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The Gug stood some twenty foot tall its large eyes sticking out of its rugby ball like head. Large yellow teeth protruded from think hair covered lips starting at the top of its head and extending down to its odd shaped chin. It moved with a strange rhythm its large arms swinging; each upper arm ended in a twin elbow it having two, two and a half foot long lower arms which ended in four black long claws.
The beast took notice of the countryside around it how it had changed, gone where all the farmers fields and the peasants and the white magic of the so called men of god. Ah it saw what it was looking for the Observatory at Morgan’s Hedge. Those magicians had built it a long time ago for a reason only they knew to replace what had once been found their. As the creature nears some foul smelling humans in black robes came running out, they cast spells at it, use mind powers and fire weapons, ahh spells. Not the spells that its master used, not the weapons it has been taught to use no simple common magicks and attacks would it unleash. Force bolts and electricity and bullets struck it, it almost tripped as a grenade exploded at its feet.
Time to end this and do what had to be done. With a mighty below it swung one of its mighty arms and in doing so grabbed one of the so called adepts snapping it in half before biting of its head. With his other two hands it cast spells of the toxic pox and withering soul upon the last two adept guardians of this magickal site. The pain was to much for one as its body withered and shrivelled and the toxic pox blinded and poisoned the other.
He continued forward and as he did so he stomped upon the head of one and kicked the other. In three more steps he had arrived. Seeing the observatory to be open it almost reached for what it sought but stopped remembering the image his master had placed in his head. Instead he caste another spell this time not at the people for they lay mangled and dead, not at the stones but instead at the thirteen tall trees which surrounded the Observatory, they burned and warped and fell as dust.
Now the place was safe to approach, the Gug bent over and lifted up the so called stone table, their laid the prize, part three of the Trident of Poseidon. Now his master would have all three parts all he needed now was the one who could wield it then the Atlantian outcast would be able to return home and then woe betide all of these sad little insects.

From: ArcaneResearch@mailinator.com
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date: Tues, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Subject: Morgan's Hedge
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An interesting one for the archives, this, and possibly worth a bit of extra investigation:

I've been chasing up some potential arcane artifacts lately, and have been looking into Morgan's Hedge as a potential site - there are records of two separate attacks there at different times, once during the so-called "Egyptian Invasion" when a Roman settlement on the south coast was raided by a group of apparently middle-eastern pirates; and once during the dark ages when it was a monastery. The records report some sort of monster doing it, but then they always do - what struck me about it was the repeated motif of the 13 trees around the site suffering damage.

Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that I noticed a Reuters report on my aggragator last night about an apparent vandalism attack on an observatory at Morgan's Hedge the other day - according to the news article, thugs broke in and messed the place up, got interrupted by a couple of staff working late and proceeded to deal with them quite violently. What caught my eye was the report of damage to the surrounding area including "all the nearby trees had been burnt to the ground".

Does anyone know anything about Morgan's Hedge, or have any clues as to what the attack on the trees might mean?

DC

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From: VhalElwood@gmail.com
To: Mailing@ArcaniumSociety.com,
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date: Tues, Mar 24, 2010 at 6.00pm
Subject: Morgan's Hedge
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Hello one and all,

Sorry If I havnt been particularly vocal over the ley... Sorry email, this is all rather new to me, and i'm quite slow at typing.

I do believe my first conclusion due to my experiance in this matter, is that this hasnt been the first time this has happened, or appeared. I personally have 'engaged' with one of these entities previously, and its suffice to say it was one of my most dangerous incursions.

Right now, my most primary concern is to the safety of those within the Arcanium Society, most importantly Dr. William, who as we know I am the body guard of.

On a particular side note, can I ask a question? How do i CC people in on my messages? Is this just going to you Douglas Corvine, or can everyone see this? I put in the to section "All Members of the Arcanium Society" does this work? Or not, i got an email back from someone named the post master, i'm assuming this is an entity which commands the ley, sorry email adminsitration system? I've attached some other addresses in hope that it might get to you gentlemen.

I'd like to go into more detail about these matters, but is this email warded and secure?

It'd be appreciated if someone with an idea about modern things actually taught me a thing or two, thats a genuine request, not sarcasm.

The only conclusion i'm willing to say right now (until someone could answer my questions please), is that my first hypothesis is that some entity of good, or great power, has broken the balance, or drawn on too much of something, causing a ripple across many worlds to occour.

An example of this in today would be a man drawing on too much electrical power for his own needs draining the power grid, meaning power cuts and shortages.

In magical terms, thats like someone breaking a seal, or taking so much power that the seals or barriers keeping 'bad' things out, has dropped temporarily, allowing entities through.

Many thanks,

Vhal Elwood.

From: darkspring@hotmail.com
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date: Wed, Mar 25, 2010 at 15:44pm
Subject: Morgan's Hedge
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The Attack in Question was by a creature known as a Gug . Research indicates that they are worshippers of the great old ones . ill let you know more as i know more .

As for Morgans Hedge im also looking into that . The place feels familier although i cant place where ive heard the name before . I will share any information i find

Dr Richard Darkspring

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To: VhalElwood@gmail.com
date: Weds, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Subject: Emails
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Vhal,

when you send an email to mailing@ArcaniumSociety.com, the ArcaniumSociety computer knows to send that out to anyone on the Arcanium Society mailing list; likewise the use of Archive@ArcaniumSociety.com means the message gets added to the Arcanium Archives.

