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RPC-144, during cataloguing.
Registered Phenomena Code: 144
Object Class: Alpha-White
Hazard Types: Mechanical Hazard, Transmutation Hazard
Containment Protocols: RPC-144 is to be contained in a standard medium-sized RPC Anomalous Object lockbox. All usage of the object must be catalogued in an accompanying notebook, including the following details:
- What menu options were altered on the subject.
- By how much, if identifiable. Vague numbers are preferred over unknown or unapplicable answers.
- The change in said characteristics on the subject themselves.
- The lethality of said change(s).
Cadaver experimentation utilizing RPC-144 is prohibited with the exception of research purposes. Any attempts must be recorded and containment protocols will be updated to reflect such changes, pending a successful revive. The user at the time must submit themselves to a full interview regarding the events and the outcome of the revival.
Description: RPC-144 is a musical string multi-instrument of unknown origin and of similar size to a full-size violin, at 60cm from neck to wrist. It was created using an unknown metallic element. The instrument is made up of 2 known parts housed on an assembly, which will be known as RPC-144-A. The instruments, labelled RPC-144-B and -C, are as follows:
- A 2 string piece, wielded in standard violin style (RPC-144-B) as seen in the image above.
- A 1 string piece, housed on the opposite side of RPC-144-B and usable as either a guitar or a cello-like instrument (RPC-144-C).
When employing RPC-144-B in use, a holographic display will appear from the furthest end to the user and displays relevant information in an appropriate user-friendly manner.
RPC-144, when active, will allow its user to modify any being of the same genus' biology (i.e. only Homo sapiens can modify Homo sapiens) in multiple ways including height, weight, hair, eye & skin colour, sexual orientation and identification, as well as [REDACTED] and life. This is done by selecting an initial subject, hereby referred to as RPC-144-D. Using RPC-144-B, the user can select who will become an instance of RPC-144-D, and confirm by playing one note on RPC-144-C. Their choice will reflect on the holographic display by highlighting them.
What they can modify is represented by menu options extending from -D on the HUD (following the order of left to right, top to bottom in terms of choice movement) and may also be selected by playing on RPC-144-B for selection and confirming with -C. From there, a variety of sliders, binary choices and fields will be available. Sliders can be interacted with by playing -B ordinarily, binary choices by plucking either string to set them to each choice and fields by speech. When finished, or if desiring to modify further, RPC-144 must be set down in order to deactivate and render RPC-144-D no longer a subject. In the case of human subjects, fields may be altered via a touch-activated holographic keyboard. It will only appear when attempting to play -C on a field.
Known menus on the device are as follows:
Sliders typically follow the format of left equalling empty or none, and right equalling full or complete.
- Hair
- Length - Slider
- Colour - Field (Variable - RGB, HSL, CMYK accepted as inputs)
- Follicle count - Slider
- Damage - Slider
- Body
- Melanin levels - Slider
- Epidermis damage - Slider
- Epidermis composition - Field (Any material, regardless of flexibility)
- Scars - Field (List of scars and on which facial features with fine detail added using mm and direction)
- Blood levels - Slider
- Follicle count - Slider
- Muscle tone - Slider
- Muscle capability - Slider
- Body fat - Slider
- Bone strength - Slider
- Skeletal damage - Slider
- UV damage - Slider
- Other damage - Slider
- DNA external identity - Slider
- Face
- Eye colour - Field (Variable - RGB, HSL, CMYK accepted as inputs)
- Eye shape - Slider
- Nose shape - Field (Comparisons or binary data of images or 3D models accepted as inputs)
- Brow - Slider
- Cheek shape - Slider
- Lip shape - Slider
- Lip thickness - Slider
- Premature teeth - Binary choice
- Teeth health - Slider and field (Field allows for specified diseases or teeth to be removed)
- Chin shape - Slider
- Neck thickness - Slider
- Blood levels - Slider
- Organs
- Liver count - Slider
- Liver(s) damage - Slider
- Heart count - Slider
- Heart(s) damage - Slider
- Lung count - Slider
- Lung(s) damage - Slider
- Bladder count - Slider
- Bladders(s) damage - Slider
- Sexual organ count - Slider
- Sexual organ(s) damage - Slider
- Gamete holding organ count - Slider
