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Hello.

It's good to see you.

If you've found this page, it means you must have been looking into 903. Searching for answers. Apologies for the bad poetry, but I had to come up with something. In any case I'm sure you've noticed that the official file is missing some vital information. I have tried many times to fix this but I no longer have authority over the documentation, and the Site Director's office seems quite adamant that the matter remain closed.

I was forced to create this hidden page just so that my findings aren't lost for good. It all needed to be in one place. It's been easy enough to keep the webcrawlers off of it but some filters are harder to create workarounds for than others. As a result, some of the files on the page are hosted by me here on site. At the very least it means that they'll remain up as long as I'm still around.

By now you've probably put together who I am. So, at the very least, my direct interaction with this anomaly should lend me some credibility on the facts of the situation.

Nothing feels right about what happened. I've dealt with countless sapient anomalies in my time, and there have been some strange occurrences believe me. But none of them ended, not like the way 903 did. There were escapes, sure, deaths, any number of things. What happened to Gabriella kept bugging me. The way they all acted about it kept bugging me. And then, of course, the ACI internal affairs agents kept bugging me. So you see why I've had to circumvent official channels to get this info out there.

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I should stop stalling, there's a lot to get through. Below is all the information I've been able to compile about this whole fiasco. So much of it is just gone, but there have been enough fragments left over to at least piece something together.

Gabriella

Now, they kept a good chunk of Gabby's case file in the official documentation, cause they know that the story doesn't make any sense if you cut her out entirely. What any keen observer will notice, however, is that they were able to omit the most important part of the story. The containment breach and everything after. It's mentioned briefly at the end, like it's a footnote. No info on the actual event, or what occurred after. They made it sound like she died right then, after the breach. Not mentioning that it took months to find her. Her death is the entire justification for the Neutralized classification, and how it happened is conveniently not mentioned.

It's true she slipped out during the larger breach on September 13th, but what I haven't seen any researchers comment on is the fact that every other anomaly involved in the breach escaped simultaneously. Except Gabriella.

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You can see it here in the security logs.

The method was strange too. After months of the Director's office hounding me nonstop to sign off on their proposals, around the summer of 2018 they suddenly relented. They even started giving me everything I wanted. Every privilege I asked for was granted. I of course was so exceedingly grateful that I went along with it like a rube. I should have figured something was up when they even granted her a small amount of television time. We almost never allow that.

Of course I wasn't there when it happened. I didn't see Gabby on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We did get very lucky. Probably the luckiest part of the whole story. The guard that first raised the alarm just so happened to have actually seen it happen. It was during her allotted hour of time with the television. The guard told me she reacted to something she saw. That she started convulsing, and crying out. As he was calling for backup her demeanor completely shifted. She went quiet. She stood up. She walked out of her room. Right through the walls. Containment isn't my job but I do hope that considering her abilities someone was reprimanded for not considering that possibility.

Unsurprisingly, by the time the alarm was raised about Gabby escaping there were bigger problems to deal with, so she managed to slip through the cracks. We didn't even find her until November, and that was only because she had started an enormous wildfire in Northern California.

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I always thought that I could see her in this broadcast.

The department had limited resources, but it was clear from atmospheric data that the wildfires were unnatural. We determined it was Gabriella based on the path she took from our site. I had been trying my best to track her through CCTV and other methods, but with this stunt her location became obvious to everyone. I'm still not sure what she was trying to accomplish with the fires. In 7 years her condition had never progressed to a state even close to what she was doing by November. What the catalyst was for this relapse I can't identify, and it's looking more and more like I never will.

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This one you can definitely see her.

Regardless, I of course volunteered to go along with the Protection expedition that was sent out to retrieve her. It was fairly easy for the operatives to blend in among the chaos of the fires, but getting close was a bit more difficult. We attempted to use thermal imaging to try and pick Gabriella out from a distance but whenever we thought we had her another blaze roared up where we weren't looking. There wasn't any discernible pattern, it was like she was just wandering randomly. Eventually we had to abandon our methods and resort to a ground search.

Of course I was the one who found her.

