Farzen Vibes

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Gjoze H. Ula

to Ye’o Zhi

RE: Farzen Refinery TDE Collapse

Just wrapped up operations at the site. Readings on the Persistent GQF have stabilised at a consistent 2.81 with CDEs and 3H Entropic Imprinting. Tzomiki’s put in his recommendation for a full site quarantine. There’s a pretty high density of Frost Dreamborn spawning in here. Thankfully, no one from the survey team was lost, though there were more than enough injuries to go around.

As usual, the Disposables weren’t so lucky. A few died because of that stupid drill, a few more pushing the limits of a superpsychic sex toy, then there were the unfortunate sods sent in to kill the phoenix rat. Still…most of them survived, most in one piece too.

Wish there was a better way to do this, but…. I mean, they’re criminals but still… It feels wrong, somehow. You keep telling me not to think about it too much, that if not them, someone else, but I just…I can’t help but feeling like this is wrong.

As far as Relics, there were a few OoIs present. Tzomiki gave me permission to share a few of the prelims.

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OoI #1 (preliminary desg. FRZN-RF:TDE O-086983)

FRZN-RF:TDE O-086983 is an industrial GQF Final Refinement Centrifuge appearing to be of local make. Standing 303cm tall by 640cm wide and 700cm long, painted chartreuse with a smiley face carved into one side. O-086983 possesses the following anomalous properties:

1) Can only operate unsupervised and without direct power.

2) Will output refined Glitched Matter at a consistent rate of 1kg per day from any input.

3) If observed while operational will discharge foul odour and cease operations. O-083983 will also turn crimson and its smiley face will turn into an angry face.

4) If operating in a lit room, will turn green, face will turn into a squinting face, and will emit a shrill alarm until unlit.

5) Will operate while being recorded only if recording is not actively monitored by observer.

Site Chief recommends additional testing, registry with Shrouded Vael Reliquarium, and consideration for specialised containment and use in production of refined Glitch Matter.

Site Chief’s Addendum:

Researchers are not sure how O-086983 becomes aware that it is being observed, only that it becomes instantly aware of being observed whenever anything does so. Staff had to construct an improvised containment chamber on-site to prevent O-086983 from stink-bombing the vicinity any time a fly would get too close.

The only thing O-086983 doesn’t respond to is O-114720. The reason for this is unclear.

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OoI #2 (preliminary desg. FRZN-RF:TDE O-108753)

FRZN-RF:TDE O-108753 is a hand drill appearing to be of local make and for use as a maintenance tool. O-108753 is black in colour with persistent bloodstains around the drill bit, head, and handle areas. It has one drill bit—a large hole-boring bit—that cannot be removed. O-108753 possesses the following anomalous properties.

1) Does not require power to operate.

2) When operated, as the drill bores a hole in a medium, it causes a sympathetic borehole in the operator at a random location.

3) Operator is unable to feel the hole being bored into them.

4) Requires human operator to function.

Site chief recommends dispatch to Shrouded Vael in Greybox Containment Unit.

Site Chief’s Addendum:

O-108753’s anomalous properties were discovered by one of our security units sweeping the wreckage. Unlike last mission, this discovery did not occur as a result of pranking his squad, much to their relief. SC-40467G was attempting to breach into the room where Objects 109001 and 109002 were later discovered and picked up O-108753 and attempted to drill through the lock. Due to the severity and location of SC-40467G’s injuries, his left arm had to be amputated at the elbow.

SC-40467G was dismissed following this incident due to his numerous preceding protocol violations in addition to this most recent one.

Local disposables were used to test O-108753’s properties, resulting in one fatality.

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OoI #3 (preliminary desg. FRZN-RF:TDE O-109001 & O-109002)

FRZN-RF:TDE O-109001 is a purse containing a small vibrator. Purse appears to be made of black leather, 20cm long by 10cm wide by 15cm deep, contains only one pocket, and can only contain one item—O-109002. O-109001 is nondescript, having no distinctive design features, decorations, or other flair. Strap is a thin (2cm) leather thong of roughly 106cm in length and purse pocket is open-topped without zipper, tie, snaps, or other means of securing it closed. If O-109002 is taken more than 9m from O-109001, O-109002 will disappear and reappear inside of O-109001 immediately.

