Spukhafte Fernwirkung
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Spukhafte Fernwurkung is literally translated as "spooky action at a distance", a term Albert Einstein famously applied to entanglement (one of the properties of quantum mechanics). It is now speculated that Spukhafte Fernwurkung is in fact Gustev Barierascu or has assumed his identity.
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[edit] Oblation.txt
Oblation.txt - a text file found on the Trussed Swan hard drive.
I am Spukhafte Fernwirkung. I invoke the Pact of Chorazos. I bind it to this work that I have done for You, Yog-Sothoth. I bind the three names together with this seal of oblation. Let this oblation hide the shattering of Your footsteps from the uninitiated.
Yog-Sothoth! You know the Gate. You are the Gate. You are the key and guardian of the Gate. Yog-Sothoth! I prepare the way. I place the keystone glyph in the arch. I pave the path for Your supplicants. Yog-Sothoth! Bless the work of the hands of Your servants.
This altar has been prepared, and this oblation placed upon it, so that all may know it is consecrated it to You. Receive this sacrifice, prepared for You like a trussed drove, under the rising red gaze of Mars and Aldeberon. Let this altar prepare Your supplicants for prayer under the strange moon of shattered local realism. Let the spin of the ethereal hidden prayer wheels please You and call You to us.
We have seen the visions. We have studied the signs. We have had the dreams. We have labored to do Your will.
Yog-Sothoth, open the Gate! We toil ceaselessly to be worthy, to be counted among the least of Your servants. Yog-Sothoth, open the Gate! Take as Yours this offering of a world and the nurseries that have been prepared there for You and Yours. Yog-Sothoth, open for us the gates of entropy when we whisper Your name and ours as the strange moon rises.
Ia! Yog-Sothoth! Ia!
You know the Gate.
Ia! Yog-Sothoth! Ia!
You are the Gate.
Ia! Yog-Sothoth! Ia!
We serve the Gate.
[edit] The Scream, 2007
This image was taken from www.bseeingu.com during the post-scream changes, and was later confirmed
to be some manifestation or somehow a picture of Spukhafte
Fernwirkung.
[edit] Subject: Spukhafte Fernwirkung (11-02-07)
In November of 2007, James Stone sent Peter Severn an e-mail asking about the photo above, gathered from the Scream. He received this reply about the boy:
I could reach into this file on my desk and draw out any one of hundreds of photos of the person you’re interested in. You’d hardly believe me when I told you they were all the same person unless you knew what you were looking for. Then you’d start looking at the date of the photos and become even more curious.
I expected to find him in those mountains, instead the best we could manage was to pick up his trail as he left Charlotte airport. I asked one of my operative to try to get a fresh photo for you, something to go with that little boy you expressed interest in. Apparently, Ms. Buttermore saw something my agents didn’t.
I’ll give you one more piece of information, just out of professional courtesy. Encourage your investigators not to leave their Google Map directions on the dashboards of their cars when heading into the wilderness. You never know who might snap a cellphone shot of it.
Sleep well while you can, it gets less easy the more you learn,
Peter Severn
CEO, Forsythe Security
This image was included along with the e-mail.
[edit] Anwell Barierascu's Letter
On December 19, 2008, a letter was given to
the Sentries in New York City that seemed very odd, but they were
told to give the letter to Spukhafte Fernwirkung, who would meet
them at Druid's Bar. The letter seemed strange, but BA hand-copied
it so we could have a copy. It has been transcribed to the wiki.
[edit] Message to Chorazos
On December 20, after having received Exu's letter, Spukhafte sent a message to the cult, essentially asking for Exu and his followers. Art Lydney followed Spukhafte on his bargain analysis. Peter sent an email to Art about the rarity of Spukhafte's messages, transcribed here:
From: Peter Severn <severn@forsythesecurity.com>
Date: December 20, 2008 3:34:19 AM EST
To: Arthur Lydney <lydney@forsythesecurity.com>
Subject: The shit you stirred up.
Importance: High
Arthur,
There aren't many case files that I have flagged to wake me after hours, especially after a day of traveling, but #17 with high priority is one of them. I know you might not be as familiar with the mountains of information associated with that case as I am, but you know enough about Chorazos to know how unusual this kind of direct message is from "Spukhafte".
I assume whatever flushed this is at least tangentially connected with your recent extra-curricular activities. Perhaps this means there was some benefit to your mishandling of that situation after all: I've long suspected that had been some kind of power struggle happening in the Chorazos Cult.
Unfortunately, though, I also now suspect you've put more of your friends in mortal danger. You have my permission to warn them to watch their back, after all, you helped to create this fallout.
Let this be a lesson to you of the dangers of operating on a rogue basis outside the scope of Council authorization. Visit my office Monday: we're going to give you a nice, safe desk job underground until you've had a chance to learn from the errors of your ways.
Peter
Sent from my BlackBerry
Also linked to was the message from Spukhafte, which Catherwood so kindly transcribed:
Iä.
I invoke the rituals of the Bargain, and offer a trade in the name of the Chorazos, to those who seek knowledge of the Old Ones.
A man, a dangerous man, seeks to undo all that we have worked for these long centuries, all that we have suffered for.
