The Scarlet Cloth

A Story by Abishai100

A Vatican riddle about a sacred scarlet cloth tempts a Luciferian cult 'subverting the dominant paradigm' of Christianizing spiritual relics, and only detective Carmen Sandiego can comfort!

America's wily gorgeous detective Carmen Sandiego was requested to go to Vatican City to investigate/resolve a new intriguing mystery about a sacred scarlet cloth found in the basement of the Vatican by grounds-renovators relaying tile in the basement. Carmen was to help clergymen and authorities determine if the cloth was laid by priests/missionaries with a purpose or if it was a prank/hoax of some kind. The scarlet cloth was believed to be a clothing tunic-item possessed by Mary Magdalene who may have kept it in devotional memory of Jesus. However, because there was reason to suspect that the keeping/burying of this scarlet cloth was a diversional prank of some kind, a radical Luciferian (Satanic) cult was also drawn to Vatican City to protest the Catholic Church's insistence the cloth had known Christian value!

The Luciferian cult, the Order of the Silver Serpent, wanted to claim in public that the discovered scarlet cloth was a special item kept hidden in the Vatican by members of an official Satanic order descended from the time of Christ! Detective Carmen Sandiego was to help Vatican clergymen and authorities determine if the scarlet cloth was genuine or some kind of mischievous prank and thereby use relic-authenticity analysis to quell the fiery protests of the Silver Serpent (SS) Luciferian cult. Carmen had experience in employing history-relevant detective-work in America, when she became famous after retrieving a unique diamond called the Pink Panther which was believed to be owned by U.S. President Grover Cleveland.

Carmen went to work and was able to employ relic daters who determined the scarlet cloth was indeed from the time of Jesus and arguably from somewhere in Rome. Did Mary Magdalene, maidservant of Jesus, bring the cloth from Jerusalem to Rome after the Crucifixion? Carmen then analyzed if the hiding of the cloth was performed by pranksters. She learned that the Vatican building was visited by a mysterious sect (religious) in the 1960s who insisted to request going down to the basement to pray! Could this sect have laid the scarlet cloth, which they may have found or been given by a Christian (or Satanic!) cult descended from the time of Jesus? This 1960s sect was the best 'suspect' group possibly responsible for hiding the scarlet cloth in the basement of the Vatican for reporters to find decades later! Carmen began investigating possible existing members of this 1960s sect possibly still living/residing in or near Vatican City.

Detective Carmen Sandiego found two individuals possibly linked to this 1960s sect, Thomas Jane and Maria Hellion. These two Caucasian Europeans claimed they participated in various 'activities' performed by this esoteric 1960s sect but did not wish to disclose this secret society's ethics, ethos, or agenda! They even refused to disclose if their special sect was Christian or Satanic. Carmen could therefore not determine if this 1960s sect was responsible for hiding the discovered scarlet cloth in the basement of the Vatican. However, Sandiego told Vatican reporters, "The possibility that the proposed 'Magdalene cloth' could have been laid in the basement of the Vatican building by a non-Christian cult sheds doubt on the notion that the deed was done for express denominational propaganda!" The Silver Serpent (SS) cult was satisfied with the neutral nature of the conclusion and told the press, "Detective Sandiego has used shrewd detective-work to dispel the troubles of modern religious bias." Peace was achieved.

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