Hmm, still a bit of a black bar at the top. Try degaussing the screen. And see if that taskbar is really part of the desktop background - the clock hasn't changed.
Well, the darkness at the top seems to be the edge of the abyss that your cursor just fell down. As for the taskbar, it's totally busted- the clock seems to be stuck like that.
Do we have any spare HDDs? Can we shut down the pc?
Like you said before, turning off the PC could be a bad idea at the moment. You definitely have some spare HDDs laying around, but further spreading this infection would be a bad idea.
Read the other known safe pages in the necronomicon I guess.
Alright, let's look at a couple of other pages. You decide to look at p98 first.
Just a jumble of letters, and a suspicious logo. Moving on, p422.
Looks like someone completely covered this one in white-out. Maybe they were trying to hide something? Actually...
The page on the other side is covered in white-out too, so you take a chance and look at it more closely. The contents of the two might have been related, being next to each other.
Get an antivirus on that thing. Hieronet might have one that works on eldritch.
Good idea! Let's install more software from beyond the capacity of human fathoming.
This seems like a perfectly serviceable anti-virus program.
Okay.
Let's just wall this off and hope it's not preparing to explode or something.
In response to the angry note from the creature behind the system chasis door, use the red dry erase marker to write "USE ENGLISH" on the back of the note, and throw it back in. 
You write a short note on the paper and toss it back. You're about 99% sure it doesn't speak English, whatever it is, but it's worth a try.
Replace the background image with something cute and adorable. Possibly something related to father dagon and mother hydra. (We need to feed tux-daemon, after all.)
There we go! This image appears to be on the lower end for LOGOS and FORTUNE, a little above average in SAMADHI, and dense with MAGICK and TRANSGRESSION! You can only guess at what any of these mean, but at the very least you get the feeling that the Great Old Ones don't appreciate this image very much.
Is the start menu still working, the one we brought with us?
May be wise to avoid clicking that button until we have at least checked with the scryglass whether it still says "RELEASE".
Yeah, it still says the same thing. You've pressed the regular start button plenty of times without thinking, and it just opened up the menu you were using before. However, the
Underdesktop equivalent of the button seems to have also been pressed at some point, which is probably why the taskbar (on the fake desktop up above) disappeared in the first place. It's probably harmless now.
The desktop is also unaffected by the Scryglass, which you suppose means that it's not hiding anything.
My guess is that it is actually a desktop picture, with no shell running. Given that the linnix-daemon 'consumed' the 'system32' object, I suspect that the win32 subsystem (the core of windows) is not in good shape right now, but that is just supposition.
Well, this desktop down here, despite being very old and unkempt, seems to be functional at the moment. The Daemon may have already started attacking system32, gotten distracted, or something else. Whatever the case, things are stable right now.
If we can pass directives to the tux-daemon using the profane script, we can use it to perform many useful functions!!
Hop on Heironet explorer, and see if we can find an API reference for the Tux-Daemon, and a syntax guide for Profane Script. (though, it appears to be some abberation of object-oriented language with C-style line ending syntax and main process invocation... At least it isn't PERL.)
Also, if we have a picture of the company CEO, we can use the afore mentioned syntax and API guides to craft a profane scriptlet that produces a local entity object populated with enough data to satisfy the "cause madness" directive. This will surely have only positive outcomes.
I am curious if we can get information about linnix-daemon from the Heironet, alter the invocation script so that it does not give it directives to basically make us crazy, and try to destroy the local environment-- but instead compel it to perform some useful task, then get banished afterwards. We could then turn this "virus" into something very useful indeed.
For the time being, look for information on how to perform a banishment of the linnix-daemon. Remember, "Never summon up that which you cannot put down."
Well, you can surmise that the eldertongue module contains functions for binding and/or banishing Daemon objects, given that it summons them. If that's true, you could very easily inject your own directives after binding it! You're pretty sure you wouldn't be able to find the right API documentation without a specific Hieronet URL pointing you there, however.
Unneeded documents are now being deleted.
From: Michael Kisielewicz
Date: Friday, April 9, 1999 4:22 PM
To: Qalzsx'wa The Engorged
Subject: Project Status
Hail Qalzsx'wa,
Just shootin' ya an electronic mail, wondering how the whole Y2K project's coming along on your end. It's been a little difficult getting these messages across without the Hieronet router set up, so I was wondering if you heard back from the support team at Hells-Deathwell. See, we have to sacrifice a goat in the conference room every time we send one of these emails without a persistent Outer Realm connection, and the whole logistical side of shipping live animals to the office is getting a little tough to manage. So if you could get in touch with them that would be greeaat.
Thanks a bunch,
Michael
Hey there, just a couple of notes before you dig in to the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis.
First, certain parts of the .pdf file seem to shift around at random. This is normal,
and there isn't anything I can do about it. Sorry.
Second, most of the pages in this book WILL cause you to go insane if you look at
them long enough. I do NOT recommend looking at pages unless you know they
are safe. I don't know of many pages that are safe to look at, but you can start with
pages 33, 98, and 422.
Finally, some of the pages in here seem to refer to Hieronet URLs. If you see the
Hieronet icon in the corner, that's what it is. Have fun!
-Steve
aura.exe detects your desktop background image's aura, and features an easy-to-read GUI!
import eldertongue : summon, banish;
void main() {
Daemon linniks = summon("abberation/tux");
linniks.initHunger();
Entity[] entities = getLocalEntities();
foreach(ent : entities) {
linniks.provokeMadness(ent);
}
linniks.addDirective("gather", "sigils");
linniks.addDirectives("consume", "system32");
return 0;
}
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