#carcosa

[wr1bs]

Lost Carcosa

[mgofox]

me and my husband

context : what if the neglected reader finds the book of king in yellow and ends up marrying an eldritch horror being

Chapter 1 , Chapter 2

Bruce never thought this would happen.

Not to you

No one thought this would happen to you.

Bruce had tried his best to give you a normal life.

A normal life.

Without aliens, mutants, killers, killer clowns, man-eating plants.A life without having to become Robin.

This was the only thing he could do for you and your mother.

After all,

it was Bruce's mistake that your mother was killed in that way.

If Bruce could have taken proper care of Jason, none of this would have happened.

Bruce knew Lilia never truly had romantic feelings for him.

Yes, they were friends (more like acquaintances) and had slept together a few times,

but Lilia never truly had romantic feelings for Bruce, although Bruce had thought about marrying Lilia a few times.

He had often thought about the possibilities if Lilia hadn't died.Maybe he could have convinced Lilia to marry him, even if it was for money. Y/N would have been born in the mansion, would have befriended Dick and Jason from childhood.

Maybe Lilia would be alive now, and you wouldn't be missing, and everyone would be in the mansion at this moment.But no.You were missing.

And the one who noticed your disappearance wasn't Bruce.

It wasn't Dick.

It wasn't Jason.

It wasn't Stephanie.

It wasn't Cass.

It wasn't Damian.

It wasn't Duke.

It wasn't even Alfred.

The one who noticed your disappearance was an old cemetery guard whom you only visited once a week

And when he saw you hadn't visited the cemetery for two weeks, he got worried and called the police.

Every time Bruce thought about this, a bitter bile of self-hatred rose in his throat;

he was Batman and hadn't even noticed his own daughter was missing for two weeks.

Since then, Bruce had been doing everything he could to hear a sign, a trace, a rumor of you.

He had investigated, asked Clark for help, asked the Justice League for help, questioned villains, checked street cameras, but there was no trace of you. Clark heard no sound from you anywhere in the world, Flash had searched everywhere but there was no trace of you,

as if you had never existed!

Finally,

Bruce searched your room,

hoping he might find something there.Your room was full of paintings, most of them completed,

but you still had one painting you were working on, and now it remained unfinished.

Papers full of poems and texts covered your desk.

Bruce never knew you were interested in art.

If Bruce had paid attention,

would you have liked to give him random information about your favorite painter?

Would you have liked to force Bruce to come with you to art museums?

Would you have liked Bruce to read your writings?

In any case, it was no use.

You had been missing for a year.

Bruce didn't want to think about the possibility that you might be dead.

Bruce ran a hand over his face and sat on the edge of your bed, letting out a shaky sigh and trying to ignore the tears that had wet his eyes.

Dick wasn't doing well.

No one was doing well.

Bruce's investigations led nowhere.

And you had been missing for a whole year.

And guilt was eating Dick alive.

Dick should have been there, he should have taken you to the cemetery, he should have walked with you every Friday.

Then maybe he could have protected you from whatever happened that day in the cemetery.

Dick should have acted like an older brother.

He could still remember the first time he saw you.

You were a very small child, wearing a sweater with a cat on it and your hair tied with a barrette.Seeing this innocence after Jason's death made Dick want to cry.

But you never liked Dick as a child.Dick tried to get close to you, but you seemed to avoid him.

Dick was really a terrible older brother....

Damian didn't want to accept that you were dead.

Everyone had given up.

Bruce hadn't been able to find any evidence of you.Bruce had given up hope of finding you.

Alfred still cried some nights, looking at your childhood photos. There weren't many photos of you, which only fueled Damian's anger.

Dick was depressed.

Jason was more violent, killing every villain he could, hoping that maybe one of them was your killer.

Tim was investigating to find out how you died.

Stephanie tried to pretend she was fine, but she wasn't the same Stephanie anymore.

Cass tried her best to comfort Stephanie.

Her older sister was missing.

And everyone was forgetting you, pretending you were dead!

You weren't dead!

Damian was sure you weren't dead.

You couldn't die.

Even if it was your body, Damian would find you and take you to the Lazarus Pit.You would be fine.

Damian was sure.Damian wouldn't let you die!

Y/N Martha Wayne, told to be missing .

News reports stated that the Wayne family was offering a large sum of money to anyone who could find their daughter.

But there was no trace of Y/N.

And it had been a year since anyone had any news about the missing person's whereabouts, or whether they were alive or dead.

It was said that the last time the missing person was seen,at 8 PM, a cemetery guard saw the missing person, with disheveled clothes, messy hair, a pale and thin face, barefoot, and clutching an item tightly to their chest, leaving the cemetery.