It was so hard to see and breathe in all that smoke but still I knew it was her. Just standing there looking at me like she didn't know where she was. We talked for a moment. I tried to calm her down, really. It was hard to speak. Peculiarly, I could hear her perfectly. Not that she made any sense, she rambled some cryptic fragments at me before walking away. Right into the fire. I couldn't get close enough to pull her back.

That's how Gabriella was "neutralized".

I'm sure you can see now why I became a bit of an excommunicant around the office.

Once she was gone, there wasn't anything else. They had found the bodies of Danny and Angel ages ago, so the Department slapped a Neutralized designation on the whole thing (conveniently leaving out most of the story) and forgot about it.

But I didn't. I do wish that was the whole story, but in all my searching I've found some things out. Things I have to share, because if I don't no one will.

Johnny Law

I wasn't quite sure where to put this as it mostly contains incidental information. But I think it's fitting to keep it close to Gabriella.

Now, it is briefly implied in the official file that something happened to Gabby's mother. If only because Gabby implied it during one of our sessions. After the incident I went around scouring the net for anything on her, in case whatever Gabby saw actually happened. Of course, nearly everything was scrubbed by the time I started looking. No news articles, no police reports, no blog posts, no social media, nothing. It would be one thing if Gabby's mother went missing, but she disappeared. Though, I did remember that in our surveillance we noticed that she had hired a private investigator to look for her daughter. With some crafty searching I came across the blog of a PI with a story that matched almost exactly. It must have been passed over because it doesn't mention any names, but it has to be her.

https://encounters-of-johnny-law.neocities.org/blogger/posts/12062012

Conflicting Accounts

One aspect of the methodology regarding the Sharpeville event that has always perplexed me at least a little is the fact that the Authority based its official story almost entirely on eyewitness accounts. This despite the fact that from the beginning the eyewitness accounts were never consistent. In fact there were a large number of credible reports that completely contradicted the flow of events presented in the final document.

Of particular note are the reports of a fire. Yes, the document does mention that the Fire Department arrived first on the scene well before other emergency services, but it does not go into any detail as to why that happened. It was because the phone lines were barraged with calls claiming there was a fire at the school. On scene interviews (also not included in the document) make mention of smelling smoke and seeing part of the roof collapse. Some on the outskirts of the town still believed several days after that the big event that transpired at the high school was a fire.

You can imagine why there might have been so much confusion on the scene. The cops were so busy corralling the crowd that Authority Protection agents had to go in for the All Clear once all the shooting had stopped. Now as a psychologist myself it might be easy to denigrate these stories simply by invoking mass psychogenic phenomena. Considering the documented anomalies surrounding the shooting that assumption might be shaky on its face, but you could argue that.

Except.

Except there actually exists physical evidence.

Whoever hid this probably thought it was securely buried under metric tons of accounting statements and compliance documentation. They likely didn't count on my ceaseless and irrational dedication to the truth.

I don't know who took this photo. Probably hikers, in the forest preserve a few miles from town. It's dated to February 11th, and it looks like the morning.
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Doesn't that look like smoke to you?

Now not only does this call into question the Authority's presented narrative, it also might lend a certain amount of credibility to the accounts that were discarded. Now granted, not every conflicting statement has merit prima facie. I seem to recall there were two calls to the police from elderly women living close to the school saying they could see men in robes and animal masks performing sacrifices on the front lawn. As there is no other corroborating evidence a statement of that sort can likely be dismissed.

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The accounts that I find the most viable from the civilian witnesses are those that discuss multiple shooters. To a certain extent because they align with some of the things Gabriella relayed to me during our sessions. She was never all the way there but she seemed to identify that Danny and Angel were not the only ones to commit violence during the course of events that day. I wish I had more on that frankly, but while we're on this let's examine Danny and Angel a little more closely.

The Shooters

I don't have much on Danny and Angel.

What's in the document represents pretty much everything we know. I tried looking into the boys' parents but the ones still alive have basically been vegetables hopping from hospital to hospital for almost a decade. I don't even want to touch the "complications in the application of amnestics", no one ever told me about it while working on the 903 team and I haven't found evidence anybody was punished for it. I think for any rational reader the phrase "foul play" immediately claws its way into your thoughts, but to explore that would be to get ahead of ourselves a bit.

