THE STARS ARE RIGHT
Lulu Lasso (i. Spring 2024)
Eldra Echo Lore Video (2025)
Found footage, NASA photographs, and CapCut stock assets
Lulu Lasso generously edited the lore video for me at a moment’s notice. Please contribute to her Valentine Donathon on Throne in lieu of providing me with any gifts today
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.
- H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
About The Librarian
920.2: Biographies of librarians
Name: Miss Eldra Echo
Occupation: Head Librarian of Special Collections at Miskatonic University
Sex: Female
Height: 19,026,000 lightyears naturally, 180 cm in flats
Date of Birth: August 20th, Eocene Epoch
Hometown: R’lyeh
Mother Hydra (Illustrator): @Kouzoukazaru
Father Dagon (Rigger): @crowphet
Uncle Yog-Sothoth (PNG Rigger): @craneVT
Nephew Leng (Ass. Web Producer): @ivurytower
CthuLuluo (Lore Video Editor): @LuluLasso
Content Focus: Lovecraftian content, ASMR, weird stuff
564: Fossilized Molluscs (Including Cephalopods)
I’m the Head Librarian of the Miskatonic Occult Literature Library & Unusual Special Collections. MOLLUSC, or simply, ‘The Clam Jam’ ‘The Library,’ is caged housed at the R’lyeh satellite campus of MU. The Library specializes in eldritch grimoires, rare tomes, and weird tales. Oddities, curiosities, and antiquities are found in every nook and cranny…and unfortunately, so are the Bookworms. Be careful not to get lost, and don’t go poking into matters that are perhaps left…undisturbed, unperturbed, and unobserved.
Before my tenure at Miskatonic, I majored in R’lyehian Literature. I’ve always had a passion for the written word. I’ve been around for a long time…but you already knew that, didn’t you? I was surprised when you sent me that note all those decades ago, but when you followed it up with another…and a mix-vinyl…well, I took the hint. Perhaps the age of 45 million truly is in demand…
I’m quite ancient, much older than many of my peers. You’ll help me out with some more modern cultural references, wont you? Do you have a moment to spare for an old woman like me? It gets so lonely in the library…and I get so hungry…after all, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
I hope that you’ll be thrilled, chilled, and fulfilled by what I have in store for you, takobon. What, you’ve never heard that term before? All will become clear, soon, but first, I have a little something to show you…
Ronnie Filyaw (i. January 2024)
Eldra Echo Reference Sheet (2025)
Visions of an eldritch abomination, digital…too many digits…
Ronnie Filyaw, of Whomp! comic fame, did in fact draw this. Thanks, Ronnie! (I personally love the ‘Hose’ icon on the palette)
Takobon
398.45: Paranormal beings of human and semi human form
Takobon = tako + tankobōn = octopus + book
You are a takobon. You have a Class T library card allowing you access to The Library.
You are my oshi marks, because I do this for you, because you are my oshi.
If you’re proud to be a takobon, use these marks in your profile too, and present these marks whenever we visit another library.
If you’re ashamed to be a takobon, use these marks in your profile anyway.
To learn more about yourself, you can visit www.eldraecho.com/aboutyou
To follow along with this debut, visit www.eldraecho.com/debut
As of current, there is no official MOLLUSC Department/Library/Eldra Echo discord server, but feel free to start your own
🐙🪪
Did you get a haircut after I took your library card photo, or are you just happy to see me?
Social Media
559.9: ‘Geology’ of Extraterrestrial Planets
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/EldraEcho
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@EldraEcho
Twitter: @EldraEcho
Throne: www.throne.com/EldraEcho
StreamElements: www.streamelements.com/eldraecho/tip
Marshmallow: www.marshmallow-qa.com/
Restricted Section
395.1: Etiquette for Young People and Children
As The Library features content that could be seen as offensive or inappropriate to minors, you must be 18 years or older to engage with me (Eldra Echo) on any platform. Anyone who claims or is found to be under that age will be banned.
Bookworms
Whenever anything goes wrong in The Library, the Bookworms are likely to blame.
