My Cultist Uncle, Grandet

[Behind-the-Scenes Manipulation] [Secret Cult] [1920s America] [Professor of Archaeology]

The United States of 1920 is thriving: jazz is all the rage, flappers are all the buzz, air travel is opening new frontiers, and cars are rolling off assembly lines.

Charlie Grandet, the son of a bankrupt tycoon, heads to Seattle to seek help from his uncle, Grandet.

The good news: his uncle is the richest man in the country. The bad news: his uncle is a miser and a skinflint.

Thanks to his status as the richest man's nephew, Charlie gets a job. But the fallen scion must maintain the appearance of a comfortable middle-class life, and soon finds himself in a financial crisis.

In a room, Charlie Grandet peels off his face and puts on another. With a flick of his wrist, he shoots out a strand of white webbing that sticks to a skyscraper, swinging him through the streets.

"I beseech the Guide of the Dawn to show me the way forward."

On the movie screen:

Charlie hangs in midair, a thin strand connecting him to the ceiling.

Behind the deep green curtain:

Victor Jefferson, the Guide of the Dawn, dips his pen in "Finale Ink" and records one real-life screenplay after another: "The Last Leaf," "My Secret-Cult Uncle Grandet," "Urban Legend: Spider-Man," and "Titanic."

With the movie screen and the deep green curtain, Victor manipulates people in the real world: forming secret cults, searching for ruins, outwitting the Bureau of Suppression, and creating fleeting moments of glory like those on the silver screen.

"Who could have guessed that the librarian of the federal government's occult department was, behind the scenes, a god worshipped by a secret cult?"

Many years later, Victor Jefferson, scion of the Jefferson family, professor at Golden Eagle University, and a leading authority in world archaeology, declares:

[The Twilight of the Gods is here. I shall become the new Lord of the Veil.]