World War Cthulhu

Overview

Filed under register ME-1922-N50/2847; cite `world-war-cthulhu` in all outbound correspondence.

World War Cthulhu belongs to that class of powers the vulgar call gods and the archive calls liabilities — dormant, local, or oceanic, yet never domesticated.

In the marginalia of the Latin Necronomicon the name World War Cthulhu appears beside tides, eclipses, or breeding cycles we cannot reproduce in laboratory glass.

Photographs in the files show fog, double exposure, and emulsion scars that technicians swear were not present when the shutter fell. We keep them because fraud is easier to disprove than the thing that stood where fraud pretends to be.

If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.

Description

Those who survived description speak of surfaces that refuse matte finish — wet, reflective, or oily even in dry rooms.

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

Sound, when recorded, has been described as wet leather, glass harmonics, or bees inside a skull; analysts note infrasound may explain some, not all.

Historical Record

Activity increased after the Innsmouth embargo and the Antarctic expedition, as if publicity taught the countryside new vocabulary for old fears.

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

A 1931 Miskatonic committee voted to suppress photography; the vote is on file, the plates are not.

Field Observations

Do not engage alone; two witnesses minimum, three preferred if the name was spoken aloud.

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

What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.

Archive Notes

Protocol slug `world-war-cthulhu`. If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.