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Fear Classes: UPDATE, and Epithets

Hey all, we have progress!

I've spent some time fiddling about and fine-tuning the diagram, and after some thought (and some help from @strawberoniii with Buried in particular), I have reached a stage where I am happy to move forwards.

First of all, lets get the new diagram out of the way:

(ITS ALL INTERLINKED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)

Patch notes:

The Colossi and Object/Landscape epithets of the Vast have been fused into a Colossi/Spaces epithet

The Buried was split into a Physical and Intangible epithet, and connected into the broader chart.

The Corruption & The Web (Spiders) were connected to the broader chart

The Vast (Insignificance) and the Desolation (Emotional Loss) have lost their connection

The Lonely moved from Human to Developed.

Formating

Now then, epithets.

As these are more specific than their general categories, I will be using these in my cataloging system going forward. However, the names in their current form are a bit, well, long. Below are my in-progress replacements:

Slaughter/Desolation amalgam -> The Razing (RAZ)

The Slaughter (Distinct) -> The Slaughter (SLA)

The End -> Terminus (TRM) (The software im using doesn't like having END in its entries :/)

The Extinction -> The Extinction (EXT)

The Desolation (Distinct) -> The Devestation (DVS)

The Desolation (Emotional) -> The Desolation (DES)

The Dark -> The Dark (DRK)

The Lonely -> The Lonely (LNY)

The Vast (Colossi/Spaces) -> The Falling Titan (TTN)

The Vast (Insignificance) -> ??? (Realy don't have a clue here, sry)

The Buried (Physical) -> Choke (CHK)

The Buried (Intangible) -> ??? (Again, sry)

The Corruption (Rot) -> The Crawling Rot (ROT)

The Corruption (Insects) -> The Hive (HVE)

The Web (Spiders) -> The Great Spider (SPI)

The Web (Powerlessness) -> The Mother of Puppets (MPT) (I know its long but its good)

The Hunt -> The Hunt (HNT)

The Eye (Watching) -> The Watcher (WCR)

The Eye (Being Known) -> Beholding (BHL)

The Spiral -> The Spiral (SPR)

The Stranger (Uncanny) -> The Stranger (STR)

The Stranger (Not Knowing) -> I Cannot Know (ICK)

The Flesh ('Just Flesh') -> Viscera (VSR)

The Flesh (Dysphoria/Dysmorphia) -> I Am Not My Flesh (NMF)

Ok, phew. Sorry for the long list, theres a lot of them. Crikey.

Almost all of these names were taken from, or sourced in, records we have in the Archive's, or broader ICASO's possession. Once again, I invite you to pipe in for ideas if you have any you're particularly passionate about.

Well.

Now, Biscuits, then, the catalogue, after that the world! Or, greater Oxfordshire. Idk.

Bye!

-Cass

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Fear Classes: Complete, and the OSS

And we have it! The chart of Epithetical Smirkian Classes of fear is complete. Behold!

Many thanks to all of you who helped out on this, most recently the contribution of Infinitesimal by @0-peddro. I'm really happy with it, and I hope you may be able to get some use out of it.

However, now that the epithets are complete, I can move onto the main project. The catalogue, and the OSS.

Now, as you all could probably figure out, and archive needs organising. And with something as wishy-washy as the supernatural, thats hard. So, I tried my best to create a solution. Key word, tried.

And well, here it is.

The Oxford Supernatural Serial (OSS)

The OSS, or 'Oxford Style', consists of three elements: Assignment, Manifestation, and Date. This is presented in the bellow form:

XYZ-0-YYYYMMDD

Now, beginning with the assignment. Each entry in the catalogue is assinged a epithet, based on which the manifestation in the entry most closely alignes with. The 24 epithets are listed below:

The Razing (RAZ) - Base violence/destruction

The Slaughter (SLA) - Indisciminant violence

Terminus (TRM) - Death, or life ending

The Extinction (EXT) - The world continuing without 'us'

The Devestation (DVS) - Destruction, usually physical

The Desolation (DES) - Emotional Loss

The Dark (DRK) - Darkness

The Lonely (LNY) - Isolation

The Falling Titan (TTN) - Colossi, huge spaces/structures

Infinitesimal (ITC) - Insignificance

Choke (CHK) - Physical suffocation, crushing

Too Much, Too Close (TCL) - Emotional suffocation

The Crawling Rot (ROT) - Rot, decay

The Hive (HVE) - Insects

The Great Spider (SPI) - Spiders

The Mother of Puppets (PPT) - Powerlessness, lack of control

The Hunt (HNT) - Being chased, followed

The Watcher (WCR) - Being watched

Beholding (BHL) - Being known

The Spiral  (SPR) - Impossible spaces

The Stranger (STR) - The uncanny

I Cannot Know (ICK) - Not knowing, being unable to know

Viscera (VSR) - Gore, being 'just meat'

I Am Not My Flesh (NMF) - Dysmorphia, dysphoria

In the event that an occurance can be related to multiple epithets with no clear choice as to which category best suites it, the classification MIX may be used. This classification is to be used in the form of

MIX:UVW:XYZ

with UVW and XYZ being the relevant epithets. For example, an entry with significant presence of rot and dysmorphia could be assigned

MIX:ROT:NMF

This can be extended as much as necessary.

