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[astudyinviolet]

Type: Text
Sender ID: astudyinviolet (Sherlock Holmes)
To: Public
Subject: Who is familiar with this entity?
Warnings: The worst book club ever, talk of eldritch horrors, potential poking at the 4th wall for Sherlock

I made the purchase of ‘Encyclopedia Necronomica’ earlier but had not the opportunity to make a study of it until now. Having done so, I must ask: who is familiar with the entity pictured here? What do you know?

I shall include photographs from the book and of my sketches in reference to imagery related to my world.

Furthermore, if anyone else wishes to reference or compare this book with entities encountered recently, I am at your disposal.

S.H.

[ Sherlock had some sense of mind to not study this particular book while feverish and ill. He should be praised for that, honestly, because he spotted something frightening familiar when he finally did.

Wait a minute, when did Arthur Conan Doyle write about Holmes going up against Cthulhu? ]

[ photograph of a book page which claims there are Cthulhu-type entities out there that are almost squid-like but impossible to say without more research ]



[ A sketch of the painting, including the frame ]



[ A sketch of only the Cthulhu statue (no Sherlock) ]



[ A sketch version of the above image ]



[ A sketch pulled further back of a nondescript figure sinking in water with Cthulhu looking up at them from deeper below. ]

Comments

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[weisshappened]

... Does the name Ghilan'nain mean anything to you?

[To be fair!! There could be plenty of things out there in these multiple universes with tentacles and ominous vibes.]

[But still. It's got to be asked, given, well. Everything.]

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[astudyinviolet]

It does not, though I have heard a strange utterance of something by people brainwashed by their captors. I could not understand it at the time.

[ Still cannot understand it. ]

However, not knowing the name does not mean they are not one and the same. Tell me more.

[weisshappened]

You found people captive? Or was this something you ran into back where you're from?

[Concerning, but less so than if it was happening here. Tentacles in the ocean sort of made sense. That's where tentacle beasts live!]

[Other places though...]

Powerful, ancient mage back in Thedas. [He will not say "god". He can't even really say the species anymore.] Really - really fond of using tentacles instead of hands. Or fingers.

[astudyinviolet]

This is partly in relation to a case I investigated back home, before I came here in fact. To awaken this great god, a man captured people from all over the world, brainwashed or hypnotized them to be mindless and uttering that intelligible phrase, and then sacrificed their lives. My partner and I were able to stop the ritual and thus the god from waking.

The images shown are of the god, not the man doing the ritual.

[ Given this world, it is worth clarification. ]

The image of something like that god appearing here is not a comfort.

[weisshappened]

Well that's... that's something. Stopping it's definitely something. I'm just a little surprised there's another crazy god out there with tentacles.

... Which is what happened. In Thedas.

[So it's not a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.]

text; un: karlach

[headhunt]

is that a fucking mindflayer???

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[astudyinviolet]

[ Well, that feels like an apt way of describing what it does to one's mind. ]

Perhaps? I unfortunately only know of the being using terms like the "Great Lord," "The One," and "all-seeing master."

[headhunt]

( she makes.... such a face at her shellphone. )

yeah yeah yeah and like "the emperor"
these fucks are real pretentious for brain eaters

my advice?
don't fuck with those things

[astudyinviolet]

That had not been an option at the time, and if something like that truly is here, that may not be an option again. To refrain from doing so could cost the lives of many. I'd rather do what I can and die trying than to do nothing, believing in some will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.

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[withermarked]

I also found a copy of this book, but I haven't really sat down with it yet. Learned anything useful?

[ He's had a lot going on. It was intriguing when he found it... and then became a low priority. ]

Don't think I've ever seen that entity in particular. Might not be that out of place back home, though. Seen plenty of water Angels.

[ Jut not very many with tentacles. ]

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[astudyinviolet]

[ What has he learned? That is a good question. ]

Water Angels...

