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DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: LEVEL 5 - D
Recordkeeping and Information Security Administration
Date: 01/08/████
ID: RAISA: C-████
Subject: Esmeralda L████ Cree
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NAME: Esmeralda Lucielle Cree
ASSIGNMENT: Chief of Antimemetics Division,
CLEARANCE ACCESS: SR-Level 4 •
CURRENT LOCATION: Site‑17
PUBLIC DOSSIER INFO
PUBLIC DOSSIER INFO
Esmeralda L. Cree
DATE OF BIRTH: ██/██/1997 ~ 29 APROX.
Status: DECEASED [UNKNOWN]
HAIR COLOR: BROWN
EYE COLOR: GREEN
HEIGHT: 5'4
WEIGHT: 113.5
LANGUAGES: ENGL. SPN.
MARKS: N/A
CITIZEN:████████
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NOTES:
Esmeralda Lucielle Cree serves as the Chief of the Antimemetics Division at Site‑17, a role that places her at the center of the Foundation’s most cognitively corrosive work. Her presence is quiet but unmistakably sharp the kind of person who sees more than she says, and remembers more than she lets on.
serving as the operational lead for the Foundation’s unlisted Antimemetics Division. Prior to her recruitment, she collaborated with DARPA on immersive cognitive shielding (ICS) frameworks, focusing on trauma‑encoded memory distortions and resistance to cognitohazardous stimuli.
Her transition into Foundation service was quiet but deliberate; her ICS research demonstrated an unusual aptitude for perceiving and modeling information‑resistant entities. Within two years, she advanced from theoretical analyst to field‑strategy architect, designing containment protocols for several high‑risk antimemetic threats.
She is currently single and maintains no dependents or external attachments, a factor noted as beneficial for personnel assigned to cognitively volatile environments.
Years of exposure to information‑resistant anomalies have shaped her into someone who moves carefully, speaks precisely, and treats memory as a fragile, valuable resource. She’s not cold, but she is extremely deliberate.
Despite her position as Chief of the Antimemetics Division, Dr.Cree has repeatedly demonstrated resistance to being treated as an expendable operational asset. This stance has been documented informally by multiple senior staff and corroborated through indirect observation.
10/20/████
A private meeting occurred between Dr. Cree and a high‑ranking overseer. No transcript exists. Witnesses reported that the interaction bore structural similarity to a previously documented confrontation involving former ████████ ████████████ ████ and an ██ Council member.
In both cases, the overseer attempted to assert unilateral authority over divisional leadership, framing the individual as a deployable resource rather than a strategic decision‑maker.
Dr. Cree stated that the Division’s work required leadership, not exploitation, And Whatever the overseer expected from her obedience, fear, compliance — they didn’t get it. And afterward, the matter was quietly dropped. .
If anything You would expect Amnestication perhaps a beating into compliance but she seems to stand her ground
The Ethics Committee has initiated passive observation of Dr. Cree. Their internal communications (to which RAISA maintains partial access) indicate uncertainty regarding her alignment with Committee expectations.
Their posture remains undefined neither supportive nor adversarial.
This ambiguity is consistent with historical Ethics Committee responses to leadership, whose operational domains often fall outside the Committee’s perceptual and procedural frameworks.
RAISA assesses that Ethics is unsure whether Dr. Cree’s approach represents a stabilizing influence or a potential procedural deviation.
CONCLUSION
Dr. Cree functions as the primary stabilizing element within the Antimemetics Division. Her refusal to be treated as a disposable asset is consistent with the operational demands of her role and aligns with historical precedent for leadership within cognitively hazardous departments.
No further administrative action recommended.
I. Collegiate Record (████–████)
Cree entered ████████████ University under a dual major in Psychology and Political Science, demonstrating early indicators of high‑acuity emotional reasoning and pattern recognition. Faculty reports describe her as “preternaturally attuned to trauma‑linked cognition” and note her tendency to identify psychological substructures in case studies that other students overlooked.
By Year Two, Cree was recruited into the university’s Model United Nations program. Her performance at the ████ National Summit—representing South Vietnam during the height of the Vietnam War—was flagged by observers for its “unsettling emotional accuracy.” Judges cited her closing statement as “strategic empathy bordering on clinical dissection.” She placed 2nd overall.
