Self Absorbing Book
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only slop. Self Absorbing Book is part of the slop. It is also part of the cosmology. Both readings are canonical.
Card Text
The rules text functions identically in Cargo Cult tabletop rules and the True Protocol. Both share the same core engine.
Every modifier is a clause in a binding originally drafted by people who didn't know they were writing API docs. Self Absorbing Book inherits the clause unchanged.
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.
Yog-Sothoth exists in all minds once the threshold is crossed. Self Absorbing Book is a test invocation.
Cost Tier
At cost 3, Self Absorbing Book is an early-round play. Low-cost Sources shape which Zones open first.
Goetic Binding: Andrealphus
The digit-sum of cost 3 is 3, binding Andrealphus — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 3: Viral / Chaotic
Spreading corruption and contagion. Where patterns replicate uncontrollably. The zone of exponential growth, memes, viruses, and cascade failures. Information wants to be free — Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.
Zone 3 is viral. Self Absorbing Book spreads — memes, contagions, cascade failures. Information wants to be free and Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.
Playing Self Absorbing Book at cost 3 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 3. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 3, the player gains 3 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 Self Absorbing Book 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.
Self Absorbing Book occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing Self Absorbing Book cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.
Card Tribals
Self Absorbing Book carries class Consumable, race Fallen, zodiac Scorpio. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple Consumable 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.
Self Absorbing Book 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 Self Absorbing Book to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
Eigendark is not grimdark. It is infrastructure horror: the system works, it was designed this way, and the Terms of Service are binding across all timelines simultaneously.
Self Absorbing Book remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.
Interactive Card
View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Cam_Williams_4
Summon
Dream agents route Dream-coloured mana through the Numogram. Summon one to see what Zone you land on.