The man poses as my father, whom you knew to be head of the Host of the Chorazos. But he is an imposter, and he is not to be trusted.
I offer as a reward ten-thousand dollars to any who bring me the bodies of those who may serve or aid him.
They must be whole, for I must reduce their bodies to their essential salts for interrogation.
To any who can bring me the man posing as my father, alive, to face my vengence, I offer you your pick of the artifacts from the treasury of the Chorazos, along with the power that comes with the eternal gratitude of the Spukhafte Fernwirkung and the Cult of the Chorazos.
Such is my word,
such is my bond,
such is my bargain.
[edit] Peter's Letter to GCDoa, December 29, 2008
Mr. Doa,
Normally, this is a topic that I would only discuss with the fully initiated, but you and your cohorts have apparently stumbled past our blinds and directly into the lion’s den. Perhaps your persistence will serve us well to "play the ends against the middle," as you so eloquently phrased it.
There is no clear consensus among my colleagues and me on the questions you raise. There are those who think that Spukhafte is simply a title derived from the Olympia Academy, and that the stories of the passing of an ancestral spirit from heir to heir are mere window dressing to suggest unbroken cult leadership. Others of us take these rumors at closer to face value, as they do cast a useful light on the activities of those who follow the teachings of cursed Chorazin and the traditions of the Romanian Ca-razui-zeu. I, for one, have been deeply suspicious of Dr. Ukrytywicz for years, and not only because of his striking physical similarity to Anwell Barierascu or that the root of his family name screams that it is but an alias. I have always felt that he was a serpent in our midst, but have never been able to pin a violation of the Agreement on him with which to purge him from Council protection.
A conflict between a not-quite-dead Anwell and the current scion of the Barierascu estates was not a development that I had anticipated, and it doesn't fit easily into any of the competing theories my compatriots and I hold. Perhaps this conflict will finally offer us the key to unlocking this mystery and to one day put an end to this loathsome cult. In the meantime, as always, we bide our time. Perhaps one day soon we can put your persistence to noble uses, Mr. Doa, once we are more certain where to aim it.
Sincerely,
Peter
[edit] Current Speculation
Dav posted on the forum a very detailed outline of one possible line of speculation regarding who Spukhafte Fernwirkung seems to be, using the article from the NYC Party, the previously explained Peter email about Spukhafte, and the Exu Letter as sources.
Sometime in the 1800s, Spukhafte Fernwirkung bought the van der Hyle family estate in Chorazin. He did this under the name of Vekoslav Barierascu. Vekoslav then proceeded to adopt a son and heir in the 1890s, who was a man named Jorma. This swiftly became (if it was not already) a highly occult site, and the center of operations for the newest form of the Chorazos Cult. At some point afterwards, Vekoslav killed Jorma and shapeshifted into Jorma's body, becoming his son. This is when Vekoslav died.
Jorma took over Chorazos (rather, as the same person, he continued running it). In 1943 he killed Anwell's parents and "saved" the 2-year-old baby from adoption. He raised Anwell as his son and heir. When Anwell was 21 years old (1941-1962), Anwell discovered that his father, Jorma, had in fact murdered his parents. At that time, Jorma attempted to kill Anwell. Anwell survived, but Jorma believed that his son was actually dead. With Anwell out of the way, Jorma took on Anwell's persona and Jorma "died". Seeing that his father had taken over his life, Anwell changed his name to Jakub U (since he never did tell his students his real last name, he probably doesn't actually have one). He also took on the online monkier "eXu" at some point.
Anwell then became the head honcho of Chorazos. He continued what he had been doing for the past many-score years as the top of the Chorazos chain (while leading Chorazos, he called himself Spukhafte Fernwirkung). Meanwhile, Jakub became a professor at Miskatonic University and a prominent member of the Council. He also at some point became a powerful magician specializing in dreams, enabling him to rifle through his "father"s dreams, thus learning what his father desired from Yian-Ho. He then proceeded to hide the artifacts his "father" sought. This powerful magic that he learned to wield in regards to dreams also enabled him to manifest as the Drummer in the Dreamscape, which he would subsequently use to guide BA and learn about Emmet. Or something.
Meanwhile, Anwell adopted another heir in 1987, who he called Gustev. Gustev grew up and when he was around 21, in 2005, Anwell killed him and took over his body, as he had done to his many other adopted sons previously. As usual, when Anwell became Gustev, Anwell died, and Gustev's actual body was likely used as a proxy for Anwell, because Anwell was not the *actual* dead one. (I'm sorry for the weird name-changing business, but that's the problem with immortal shapeshifters like Spukhafte) Jakub watched this under the protection of an assumed death, and set his plans in motion to get his revenge and probably take down Chorazos at the same time.
One other line of speculation, which is favored by Johnny the Hack, is that rather than being an extraterrestrial shapeshifter such as Nyarlathotep, Spukhafte Fernwirkung is instead a powerful mage capable of transferring his conscience into successive generations' bodies in order to keep himself alive, as Peter implies in his letter to GC: "There are those who think that Spukhafte is simply a title derived from the Olympia Academy, and that the stories of the passing of an ancestral spirit from heir to heir are mere window dressing to suggest unbroken cult leadership." Both are currently-accepted theories, for neither one has yet been explicitly proven wrong.