The residents of Black Tide Town moved with a startling uniformity, as if they were all connected tightly by the invisible threads of the same marionette.
No, it wasn't "as if"; there really were invisible threads controlling their egos, instincts, and subconscious reactions. It was... their collective belief in the Abyssal Horror, Dagon!
Ostensibly, these residents of Black Tide Town appeared normal, but their "egos," bound to their flesh, had long been tainted by the object of their faith. Even their subconscious reactions were identical. Their so-called "ascension" to become the Deep Sea Clan was nothing more than that god forcibly dragging them into the water, they being tightly anchored to him.
