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Deceit The reference library. Pattern dictionaries, recovery packets, and print-ready materials you can carry into a session, a meeting, or a 2 AM that needs them without a browser tab.

Every file is free. Every factual claim in every PDF traces to a source. Print them, share them, hand them across a table. The vocabulary is meant to travel.

Field Guide

The Pattern Field Guide

Volume I — Institutional & Interpersonal

The flagship reference: every lexicon pattern as a pocket dictionary, with recognition signals, stabilizing moves, and a guided tour of how patterns compound.

Pages
175 pages
Size
1.8 MB
Updated
2026-08-21
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Print copies at cost via Lulu

Recovery

Recovery Packet A: Escaping Coercive Control

Safety planning for leaving coercive relationships

Action-first safety planning: crisis lines, a leave checklist, and a stabilization worksheet. Built to the conventions domestic-violence shelters use.

Pages
6+ pages
Size
410 KB
Updated
2026-08-21
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Recovery Packet B: Recovering from Institutional Harm

For people leaving high-control groups and institutions

A guide for the weeks after leaving a cult, coercive religion, or high-control organization. Covers the disorientation, the identity void, and how to find a safe person.

Pages
7 pages
Size
401 KB
Updated
2026-08-21
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Recovery Packet C: Digital Safety and Stabilization

Tech safety for people being tracked or harassed online

A tech-safety guide for people being surveilled, stalked, or harassed through devices and accounts. Stalkerware detection, account lockdown, evidence preservation.

Pages
8 pages
Size
393 KB
Updated
2026-08-21
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Pattern Recognition Flash Cards

Duplex-printable, 118 entries

Tear-out flash cards for pattern drills. Print duplex, cut along the marks, and the front and back line up. Designed for study groups and therapy homework.

Pages
31 pages
Size
1.4 MB
Updated
2026-08-21
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Print at home, duplex, letter

Pattern Recognition Posters

11×17 tabloid, one pattern per page

Wall posters for classrooms, clinics, and community spaces. High-contrast, readable from across a room.

Pages
20 pages
Size
381 KB
Updated
2026-08-21
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Print at 11×17 tabloid

Methodology

Deceit Editorial Standards

How claims are selected, sourced, and framed

The editorial standard behind every piece: source selection, the fiction boundary, the corrections policy, and the pattern-first epistemology.

Pages
4+ pages
Size
203 KB
Updated
2026-08-21
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Deceit Annual Report

What was published, what was corrected, what changed

A yearly accounting: pieces published, sources cited, corrections issued, and the metrics the project tracks against its own standard.

Pages
4 pages
Size
137 KB
Updated
2026-08-21
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The Field Guide, Flash Cards, and Posters are designed for physical distribution. Print the flash cards duplex on card stock, cut along the crop marks, and the fronts and backs line up. The posters print at 11×17 tabloid. The Field Guide is saddle-stitch ready.

Print-on-demand copies of the Field Guide and research reports are available at cost through Lulu. No markup. The price is what the printer charges.

Fiction hub: deceit.world

The ARG artifacts (the Bureau Field Manual, the Recruitment Brochure, the Pattern Codex, and the Resistance Guide) live on the fiction hub. They use intentional visual corruption as part of their aesthetic; plain-text transcripts are available for screen readers.

Visit deceit.world →

Every factual assertion in these PDFs traces to a source in the frontmatter of the originating piece. If a claim cannot be sourced, it is removed or marked as speculation. See the editorial policy and corrections policy. If something here is wrong, use contact.