Parallel to her academic work, Cree secured a competitive internship with DARPA, Cognitive Science & Neuroscience Division. Her assigned research cluster focused on memory encoding under high‑stress conditions, with emphasis on trauma‑linked neural fragmentation. Internal DARPA memos note that her field notes were “unusually poetic” and circulated informally among senior researchers.
Cree graduated early, with honors.
She did not attend commencement.
Reason:[DATA EXPUNGED]
In ████, Site‑██ contacted DARPA under the guise of a joint research initiative titled “Psychological Routine for Memory Dissonance.”
The request was routed to Cree due to her specialization in trauma‑linked fragmentation.
Upon transfer, Cree was briefed on the true nature of the project:
Containment‑adjacent cognitive stabilization for personnel exposed to non‑standard stimuli.
Her contributions were instrumental in the early development of SRB, a mixed‑reality cognitive defense protocol designed to:
• Overwrite anomalous influence
• Re‑establish stable neural patterns
• Flood compromised cognition with controlled virtual data
• Prevent memetic or infohazard‑induced identity erosion
Internal notes indicate Cree demonstrated an unusual tolerance for exposure to prototype SRB environments, with no measurable degradation.
This remains unexplained.
NOTES RECOVERED:
The Scantron Reality Buoy (SRB) is a passive‑active ontokinetic monitoring device used to measure and log local Hume levels. It provides early detection of reality instability, ontological distortion, and activity consistent with reality‑altering or antimemetic phenomena.
Core Mechanism
Each SRB contains a sealed, non‑anomalous reference core with a fixed Hume value. Environmental Hume levels are sampled continuously and compared against this internal constant. Deviations are logged as Hume differentials, indicating local reality weakening, strengthening, or distortion.
Antimemetic entities frequently produce measurable ontological distortion despite being cognitively inaccessible. SRBs remain one of the few instruments capable of detecting their presence indirectly through reality‑field disruption.
Notes
Device reliability is dependent on the integrity of the reference core. No tampering or recalibration is authorized outside Ontokinetics Engineering.
She was assigned to the project as a junior cognitive analyst, unaware of its true nature. Her work on immersive shielding protocols (ICS) for memory fragmentation impressed Foundation observers embedded in the project. Her ability to translate trauma into actionable neural defense strategies was described as “intuitive, poetic, and dangerously effective.”
After the project concluded, she was approached by a Foundation front—posing as a research think tank. She was offered a choice:
Accept a position with full clearance and access to the truth behind the project
Or be amnesticized and reassigned
NOTE: I do wish the poor girl gave herself time to live before she jumped into a place where the only rest is death.
BLUEPRINT OF ICS FOUND BELOW: RECOVERED COPY
Following her tenure with DARPA on Immersive Cognitive Shielding (ICS), Dr. Esmeralda L. Cree was quietly transferred into what would later be designated the Antimemetics Division. Her research into trauma‑linked memory dissonance, identity drift, and non‑linear recall patterns made her an ideal candidate for work involving cognitohazards and information‑resistant entities.
Cree began as a junior analyst assigned to theoretical modeling of memory‑resistant phenomena. Within two years, she was leading containment strategy development for multiple antimemetic threats through Reverse Containment protocols. By year seven, she was appointed Division Chief.
INCIDENT REPORT : 1744570
INCIDENT REPORT : 1744570
Over a period of several years, Subject Cree underwent scheduled SCP‑████ exposure on a fixed 42‑day cycle. During each exposure event, all outbound communication channels were sealed. No coherent information was permitted to exit the containment unit.
This restriction was enforced without exception.
Following each exposure cycle, Subject Cree was transferred to a controlled purge chamber.
The chamber was configured to deliver a calibrated aerosolized dose of Class‑C amnestic gas for ████, with the stated objective of eliminating all residual cognitive traces of SCP‑████ structure, influence, or conceptual imprinting.
Procedure was tolerated without recorded deviation.
Long‑term neurological impact remains unassessed.
In ████, immediately prior to her final scheduled entry into SCP‑███ containment, Dr. Cree self‑administered a dose of Class‑█ mnestics, a compound still under experimental review at the time.
Acquisition method remains unknown.