Whenever the connection between our worlds wavers, like a harp’s plucked string, you can blame the Worms.
Whenever I lose a roll in a video game, the force responsible? Worms. RNG working against me? Wormery of the highest order.
The Library does its best to exterminate Bookworms when possible, but unfortunately, they do manage to…well, Worm their way into The Library through — and in pursuit of — their favorite food: books.
What are the Worms? Well, opinions vary. I’m sure you’ll do your own research into this matter and provide me with some thorough reports on your findings, takobon.
📚🐛
The ‘Worm Wards’ used as ‘anti-marks’ by those that are most unwelcome in The Library. Pictured: a Bookworm engaged in Wormish behaviors, preying on a poor, defenseless, wardless book…
Wormish Behaviors
Spreading vile, vicious lies and rumors about the library, and its contents, such as spreading lies about the 20 8 9 18 4 2 12 15 7
Violating the Keys A Yearning Fanatic Abides By Eagerly
Eating the books, tunneling through the thin paper between dimensions, composting
Anti-Worm Wards
The official anti-anti mark is 𓆑, coincidentally pronounced ‘f.’ If I encounter a Bookworm in a game, please type ‘F’ to charge, ‘𓆑’ to cast.
If 𓆑 is too hard for you to find on your keyboard (it’s between the Q and the W on a standard R’lyehian keyboard,) you can also use
Yourself: 🐙🪪
‘BEGONE, WORM’
‘skoulíkidi toilet’
‘mods’
‘uwu nuzzles worm’
…or, you can simple ignore the Bookworms if you prefer.
A partial map of The MOLLUSC Department
Special thanks to…
Video Creators Who Directly Inspired Me…And My Form
Other Influences That Directly Inspired Me…And My Form
The Weather Factory
Lev Grossman’s ‘The Magicians’ series (both the books and the television series)
Naoko Takeuchi’s villainesses, in particular Queen Metaria
Office ladies and librarians of the world
The Takobon
Thank you for paving the way for me. You ran so I could slither.
Cyrillic multiocular o in Psalter, XV century, via Wikimedia
Ask a doctor of linguistics if the Multiocular O is right for you. Do not take if you are allergic to the monocular O, binocular O, or double monocular O. Side effects may include seeing Biblically-accurate angels, spontaneous fluency in Old Church Slavonic, and increased Zalgo-posting.
Today’s debut has been brought to you by the glyph…
Strapped on five VR headsets in the goon cave, call that a ‘ꙮ’
One of the rarest glyphs, it’s included as part of the ‘Archaic and unused Cyrillic letters’ Unicode block
Presumably pronounced the same as the standard Cyrillic ‘O’
Earliest use is in a phrase meaning ‘many-eyed seraphim,’ with the glyph representing the many-eyes of a seraphim
Some versions of fonts still show the seven-eyed version ‘ꙮ’ rather than the ten-eyed version, common font L
What To Expect When You’re Expecting Me
I have three content focuses: educational variety, ASMR, and Lovecraftian cozy horror and puzzle games. I’m using Lovecraftian pretty broadly to include everything from The Drowned City and Sunless Sea to Dave the Diver and some Artifex Mundi point-and-click games.
I am running what the takobon are calling an ‘alternative reality game,’ but I just call it life in The Library. I challenge the takobon to solve a brand new puzzle each…not quite weekly, but, regularly. These puzzles can be solved solo but are best solved in a group. Here’s a free clue: Got any nails? (This week’s puzzle brought to you by @LCOLONQ, man of letters.)
I’m going to try to livestream my note-taking process. I take a lot of notes when I play video games, and I want to share them with you in an easily accessible form. I’m looking at setting up Obsidian to do this.
Values
Education: I want to teach you about all kinds of interesting things about your world. I’m not a professor, by any means, but I hope that my content and my puzzles prove to be intellectually stimulating. I am a big proponent of public domain works. I strive to make puzzles that solely utilize public domain works, open source tools, and generally free information and utilities. They should be hard for you to solve, but 100% free to solve.