FRZN-RF:TDE O-109002 is a small, black insertable vibrator with an egg-like body tapering into a long tail to effect removal of device. Body measures about 15cm long with a diameter of 8cm tapering in an egg-like shape. Tail extends from the tapered end of the body by a further 12cm and begins to curve roughly 5cm along its length. Materials of construction appear to be closely resemblant to silicone, but attempts to procure samples have proven unsuccessful. Besides anomalous relationship with O-109001, O-109002 has anomalous properties of its own.

O-109002

1) Subjects compatible with O-109002’s design/purpose, upon making visual observation of it, will experience compulsive urge to insert device into an appropriate orifice. (This compulsive urge cannot be overcome except by application of O-109002 and attempts to restrain individuals who have come into visual contact with O-109002 are not recommended.)

2) Once inserted, O-109002 causes a complex psychophysiological response in subjects described as a “hallucinatory, euphoric, trancelike state of interconnectedness of being”. This state, provisionally referred to as O-109002-Reverie, can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, during which O-109002 cannot be removed from subject. Attempts to do so will be repulsed by strong anticognizant effects. (Even attempting to trigger O-109001’s proximity translocation is ineffective during an O-109002-Reverie event.)

3) O-109002-Reverie’s impact on subjects has ranged from mild increases in subject’s libido to whole-personality alterations with high variability and low consistency in results.

4) O-109002 appears to be indestructible.

5) O-109002 produces a pleasant vibrating effect when handled by compatible subjects.

6) O-109002 does not appear to require a power source in order to function.

7) O-109002 appears to suspend subjects enthralled in O-109002-Reverie in an anomalous state provisionally referred to as O-109002-Stasis. Subjects entering O-109002-Stasis are suspended in a state of bionormality by O-109002. Tests on disposables found O-109002-Stasis to provide a state of temporary imperviousness to the external world with exception of one condition. (see addenda)

8) If an additional party attempts to engage an individual experiencing O-109002-Reverie in coitus, the additional party will experience either O-109002-Reverie(Melange) (see addenda) or be translocated to a location between 100 and 250km away from the individual experiencing O-109002-Reverie.

9) O-109002-Reverie(Melange) is a provisionally labelled event whereby multiple individuals can be drawn into, and experience simultaneously, the same O-109002-Reverie event. Individuals who experience an O-109002-Reverie(Melange) exhibit some manner of anomalous bonding with other participants (labelled R(M) Bonded) that is similar to a Class 5 Hive-Mind Phenomena. Below is a summary of ongoing Study FRZN-RF:TDE O-109002 R(M) PSuS 000034 Codename: Entangled Reverie.

O-109002 R(M) Bonded (Summary)

1) R(M) Bonded are able to perceive the presence of R(M) Bonded individuals in their cluster through an unknown mechanism.

2) R(M) Bonded describe the ability to feel other R(M) Bonded individuals in their cluster’s pulse as well as their own.

3) R(M) Bonded possess anomalously high degrees of synchronicity and teamwork synergising as compared to standard baseline metrics.

4) R(M) Bonded seem to possess an intuitive knowledge of other R(M) Bonded in their cluster and their needs, desires, or intentions. This manifests in a variety of ways, though most strikingly in R(M) Bonded individuals being able to work together on complex tasks, procedures, or problems without engaging in standard forms of communication, or knowing where they are and what is going on from kilometres away without any standard means of knowing.

5) R(M) Bonded individuals are inseparable. Attempts to separate R(M) Bonded individuals by force elicits aggressive response from the whole R(M) Cluster.

6) R(M) Bonded individuals claim to experience vivid, lucid, full-immersion “psychic blending events” typified by simultaneous experiences of a single R(M) Bonded individual either individually, or as a cluster.

Researcher’s Note:

Research in the phenomena of Reverie(Melange) and subsequent clusters of Entangled, or R(M) Bonded individuals is ongoing. Affected personnel have been quarantined for the duration of this study, as have been local disposables. A complete list of anomalous characteristics of R(M) Bonding will be submitted at the conclusion of the study.