The guard said they had tried many times to stop and call out to the missing person, but the missing person continued on their way.

If you see any sign of Y/N Martha Wayne, alive or dead, please contact the Wayne family at their number.

_ Gotham News Announcement

( here's the part 2 , we got a batfam pov , so it was short , I promise future chapters will be longer , hope you guys liked it , leave comments about what you think of it ) and also yes reader's middle name is Martha .

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[marmaladeinlemonade]

spoilers for destroying a world that doesnt exist!!!

Has anyone noticed that the yellow flowers on Avery's flannel resemble the star in the middle of the yellow palace, that teleports derlord to tkiy?

I don't know if this is an intentional detail wifies put in but it'd be really impressive if it was. Also makes sense for Avery because he was supposed to be the vessel for tkiy, so incorporating symbols associated with that sacrifice into his design would be smart.

[operation-annihilate]

Have you guys watched true detective season one? It’s about these two old queens from Louisiana…

[mai-col]

I'm having fun with sticker designs.

[momentaryl0ss]

I Think I've Figured It Out? (Mostly...)

Image Credit: @nor1akii on Tumblr.

It's funny that how out of all things, the best adaptation of the King In Yellow ends up being a Minecraft ARG. And yes, this is my current temporary hyper fixation.

So OBVIOUSLY, I must rant about it :)

Again, this is only my personal theory on it so it's probably gonna be hella wrong and might have inconsistencies 😅 but this is the best possible explanation I can think of.

Just note that throughout this little rant of mine, "The King In Yellow" will refer to the play itself and "Hastur" to the entity/eldritch horror known as The King In Yellow/The Unspeakable One as deemed by August Derleth. I obviously won't cover everything bit by bit because most of it is already clear, I'll just dive into the slightly more debated ones.

^ This is probably what I look like trying to explain this to y'all 😭

This is gonna be so long...*sigh*

Let's start from the beginning (footage 1 & 2) and what we know for sure. d3Lord3 found a pre-created world when he first bought and installed Minecraft. He thought (quite naturally) that this was weird but he didn't worry too much about it. We know that he'd been playing for quite a significant amount of time, considering the items in his inventory and the strip mines (and not to mention the info.pdf that Wifies showed us).

Avery, the successor of the laptop and hence the game and the MC world mentions that he found the laptop in a storage locker and has been using it ever since.

Before I go in further I'd like to point out a few details in d3Lord3's design which I'd like you all to remember:

The skin is that of a knight;

There is no 'face' as such visible under the helmet's design on the Minecraft skin;

The armor's (skin's) design and color is gold or possibly some other yellow metal.

(I think y'all already know where I'm going with this, but hold on...it's probably not gonna be what you think)

One of the main questions I find popping up for this ARG is that, "If d3Lord3 was so smart then why didn't he just shut down the laptop when he figured out that something was off or delete the world or even just nuke the place in creative? It's a game after all, right?" The answer to that part is actually quite simple:

Curiosity.

Basic human curiosity. Something quite inherent in everyone and especially in someone as smart as d3Lord3. Not to mention the teensy bit of ego boost he gets from solving puzzles and 'tricking' the entity following him. But that's not all. There's a second part to this.

Remember how initially back in the caves, d3Lord3 noticed a pair of footsteps following him?

Read that again.

d3Lord3 noticed a pair of footsteps following him.

Noticed.

For those of you unfamiliar with the general lore of the King In Yellow and Hastur, here's the piece for y'all. Hastur does not exist on the same plain of existence (world) as us, and so the only people allowed to 'interact' whatsoever with him are the people he deems worthy enough or those who have received the Yellow Sign.

So yeah, d3Lord3 was already fucked the moment he noticed something following him. His fate was sealed. He stood no chance because his will per se, was no longer his own. His actions might have been his own but his will (unknowingly) belonged to Hastur from that moment forward.

"Man may do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills."

Which would also explain why he didn't destroy the laptop and the footage and instead decide to shove it in a storage locker somewhere. Or even stop progressing. He quite literally couldn't.

Then we come to the cipher above the doors. It goes something like this:

OMCTSTJBHTHHAHUBWLVQCVYOM LPCUIGVITUHQADUSSJHEWWAFABD CVDAVOGHPHAFHHUIGHGHGOOTHI UCCHNEPBGJLHCTAОНТНІJH

Roughly deciphered (parts assumed) and translated, we get this (in a single line but I've broken it down to the actual poetic meter):

Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa. Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies, But stranger still is Lost Carcosa. Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa. Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa.

