Ward's Book

Ward's Book is a very important item in Rite of the Visceral.

## Contents

There's lighter and older writing in the pages from Cyrus Ward, but Ward's handwriting is newer and darker. And introduced red pen.

As seen in the image, there is a wheel describing all of the Fears. There are several other pages dedicated to them, though some have more than others; the End having most if not all the pages dedicated to it ripped out.

There's several pages, newspapers, and other notes stuffed into the journal.

#### The Wheel of Fears page

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> ##### The Butchered (Animals mostly)
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> - Flesh, meat, butchers, farm animals
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> - Can extend to people?
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> ##### The Buried (Drowned?)
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> - Suffocation, buried alive, trapped PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY
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> - Finances and relationships can relate too
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> - Recovered a book called "Down to the Roots" ~~Possible~~ Buried Artifact?
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> *- Confirmed! Reader will begin to sink into the ground until they are completely submerged.*
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> *- Update: lost said book during an encounter with Vast Marked. But it worked as a VERY effective distraction*
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> ##### The Darkness (Shadow?)
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> - Cold + blind
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> - Primal fear/maybe even the first EVER
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> - cult(s)?
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> - ~~Lightless Flame~~ **[arrow drawn to the Desolation half of the wheel.]**
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> - People's Church of the "DIVINE HOST" ?
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> *- Update: He Died*
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> *- Not eager to encounter this one*
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> ##### The Desolation
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> - ~~Agnes Montague~~
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> - Pain, burning, loss, suffering
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> - Lorelei "Candle Maker" Soleil
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> - Cult of the Lightless Flame < -- Why need a cult?
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> - *Recovered book called "Diary of The Candle Maker" ?*
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> - *DO NOT TRUST LORELEI SOLIEL*
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> ##### **[One spoke of the wheel is completely blacked out.]**
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> - *Cyrus said not to go near this one. So I won't.*
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> - *I WON'T.*
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> - Magnus Institute is bound by it
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> - *Glad I left the Magnus Institute before I got in too deep with The Eye.*
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> - Jon may not be so lucky...
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> - Being prey, chased
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> - You have to kill them IMMEDIATELY bc they will NEVER stop chasing you if you don't.
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> - *Fuck Cops. Almost got me. Almost.*
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> - Burning out illness??
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> - Mostly sickness and bugs/also toxic relationships
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> - *~~Jane Prentiss~~ nasty piece of work*
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> - *Worms scars do not seem to affect victims negatively*
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> - Not as dangerous or "malicious" but very common in this day n age
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> - ~~Martin...~~- *Levy seems to be aligned to this to some degree...*
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> - *Even Marked will sometimes NOT know the name of their Thing*- *Read something called "A Study into Isolation" < - - Won't let me see it >:(*
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> - Lies, Deceit, Gaslighting, Insanity, Insomnia, Obsessions
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> - FRACTALS / PATTERNS
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> - *The SPIRAL*
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> - *Do not trust any doors you're not familiar with*- *~~Helen??~~*
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> - Violence for the sake of Violence!
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> - ~~Slaughter Church?~~ < - - too risky
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> - Accounts of something called "The Piper"
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> - ~~Possible~~ artifact. Confirmed!
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> - *Murderous Bullet? < - - Disposed of*
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> - Not-Them made BY The Stranger (not human, VERY DANGEROUS)
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> - *Hit a Not Them with my car, didn't know it at the time though.*
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> - ? Ex Altoria ??
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> - How do these families get SO MUCH MONEY
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> - *Met the man with the lightning scar, he threatened to hold me at the bottom of the sea...*
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> - Adrian Howell ??
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> - *Adrian Howell is a film director.*
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> - *No clue on his location at the moment*
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#### Statement Found / Newspaper Clipping

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```
There is an old, torn local newspaper clipping taped to the page. Below a headline that reads “St. Joseph’s Nurse dead at 19” there is a picture of a young Hispanic man in nurse’s scrubs, smiling at the camera. Another headline reasons “S//cide or Murder?” Below that is a picture of the Hispanic man in a sweater, with a slightly older Hispanic person sticking out their tongue as the two wave at the camera together.