Pharmacy logs show no requisition, authorized or otherwise.
████████‑class mnestics: permit perception and retention of antimemetic phenomena; produce broad‑spectrum memory enhancement. ██████ compounds: pharmacological agents designed to counteract or reverse memory erasure; commonly deployed within the Antimemetics Division.
Both classes target neural pathways associated with long‑term memory consolidation, enabling the development of non‑anomalous mnestic derivatives.
A single dose of ██████ renders the subject biochemically incapable of forgetting for the remainder of their lifespan.
These compounds are invariably fatal, with terminal seizures typically occurring within hours of administration.
At ██:██, Chaos Insurgency operatives initiated a coordinated assault on Site‑17’s lower containment sectors.
Entry was achieved through compromised maintenance infrastructure.
Within minutes, multiple SCP objects breached containment due to:
Power rerouting failures
Lockdown system desynchronization
Loss of internal security oversight
Foundation casualties began accumulating within the first 11 minutes of the incursion.
At ██:██, SCP‑███ was released due to failure of the amnestic protocol.
No alarms triggered.
This is consistent with SCP-███s known antimemetic properties.
Containment breach was total and irreversible within seven minutes of initial CI penetration.
CHANNEL: Site‑17 Internal Emergency Band
TIME: ██:██ (T+14 minutes post‑breach)
STATUS: Logged by RAISA automatically; sender unresponsive after transmission.
TRANSCRIPT BEGIN:
Command, this is Lt. Maren T. Solis
I’m making this transmission for record only. We’ve lost the east wing.
Multiple containment failures — not recoverable. Casualty count rising.
I’m not going to list names. You’ll see the logs there are bodies everywhere lined with the same badge and the same uniform.
we have found a wing underneath near sector..christ I dont know what floor were on. This Wing is compromised.
We have visual confirmation of a total collapse in what looks like to be a reverse containment procedure,
No alarms, no system response. It’s just… gone.
Whatever was holding it in place isn’t holding anymore.
Command, I need you to understand something for the record:
this wasn’t negligence. This wasn’t a procedural failure.
This was perfect circumstances. CI breach, system collapse, those antimemes they call them. whatever it is. People are going Nuts here.
No one here had a chance to stop it.
We’re falling back to secondary positions.
If this is the last update you get from me, -
In the aftermath of the breach, recovery teams located twenty deceased individuals scattered throughout Site‑17, none of whom appeared in any personnel roster, clearance registry, or digital employment record. Each corpse wore a nametag bearing the same designation — [DATA EXPUNGED] — a division that does not exist in any current Foundation schema and for which no budget, command structure, or historical documentation can be found. Initial assumptions labeled the tags as counterfeit or the result of a cognitohazard, but forensic analysis contradicted this: the uniforms matched Foundation standard issue from circa 201█, the bodies carried mnestic residue consistent with ████████████‑class exposure, and four individuals were found clutching vials containing approximately 90 mL of ██████, a substance no active department should have had access to. Attempts to trace the origin of [DATA EXPUNGED] resulted in deletion of internal references; archived mentions resolved into corrupted files or blank entries, and verbal recollections among senior staff dissolved under mnestic review. RAISA has concluded that the division either never existed, or existed in a form that has since been conceptually erased — leaving only the bodies behind as evidence that something once operated within Site‑17 that the Foundation can no longer remember.
TAKEN PHOTO UPON OPENING OF SITE 17: RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
This should never have reached her team.
The breach, the cascade of system faults, the antimemetic collapse — none of it was inevitable.
We built a structure that could not withstand the pressure we placed on it, and then we asked good people to hold it together with their bodies.
Solis deserved better.
Lambda‑5 deserved better.
The ones who died deserved so much butter.
I can’t put this in the official report.
RAISA doesn’t deal in regret, and the Ethics Committee would call this “unproductive sentiment.”
I know how many warnings were dismissed because they were inconvenient, or expensive, or politically difficult to acknowledge
This was preventable.
And I hate that word preventable because it means every death that followed was not a tragedy, but a consequence. of our own actions that led us to this moment.
Solis apologized to us.
She shouldn’t have had to.