To those unfamiliar, this is Cassilda's Song from the King In Yellow, Act 1 Scene 2. Also known as "Dim Carcosa". To this whole thing, d3Lord3 says "Nice poem." followed by (my favorite part lmao) "Unfortunately for you, I have a pickaxe."

This is implies that d3Lord3 still thinks that he's in total control of the situation, he knows this is only a game and he can play it as it is so he just mines straight through the door. But here's the fun part; Cassilda's Song in the King In Yellow is bait for the reader to advance to and read Act 2. It's impossible to ignore.

And d3Lord falls for it. Hook, line and sinker. He mines through and finds a strange ruined and abandoned village. Now what I'm guessing is this is supposed to be an imitation of ruined city of Yhtill. Considering the fact that at the edge of this city is the entrance to what I assume is supposed to be a crude depiction of the Palace of Carcosa, the city in which Hastur is supposed to reside in.

"The scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow must hide Yhtill forever"

^ Here I believe the "King In Yellow" refers to Hastur himself.

The close proximity of this village and our finale is why I assume this is Yhtill. Not to mention the copious yellow imagery everywhere, plus the fact that Cassilda was in fact, the queen of Yhtill before it was consumed by Carcosa. So I assume the statue at the center with the fountain was supposed to be her.

We can also take a gamble and assume the house to be Cassilda's? Because she was the only person to not be fooled (per se) by the Pallid Mask's promises when they visited Yhtill. For context, the Pallid Mask is the chief servant/emissary of Hastur and they promised the denizens of Yhtill that they could prevent their foretold doom (and ended up causing said doom lol). Hastur seems to enjoy those kinda gimmicks smh.

Then we come to our grand finale. Starting with the latent imagery that yes, d3Lord3 is being closely watched as he approaches his final destination.

Image Credit: @buththefirst on Tumblr

Y'all CANNOT convince me that this DOES NOT look like an eye.

Moving on, we come to our last and final question:

What did d3Lord3 see behind those golden doors?

While somehow the general consensus is that he saw Hastur, the Great Old One known as The King In Yellow (entity) in his true form which gave d3Lord3 omniscience (infinite knowledge) which he TANKED long enough for him to turn back and warn Avery (who he foresaw would inherit his laptop) and edit his footage to censor the cognito hazard, upload it to GDrive and then stash it in a storage locker.

But that's simply not possible. You CANNOT tank infinite knowledge, no one can, no matter how smart/skilled/talented you are. Your brain would quite literally explode or drive you to absolute madness. In the words of H.P. Lovecraft:

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

Human minds quite literally not comprehend infinity whatsoever, no matter for what time. Plus, nowhere does it state that looking at Hastur grants you infinite knowledge, the only possible implication of that is if you believe in the usual "You may not gaze at a deity" rhetoric.

So here's what I think happened.

In the last bit of the footage we see d3Lord3 pause for a good 15+ seconds just staring at the stuff beyond the doors. We see his cursor move from left to right, almost as if he's reading something.

Now remember a little bit before where I mentioned Cassilda's Song is used as bait for someone to read Act 2 of The King In Yellow. Act 2 falls under forbidden knowledge.

Behind the doors at the end of the video, he saw the written second act from the play titled “The King in Yellow”. It’s mentioned that people would start to go insane by reading or watching the second act of the play because the second act is so unforgettably beautiful that people who see it become obsessed with it and it drives them into madness. This would explain why D3rlord3 looked at whatever was behind the doors for 15+ seconds; he was reading.

Hastur is a mysterious otherworldly entity or force that has infinite forbidden knowledge (the literal information of everything), that would collapse the minds of any normal person who inherits it. His influence (the second act of the play) curses whoever has viewed it with similar forbidden knowledge.

Side effects of seeing the second act of the play are:

Madness: A total collapse of sanity. They begin to perceive Carcosa, the Hyades, and Hastur himself bleeding into reality.

Revelation: They see the truth some cosmic or existential reality that humans cannot endure.

Transformation: They may no longer be human in mind or soul. In some interpretations, they become servants or masks of the King.

Despair: A few simply lose all will to live or act, overwhelmed by what they’ve learned.

Perception of Time: Once someone has read the Second Act and survived (at least physically), their perception of time is often described or implied as becoming nonlinear, fractured, or simultaneous. Chambers never directly writes a scene where a character says, “I can see the future now.” But he implies that reading the play breaks the reader’s sense of temporal continuity the normal flow of time that keeps sanity intact. For instance, in “The Repairer of Reputations,” the narrator (Hildred Castaigne) speaks of: “events long past and yet to come, as though they were before me.” He seems to recall the future the way we recall the past, a sign of temporal dislocation or nonlinear awareness.