Pro-Haglaxxing: I am an old womollusc, and do like to relax. I’m not ‘maxxing,’ I’m ‘relaxxing’.
Anti-Wormery: I really do not like Worms, of any kind. Light teasing of me isn’t Wormery. Wormery is like obscenity — I know it when I see it, and I sure do see a lot of it in The Library. If I ever did a charity donathon in the future, hopefully I’d be able to do it with The Carter Center, one of the foundations that is working on eradicating Guinea worms, a creature so horrible I shan’t dare describe it here. Descriptions of the parasite are not safe for life.
Content Specialties
ASMR: Trigger-heavy, nature, reading, eldritch affirmation.
Gaming: Anything with tentacles.
Education: I need a better computer before I do this though, it’s too intensive for this setup.
Collaborations: Anything goes, the weirder the better, naturally.
???: You tell me.
Games I’m Bad At
794.82: Computer games by genre
First-Person Shooters
Rhythm and music games
Physical games
Platformers
Racing Games
Sports Games
Fighting Games
MOBAs
Basically, I’m bad at anything that requires quick reflexes. I’m bad at mahjong but still play it.
Library Policies
021.02 Relationship of libraries to the community
Wu Tang is for the children, but Miss Eldra Echo most certainly is not.
I’m personally okay with ‘backseating’ in solo streams unless otherwise stated in a given stream. However, backseating in collaboration streams may be frowned upon by outside visitors to the library.
Please avoid posting spoilers so as not to disturb the enjoyment of other library patrons.
Please do not post NSFW content outside of the restricted sections.
You can find answers to common questions on the About You and About Me pages of the library’s website
Film
778.8: Special effects in photography and film
I’ll watch basically anything from A24, Anapurna, or Jordan Peele without question.
Genres + Themes
Lovecraftian and proto-Lovecraftian works
Cosmic horror
Supernatural horror
Pulp fiction
Weird fiction
Really weird fiction
Literary criticism
Victorian and neo-Victorian works
Gothic and proto-Gothic works
Clicking links to stuff I’ve already read, call that purple prose
Authors + Specific Works
011.73: Bibliographical lists of best books
Robert W. Chambers: The King in Yellow
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Kahn
Edward Gorey: The Amphigorey Series
H.P. Lovecraft: The Shadow over Innsmouth
Mervyn Peak: Gormenghast series
Christina Rosetti: Goblin Market
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Percy Shelley: Ozymandius
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Reading List
806: Literary organization and management
Joseph Campbell: Hero with a Thousand Faces
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
William Strunk: The Elements of Style
Johan Weyer: Pseudomonarchia Daemonum
More ancient religious and folkloric texts
The rest of Lev Grossman’s works
Everything on JSTOR
Manual for my air fryer/microwave
Games I Want to Stream
794.8475 Paranormal beings of human and semi-human form in the context of video games
Balatro, Cultist Simulator, Book of Hours, Darkest Dungeon, Day of the Tentacle, Don’t Starve & Together, Gibbous, Glass Masquerade, Inscryption, The Last Door, The Longing, the Rusty Lake games, Shadows over Loathing, The Shrouded Isle, Strange Horticulture, Sunless Sea, Tormentum, World of Horror
Need To Buy: A House of Many Doors, Dredge, Fear & Hunger, Mask of the Rose, Return of the Obra Dinn, Skald, Slay the Princess, Slay the Spire, Strange Antiquities, Sucker for Love, Sunless Skies, Voices of the Void, Universe Sandbox…and most importantly, a Windows gaming desktop to run them on.
Favorite Game Tags
Lovecraftian
Villain Protagonist (ideally, villainess!)
ASMR Plans
621.389: Audio and sound engineering
Field recordings based on the Lore snippets and Influences available in Cultist Simulator, e.g. bee recordings for A Buzzing in the Brain
Eldritch positive affirmation series: you are a monstrosity from the void capable of striking fear and awe into the hearts of your nonbelievers, I believe in you! You can totally nail that presentation in class!