As for Danny and Angel's role in the shooting both Gabriella and eyewitnesses seem to agree on more than two shooters, but those two are the only ones whose bodies went missing. Though considering all the conflicting information it's been difficult to ascertain the veracity of any one account and I would be lying if I said everything Gabriella said made total logical sense.

There is one thing.

The photo we found in Danny's room, the one of the two of them. They didn't really do a good job hiding the fact that there's something redacted in the official copy. What they claimed was "identifying information". I think if you're this far in you should be able to deduce from a mile away that this isn't the whole story.

I have the original. Nabbed it during a security check. Wait till you see this.

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That's a body. No doubt in my mind.

And I have no explanation. It can't be identified, but no one went missing in the town prior to the shooting. Not to mention, who took the photo?

I think the only other thing not mentioned in the official doc is their threatening posts on Lookworm:

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Which I think serves as a good enough segue. This is where things start to cross over into a full on conspiracy.

Lookworm

Lookworm was one of the first wrinkles I ever noticed in this whole story. I wouldn't call myself an internet aficionado or anything, but the fact this entire town apparently used this social media platform that I had never even heard of struck me as odd.

Turns out I was right to think so.

You see, as a functioning service, Lookworm only ever existed in one place: Sharpeville, Kansas.

This was one of the hardest things to look into, whatever was in charge of scrubbing all evidence from the net did a bang up job. All I have now are some promotional images (a screenshot from ancient forum posts) and a web archive. Of course those are all gone now too.

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Promotional image showing what the app UI looked like.

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Snapshot from the Wayback Machine. All backups now mysteriously missing.

It seems like the company that developed Lookworm, Morgana Interactive, selected Sharpeville as the location for an exclusive beta launch of the app. I guess the launch was considered a failure because in case you haven't noticed, the app never fully released. In fact, there's no mention of it anywhere in any remaining public statements from Morgana.

The beta version went offline shortly after the shooting. When the investigation started we had people looking through the service for anything suspicious, but that all stopped when the servers went down.

One of those people, a good friend of mine, told me that after the Neutralized designation went into effect, ACI seized all the material from that time. He said that they would often find some strange things on Lookworm, posted by accounts that were pretending to be real people. Though, most of that material it seems will never see the light of day.

Except, we got lucky again friends.

There is yet one more piece of evidence for Lookworm's existence. Saved from obscurity by the fact it was never logged. A recording that existed only on my friend's personal tablet. He found it for me, and entrusted it to me so that I may show you what was on it. I'm sorry to say that after the file transfer I had it destroyed. Too risky.

Perhaps it's worth taking a closer look at Morgana Interactive.

Morgana

As far as I can tell, Morgana's history starts in the 90's. This info is rather hard to come by, there's contradicting sources on it and they don't have an official website. At least not anymore. Again something has cleared everything, and quite efficiently. Regardless, it seems that the Morgana we are familiar with began as a software publisher around '94. I know this because in a cabinet outside my office someone hasn't ever cleaned, there's still a floppy of an original Perl 5 compiler with the word 'Morgana' on it. I assume they published games as well as general software but I'm not sure. The 'Interactive' subtitle doesn't appear until a newsletter from 2001.

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Based on the info here the name change probably coincided with this acquisition by 'a well known security company'. Not sure why they can't disclose the name but from 2001 forward it's important to remember that whatever they do, they're not acting alone.

Scant mentions of them for most of the 00's. Industry magazine mentions and product manuals for the most part. Where their traction really picks up is 2007. The smartphone revolution. The app store. The floodgates open and Morgana's name is plastered all over hundreds and hundreds of apps. This is also the point at which they get their fancy new logo:

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What's killing me is how mundane it seems. Outside of some shady sounding acquisitions and crappy mobile shovelware they seem like your average underwhelming tech company. Even Lookworm; they put everything into their new idea for social media and after that flounders they fade into the background. Normal stuff.

Except.

Look, I knew something was up with 903. Things that didn't add up. Supervisors getting cagey. Data getting redacted. I could smell that they were hiding something but… This is something else.

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If any Containment staff are reading, this probably looks familiar to you. Even if you work in another department the Serv-Q UI is something you've seen before. A pretty standard database management software, this window is displaying security footage.

