THE CRAWLING CHAOS

BY: THE PUNISHER

Professor John Armitage's attention drifted from the notes he was preparing and focused on the strange stone which lay upon his desk.  Anyone else would have taken it for a strange looking paperweight, perhaps made from a strange meteorite.  A more learned eye would have recognized it as one of the forgotten stones which still bore the "Elder Sign." 

  Armitage stared at the stone.  He could have sworn it just glowed faintly.  It was probably just his imagination.

  He finished preparing his notes.  Tonight a very special guest was speaking at Miskatonic University and it was Professor Armitage's duty to introduce him.  Of course, the man in question needed no introduction, for he was none other than the legendary Professor Indiana Jones. 

  Armitage bundled his notes under his arm and head out closing his office door behind him.  He failed altogether to notice how brightly the "Elder Sign" was glowing on the stone.  As he walked to Miskatonic University's venerable lecture hall, the overcast sky prevented him from seeing that the stars were right for the Old Ones.

  In the South Pacific, deep in the sunken city of R'lyeh, a dreaming sleeper began to stir. 

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