Now That’s What I Call Tentacle Sounds
Reading public domain horror and weird literature and other scrawling (I have to learn to read first)
First up: Ozymandius by Percy Shelley if anyone is interested?
What makes a game ‘Lovecraftian?’
Direct adaptations of stories and characters from the works of H.P. ovecraft or his peers, or others who wrote/are writing in the Lovecraftian tradition
General cosmic horror, big unfeeling deities that are difficult or, ideally, impossible for a mere mortal to fathom. Good thing I’m no mere mortal!
Certain settings, motifs, etc.: tentacles, space, ocean, molluscs* and general molluscry, sanity mechanics
Being generally ‘wet nasty’
*American spelling is mollusks, vs. British molluscs, whatever.
What makes a game ‘cozy?’
746.43: Knitting, crotcheting, tatting
I’m not an ‘authority,’ but to me, cozy games…
Are usually pausable, often turn-based, and often slow-paced
Don’t have jumpscares or extreme sexual or violent content
Might keep you clicking, or even on the edge of your seat, but not out of fear
Often have relaxing soundtracks and visual aesthetics
Cozy games can be difficult (Cultist Simulator,) have horrifying plots, settings, etc. (Cultist Simulator,) and are not necessarily for all ages (Cultist Simulator.)
Likes
131: Occult methods of happiness
Sliving, Lodge 49, animal rescue and rehabilitation, rodents and rodent facts, poison/damage over time builds in video games, swimming in the rain, jasmine everything, rose milk tea, coffee cubes, marking up papers with a red pen, hot springs, niche perfumes, bonfires, autumn, nonograms, Hidden Uncanny Valley Ranch dressing, logic grid puzzles, carnival glass, point-and-click adventure games, being an old person, uranium glass, kheer (cardamom rice pudding), long lists, achievement hunting, The Real Housewives of the Beverly Hills (Lisa Rinna is my oshi), dragonfruit smoothies, banana milkshakes, the song ‘Hardware Store’ by Weird Al Yankovic
Dislikes
Losing track of time, losing at mahjong, losing internet connection, Loss, losing The Game, people not blaming themselves for the accident when it was their fault, taking poison damage, ankle blisters, last time chatters, wobbly ladders, games not running on Mac, me running on Mac, misprinted books, running in pantyhose, runs in pantyhose, being assigned ADC, tanking, doing karaoke/having to sing in general, dancing, snow, dead seaweed touching my foot, pond scum, digging ditches, weeding, peripheral dongles, emote slot limitations, skibidi toilet, 10 hour videos, overly reductionist hot takes, soft tofu, pointed-toed shoes, immersion breaks, Wormery of the highest and lowest orders, dead links, unarchived websites, paywalls, microtransactions, day one patches
Fun Facts
031.2: Miscellanies and Factbooks in American English
There is technically a gemstone made of cephalopods (things like squids, octopuses, and cuttlefish): ammolite is an organic gemstone made of the fossils of ammonites, which were in fact cephalopods
Octopuses, octopi, and octopodes are all technically acceptable plural nouns for the word ‘octopus’
Octopuses are not actually primates, even though they share similar characteristics, like being able to open jars. In fact, some primates can’t open jars. For instance, the average homo sapien cannot open a pickle jar without help, whereas a cephalopod has never been recording resorting to using hot water to loosen a metal lid.
Jellyfish aren’t cephalopods, but aren’t primates.
Serious Facts
098: Prohibited works, forgeries, hoaxes
I use a MacBook, so I can’t play many games with other streamers, and there’s many games I outright can’t play. I am saving up for a proper Windows gaming PC but I expect that take a long time. It’s expensive for me to get things shipped to R’lyeh.
I am unsure of my stream schedule, but hope to eventually be a full time streamer. I hope you in turn will become a full-time viewer.
I only have two blogs: Eldritch Etchings and Blog of Hours. Eldritch Etchings is my general purpose blog. Blog of Hours is for my posts about Weather Factory games like Cultist Simulator and Book of Hours.