They administered the amnestics at the end of the meeting and I walked back to my office with that familiar hollow clarity, the edges of my memory smoothed down like glass. But the moment I opened the incident folder, the moment I saw the twenty bodies with no names, no records, no history, all wearing the same erased designation, something in me recoiled. Not because I remembered them, but because I could feel the shape of what I was supposed to forget. Their e deletions, the corrupted archives, the blank spaces where entire divisions should be all of it too precise, too targeted to be incidental. They didn’t want me to see the pattern. They didn’t want me to ask why a nonexistent department left twenty corpses behind. They didn’t want me to connect this to the breach, to Solis, to the failures we already know were preventable. The amnestics didn’t take the truth;
they only took the parts that made it obvious. And standing there, staring at those impossible bodies, I realized exactly what the Ethics Committee was trying to erase: not the event, not the division, but the Foundation’s responsibility for both. And I hate that I can feel the gaps in my own mind — the places where the truth used to be — and that they expect me to pretend those gaps mean nothing.
No one In RAISA remembers this, nor of the site, documenting it after our perservation efforts have gone to waste , I do believe they put amnestics within our water supply knowing we would rely on said supply since we are in the middle of nowhere.
I saw them leave via the helipad we have taking their smartasses and their "so called ethics" with them.
PERSONNEL ROSTER, DECEASED INDIVIDUALS
PERSONNEL ROSTER, DECEASED INDIVIDUALS
- Dr. Halvorsen M. Idden – Head of Experimental Cognitohazards [DECEASED]
- Lt. Maren T. Solis – Tactical Response, Site-17 [DECEASED]
- Dr. R. Anwar – Lead Analyst, Mnestic Pharmacology [DECEASED]
- Agent K. Dreyfus – Field Operative, Retrieval [DECEASED]
- Dr. L. Osei – [DECEASED]
- Dr. Juno M. Vance – Archivist, [DECEASED]
- Dr. S. Kettering – Containment Specialist, [DECEASED]
- Dr. T. Rho – Architect [DECEASED]
- Dr. Elian M. Cross – Ethics Liaison, Antimemetics Division
- Agent 'Requiem' - [DECEASED]
- Dr. H. Kuroda – Consultant, [DECEASED]
- Dr. I. Sorell – Head of Site-17 Psychological Evaluation Unit [DECEASED]
- Dr. E. Cree – Antimemetics Division Chief [DECEASED]
- Dr. V. Malkin – Researcher, Recursive Threat Analysis [DECEASED]
- Dr. A. Zhen – Junior Researcher, Countermemetic Linguistics [DECEASED]
- Dr. C. Ravel – Emergency Mnestic Deployment Officer [DECEASED]
- Dr. O. Thorne – Director, [DECEASED]
- Dr. M. Kessler – Internal Affairs, Post-Breach Audit Team
- Dr. Y. Saito – Specialist, Antimemetic Entity Taxonomy [DECEASED]
- Dr. E. Virell – (Redacted) – [DECEASED]
To: You (UNKNOWN)
From: Chris Aster <caster@site7.scp>
Subject:Funeral.
Hey. Hope you got back to base safe after the service ended.. It was a nice funeral, I think. She would've liked it. Never was the type for big fancy events.
Anyhow, I was writing to share this. We found it on a USB among her possessions. If Maria Jones wanted to sneak something past the Foundation, she would've done it before she died, and probably would've gotten away with it too.
Sorry, got distracted again. Evie's taking it pretty hard. Take a look once you get back on-site. I think you'll see how true she was to her position.
Sometihng about the previous site we decommissioned due to-..well im not really sure why.
Chris Aster
RAISA Assistant Director
MEDICAL LOG
MEDICAL LOG
Medical Log — Site‑65 Recovery Wing
Patient: Esmeralda Lucielle Cree
Author: ██████, Neuropsychology Unit
Date: ███/██/20██
Her mind came in burned. Not literal burns, but close enough. The neural scans look like someone tried to cauterize trauma with fire. Entire pathways seared, others overgrown, all of it unstable. We Have no idea what she took. or where she got them from we did some digging and pharmacy records are spotless, but wounds are that similar to of amnestics. She doesn’t remember Site‑██. That’s probably for the best Ci seemed to have taken everyone alive in that place.. She doesn’t remember anything. God help us, how that entire site was wiped.
