New Orleans
New Orleans — a mythos location; coordinates disputed, testimony consistent in mood. Register ME-1934-X19/2412.
Overview
Filed under register ME-1934-X19/2412; cite `new-orleans` in all outbound correspondence.
Survivors of New Orleans disagree on weather, century, and compass bearing — agreement on dread is nearly unanimous.
Site of Inspector Legrasse's 1907 Cthulhu cult raid in the swamp.
Period attestation: lovecraft-1920s.
What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.
Description
Voodoo overlap in popular retellings is not in Lovecraft's text.
Sensory reports conflict in detail — scale, colour, limb count — yet agree that the phenomenon offends proportion.
Olfactory notes in depositions: salt, copper, wet stone, and organic sweetness like fruit fermenting in a closed room.
Historical Record
Cult chanted near stone monoliths with non-human sculptors.
Post-1937 pastiche and game supplements multiplied references; the archive tags those layers expanded mythos unless a primary citation is supplied.
Cross-links at dossier foot should be treated as hypotheses, not as family trees carved in stone.
Field Observations
Do not engage alone; do not accept hospitality from hosts who show windows to other eras.
Submit Form Theta-9 if conversation turns to cities remembered only in sleep.
Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.
Archive Notes
Cite archive slug `new-orleans` in all cross-references. Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.
Citation: Miskatonic Expedition Archive. Record ARC-000. Access subject to institutional review.
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Cross-References
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STY-001
activeThe Call of Cthulhu
Incident Record - 1925
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GOO-001
dormantCthulhu
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CON-001
activeCosmic Horror
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TOM-001
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