- Gamete holding organ(s) damage - Slider
- Brain count - Slider
- Brains(s) damage - Slider
- Brain capability - Slider
- Additional organs - Field
- Additional organ(s) role(s) - Field(s)dependent on what organs are listed in the above field, if any
- Additional organ count - Slider(s)dependent on what organs are listed in the above field, if any
- Additional organ(s) damage - Slider(s)dependent on what organs are listed in the above field, if any
- Limbs
- Arm count - Slider
- Arm(s) damage - Slider
- Finger count - Slider
- Finger(s) damage - Slider
- Leg count - Slider
- Leg(s) damage - Slider
- Toe count - Slider
- Toe(s) damage - Slider
- Wing count - Slider
- Wing(s) damage - Slider
- Tail count - Slider
- Tail(s) damage - Slider
- Other limbs - Field
- Additional limb(s) role(s) - Field(s)dependent on what limbs are listed in the above field, if any
- Additional limb count - Slider(s)dependent on what limbs are listed in the above field, if any
- Additional limb(s) damage - Slider(s)dependent on what limb are listed in the above field, if any
- Personality
We will not be meddling with people's minds nor even thinking about it until it is necessary to. Now stop trying to use the thing to see if it increases libido and arousal, dammit. It's bad enough I'm keeping this out of the CSD hands to prevent containment breaches. - Head Researcher Vulte
- Existence
- blank - Binary choice (see Experiment Log 144-D for further details)
This list is not fully compiled, and only involves the Homo sapiens genus. For anyone desiring to test with other species, please direct queries to Head Researcher Vulte.
As advised by Head Researcher Vulte (see Experiment Log 144-D for further details), RPC-144 is not to be tested on cadavers save for research purposes due to unknown resource costs and uncertain outcomes. Permission for testing against disease-based and other sentient RPCs pending.
Addendum:
RPC-144 was recovered by Authority Mobile Specialized Team Foxtrot-04 "Prey" after information recovered from a corrupted art gallery's website source code revealed potential anomalies occurring in the comments section of one of the pieces.
Upon arrival at [REDACTED], MST Foxtrot-04 identified the location as decrepit and potentially abandoned. Upon entry, they were accosted by three humans of various skin constructions of which all three died and one MST member, the pointman of Foxtrot-04, was injured due to an initial counterattack by the humans. The remainder of the building was cleared and RPC-144 was identified as anomalous by accidentally testing the object via members of Foxtrot-04 and returned to base to be studied then reverted.
Subject: RPC-144, wielded by Lead Researcher E. Biggins, and CSD-56075.
Procedure: Attempt to establish the use of RPC-144
Results: Lead Researcher Biggins activated RPC-144 and rendered CSD-56075 as RPC-144-D. As he explored the menu options, he decided to test what would happen if parameters were set to 0 by attempting to set the number of hearts RPC-144-D had to 0 only to find RPC-144 respond by displaying "INSUFFICIENT TRADE" on the display. Instead, he set the number of hearts to 2 inducing arrhythmia in RPC-144-D by causing supraventricular tachycardia, eventually causing RPC-144-D to collapse after 15 minutes. During the time prior to death, RPC-144-D displayed symptoms relevant to said condition such as chest pain and tiredness. CSD-56075, previously RPC-144-D, was subsequently euthanized and studied to examine the changes inflicted by the addition of a second heart.
Notes: In my defense, I thought the RPC would resolve that. Seems like it trusts user judgement, however, instead of controlling what effects it has on the body in the first place…
As for the CSD, it looks like the RPC directly modified the biology to include necessary arteries, veins… the whole 9 yards. It'd be interesting to learn if we could homebrew something out of this. Safely making our security into bullet-resistant/proof forces, looking at the Recovery Log, doesn't seem too difficult. - Lead Researcher E. Biggins
After reviewing Lead Researcher Biggin's conduct in this experiment, it's been decided his demotion to Researcher is well warranted. Needless killing to decipher an anomalous item's capability shouldn't be considered warranted. Still, we know what it does now. Let's try something smaller. - Head Researcher Vulte
Subject: RPC-144, wielded by Lead Researcher A. Franz, and CSD-19119.
Procedure:CSD-19119 is to remove a finger. Lead Researcher Franz is to attempt to reattach it or otherwise repair it using RPC-144.