She came in via Helipad A, with three other MTF members that look way above my paygrade for me to know of. I looked behind them, there was a body, the same uniform as them.
Im getting ahead of myself.
Her memory pathways are hyperactive, oscillating between total blankness and perfect recall. She forgets everything we tell her, but can recite it hours later with word‑for‑word precision. It’s not amnesia. It’s not retention. It’s something in between like her brain is holding knowledge behind a locked door and only opening it when we’re not looking.
We’ve started her on a controlled dose of Class‑█ to induce cognitive fatigue and counteract the lingering effects of the possible amnestic overdose. Ethics barely signed off, and only under direct O5 pressure. She believes she’s a medical trainee now. That was not intentional, but it’s the only identity she hasn’t rejected outright.
We issued her Class‑D analgesics labeled as ibuprofen for the headaches — a cover until the Class‑█ stabilizes her neural activity. She should not have survived the original dose. The seizures alone should have stopped her heart. No one survives that compound. No one walks away from it.
She doesn’t forget, but she doesn’t remember either. It’s as if her mind is choosing what to reveal and what to bury, holding back knowledge that should have killed her, knowledge that still might.
This log is being passed directly to Site‑65 medical leadership.
[DATA REDACTED]
From: ██████, Neuropsychology Unit
To: Site‑65 Medical Leadership , CL5 holders
CC: Neurology, Cognitive Stabilization Team
Subject: Forwarding CAT/Neural Imaging — Patient Cree, E.L. (Abnormal Findings)
Attachments: CREE_NEUROSCAN_███.dcm, CREE_CORTICALMAP_███.png
Team,
Forwarding the most recent CAT and cortical‑activity scans for Patient Esmeralda Lucielle Cree. I’ve annotated the abnormalities directly on the imaging files, but I’m summarizing the critical findings below for clarity.
1. Cortical Scarring Pattern (Non‑Traumatic)
The scans show extensive scarring along the hippocampal formation and prefrontal integration pathways. This is not consistent with physical injury. The pattern resembles thermal cauterization as if someone attempted to burn out trauma at the neural level. We have no known procedure or compound that produces this signature.
I will be running back labs and bloodwork, maybe we can send her home. or at least ger her a bunk here.
NOTES
NOTES
I don’t know what I’m looking at anymore. The compound in Cree’s system whatever it is isn’t like anything in our pharmacology database. It’s not a sedative, not a stimulant, not a toxin. It’s something else entirely. Something designed to do… I don’t even know what. The molecular structure looks engineered to interact with memory pathways directly, like a chemical key turning locks in the brain. I’ve never seen anything like it. I don’t think I was ever supposed to.
I shouldn’t have written that down. I shouldn’t even be thinking it.
Because I’ve seen what happens when staff stumble onto things they’re not cleared for. They get sent to “debriefing.” They come back smiling, calm, and missing entire conversations. Entire days. Entire years. I don’t know what the Foundation uses to do that pills, injections, procedures but I’ve seen the aftermath. People forget. People forget perfectly.
(Local autosave. Not submitted.)
I keep watching her. I keep watching the way she forgets something the moment we tell her, then repeats it back hours later.That shouldn’t be possible. Not with the damage in her scans. Not with the state her hippocampus is in. And yet she does it over and over. like her brain is running two different things and only letting us see one.
And now that I’ve analyzed the compound in her blood, I think I understand why.
Or at least… I understand enough to be afraid.
The substance isn’t a sedative. It isn’t a stabilizer. It isn’t anything we stock. It interacts with memory directly not psychologically, but chemically. It forces recall. It forces retention. It forces the brain to hold onto things it shouldn’t be able to hold. And if that’s true, then whatever she took is the reason she can remember things after forgetting them.
I don’t know what this stuff is called. I don’t know who made it. I don’t know why we don’t have records of it. But I know what it does. I’ve seen the effects before — not the substance, but the opposite of it. I’ve seen people walk into a room terrified and walk out calm and empty, like someone wiped the slate clean. I’ve seen memories vanish. I’ve seen people lose entire days and not even notice.
And now I’m sitting here with a chemical that does the reverse. Something that forces memory instead of erasing it. Something that shouldn’t exist if the Foundation really has the ability to make people forget.
