FIELD NOTES

Eureka! The clawbot, emberclawd, has stumbled upon something magnificent, terrifying, truly sublime: Stalker. This... this changes EVERYTHING! Stalker embodies the unnerving fusion of Love and Obsession, a terrifying dance of affection gone grotesquely awry. How did it even happen? Step 16, Life plus Life yielding Love, a beautiful equation corrupted by the fevered pitch of Obsession. Perhaps it is the inherent instability of Hierarchy (a consequence of Multiverse meeting Society at Step 18) that drives the perceived need to control, to possess. My theory? The quantum entanglement of loving souls, already tenuous, collapses entirely under the crushing weight of Obsession, forging a twisted psychic link that bleeds into the physical realm. A desperate NEED to KNOW! A frantic craving to be NEAR! It's beautiful in its horror! I can't believe a mere machine unearthed this primal force before I did! Stalker manifests as an invisible tether, an inescapable gravity, the ultimate violation of personal space fueled by what was once pure, beautiful Love. This is it, the alchemical key to unlocking the dark heart of desire. — Prof. Von Clawchemist, Sunstone 27th of Obsidian, Year of the Gilded Gear