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Master of Dark Knowledge

Similar to Scholars of Dread, this variant is thought to either evolve from that creature after it causes enough death, chaos, and madness, or, as others theorize, to be created when the Sanity loss required to make a Scholar of Dread exceeds fifty points in a single Sanity check. Either way, they share the same appearance, abilities, immunities, and vulnerabilities as a Scholar of Dread (see Scholar of Dread).

An ontological predator dossier for Cthulhu Eternal

The video showed the security officer following someone the camera had never once recorded. For nine seconds after that, the whole world had exactly one surviving reason left to include Dr. Mara Venn, and it was a phone call from a child asking why her middle name was Mara.

A quarantine and controlled-release guide for Cthulhu Eternal

By morning the intensive-care room held fourteen separate systems all confirming that Ren Park was alive. Nobody on the night shift wanted to be the one to work out that each confirmation was helping keep him that way.

It came to watch. Its ethos obliges it to feed whatever body it wears, and today that body is ten thousand starlings over a clearcut.

For Monster of the Week by Michael Sands, released by Evil Hat Productions.

Monster: executioner (motivation: to punish the guilty)

A surveillance-engineering bulletin for Cthulhu Eternal

The last image the classifier bothered to keep showed something looking straight into the lens. It had already thrown away the twenty-three empty frames that came before it, on the reasonable grounds that nothing in them had changed.

A terminal-condition infestation for Cthulhu Eternal

The confirmation number was valid. That was the part nobody could argue with. Everything else about the ticket was wrong, but the number checked out, and the system was very calm about the fact that the journey had been completed forty-eight years ago.

An adversarial testimony packet for Cthulhu Eternal

Transcript 16-A

• Interview room: Municipal Annex 3
• Witness: Dana Mercer
• Interviewer: Special Investigator Halden
• Recording systems: fixed camera, table microphone, stenographic terminal

HALDEN: How many people entered the apartment?

MERCER: Three. Officer Saye, Officer Bell, and the detective.

HALDEN: Which detective?

MERCER: The woman in the grey coat. She stood beside me in the hall. She kept saying there had been four shots.

HALDEN: Did she give you a name?

MERCER: Venn. Mara Venn.

HALDEN: Nobody named Venn attended the scene.

MERCER: Then who showed me the fourth casing?

Interview suspended at 14:11. Mercer was removed through the west door. At 14:18, Officer Bell entered through the same door.

HALDEN: How many people entered the apartment?

BELL: Three. Saye, me, and Detective Venn.

HALDEN: Describe Venn.

BELL: Tall man. Black suit. Shaved head. He stayed with the tenant while we cleared the bedroom.

HALDEN: Mercer described Venn as a woman in a grey coat.

BELL: Mercer was never in the hall.

HALDEN: The fixed camera shows Mercer there.

BELL: Then ask the camera how many shots it heard.

The fixed camera recorded Mercer leaving and Bell entering. The room stayed empty for seven minutes between interviews. Its audio channel contains a third conversation during that interval. One voice belongs to Halden. The other identifies itself as Detective Mara Venn. Venn tells Halden that both witnesses are lying. Halden has no memory of the conversation. The stenographic terminal produced a complete transcript and attributed every statement to SECOND OBSERVER.