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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

[astudyinviolet]

I shall. If I catch another hint of this, I shall be sure to notify as many people as possible. I will not treat the matter lightly.

[headhunt]

just been the book so far, ay?

but it sounds like you've seen this kind of monster before?
you ever been caught by one?

[astudyinviolet]

Only the book.

My last case before I arrived in this world dealt with cultists trying to awaken this entity. Many people had died for it, and my partner and I only just seemed to put a stop to their ritual. My experience with the entity is a step removed yet close enough still to be exposed to numerous horrors for it.

[headhunt]

( it never ceases to amaze her just how stupid people can be. )

what the fuck were they trying to awaken it for?
to kill everybody?

it's ALWAYS fucking cultists
GODS
can't kill enough of them

[astudyinviolet]

I should mention that a majority of people in the cult were abducted and brainwashed, not willing participants. However, those complicit in the cruelty and spearheading the whole endeavor did wish to see the destruction of the world.

[headhunt]

usually are
no one ever just goes "hey! i can't wait to go join a dark cult today"
unless they're just really fucked up
can't help those guys who are in it for the gore

these cults will just do whatever it takes to grow their ranks
magic, brainwashing, indentured servitude, sticking fucking parasites into people
all! to just! destroy it all!

the world is trash
but it's still trash worth fixing
can't believe these losers don't get that

[astudyinviolet]

There has to be a point to it all beyond endless suffering even if that point is just to live.