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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]

Would you be willing to write something about the gods of your world? It need not be long, but you seem to know a decent amount on the subject. It could prove useful with understanding how a different pantheon and their following functions.

[withermarked]

If you like I'll see what I can do. I'm no expert, mind you.

[ This isn't even a lie. He might be an expert on one god, but only one. The rest is half-remembered secondary school essays and hearsay. Aside from a few actual close encounters.]

[astudyinviolet]

Nor am I about the cultists from my world. However, we work with what we can.

[withermarked]

True enough. I'll see what I can write up. There's an 'official' definition of what makes a god, we all had to learn that one back in school. Then there's the commercial gods and the false faiths, and the Legislatures' rulings on that. But that first one might be the best place to start.

[astudyinviolet]

I shall copy my notes on the cultists from my world for you to read at your leisure. I can give it to you either at the Conservatory, or you can stop by the Surasthana Cafe or the S.H. Detective Agency.

[withermarked]

The Conservatory is easiest for me, though I'll admit I'm curious about your detective agency.

[ Mostly because it sounds like something out the sort of comics he read as a kid, but still. ]

[astudyinviolet]

It is not just my detective agency. I am a co-owner. Shikanoin Heizou is the other and a detective like myself.

[ Hence the name. Clever, huh? ]

[withermarked]

Well that's convenient.

[ Unless he went looking for someone with matching initials, at least. ]

[astudyinviolet]

It is one of the many commonalities we share between us.

[ They are alternates of each other clones besties. ]

[withermarked]

Is that so?

[ He can't help being at least a little bit curious what that means. ]

[astudyinviolet]

Yes, it is often like looking into a mirror.

[withermarked]

You know, I read this comic once where there were sort of versions of the same people from other worlds. You could tell them apart because they all had little beards. And Carlie Cape was evil for some reason?

[ Not that he thinks this is actually anything like that. It's just a funny idea, clearly. ]

[astudyinviolet]

There are multiple people who call themselves Sherlock Holmes. I have met an alternate version of my brother who spoke of his Sherlock. I know of at least one other real Sherlock Holmes, and in some worlds, I am apparently a fictional character from a popular mysteries series and do not actually exist.

[withermarked]

[ That was supposed to be a joke. He's really not sure he likes the idea of it not being a joke. But Sherlock doesn't seem like the type to be joking himself.

It's very strange to actually think about, despite everything else here. He's not sure if he likes or hates the idea he might be fictional somewhere. ]

Has this been the case for anyone outside your family, that you know of?

[astudyinviolet]

Yes. Dr. John Watson, my detective partner and flatmate [ and yearning gay crush ] also appears to have alternates as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are spoken in the same breath for the fictional stories. There is also the cult leader in my world who spoke of another him and another me.

I've yet to know of someone who has a similar... multiplicity as I do but lacks a connection, no matter how tangential, to me.

[ The only way he can "answer" this mystery is that he's some inferior, wrong iteration of this "Sherlock Holmes" person or character because there is little reason for them to be based off him. He's done nothing so special to warrant that. ]