Four Ever Procastinating about GenCon

Now is not the time to start serious rewrites, but while looking at my "Night of the Cryptids" event for this year a lovely terrible thought popped into my head. 'Are creepy clowns a cryptid phenomena?' Well, there went that bit of productivity, as I dove down the Webbit-Hole of clowns in vans, scary movies about clowns, web sites dedicated to urban legends, forums where people argued about what constitutes a crytpid hunting and what is folklore (rich, that little niche), and then the bottom of a glass of scotch.

So like, as you know, sometime in the late 80s, TV cop shows couldn't shock enough people with sex crimes involving blond women in underwear being tortured so the great minds of the media started being all about child abduction. Hearkening back to the Grim fairy tales of gingerbread houses, unattended children being lured into compromising situations using candy from a car or free hugs from a cave has been a thing for like ever. Did a Stephen King novel spark the bonfire of scares of the 90s? It is no coincidence that at the start of the media-hyped pedophilia scare that reports of clowns driving around in white vans trying to abduct kids in Chicago's ghettos started being a mania. After ruining the dreams of the few people that liked to perform as clowns, this boiled away as crime shows and regular news went back to being about blond women being abducted and then violated.
The recurrence of the clown kid-catcher came about again in the new century, but with typical millennial lack of imagination, this time they walked out of the woods. For a generation of new busy bees hovering over single mothers' lives horror from not just not having a life compiled with not having a driver's license. Ones whom their Generation X parents, never lived close enough to a wooded area, to tell them as children to get the hell OUTSIDE already, making every bit of grass or tree bark as scary as kidnapping, wallah, the forest-dwelling clown was birthed unto the world.

The question is, do I want to mix the clown into my scenario or just do a series of scenarios about child-eating clowns somehow being spawned in wooded areas in-between subdivision construction sites? Why not both? No. I need to stop that. One scenario for another year. Back to prep.