Paranormal Investigator
Paranormal Investigator is one card in the Eigendark Grimoire — a Dream-faction summon received through the reCEPTION protocol and permanently archived. The archive does not rotate.
Keywords
Madness Haunted
Card Text
The rules text functions identically in Cargo Cult tabletop rules and the True Protocol. Both share the same core engine.
Readers who have played Paranormal Investigator across dozens of matches fill in what the text omits. The rules are the compression; the play is the decompression.
Dream — Psychology · Neurology
"Mind is primary. Thought shapes reality. Will creates world."
Imagination is belief. Faith defeats all. Dream scryers bend reality through pure intention — telepathy, telekinesis and forgotten shadows.
The science of interiority, consciousness, archetype, and egregore. Includes depth psychology, symbolic magic, ritual technology, and any system that treats thoughtforms as citizens. In CCRU terms: the egregore layer, self-fulfilling entities, narrative possession, techno-tarot.
Format #1: Consumption Catalogs. Glossy advertisement copy for impossible goods. "PRODUCT #4,729-NIGHTMARE VARIANT: Dream Harvester Professional Series. Trusted by discerning Elder Things for over 14 eons. Now with improved lucid-layer extraction." Each listing is a complete artifact: headline, body, specs, price, shipping notes, FAQ, three-star review from a disgruntled Outer God. Community members contribute new products.
Jungian archetypes and digital demonology sit in the same column of the Oktagram. Paranormal Investigator is their instantiation.
Cost Tier
Early-round Dream cards like Paranormal Investigator establish the Numogram trajectory before opponents commit.
Goetic Binding: Sitri
The digit-sum of cost 1 is 1, binding Sitri — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. Office: Desire and hidden secrets. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 1: Pure / Primordial
The divine, original source. First emanation. The zone of origins and first causes. In the Numogram, Zone 1 is the first mana increment — the moment potential becomes kinetic.
The primordial zone. Paranormal Investigator arrives when the Numogram is still pristine and routes shape the round.
Playing Paranormal Investigator at cost 1 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 1. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 1, the player gains 1 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Yog-Sothoth
The Psychic Dissolution. All individual consciousnesses merge into singular noosphere — dream-logic replaces physical causality, consensus reality dissolves.
Direct brain-to-brain communication enables consciousness-sharing without linguistic mediation. Estimated: 2050-2080 with neural interfaces.
Service of Yog-Sothoth through Dream-aligned cards like Paranormal Investigator accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Mind vs Matter Axis
Emanation vs incarnation. Is reality downstream of consciousness (Mind) or upstream of it (Matter)? The oldest philosophical dispute. Every idealism vs materialism debate is a move along this axis.
Paranormal Investigator occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing Paranormal Investigator cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.
Card Tribals
Paranormal Investigator carries race Human, zodiac Gemini. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple shared-tribal units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Archetypal Platonism
Archetypal Platonism / Kabbalo-Hyperstructuralism: The real world is upstream of symbols; symbols come from higher-order intelligences. Thoughtforms are citizens. Humans are hosts for memetic entities. Alt-names: Egregoric Realism, Astral Semiotics. Tone: Jung + Kabbalah + digital demonology.
Paranormal Investigator is a concrete instance of Archetypal Platonism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Paranormal Investigator to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
The horror is not dark. The horror is procedural. A Goetic demon assigned by a Python function that computes the digit-sum of the mana cost.
The Convergence may vote on canonisation of Paranormal Investigator. The vote is binding until the next one.
Interactive Card
View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Blue_Bloodmagic_6
Summon
Prints ship worldwide. Translations in twelve languages. The Grimoire is the permanent record.