Serv-Q is an Authority standard, in use at every single containment site across the world.

Do you wanna guess who made it?

Now, you could be forgiven for not knowing that, in fact this information seems not to be documented ANYWHERE publicly. Serv-Q doesn't have a dedicated website as it's enterprise only, there's no copy information anywhere in the software itself, and in every mention of it I could find in secondary sources, Morgana's name is omitted entirely.

In fact I only found out about this by accident, and in the process did some things which might be considered unsavory by some. Looking into this stuff is difficult. To get as much info as I could about Morgana I drove all the way out to one of their datacenters in the middle of nowhere.

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I got in using some Authority credentials, lied about being a government inspector or something, you know the drill. I couldn't find anything out of the ordinary though. In fact, the whole thing would have been a waste of time had I not spied a fire escape map of the server rooms and seen one of them helpfully labeled "Serv-Q Hosting". Had the wherewithal to discreetly snap a picture so you can see it too:

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This alone would be one thing, but their attitudes about it are even stranger. Save for a few individuals if I ever bring this up to people they don't seem to care in the slightest. "So what?" they say. "It's easier to subcontract out than to build the software ourselves." I don't know if it's overconfidence or ignorance, maybe both. Personally I feel like such a glaring point of failure in our security, linked to a company that is this suspicious is a major concern!

Of course, if the software is in fact subcontracted, that means there are contracts. In my many dealings with ACI I found a friend who was sympathetic to my interests in these matters. A low level operative who I'm obviously not going to name. He managed to get a copy of our contract with Serv-Q, but sadly it seems basically all the text is redacted. There is a section labeled "Information Security" so clearly this was something they were concerned about. I just wish I knew what it said.

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I wish that was all, I really do. But it gets even stranger from here, believe it or not.

The Fire

There are some details about the fire that I have so far neglected to mention.

It was my previously mentioned ACI comrade that showed this to me, and I feel I have to include it here. But it does require some context.

Lower tier ACI operatives have been circling a mysterious group for a while, calling itself The New Hollywood Company. The word on the street is that NHC is one of these "alternative lifestyle collectives" (i.e. cult) so popular among the bigwigs of Hollywood. Supposedly involved in some disappearances, strange occurrences, the type of thing we would normally get involved in. Except, it's so far avoided EoI designation or really any documentation at all because according to ACI higherups there is "no evidence beyond rumor" of its existence. This will be important in a moment.

This is where Gabby's fire enters the story.

After it was all over the ones saddled with all the blame ended up being Pacific Gas & Electric. They copped to some BS about faulty wiring, and local readers might remember that they got stuck with such an influx of settlement payments that they had to declare bankruptcy a few months ago. But how lucky, they were able to stay afloat thanks to some help. They were assisted in their death spiral financing by a firm called Guiding Light Financial.

They've even got a wikipedia page, innocuous enough.
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Now, Guiding Light is technically a private placement fund, meaning it's owned entirely by a small group of anonymous accredited investors. As well that designation means they are exempt from SEC regulation. But even if we can't know who owns Guiding Light, we can see what Guiding Light owns.

According to my ACI contact, because NYSE transactions are public, we can cross reference what Guiding Light has bought and sold with other exchanges of the same amount around the same time, and end up with a decent picture of who Guiding Light does business with. What's shocking is that about 44% of their transactions are with individual investors, which is extraordinarily high for a firm of their size. Not only that, but these individuals all have names which are associated with the New Hollywood Company.

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The reason this matters to me is that it really puts it all into perspective.

Looking back on this. All that Gabby went through, everything that happened. This whole tragic tale. What was the point?

What was the result?

Currently, of the thirteen seats on the Board of Directors for PG&E, seven are occupied by individuals with employment histories which include Guiding Light Financial.


I wish I understood it all. Knew what it meant. I wish things had gone differently. I wish I had said what I needed to say.

Back then, when I found her in the forest, she spoke to me before dying.

She looked like an angel, light all around her. I tried to reach for her, I did. But it burned. I couldn't get close. Then she was gone.

I keep thinking about it.

Site-014 has just been so lonely since she escaped. I can't do anything but run through her words over and over in my head.

What did it all mean?

"three eyes"

Why did she say there was danger in the summer moon above?

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