Static

"Static"  is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Will Murray that originally appeared in the anthology Beyond the Mountains of Madness (Celaeno Press, 2015). It is part of Murray's Cryptic Events Evaluation Section series of Mythos stories.
== Synopsis ==
A psychic on staff at the Cryptic Events Evaluation Section is sent to Antarctica to decipher mysterious prehuman inscriptions--and unwittingly unleashes a cosmic horror.
== Characters ==
* Banis Power: A CEES psychic operative. He started "as a Cartomancer First Class, back when Special Powers was a pilot program." The story's narrator.
* Kim Greene: Team leader at CEES's South Pole Station, head of a team of exo-archeologists. She is a Leo with Sagittarius rising.
* The Director: CEES's chief is said to be "a guy who requires regular exorcisms the way you and I need to scan our home computers for viruses." His office is at CEET headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia.
== Setting ==
A "fortress west of the great plateau" of Antarctica, built by "the race of star-headed beings called the Great Old Ones by their so-called discoverers, the members of the infamous Miskatonic University Expedition of 1930–31." It is dated to "the later period of habitation, during the Jurassic era." It is a "spiral black dome" roughly 12 stories tall, "looking like a basalt vault dusted with snow" with "a bulge at the top, like a Christmas ornament atop a domed mosque." CEET researchers ironically call it the Fun House. The bas reliefs that line the structure's single hallway are the major focus of the story.
== Publication History ==
The story was reprinted in Murray's collection The Wild Adventures of Cthulhu: Volume One.
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Will Murray works