Addenda:

1) Site Chief’s Containment Recommendation: O-109002, and, by extension, O-109001 are extremely potent Cogito Risks. Preliminary testing confirms it presents a risk factor not less than 4. Until assessed by Overseer, categorised, and an appropriate handling protocol established by Shrouded Vael and The Arqives, O-109002/1 should be treated as Risk Factor 9.

A single photon reflected off of O-109002’s surface into the eyes of a compatible subject will trigger the effects described in 1. As such, it is further recommended that O-109002/1 be left in temporary containment until an envoy from Shrouded Vael can be dispatched to handle its transfer to Overseer.

“To be clear, over 90% of Site Staff have been affected by O-109002. Containing it in a temporary enclosure proved to be the single-most difficult challenge of the operation, requiring hundreds of local disposables to assemble prefabricated parts with three layers of blindfolds.”

2) Site Chief’s Assessment: While extraordinarily potent in its effects, O-109002 appears, at worst, benign. If there are safe handling protocols, the potential applications of O-109002 are potentially galaxy-changing. If its Phase Suspensions can be reverse-engineered and an enchantment protocol established, Imperium Kaidan would have in its possession technology to rival Winters Cloak.

3) Investigative Summary:

Foreword: Some sections of this summary have been redacted. Requests for an unredacted copy can be made to Soulstar’s College of the Mysterium.

Due to the bizarre nature of this Relic, and its power relative to others present, a more thorough investigation of its origin was conducted. As with anything involving the Glitch, TDEs, TDE Collapses, and Post Temponova Remnants, it’s impossible to truly know the exact origins or seed-entropic imprints of any given Relic. Records recovered from the wreckage, among other data, seem to suggest the following chain of events are linked to these Relics.

The results of this investigation uncovered that the On-Duty Foreman of FRZN-RF at the time of the incident appeared to be suffering from a complex comorbidity of psychological impairments which ultimately impaired his ability to ensure the safe operation of the facility. His particular obsessions and behaviours are the most likely explanation for both the TDE Collapse at the site as well as potentially providing the seed-entropic imprints that may have condensed into this Relic.

The Foreman’s psychotic episode at the time of the incident had been preceded by a general degradation of his mental state over the preceding Lune, manifesting in the form of delusions of grandeur, paranoia, and obsessive fixation on the belief that a kind of ritualistic [redacted] he referred to as the [redacted] would [redacted], hereinafter referred to as “The Ritual”. In the lead-up to the incident, the Foreman convinced a set of followers he called [redacted] to join him on the day of the incident for The Ritual.

Data storage devices recovered from the facility’s black box show, on the day of the incident, the Foreman and his followers assembled in the control room. Here he reveals he learned of The Ritual from a local Sonorian, the purpose of which Temple Envoys refused to provide details on. Despite this, its function was partially illuminated by the Relic left behind as well as what statements from the Lossec Temple Envoys did make with regards to it.

On the date of the incident, the Foreman livestreamed to a well-known video-sharing platform on the deepweb an attempt of The Ritual, which reached its climax as the TDE and subsequent Collapse occurred. Recordings from timestamps “5:41:32” to “8004:9051:888804.6” are heavily distorted, corrupted, but appear to show the participants in The Ritual melding into each other before the recording cuts to static around timestamp “21751717:3350461:2.94133”. (Site researchers make no attempt to explain the anomalous temporal artefacting on the recording. Total runtime of the video is roughly 24TA:8TL:14TR::19:37:41. Site researchers also do not attempt to explain the length of recording in relation to its file size.)

Inquisitors with the IMI interviewed all Sonorians registered on Farzen, but none had any recollection of meeting with, nor describing any such ritual to the Foreman of FRZN-RF. Notably, the Inquisitors declined to consult with Lossec Temple Envoys prior to establishing their profile. The only criterion established in their investigation with any practical application was knowledge of The Ritual, as it is well known among any with experience in anomalous phenomena is that the only difference between a Siren and a Sonorian is genetic.