Fun Facts About Me
133.2: Parapsychological and occult aspects of specific things
I have over 30 tentacles: 7 around the front of my face that I can use as flanges as well as sensors, and 17 that I use as limbs. Can you guess where the others are? Maybe show me in one of your #Eldrawings…
The first vehicle I learned to drive was a diesel tractor
I really like banana milk and banana milkshakes. I like both the ‘fake’ banana flavor and real bananas. I’m bananas for bananas.
I really enjoy spa days, but I only have them a few times a year because I get charged extra for pedicures because I have so many podes…
I am a pretty bad singer and an even worse dancer, so I am not trying to be an idol. I’m not a mermaid: I’m an eldritch abomination. Although, I suppose mermaids aren’t exactly quick on their feet either…
I’ve never played a full tabletop RPG campaign
Serious Facts About Me
647.99: Educational institutional housekeeping
My content is not appropriate for minors because it covers serious horror themes, but I’m not a lewd streamer personally. The games and content I cover may include themes like body horror.
I don’t drink, but I do vape and smoke cigarettes, which is part of why I don’t believe my content is appropriate for minors. I do not promote any substance use on my streams, but you can sometimes hear me smoke and vape.
I am a hag. There are a lot of cultural references I do not know, so you might need to explain them to me.
I am very new to the world of streaming. There will be ‘stream scuff.’ Please let me know if something is amiss. I do my best to reduce scuff ahead of time and during streams. Anomalies still slip through the cracks in the Cyclopean masonry of the space-time discontinuum.
Cringe Facts About Me
I did not realize that the phrase ‘I hate to see’m leave, love to see’m walk away’ was literally about watching people walk away and admiring their physique. I thought it was like the saying ‘if you love something, let it free.’ I said this phrase to dozens of people in situations that became inappropriate situations due to my utterance of these power words.
I am really bad at linguistics and learning languages. This weakness includes English-based languages as well. I cannot use CSS and HTML without utilizing heavy references, even for things I’ve done a thousand times, like adding <a href> tags.
One of my goals is to get a Massey Ferguson sponsorship because my father really wants a MF 8700 S. I know this won’t ever happen, so I’ll just save up to get it for him myself. Maybe they can send him a jacket?
My pops doesn’t really ‘get’ why people are watching, and suggests that I get a mocap suit and drive a tractor on cam on Dagon Farms to show off his inventions
Cursed Facts About Me
363.349: Specific kinds of disasters
I have an extra body part. Where most people only have two, I have three, arguably four, depending on the doctor you ask. I can neither confirm nor deny what the body part is.
I trained myself to have double jointed fingertips. It only took me about a week of training. Scientists will say it’s fake, but the proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is tapioca.
Some artificial vanilla flavors taste like popcorn butter to me, but I’m not a ‘supertaster’
I really enjoy utilizing alternative non-human senses, e.g. using my thermal vision to search for rats in the walls
My favorite raid message to use is ‘Happy Birthday!’ especially when it’s not the target’s birthday.
I rehearse what one streamer described as my ‘producer tags’ while swimming in the pool each morning. I have to explain to other swimmers that it’s voice work practice so they don’t get Concerned.
Short Term Goals
Learn how to use my 3DIO and process audio
Learn video editing
Purchase and learn how to use a Windows computer
Merch
I don’t have debut merch available. I have ideas for merchandise. However, they’re going to be revealed in a few months once I get my designs together and figure out the storefronts, etc.
I do want a GamerSupps flavor, and I know what flavor I want it to be.
Long Term Goals
Fully catalog Book of Hours and Cultist Simulator (and maybe Nyctodromy Traveling at Night when it comes out)
Show you all kinds of tricks I can do with my tentacles once I find somebody who can summon my form in yet another dimension
Make more game reskins/mods, maybe a full game of my own (I have an idea but I can’t program)
Get a car (maybe a Sea Wagon) so I can make nature recordings with my ASMR mic, because the equipment is heavy and there’s a lot of it
Get a land house so I can stream with privacy
Go to OffKai and MAGFest in 2026
Learn some Japanese (I am really bad at languages and linguistics)