While d3Lord3 couldn't tank infinite knowledge, he could however tank the side effects of Act 2 (long enough?) due to his massive mental capacity. And he did so not once, but twice.

He ran back, the path somehow magically leading him to his initial mine, and left a warning for Avery, who he knew would inherit his laptop due to his technical future sight. He writes "Whatever you do at the crossroads, don't turn left" followed by "At the crossroads, don't turn left" seven times, the number of times he turned left throughout the footage.

Whatever you do at the crossroads, don't turn left. Don't be fooled. It's listening to you. It's watching you. You can't outsmart it. It's not of this world.

And

23-2 29 2, 24 29 10-2 10-3 4, 19 30-4 15, 6 10-2 10-3 10-2

Which roughly translates to:

Rvn, Avery, its, here.

That's his whole warning because he now knows properly that Hastur is following him. All of it is bleeding into his reality and no matter what he's doing, he also physically can't destroy the laptop and prevent anyone else from coming across it. So he does the only option left to him (or has purposely been left to him because remember when I said that Hastur seems to like these kinds of gimmicks of hopeless attempts?) and censors the script of the second act and stashes away the laptop.

But two questions still remain;

Why was Hastur himself following d3Lord3? And why did d3Lord3 censor his own name?

Image Credit: @mayday-02 on Tumblr

Hastur has never in the mythos directly involved himself, even his methods of luring in people to read the Second Act and hence drive themselves to madness are indirect, so why follow d3Lord3 directly? And why d3Lord3 of all people?

And here we finally come full circle. At the beginning I asked you guys to note some things about d3Lord3's design right? And somewhere up there I believe I mentioned the Pallid Mask.

Now lemme bring some parts up:

The Pallid Mask is an entity that probably serves The King In Yellow as an emissary, and/or the mask worn by such an emissary.

In the King In Yellow, the Stranger (who essentially equates with the Pallid Mask as an entity) is asked to remove his mask and responds by saying that he wears none, to the horrified reaction of the onlooking Camilla.

And finally;

Entity connected with the King In Yellow. (Who)… acts as Hastur's emissary to the city of Yhtill. Sometimes becoming Hastur's vessel itself.

Do y'all get what I'm trying to say here?

Hastur is known as The King In Yellow. Who usually serves a king as his chief servant (per se) and emissary? Who does a king directly interact with?

It's a knight.

d3rLord3's skin is that of a knight.

The Pallid Mask's 'mask' is actually his face. d3Lord3's head in his MC skin is a helmet with shadows beneath it. That gold helmet then, is his face.

DO Y'ALL GET WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY HERE???

Why does Hastur himself follow d3Lord3, makes his presence known to him and drive him to read the Second Act of the play?

Because he's chosen him as his new Pallid Mask, his new prophet.

d3rLord3 is certainly smart enough to fill that role.

Plus (not to sound like a pre-school conspiracy theorist or those anti-vaxxers obsessed with numerology but 😭) d3rLord3 is basically the biggest clue in itself:

d3r - The (German tnsl.) Lord - Ruler/King 3 - The third color of the rainbow is yellow.

AKA; d3rLord3 is The King In Yellow.

And there's even more lol. This part might explain why d3Lord3 is so against Hastur, despite seemingly having his will subsumed by him (unknowingly). The Pallid Mask is also referred to as The Stranger and in the play script given in More Light, the Stranger is stated to be from Aldebaran and—contrary to other interpretations—an enemy of The King In Yellow.

This might probably be why he tried his best to warn Avery.

And finally, if we assume d3rLord3 to be the unwilling Pallid Mask, he probably already knew this and hence censored his own name as well for precaution.

But all his attempts are in probable vain. The video still got out, got millions of views. d3rlord3 is very smart, for a human. Think Sherlock Holmes, Light Yagami, and Batman. But no human, regardless of how smart and perceptive they are, can beat this eldritch deity. How can you beat an omniscient being? Hastur made d3rlord3 think he was winning, but the game that was being played was never d3Lord's to begin with.

dr3Lord3 is the unwilling Pallid Mask. Just as the Pallid Mask was emissary to Yhtill, d3rLord3 is emissary to Avery, and of course, all of us.

What was happening was an old story. And there has never been any other version of that story.

The King In Yellow has always won.

[lithospherio]

I've fallen into a new fandom, i fear.....

[salt-angels]

hiii I'd love to get more eyes to my personal project Carcosa (inspired by the king in yellow)