Next, the manifestation. The manifestation of each occurance is the way in which the supernatural interacts with the world/recorder within the entry. This can be organised into one of four categories:

1 - Space/Location

2 - Object

3 - Animal

4 - Human

For example, if the subject of an entry was a cursed amulet, the entry would be assigned a 2.

Finally, date. This is the simplest. The date of an entry is simply the date of the occurance, in the format of date, month, year. For example, an entry for an occurance that took place on the 18th of October, 2018 woul read

20181018

If any part of the date is unknown, it is to be replaced with Xs.

Now, to give the full thing a test. Let us take an entry, taken on the 20th of April, 2025, where a warehouse worker spends weeks wandering the floor of the warehouse, which gradually alters and deforms as they progress through it, could be classified as follows:

SPR-1-20250420

Now this system does leave some room for subjectivity, but I feel it fulfills the aim well enough to serve as a useful classification system.

I'll probably be taking a short break now, before giving the back-log a proper crack, so you won't here much from me for a little bit, but Sara's still hanging about, and August should be back soon, and I'll get him on the computer to say hi to all of you. Until then, bye!

-Cass

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Fear Classes

Hello all, Cass here!

We've been making our way through the records we recieved from the East Oxford wardens. Not sure where they found them, but they seem to be mostly tapes, weirdly.

Anywho, skimmed most of them, a couple things came up. Firstly, these all seem to be from an organisation called the Magnus Institute? It was based in London, so its most likely long gone by now, but I might ask August to ask around about it.

Secondly, some of these seem to mention a system for organising these occurances, which they refer to as Smirke's Fourteen. It seems to be named for Robert Smirke, the architect, and supposed creator of the categories (and, funnily enough, the mentor of Charles Robert Cockrell, the designer of Oxford's own Ashmolean museum! How's that for your pub quiz?). These categories, while imperfect, seemed like a good jumping-off point for a catergorisation method of my own! Thats still in the works, but heres the work so far.

Smirke's Fourteen are as follows:

The Buried, the Corruption, the Dark, the Desolation, the End, the Eye, the Flesh, the Hunt, the Lonely, the Slaughter, the Spiral, the Stranger, the Vast, & the Web.

They are rather abitrary, and are not the only names used, but they're simple enough so I've used them in note-taking. They are also not binding, and each category covers a wide range of occurances, seemingly based on the 'type of fear' exhibited in the occurance.

To help visualise the 'types of fear' I encountered, and better understand the system as a whole, I made the below diagram:

(N.B. The Extinction, seen at the top-right of the diagram, was never formally accepted into the list, as there was much debate about whether it was distinct as a class, a epitaph of the End, or whether it existed at all. However, due to subdivisions made within the other fears, I felt it right to include it)

Across the top are not decrete buckets, but a marked scale, to help present the development of one fear into the next as the object of the occurance's capabilities to percieve 'the fear' develop. Base is animalistic, developed is such fears that can be found in more intelligent animals, human is, well, self-descriptive, and philosophical are those developed from humanity's delve into the philosophical world (these tend to be more existential in nature).

Most fears are multiple in nature, and as such can be separated into sub-classes, or epitaphes. I will probably end up naming these later, but we're still pretty swamped.

All in all, I think its a good start. I'm slightly annoyed by the way the Buried just hangs there, but thats life.

If any of you have any observations you might like to add, or additions you would like to make, just drop us a shout and we'll get on it! When we can.

And that's me done! Have a good day, et bon voyage!

-Cass

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Welcome to the Archive!

Founded almost six years after the London Incursion, the Independent Community Archive for Supernatural Occurences (ICASO) is a confederation of local archives and amateur supernaturalists across Oxfordshire and the surrounding areas. Formalised on White Horse Hill near Uffington, on the 8th of August, 2024 CE, ICASO exists to help cataloge supernatural occurances, those universalied in the London Incursion or otherwise.

While a county-wide organisation, the permanent staff consist of us three: Sara (she/they), Cassie (they/she), and August (he/him). Together, we hold primary stewardship over the compiled catalogue of supernatural events.

Internet, while back, is quite limited, and we've recently received a large influx of records from the wardens in the east oxford exclusion zone, so correspondance may be sparce, we will try and keep you all updated on the going of the project, and just keep in touch in general!

- Sara

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Hiii, regarding the Fear Classes diagram you made and the Buried being super duper lonely in there without any further subdivisions or links, I actually think there are some distinct ones!

To start, it usually presents as a pretty basic fear of, well, being buried and unable to breathe, but if we think about it less literally, it can also be the fear of pressure — maybe pressure from debt or even feeling emotionally 'unable to breathe' in relationships, not toxic per se but ones where you're treated fine but you just, can't, you know? I think these could be somewhere in the developed and human regions respectively however I'm bad at actually classifying in these frames yet.

Now we have these subdivisions:

The Buried (base)

The Buried (economic pressure (?))

The Buried (emotionally)

We can now see there's can be a link with the Web or the Lonely in regards to the last one, however that one may not be related to the buried at all, I simply wanted to suggest these!!

I would love to hear your take on this and whether it can works with the rest! Love your guys work, super interested in what you'll publish next!

First of all, THANK YOU. I really missed this aspect in my attempt, and probably would have preceded without it without this pointer.

Secondly, this proposal slots in really well with the chart. It will take a little jiggling, but I should have an updated one out in the next couple hours. Though, I might combine the economic pressure and emotional pressure, as the two are both intangible exhibitions of the fear.

Once again, I am eternaly greatful!

-Cass

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