West Point Incident

The **West Point Incident** refers to the sacrificial demonic ritual conducted by the Cult of Chernobog that took place in the outskirts of West Point College campus grounds, and ultimately led to the creation of Eyeless Jack.

## Background

For an unspecified time, a cult worshiping the Slavic deity Chernobog operated within West Point College, often meeting in a cave located in the middle of the forest just outside campus grounds.

Sometime in February 2012, Jenny Smith, a member of the cult, befriended college freshman Jack Nichols, who began to experience frequent nightmares and visions involving the cult after his first encounter with Jenny. Despite hearing rumors that Jenny was involved with a cult, he agreed to meet with Jenny and her friends in the cave, oblivious to their affiliations with the cult. A thunderstorm soon broke out, and the group disbanded and retreated back to campus grounds before the storm worsened.

## Incident

Later that night, Jack's roommate Greg alerted him after spotting what looked to be smoke coming from the forest, in the direction of the cave. Dismissing Greg's concerns about cult activities, Jack decided to investigate the fire, intending to report it to their headmaster should anything go wrong.

As he approached the site, Jack noticed a dim light and unidentified voices coming from the cave's direction. He then discovered a group of robed individuals, presumably students, gathering outside the cave, where its leader announced their intention to conduct a sacrificial ritual to Chernobog. Alarmed, Jack began to retreat when Jenny appeared behind him and incapacitated him with a rock.

When he regained consciousness, Jack learned, much to his horror, that he was to become the cult's human sacrifice and a 'son of Chernobog'. Jenny revealed herself as one of the cult's members and proceeded to gouge both of his eyes out with a spoon, while the cult leader poured a bowl of unknown black ooze into his now-hollow eye sockets, to the rest of the cult members' ritualistic chanting.

Jack lost consciousness and reawakened some time later, having transformed into a inhuman entity, before he proceeded to slaughter all the attending cult members, tearing off their masks and mutilating them, intending to leave no one alive. A dying Jenny attempted to flee, still deliriously chanting, as Jack looked on, placing one of the cult members' masks over his face, condemning her and the others to "burn in hell" before leaving her to die.

## Aftermath

Police investigation uncovered the cult activities that took place on campus grounds. Greg reported Jack as missing, placing his last location at the site of the cult ritual, but the police only recovered his enucleated eyes; without a body to confirm his death, Jack was declared prime suspect of the murders.

Unbeknownst to them, Jack, who turned feral after his transformation, went on to commit a series of gruesome killings in the neighboring town, which in turn sparked the urban legend of "Eyeless Jack" that circulated around students in the area for some time. A student from the college, Isaac Morse, would later become intrigued by the urban legend and sought to investigate the incident further. Detailing his investigation in a series of journals, he was joined by Skye Martin, who also had a personal interest in the incident, eventually uncovering secrets about the Cult of Chernobog, but inadvertently attracting the attention of not only Eyeless Jack himself, but also an unknown malevolent entity.