[ Wait a moment. ]

Is that why you named the Cerberus pup "Angel"?

[withermarked]

Yes. Most strange animals such as that are some kind of Angel, back home.

[ There's a bit more context; he named it after a particular Angel, because that one had... multiple dog faces, too. But he's not sure he should actually try to explain the sentinel. It would make the name less cute. ]

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[astudyinviolet]

Are they also considered messengers of the gods?

I am lead to believe that this entity is the god in question, slumbering in the ocean and waiting to be awoken to destroy everything.

un: paridisaea

[empyrean_mirror]

Sherlock what the fuck is that

[Congrats Sherry you got him to swear in public!]

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[astudyinviolet]

[ He will put it on his resume. ]

I believe this to be the god that the cultist leader back in my world wanted to awaken, abducting hundreds upon hundreds as sacrifices.

[ In short, that mass abduction cultist case he did before arriving here. ]

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[empyrean_mirror]

what do you mean a GOD

who would want a god that demands that kind of sacrifices?!

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[astudyinviolet]

One who wants knowledge, to be a servant of madness, and the destruction of the world.

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[octoblot]

[squinting really hard at these sketches... ]

Honestly? This looks like a rather exaggerated caricature of what a person who has never seen a merman might think an octomer in particular would look like... or perhaps a rather horrifying rendition of the Great Sea Witch to try to scare children with on Halloween.

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[astudyinviolet]

Depictions of the merfolk exist in my world even as they themselves do not. I am more inclined to believe this as something entirely separate and a great deal larger.

[ Sherlock takes a moment to attach a new sketch. ]

There were also statues and paintings on the walls of these. I could not exactly tell you what they were doing with the captive women next to them in the paintings, but I fear nothing good.

[octoblot]

[oh, well thats... hm.]

I see. In that case, may I inquire as to who this entity even is, and why you are seeking out anyone who knows about it?

[astudyinviolet]

I only knew the entity by titles such as the Great Lord or Old One. I do not know if he has a proper name, and I seek to know more because I am concerned that such a unique looking being has appeared in some fashion here as well.

Complete and total destruction seems to be his goal upon awaking. If others know about him, they may know ways to stop him.

text; un: crystalrepose

[crystalrepose]

That looks like the inverse of one being I've encountered; Vepar had a human face--well, one of them. Her arms ended in tendrils, and her lower body possessed them as well. To what extent I don't know; I was a bit too preoccupied to look at the waves beneath the ship at the time.

Her eyes were yellow, though; all eight of them that I could see.

...unfortunately, there's no shortage of red eyes in the deep here.

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[astudyinviolet]

No, there does not seem to be a shortage, and it makes me wonder if there is some biological reason for that color to be so prevalent in creatures of the deep.

[ But even if it were some biological adaptation, that won't stop Sherlock's concerns or fears. ]

What did this Vepar do? Was she or her followers involved in untold horrors?

[crystalrepose]

She didn't seem to have any attendants beyond her offspring; she was more an obstacle in our path like a storm, rather than a machinating spider. Other beings above the water were more than capable of that; they might even have sent Vepar to bar our way.

Vepar was still a formidable obstacle; her humanoid segment was at least a third as tall as the foremast, and she lifted the entire galleon on its stern more than once.

Her offspring were as tall as a person and aggressive as a rabid animal, and even after her demise there seemed to be no end of them.

[This time there are slightly scribbly black and white sketches of Vepar and her horrible, horrible babies attached to the message.]

[astudyinviolet]

[ As if women needed to be any scarier to Sherlock as it is. Women are very powerful and very terrifying. ]

She seems more like the mythical Scylla from stories in my world, less a god and more a monstrous force of nature and obstacle. She had a counterpart called Charybdis that created whirlpools. I do not know of anything like Vepar's children. I have seen a worm with many sharp teeth or fangs, but it is not the same.

[ He attaches a sketch of what he describes. ]