime soon.
In a sense, it's hard to believe it was ever a human being.
It's just one of the many things that's hard to believe. Have you ever found anything in those files that might give us a clue on how to stop it? I mean... Besides, fire started with children, of course.
I downloaded quite a few articles and papers before embarking on this journey. And without having to sort through them for relevance, it's taking me quite a while. Which, given our limited power situation, is far from ideal. However, I was fortunate enough to download a batch of files concerning a recent discovery related to Mephitaka. Or at least a portion of the discovery that has, for the moment, been provisionally associated with it.
Are you talking about that weird library that was recently discovered deep within that massive cave system in West Virginia?
The very same.
You're talking about the so-called Library of Below. One of my students actually sent me an article about it. The cavern was most likely formed by a glacial outburst flooding, a phenomenon where an enormous volume of water trapped behind glaciers or their debris are suddenly released with catastrophic force. As for how anyone managed to turn such a massive cavern into a library, I haven't the faintest idea. Hey, you're pretty smart for a bus driver. That's snowcrawler pilot to you. And if you keep up your snarky elitism, you can walk. I'm just thrilled you think an archaeologist could be an elitist. Well, machine-making demons are a thing, so I suppose anything's possible. At least you're keeping an open mind.
So you were saying, Miles? Uh, where was I? Oh yes, the library of below. Some scholars have identified several of the recovered texts as being linked to Mephitica, and I'm only now beginning to understand why. Many of the manuscripts appear to have been encoded using a method unique to a series of Mephitican writings recovered from the ruins of a Roman monastery in the 1970s. The text of greatest significance seems to concern a version of the Great Flood. If it proves to be as ancient as suspected, it may represent the earliest recorded flood narrative ever discovered.
You'll have to forgive me for sounding a bit anti-intellectual, but at the moment I couldn't give a rat's ass about the flood narrative.
Is there anything about killing the bastard who murdered nearly everyone at Boreas?
There is a chapter within a text referred to as Aminos Fragment. Apparently, a rough translation of a word inscribed upon the incomplete manuscript that contains various rites and rituals intended for the banishment of evil powers. Unfortunately, the rituals as fragmentary as the book containing them. All are still in the process of being translated.
Wonderful.
However, what has been translated appears to concern magical remedies for specific forms of evil. The categories are many and varied, yet our problem seems best to contain within the classification referred to as concentrated mortal harms. Or, as the text elaborates, for those evils gathered upon the earth and among men, for the purpose of conjuring an uncommon wickedness beyond the power of any singular perpetrator of sin.
Hmm. It sounds like the text is drawing a clear distinction between the types and origins of evil. There's supernatural evil, the kind committed by demons and devils, and then there's mortal evils, the sins of humankind.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the introduction to the Gentleman From Hell about?
0:00–12:15
2
What discoveries does the research crew make about the landscape?
12:15–16:22
3
What is the significance of the Library of Below in the conversation?
16:22–22:04
4
How are ancient texts connected to the current challenges faced by the crew?
22:04–27:50
5
What insights do the characters share about the nature of evil?
27:50–29:03