Results: CSD-19119, after initial concerns, agreed to the experiment tentatively and nearly fully dismembered her finger. Lead Researcher Franz proceeds to render CSD-19119 the instance of RPC-144-D and shows her the slider of 'Limb - Finger(s) damage', which has moved a small amount from the left side to the right (approximately 9%). Leader Research Franz then plays the left string of RPC-144-B whilst Skeleton Damage is selected, returning the slider back to the left fully albeit quickly and reattaching the finger by the skeleton. RPC-144-D reports slight discomfort in doing so. Similarly, the Body - Other Damage slider moved slightly to the left as blood vessels necessary for the bone to work were repaired. After sliding the Other Damage slider to the left slowly but fully before continuing with the Finger slider, the finger was fully repaired to CSD-19119's satisfaction. CSD-19119 was successfully returned to the Site's D Class Cells and has reported little to no side effects of the healing.
Notes: OK, so we know it can be used to effectively heal people. Hhowever it takes time to do so relevant to the slider's movement speed. If we move the slider too quickly, it could create irreparable damage to bone structure that doesn't reflect on the slider similarly to what happens if we try to fix something by forcing something back into position too roughly. For now, I guess we know what fully repairing damage does. Next experiment will be analysing the more aesthetic-based options available. - Lead Researcher Franz
What personally interests me is that there's no age option, indicating we either haven't reached a parameter for unlocking it or it's impossible to repair for the RPC. This means it would consider it a natural progression of a human's living process, which would indicates that aging isn't caused by DNA oxidation. Any attempts to expand on this would be appreciated. - Head Researcher Vulte
Subject: RPC-144, being wielded by Lead Researcher A. Franz, and CSD-19119 (hereby referred to as RPC-144-D)
Procedure: Lead Researcher Franz is to test the multiple aesthetic options available on RPC-144 using CSD-19119 as the RPC-144-D instance.
Results: The usage of all aesthetic options were tested - the lack of a breast size modification option was disappointing to RPC-144-D. Initially, CSD-19119 was a female American white human: nearly 2 metres in height, weighing 90 lbs and with light brown moderate length hair. After the experiment, as a reward for good behaviour, CSD-19119 was allowed to have her hair remain long and blonde and her weight increased by approximately 10 lbs.
Notes: Much less threatening options. I'm guessing at best, skin cancer is the worst thing to happen to the subject. For now though, we know what we should and shouldn't do. Classifying as Alpha threat and requesting potential employment in the medical bay for emergency use. - Lead Researcher Franz
Subject: RPC-144, wielded by Researcher A. ████████, and CSD-56075 (deceased from Experiment Log 144-A)
Procedure: Researcher ████████ was curious as to what effects RPC-144 had on dead human bodies and inadvertently triggered new menus not prior seen.
Results: RPC-144 added two new menus as-of-yet unseen when activated - Personality and Existence. Underneath Existence was a single binary choice unlabelled and currently switched to the inactive position, hinting at a glitched option. Researcher ████████ attempted to switch to the active position, however RPC-144 supposedly failed to due to "INSUFFICIENT TRADE". Similar responses occurred when used by multiple other staff on the body when Researcher ████████ garnered interest over the results. Body was incinerated after further study for any changes.
Well, that was interesting. Hopefully, we won't need to revive anyone worth our time with it yet because… well, we seem to find ourselves ill-begotten of someone able to to do so. And we aren't testing it as a weapon either, so no-one should expect to see it out of there any time soon switching people's lives off. - Head Researcher Vulte
Subject: RPC-144 and 2 Columba livia (rock doves) bred and trained in captivity. One, who will not be designated as RPC-144-D, has been trained to play on a mock version of the device in order to attempt to manipulate the menus to achieve a change in the number of wings assuming menu layout is similar.
Procedure: Attempt to discover as to whether other animals of different species are capable of edits.
Results: RPC-144 activated upon initial strum. The simple note song taught to the trained rock dove was played after the second dove was selected as a subject, having been placed within a small single level enclosure for easy of targeting.
The language depicted for -D appeared to be [REDACTED], implying no written language comprehension. Attempts to communicate using this language have been ultimately unsuccessful, hinting at unique word pronunciation through the usage of frequency as opposed to a straight translation between symbols.
Completion of the song saw RPC-144-B change in personality from friendly to aggressive, attempting to peck and claw at whatever approached its cage. The trained rock dove was notably distressed at the change of its playmate. After 10 minutes of frantically attempt to communicate to its other, the trained dove repeated the song and reverted the change of its own accord.
The rock doves are now being maintained as pets within the Anomalous Items Division, thanks to the efforts of the cleaning crew.
I don't see why they shouldn't care for them. A simple morale boost means they will be happy. A shame we can't simply release them. - Head Researcher Vulte