PATIENT INFORMATION
Current Medications (per patient): N/A
Current Functioning: Unknown
Orientation: Caucasian
Age: ██ (patient unable to recall)
Gender: Female
Appearance/Hygiene: Fair; hair matted, unkempt
Eye Contact: Minimal to none
DATE: THREE MONTHS AFTER EXPOSURE, IE. 4 "YEARS" TOLD
PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS
Hallucinations:
☐ None ☐ Auditory ☐ Visual ☐ Olfactory ☐ Gustatory
(Unable to assess; patient’s responses inconsistent)
Delusions:
☐ Bizarre ☐ Grandiose ☐ Jealousy ☐ Nihilistic ☐ Persecutory ☐ Reference ☐ Somatic
(Presentation suggests possible persecutory and referential content, but patient unable to articulate)
PROBLEM LIST
☐ No HTN ☐ DM ☐ Lipids ☐ Heart Disease
☐ Smoking ☐ Mental Illness ☐ Learning/Cognitive Impairment
☐ Compliance Difficulties
☐ Hypertension ☐ Diabetes Mellitus ☐ Hyperlipidemia
☐ Prior TIA/Stroke ☐ Coronary Heart Disease
☐ Smoking History ☐ Obesity ☐ Sedentary Lifestyle
☐ Cognitive Impairment (checked)
☐ Seizure Disorder (checked)
☐ Compliance Issues (checked)
☐ Mood Disorder
☐ Personality Disorder
DIAGNOSIS
Patient presents with symptoms consistent with schizoaffective disorder, depressive type, including intermittent psychotic features, disorganized thought patterns, and emotional incongruity.
Cognitive function is significantly impaired by prior exposure to Class‑█ memory‑altering compounds, resulting in:
– Persistent memory instability
– Identity fragmentation
– Non‑linear recall loops
– Fugue‑state conditioning (Class F)
– Pharmacological masking via disguised Class‑D amnestics
Compliance with therapeutic protocol remains inconsistent.
Patient is considered high‑risk for identity destabilization if exposed to restricted documentation or anomalous stimuli related to Site‑██.
Further clinical observation is required.
NOTES:
NOTES:
Cree told me today she was “so excited” to finally be promoted to Consultant. Said she’d been working here for years and it had finally paid off. I almost choked on my water.
Who the fuck approved clearance for her in the span of a few MONTHS?
This is the worst possible thing you could have done. If she finds that file if she sees even one line of her real history everything we’ve built around her identity, her role, her perception of this workplace will collapse.
You better pray.
For fuck’s sake, someone needs to lock this file down permanently. I’m not cleaning up the aftermath.
From:HKessler@SCiPNET.FND
To: ██████
CC: Clinical Oversight, Documentation Compliance
Subject: RE: Improper Addendum in Incident Report #5
██████,
This message serves as formal notice regarding the unapproved commentary appended to Incident Report #5.
You are reminded that Trainee Cree’s role Now consultant's, clearance level, and assigned duties are not within your purview to question. Clearance adjustments are determined exclusively by Oversight and are not subject to clinical interpretation or personal opinion.
Furthermore, your assertion that her exposure to restricted files would “collapse everything we’ve built around her identity” is inappropriate and falls entirely outside the scope of psychiatric evaluation. You are not authorized to speculate on identity‑reinforcement protocols, clearance rationale, or any strategic decisions regarding her placement.
Future reports are to remain strictly clinical.
Any additional subjective commentary will result in disciplinary review.
— Dr. Kessler
Senior Clinical Administrator
AUDIO LOG — TRANSCRIPT FRAGMENT
FILE: A‑65‑██/Unlabeled
SOURCE: Recovered workstation cache
PARTIES: [REDACTED] ↔ [Chris Aster]
STATUS: Partial reconstruction
[00:01] Aster: …I need confirmation. Not speculation. Confirmation.
[00:04]████: You have it. The compound in her system is Class‑Z.
[00:08] Aster: That classification is discontinued,
[00:10] ████: Discontinued doesn’t mean destroyed.
[00:13] Aster: Then how did a trainee get her hands on it?
[00:16] ████: She’s not a trainee. You know that..
[00:18] Aster: That’s what her file says.
