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A spontaneous-organism and memory-contamination dossier for Cthulhu Eternal

The specimen lived for forty-three seconds. Its wings, beating in a hard vacuum, reproduced Araceli Ward’s own voice telling someone to close a north valve because Isaac was still inside. The laboratory had no north valve, and nobody on site was named Isaac. Ward remembered his funeral anyway, down to the rain on his husband’s green umbrella.

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.