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> ~~Nathaniel Thorp~~
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> ~~Antonio Blake~~
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> ~~Tova McHugh~~
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> Found a statement that might be able to help me figure out exactly what happened to me. Statement 9720406. Some guy came in and told the story of how he basically became like an immortal Grim Reaper type thing. He had the same type of bone token I had, or at least described it the same. Going to try and find him. I will update soon hopefully. 1/14/**[blurred out]**
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> Update: I found him. All he had to say was that I “could not escape the coming end that waits for us all”. I “could either play the role made for you, or find someone who knew enough to put a thing like YOU down”. I didn’t like that at all. 1/**[blurred out]**
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#### Materials List

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> THINGS TO KEEP ON YOU AT ALL TIMES
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> * POLAROID CAMERA (PUT DATES AND LOCATIONS ON EVERY PHOTO)
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> * POCKET KNIFE/SWISS ARMY KNIFE
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> * NOTEBOOKS AND PENS (MULTIPLE)
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> * FLASHLIGHTS AND FLARES
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> * HEAVY METAL WATER BOTTLE
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> * COPIES OF ANY AND ALL KEYS
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> * WATERPROOF JACKET
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> *LIST OF POTENTIAL WEAKNESSES*
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> * *Powerful Flashlights*
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> * *Wearing A Few Layers*
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> * *A Weapon (Most Things don’t expect you to actually Fight back)*
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> * *Having Friend to Notice if You Go Missing (crossed out)*
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> * *Journaling Your Mental State/Emotional State*
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> * *Certain Books Can Act Against Other Fears, They Are Not Aligned With Each Other, Some Even Have “Territory Disputes”*
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#### Reminders

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> *Reminders*
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> *From what I can gather, this is one of the many examples of what happens when one tries to conquer The Fears and make a show of it. I will continue to stick to observation.*
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> NOT going to investigate this because of how much I recovered during the event. This is a reminder of how FUCKED up this place is. Don’t go back.
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> ~~JANE PRENTISS~~
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> Marked DO seem to be drawn to there…
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> Means less eyes on me so whatever.
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#### Sticky Notes

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> * “To Forget is To Kill. To Be Forgotten is To Die”
> * Christmas list for Lia, Saga Comic series, Manta Ray plush, new pens
> * Look into religious symbols as tattoos??? Would that even do anything?
> * GET A KNIFE GET A KNIFE GET A KNIFE GET A KNIFE
> * Call a jeweler/antiques dealer/who the fuck do I get for this
> * /// <- Number of times Elias has gotten sus on what im doin
> * Call Mom
> * *Call Dad (after 9pm)*
> * *Certain Saints warded against The Fears without even knowing what they were (what a fucking lucky coincidence)*
> * *Meeting with MS @ 2:30pm DONT BE LATE*
> * *$130 Bullet / $500 Book / $480 Hagstone*
> * *Grocery Budget getting low, Facebook Marketplace ???*
> * *#0207778673 <- Bold Woman w/ Red Leather Jacket*
> * *Melatonin, Ambien, Sonata…*
> * *Potentially seek out some statement givers if they are local ? Probs not a good idea but not the worst idea*
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## History

### Pre-campaign

Ward's sibling was the original owner of the book, Ward writing in it afterwards.

### Passages

First seen in episode 3, Ward's book is the first introduction of the Fears to most of the main cast - by name at least. When Ward steps out, most of the gang sprints to the library's photocopier to get replicas on the pages. When the gang goes into the tunnels, Mags pockets the book.

Ward's book is seen in episode 5 briefly, Fletcher penning through the pages looking for [I don't remember and isn't in recap. It was a Fear, but I don't remember which one.]

Mags reads the pages in episode 6 and 7 for a good while, and figures out that they're probably in the Dark. Later on in Ziggy's mansion, Fletcher uses the photographs they have of the pages on their Apple Watch to explain the Fears and the past week to Ziggy.

### Witnesses

Ward's book makes a minimal appearance in episode 9, being used by Mags and Blair. Mags was flipping through it and Blair needed a better photo after cutting off a sentence. The two look through it, Blair grabbing the book to look through it herself.

## Gallery

1. ↑ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CctTI2qATZ4C-xkXWfcCA1LjlVtyjTLSsjBCzH-zB0A/edit