The Steel Plague

Overview

Filed under register ME-1921-C99/6473; cite `the-steel-plague` in all outbound correspondence.

The Steel Plague enters the archive under protest from reason and with sponsorship from repeated evidence.

We would delete The Steel Plague if deletion worked; instead we classify, cross-link, and warn.

New England incidents teach a rhythm: polite towns, old families, water or hills that smell wrong, then a paper trail ending in sanitariums. The Steel Plague may or may not follow that rhythm — check dates before you blame Cthulhu for a Vermont landslide.

Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.

Description

Scale estimates in the files range from human to architectural, which usually means the observer was not the unit of measure.

Several accounts mention a pressure change before sighting, as though the air admitted something larger than the room.

Several accounts mention a pressure change before sighting, as though the air admitted something larger than the room.

Historical Record

Earliest stack mention is a photocopy of a photocopy of Latin marginalia — chain of custody unsuitable for court, sufficient for caution.

European parallels appear in Smith and Howard overlaps; do not merge pantheons without reading both authors in full.

Game manuals and wiki pages from 1980 onward treat the name as franchise furniture; date your citations or fail the course.

Field Observations

Burn nothing found pulsing; catalogue first, then burn if protocol allows.

If dreams arrive with the weight of memory for places never visited, terminate contact.

The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.

Archive Notes

Protocol slug `the-steel-plague`. Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.