Project Nemesis is a fan driven website for games that use the One-Roll Engine (like Nemesis, Wild Talents, Reign and Monsters) or Chaosium's Basic Roleplay System (BRP) (like Call of Cthulhu) and the Delta Green setting.
The only known copy of this ancient Greek treatise was written on
parchments that were later washed clean by a 10th century scribe so
that he could use them to copy St. Augustine's writings on the psalms.
At a glance, only the Christian scribe's work is visible. Closer
examination reveals the original text, faded and illegible, running at
90 degrees to the Christian scribe's lines.
This is an HTML document, equivalent to around 30 pages, which is most
likely to be encountered on Freenet. Nothing is known about the author,
except the name Mark Cordell, which could easily be fake. It discusses
how patterns found in unlikely places fit together in 2, 3 and even 4
dimensional space to form what it refers to as a map. It goes on to
claim that this "map" can teach us about the universe in some way.
This tome was written in the 14th century AD in the Coptic language of
Egypt. It is a dusty but beautiful relic, hand-written on gilt-edged
rag paper and stitched between wooden covers wrapped in faded red
leather, decorated with metal and glass inlays. The ink is a curious
red-brown color that instantly reminds the reader of dried blood.
This book originally appeared as a spiral bound textbook for a
Philosophy of Science class at Miskatonic University. The class had 25
honor students from the Philosophy and several Science departments. The
purpose of the book was to alter the human mind for further Mi-Go
study. However the effects were unpredictable and went beyond the scope
of the Mi-Go’s experiment.
The Szcymanski Algorithm
is a relatively simple method for generating strings of random numbers.
Szcymanski was working for the Polish millitary when he came up with
the algorithm.
It was tested as a basis for one-time-pad
encryption, but relatively quickly the algorithm's sinister side was
revealed. When messages encrypted with Szcymanski's "random" numbers
are subjected to cryptological cracking attempts, it turns out that the
numbers tell a story of their own... the Szcymanski Text.
This short, strange videotape is useful as a plot device rather than an
information source. It provides the only known record of the activities
of a cult centered in Bucharest and known as the "deaders". The grainy
tape begins with a group of young people (late teens through twenties)
gathered in a poorly lit room.
The patent application was originally filed by a Mr Hammond J. Pike and
comprises over one hundred pages of dense description of a device which
essentially functions as a perpetual motion machine. The description is
littered with obscure references to dubious physical theorems
concerning the extraction of energy from the “gaps between universes”
and contains page after page of impenetrable formulae and equations.
“The Nine Doors To the Kingdom of Shadows” (also known as “De Umbrarum
Regis Novum Portis”, or "Nine Gates" for short), is a quarto-sized tome
with a brown leather cover embossed with a pentagram. No other markings
adorn the cover or spine, but there is a title page. The book was
written by one Aristide Torchia in Venice in 1666. Along with its
nigh-impenetrable occult rantings, it contains nine tarot-like woodcut
engravings. These are rumoured to be copied from the "Delomelanicon", a
possibly apocryphal work attributed to Lucifer himself (but possibly
penned by the 16th century free-thinker Giordano Bruno).