When you use an incorrect or non-existant email address (auch as All Members), your local mail server (equivalent to the local postoffice) will reject it and send you back an error from PostMaster instead of sending it out.


As to protection, I know the Arcanium Society mailing system uses a version of PGP to encrypt messages being sent out to it's members. This should prevent anyone who is not the intended recipient of each email from being able to read the contents, but I don't know the full details. As to more esoteric protections, you would have to ask whoever is responsible - I imagine there is something there but I have no idea what it might be
DC

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From: UCLAbroad@TORMail.com
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date: Weds, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Subject: Morgan's Hedge
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A Gug?

Any relation to Gog and Magog?

DC

From: VhalElwood@gmail.com
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date: Tues, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Subject: Morgan's Hedge
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Dear Douglas,

Thank you, I think I understand now.

Thats good, so all is protected.

Dr Richard Darkspring is absolutely correct.

They are titanic in size, and very alien to what we know physiologically.

Something, somewhere, out there, really made a vital error, or broke the covenants of powers to the point where they must have been able to get through. None the less, if this is the case, many lives will be forfeight.

From: Jedha@googlemail.com
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date: Thursday, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:35 am
Subject: Morgan's Hedge
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Greetings my fellows.

This subject is curious, I have done a small and quick amount of research and it would seem a GUG is a fearsome beast, akin to Giants, with a vertical and many toothed maw and bulging pink eyes.



Built like a lion on steroids with claws that would do any nasty thing proud.

It hails from Underworld and Dreamland, but my thoughts would be that it can not be the most intelligent of creatures - usually bred for one one thing only: destruction and ripping and saundering apart.

Something I fear has "blessed" this creature with intelligence, and that makes it even the more dangerous.

I shall look into this further!

NOTE - having just done a further bit of research it seems these forms were banished to Underworld by the Great Ones and now live in a towered city. there is a tower there called the Tower of Koth which has something to do with the Enchanted Wood, but even more research is needed I think!

Until next we meet.
Jedha.

From: ArcaneGauntlet@TORMail.com
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date: Thurs, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:55 am
Subject: Re: Morgan's Hedge
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The giant link makes sense with regards to Gug vs Gog, then.

Alright then, that leaves the question what is a Gug doing in Morgan's Hedge, not once but it would seem three times in recorded history? And what is the significance of the trees?
We've got one record of a stone circle being desecrated - there's an account from a Roman arbiter coming across the remains of a number of druids on the site at around 200 AD.
Then a raid on a monastery in 1110 AD, where the chapel had collapsed and the land around "had sickenned ande charred, as under somme mallevolent gayze." There's also a reference to the "guardian trees" - I've attached a copy of these two reports for the archives.
Interestingly, there's a reference to the monastery at Morgan's Hedge in the Domesday Book, although it's referred to as a Church of St Morgan of the Hedge - apparently amongst it's many relics was included one called the "Fork of the Tides", but I can't find any further references. All the other recorded relics turn up again, either in the hands of the church or marked as destroyed. Any ideas?
If anyone's got any sources going back earlier, do we have any other attacks on Morgan's Hedge, or Ericius Morganum as per the Roman report

DC

From: VhalElwood@gmail.com
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date: Tues, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Subject: Morgan's Hedge
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I'm rather bitterly disturbed further to see minions of the outer beings, being worshipped in the manner of plush toys.

Considering I and perhaps few others have been unfortunate enough to deal with these creatures, I found this rather disturbing.

http://www.ccgarmory.com/ctplgugct.html

Vhal Elwood.

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Date: Thurs, Apr 8th 2010 at 10:48 am
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So, anyone got any further information?

I've been looking into the Fork of the Tides, but without Vatican or CofE Archive access I've not had much luck. I'm hoping another Fellow of the Society may have someone they can contact for access or information.

I have, however, managed to find a related item in MacArthur's Guide to False Atlantis - the Relics and Stories of a Land that Never Was. He references a false artifact called Tridensis Aestum Atlantes, which I think (although my Latin is a touch rusty) roughly translates to Atlantean's Trident of the Sea. May or may not be related - anyway, according to the MacArthur's it was a Greek artifact, specifically Trojan, that fell into Roman hands and later, in about the 4th century CE, was picked up by the Vatican. It was rumoured to be able to control the tides and call a "swift plague" upon sealife.

So what have the rest of you found? Anyone encountered a Gug since the other week?

DC

From: Douglas.Carvine@UCLMail.edu.uk
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Date: Weds, Apr 14th 2010 at 10:48 am
Subject: Re: Morgan's Hedge
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Okay, I had a small brainwave - the UCL Library has been implementing a Digital Conservation Program recently, and have just finished transcribing the Classics section. Only took them two years (Roughly 50,000 man hours, apparently). Anyway, with a little bit of cajoling of the right people and some Millie's muffins I should be able to run a text search of the Classic Library, see if I can get anything more on Tridensis Aestum Atlantes. Don't know how long that's going to take, though. It's a lot of text to search through.

Anyone else got any news? Or am I the only one investigating?

DC