Drawlloween 26

Today's prompt is Business.....

These  are representatives of Spectre Corp. Known as the Cosmic  Industrialists, the Cosmic Magnates, the Businessmen, or sometimes  simply as "Employees". These ones in particular are Mr. Grotesque, Mr.  Morbid, and Mr. Peculiar.

Spectre Corp is a  strange business that appeared early in mankind's progression from  another time. Wearing suits that seem to be either too tight or too  baggy on them, they appear to have normal human bodies and proportions,  all appearing as pale white men from the neck to the foot, and always  wearing dapper and well pressed suits. From their neck up however, they  are distorted into nightmarish and cartoonish caricatures of human  faces. All of them are bald and have heads far larger than a normal  human, and some with long necks that stretch for a foot or more. Their  features are twisted, with their eyes, nose, and mouth placed  haphazardly on their face at various angles and sizes. The mouths, eyes  and noses tend to appear sickly, red, and swollen, and their teeth are  yellowed and often times their gums bleeding. They also tend to be  taller than a normal man, with their height ranging from 7-12 feet tall  in height, though often times 1/3 of their height is made up of their  head.

Spectre Corp members will seemingly  appear out of nowhere, walking in from doors that don't lead anywhere,  or from around corners, in elevators, or in more obscure locations such  as appearing in Emails, physical mail, advertisments online, your online  friends list, In a reply from another person, In a text document on  your computer, In your dreams or daydreams, ect.. with no real limit  discovered for how they can appear or if they even do have limitations.  If they contact someone through text, and the person replies back  through text, they will often arrive at the person's home by knocking on  a door in their home. This could be any  door, from your closet, your  bedroom, or even a door in  a video game or comic book you're reading,  or maybe even a book as the entity will be allowed inside and the  narrative will  change to fit the creature's arrival. When they arrive  they will give you a business card that can be read by anyone who speaks  any language, and even those who cannot read or write. Babies shown  these business cards can gain an instantaneous comprehension of some  words and will excel at life as a child prodigy until about age 10 in  which they will dive into a deep depression and suffer from extreme  psychopathy or sociopathy for the rest of their life with no way to  really treat it. The creatures will also speak in a voice you can  understand, though most claim the voice to be english, regardless of  what language it speaks. naturally, and it can understand the creature.  The businessman's speech seems forced and grunting,, as if they barely  comprehended the language themselves, with strange pauses and grunts  that make it seem difficult for the creature to croak out human words.  They are very polite and will act like a door to door business man,  asking how your day is going and some general questions before offering a  product to you. These products take the shape of normal objects, toys,  or devices, however they possess wildly different qualities and  abilities from a normal item of it's kind. Examples of such items  include scissors that cut through any material as if it were paper, a  rotary phone that allows you to call anyone who has ever had a phone  weather living or dead, A can of paint that could take on any color or  consistency by closing the lid, thinking about it, and taking the lid  off again, also allowing it to replicate features such as Lava, water,  syrup, or any other liquid or viscous material, Or a shotgun that when  fired would send the shrapnel out in the desired direction until it hit a  living creature, swerving to strike any living creature within that  path and moving infinitely otherwise. These items were amazing and  dangerous as they were far beyond that of any other item that a human  would be likely to possess.

Though the  creatures seem to be occasionally recorded as appearing in ancient  depictions, in some places as gods, it seems that they really began  appearing moreso in the 1930's and onward, always appearing as a dapper  gentleman in their attire, matching the current time period. The 1950's  was when it became a major interest, as Spectre Corp. mail order  magazines began cropping up in America and people who would order from  them could receive these items swiftly, and to devastating results, with  some using matches that create fires that can't be quenched, or  children buying toy soldiers that fire real bullets and claim a  household as a battlefield and murder the occupants of the house as  enemy giants. Those who utilized the items showed signs of mental  deterioration even if the item didn't possess any extremely detrimental  effects, and some still were found having withered away or exploded from  overuse of these items. Some reports came in that they were being sold  by a Spectre Corp. Individual by the name of Mr. Grotesque. After  shutting down the operations and needing to relocate and cover up many  of the events that took place in that small town, the government put in  several orders themselves to no avail, and received only a "Sorry for  the inconvenience" letter from Mr. Grotesque. It wasn't until a greater  incident that took place in the 1990's that allowed them to not only  collect the body of a Mr. Peculiar, but to retrieve several items and  begin investigating the company.

Spectre  Corp. is a company that sells anything and everything, and provides  necessary items for the various dimensions. They buy and sell worlds,  and their payment is not in money but in intangible concepts such as  time, sanity, memories, or life force. They claim to be followers of  their great leader, the Malformed Phantasm, sometimes simply known as  the Spectre of Dissonance, and seem to exist within an alternate reality  full of white office rooms and cubicles that look straight out of the  1960's. This landscape seems to go on forever and is thought to be where  the Backrooms originates from as a concept as it is an office building  between reality and many have no clipped through reality into this  space. They travel to any and all dimensions, looking to buy and sell  items to alter the course of evolution and to simply test their  products, ruining entire planets, timelines, and universes with their  test runs of items....

It is unsure what their  true goal is, or what the Spectre of Dissonance is, but in the end,  these creatures are crafty, horrifying, and truly dangerous to not only you, but the universe.