Criticisms aside, there was one (Sonorian-9) who knew of The Ritual. She was quickly ruled out as a suspect due to a variety of factors included in IMI’s report. Of relevance to this report is her alibi which The Lossec Temple confirmed she was at the Temple until just before the launch of the IMI investigation, as well as her continuous declarations that The Ritual was too highly classified for her to speak on it without having a Sachem of the College of Mysterium present. IMI upon reaching out to Lossec Temple Adepts were able to confirm the details of her alibi and the classification of The Ritual.

It is not known how the Foreman came to be in possession of what Adepts at the Lossec Temple described as a dangerous and extremely potent cross-disciplinary ritual. Though the Adepts and Sonorian-9 declined to share any details on the ritual, they assured investigators the Foreman would not have been able to perform it, regardless of his knowledge, owing to the fact that it requires the efforts of twelve Adepts Rank 3 or higher unified by an A4 Physician-Mage or an M1 Priestess.

The Lossec dispatched an attaché of Adepts to assist the investigation in the following weeks. Wanderthoughts further interrogated local Sonorians, clearing them of any involvement. A Warpwalker and Matriarch dispatched as part of the attaché inspected the Relic, performing three tests on local PN-440 Authorised disposables, confirming O-109002’s effects as being a more potent and advanced form of those of The Ritual. PN-440s were released under supervision of local authorities per XTP-3466 §3(z).

While the Lossec Temple declined to offer any details about The Ritual, we are 3 Sigma confident that it formed the seed-entropic imprint that condensed into Relic O-109002. O-109001’s origins are, as yet, a mystery, although it has been expressed that an investigation into “a mere carrying case for a gods damned space magicked sex toy” is not warranted. The going hypothesis is that the bag is the end result of the amalgamated mass shown in the anomalous livestream recording.

Researchers declined to take samples of O-109001 to confirm this hypothesis, citing moral opposition to “potential violations of Kaidan Citizen’s Fundamental Rights” through what was described as “the equivalent procedure of vivisection” or “violations of their personal dignity”.

No samples were taken.

(On a personal note, sometimes it’s better to let some questions remain unanswered.)

4) As mentioned above, roughly 90% of site staff fell under O-109002’s influence before a temporary containment unit could be erected. The discovery of Reverie Melange happened as a result of this wildfire spread, with O-109002 being passed to nearly every member of the survey team.

More than a few have existing relationships prior to contact with O-109002, often resulting in one drawing their partner, or partners, into the collective Reverie Melange. Most R(M) Bonds are simple pair-bonds, although a few R(M) Clusters occurred naturally among site staff with atypical preferences and relationship dynamics.

The Translocation effect occurred during testing with Disposables. All procedures and protocols were followed during these tests, but R(M) Type events were unable to be reproduced in a highly controlled setting.

An experiment was undertaken at a local correctional facility in which minimum security, non-violent offenders were offered sentence reductions or a full-commute of their sentences for participation. For practical reasons, this study was undertaken at the [redacted] Women’s Correctional Facility.

For sixty days, participants were held in a specially constructed test chamber and given unrestricted access to O-109002/1 with full freedom of movement. The results of this experiment were that, of 120 subjects, 101 had used O-109002 alone, 41 with at least one other individual, and 6 with two or more, and 59 having used O-109002 more than once. The maximum reported uses of O-109002 was 4, and only 2 subjects were not observed to use O-109002 at all.

Of those who used O-109002 with at least one other individual, and those who had used O-109002 with more than one, post-exposure interviews confirmed subjects had preexisting intimate relationships with those whom they had shared R(M) experiences.

The latter two groups were retained for further study in a larger, post-operations research study into O-109002 R(M) Phenomena.

5) Site Chief’s Personal Notes:

O-109002/1 are perhaps the most unusual OoIs I’ve ever encountered. Having researched Sonorians and Mirages quite thoroughly as a necessary component of this job, it certainly came as a shock that there is an entire category of Sirenic Rituals I was previously unaware of.

Part of this, it seems, is the nature of these rituals. Sonorians are willing to speak generally about them, but specifics are practically nonexistent. Lossec Temples keep the knowledge of most of them under lock and key. It’s obvious they’re among a Sonorian’s most powerful spells, but details on them just aren’t there.

My take on the shape, function, and effects of O-109002/1 is that one of The Ritual participants on the Black Box’s Recording appeared to be using a popular, hands-free vibrator while the ritual was ongoing. I agree with the hypothesis of the bag’s construction being the compressed, amalgamated, relic-artefacts of the participants.

