The Veil of Madness

This page covers not only the original work but works based off it. If you find any other veil of madness works, please provide a link. The Viel of Madness is a science fiction short story that first appeared on the 4chan board /tg/.

Found here. Sequel (written by Walrus Guy, highly unlikely to be the same person) here. Another thread has two attempts at related stories (also not necessarily by either of them) here and here, then 3rd sequel by "Someone Else" here (diluted with the usual derp of imageboards).


 * Decapitated Army: Mankind's military in the movie 19: First Contact.
 * Gratuitous Foreign Language: The movie 19: First Contact ("Affirmative Caption").
 * Humanity Is Insane: The common theory (accepted by both sides of the issue) is that humans are mostly immune to effect of the Veil due to being a little crazy already.
 * After all, humans did pull the greatest practical joke in the Galaxy. And when it clearly became counterproductive, the humans' first act, even before removing The Masquerade publically, was to.
 * Humans Are Cthulhu: Humans are able to keep their sanity inside the Veil of Madness.
 * Significant Anagram/Sdrawkcab Name: Human characters in 2 and 3 parts are "T. Rollfaec" and "Ulor Tilol".
 * Then Let Me Be Evil: Humans gave up on trying to get aliens to believe we were good, which is not entirely uncalled for becaues we had pirates that caused them problems. So we shifted our image from Omnicidal Maniacs to more civilized evil that will accept tribute in exchange for not using violence.
 * The Unmasqued World: part 3 is named The Veil of Madness, Torn...