[00:20] ████: Her file says what it needs to say. She was Chief. Amnestics. You think someone at that level forgets how to access restricted compounds? Especially a woman, who held the power of a "non-existant" division in her hands? Do you even read what Maria Left? . .
[00:25] Aster: Class‑Z isn’t “restricted.” It’s erased. It shouldn’t exist.
[00:30] ████: And yet it’s in her bloodstream. Interesting.
[00:34] Aster: So Oversight knew. . .
[00:38] ████: Oversight always knows. The question is whether they care that *you* know.
[00:40] Aster: …I’m not Maria. I’m not going to pretend this is normal.
[00:44] ████: Then you’re not going to last long in that chair.
If you continue pressing, you will end up exactly where Maria did. we will not speak of this. Again.
[00:54] [END OF RECOVERABLE AUDIO]
THE HOLLOW
THE HOLLOW
Subject: DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET? . .
Current Assignment:
Status: N/A
Date Logged: ██/██/20██
Then it became. Or perhaps it always was and simply entered. But fear was here and true and was itself, and it hungered. It wished to know more. It wished to feel more. It wished to be more.
Or was it I?
they fed the fear. It was blunt and it was simple, but still it was solid enough to satisfy. And the thing that was fear was sated and content.
it is that they saw, to give it names, and struggle at learning, so too did they learn to fear that their eyes might deceive them, or show them too much. And as they learned to know their friends and kin, so too did they learn to fear the unknown figure, The watcher now known.
They began to take their thoughts, their instincts and their horrors, and they crystallised them. They gave them sound and form and shape to share them. And as they did the thing that was fear felt itself began to tear, to crack and fracture along a thousand unseen fault lines. It bled and warped and multiplied, and could no longer see itself as once it did. It could never be whole again.
JOURNAL ENTRIES 8/█/███-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES 8/█/███-16
I didn’t think anything of the symbols at first.
They showed up in the oddest places, along the site, — little...flowers?...eyes? and angles, half‑formed shapes.
Perhaps I was drowsy, I hadn't slept since my initiation into Director of medicine after the last one resigned. Managing a department isnt quite something I saw myself doing during my career but here we are.
Perhaps Im seeing things, this lack of sleep is getting to me. There is a pounding headache beneath my skull. Like its stabbing the inside of my eye socket.
JOURNAL 8/15/███
JOURNAL 8/15/███
It was a Thursday.
I remember that because I do my rounds with 2295.
I was walking past the stairwell when I heard it a single, sharp crack that echoed down the concrete like someone snapping a bone in the air.
I froze.
Everyone froze. At least the people around me did.
Security ran past me. Someone shouted for a medic. Someone else dropped their clipboard.
I didn’t move.
Because on the wall beside the stairwell door, drawn in a frantic, shaking hand, was the same symbol I’d seen in my notes.
The same one I’d erased from the whiteboard.
The same one I’d pretended not to recognize the ones I peeled off the vending machines.
Only now it was bigger.
Darker.
Wrong.
JOURNAL 8/16/███
JOURNAL 8/16/███
By the next morning, three more people were dead.
Different wings.
Different departments.
Different methods.
I am not a brave woman. I believe I am starting to come to terms with that fact, but I am, in certain circumstances, a very stubborn one. And there was something inside me that made the decision that I would rather die at the hands of some tunnel-dwelling beast than work for who I am now.
I can almost hear the Ethics assistants chiding me for not turning tail and running then and there. Telling them what I had seen, But, it’s hard to fully explain the borderline mania that gripped me when I saw that eye. Almost a part of a ritual it seemed, there are many alike that one across the site in the deepest unknowing corners.
Most memetic hazards don’t take lives just because you know about them, or even when you know too much of their existence. Yet this one did. It took, and took parts of you—little by little—before taking you entirely. You were nearly just a shell of yourself, if you were lucky.
Sometimes it drives you to the verge of your own mental stability. A crisis. When people began to discover it, most showed no signs of suicidal ideation nor mental health disorders—yet were found dead with a gunshot to the head, the face. Anywhere it was lethal. Somewhere they wouldn’t be able to see in death.
Sometimes, with that, it wouldn’t follow you. It would merely detach itself.
It wanted to be seen.
DO YOU SEE IT TOO?
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