The pocket into which O-109002 has a similar texture and appearance as that of a human vagina, and its opening bears striking resemblance to human vulva. This coupled with how O-109002 fits inside O-109001, among other evidence leads me to believe the bag is the remains of the Foreman and his circle of ecstasiates, and O-109002 may, likewise, be an amalgamation of identical devices used by all as part of the ritual. With even vague descriptions of Sonorian Sirenics, it’s not a stretch to conclude that all ecstasiates were using devices similar to that of O-109002.

Where this leads to is the conclusion that O-109001 is the compressed entropic imprints in-metaphor of the desired exit outcome of the particular set of goals, ideas, or ambitions of the Sirenic the Foreman and his circle of ecstasiates were attempting to replicate. O-109002 is, likewise, a compressed, amalgamated carrier for the concentrated entropic imprint of that Sirenic, serving as an intense and refined enchanted conduit or “totem”. The entanglement of O-109001/2 appears to me to serve as a spaciotemporal representation of the particular flavour of psychic linking sought by the Foreman and his circle of ecstasiates.

Lossec Temple Sonorians tell me I am overthinking this, that asking how O-109002 came to be is to obsess over irrelevancies and minutiae. They call this investigation a “trivial pursuit of man’s vanity, his need to know, and through knowledge, to control tempests more beautiful in their erstwhile wildness than tamed by masters with ever-diminishing respect for her once-majesty now reduced to poverty, robbed of all splendour.” Their opinion is that its Reverie is worth rejoicing, that O-109002 is a benevolent Relic which only the profoundly prudish would consider as vile or uncouth.

I’ve taken their critique onboard, however inappropriate or non-applicable portions of their screeds have been. For my part, even without having observed O-109002 personally, it has reinvigorated a passion for disentangling the knotted remnants of transcausal phenomena that I had long been missing.

In two hundred anno of travelling the Tri-Province Area, containing Relics of all descriptions, I have never encountered, to repeat the words my colleagues have insisted to include in this preliminary report, gods damned space magicked sex toy and its carrying case. I am certain whoever reads this text will find far more amusement out of reading this than I have writing it.

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OoI #4 (preliminary desg. FRZN-RF:TDE O-110321)

O-110321 is a sheet of standard-size letterhead with the refinery’s logo and name in the heading. The words “To Management—Take this job and shove it.” are inscribed repeatedly into the page, as if written by hand. Once inscribed, the ink ignites, burning a hole in the page in the shape of the inscribed text. After a period of five minutes, the page repairs itself and the text inscribes itself again, starting a new loop.

Site Chief recommends O-110321 registered with Shrouded Vael Reliquary and stored in Non-Threat Relic Warehouse 40.

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OoI #5 (preliminary desg. FRZN-RF:TDE O-114720)

FRZN-RF:TDE O-114720 is a male rat of species Rattus rattus. O-114720 is 15.21cm long with a 16.41 cm tail, weighs 123g, and has a jet-black coat. O-114720 notably is missing a sliver of its right ear and two toes on its left front paw. O-114720’s behaviour displays no abnormalities to other members of its species when isolated.

O-114720’s anomalous properties are as follows:

1) O-114720 is indestructible.

2) Damage inflicted on O-114720 is reflected back onto the object or individual instead.

3) Every 72 hours (lossec Chronosync) O-114720 catches fire and burns completely to ashes. 4 hours (lossec Chronosync) after, O-114720 crawls out of its own ashes.

4) O-114720 will seek out and attack any other rats in a proximity of 50m^2 until it is the only rat left. A variety of materials were tested and O-114720 was able to penetrate all of them. Notably, O-114720 exclusively targets rodents of the genus rattus. Other rodent taxa elicit no response O-114720, with the exception of Cavia porcellus.

5) O-114720 will not depart the footprint of Refinery Stack 4 on its own, and, if removed from Refinery Stack 4’s footprint, will return, killing any rats on its way.

Site chief recommends leaving O-114720 in exclusion zone as it is self-containing. Containment procedures should extend to no more than signage warning locals not to remove wildlife from the area.

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