R'lyeh Text
R'lyeh Text — a forbidden text or fragment; chained stacks only, never interlibrary loan. Register ME-1935-E50/4861.
Overview
Expedition register ME-1935-E50/4861 — cross-index under slug `rlyeh-text`.
R'lyeh Text enters the archive under protest from reason and with sponsorship from repeated evidence.
Script carved in cyclopean cities of the Pacific; used in Cthulhu rites.
Period attestation: lovecraft-1930s.
The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.
Description
Johansen's crew saw it on risen walls; angles hurt the reader's eyes.
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
Not a book but a writing system; still classed among tomes for indexing.
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.
Textual History
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.
If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.
Archive Notes
Cite archive slug `rlyeh-text` in all cross-references. If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.
Citation: Miskatonic Expedition Archive. Record ARC-000. Access subject to institutional review.
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STY-001
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CON-002
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