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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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[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.

[empyrean_mirror]

knowledge of what? For certainly there are kernels of wisdom to be gained through madness, but only a scholar with more cruelty and arrogance than sense would ever seek it out, much less pay for it with the blood of others.

You say this book depicts a creature much like this god?

[astudyinviolet]

[ There are kernels of wisdom to be gained through madness? That... that is honestly news to Sherlock who thinks madness is the end, the eventual fate to his existence. ]

He related himself to Icarus, burning and melting his wax wings as he flew too close to the sun, but claimed himself happy.

He also said it wasn't the first time another him and another me had crossed paths. I had never met him before, but he knew me.

And this book does have such a similar depiction. I would not make this post otherwise.

[empyrean_mirror]

[Remind Kaveh to tell you about the Village Keepers sometime. Or ask Alhaitham about them.]

Perhaps he knew you in another samsara, but that doesn't excuse his actions or the pain he inflicted. So what if he knew you? No matter what he gained, the way he gained it is wrong.

Scholars who seek a connection with divinity exist in Sumeru too. But they do so in meditation and contemplation in the jungles, not with blood sacrifice!

[astudyinviolet]

[ Please tell him, Dad 8( ]

Kaveh, I do not agree with him. Watson and I stopped him, nearly dying ourselves and not knowing if we'd survive in the very end.

However, that does not eliminate the fact that there are people who will think those blood sacrifices are acceptable. We've already seen it in this world with other cultists.

[empyrean_mirror]

Yes, yes, I know. I'm just...angry. A god who'd ask this of people is not a god worth their divinity.

[Calm. Deeeeep breaths. Deeep breaths.]

And this book was for sale? Anyone can buy it?

[astudyinviolet]

I would hope most people would, but such cruelty exists when it means their own gain.

I do not know if the book is available any longer. It seemed to be a limited run, but I am willing to allow others to read my copy if they wish to compare the entries.

This is more a reference book. I have seen an occult text which contained the needed rituals and directions within. That is not what this is.

[empyrean_mirror]

Even a reference could be dangerous, if there is enough to be extrapolated from...

...Forgive me. I've never seen a god that looks anything so...cephalopod-esque, but I know very well how badly things can go when man tries to call forth the divine themselves. I'm concerned what that could do, in a world as unstable as this one.

[astudyinviolet]

I would happily live never seeing the image of this god again. Unfortunately, I cannot rid him from my mind so easily.

[ As one of the things which haunts his nightmares, he can only rid it with the help of many dream enchanted plushies or a festival that brings forth other dreams. ]

Given that the Great Lord sleeps under the waters, such a god could be anywhere if he is indeed here.