RPC-419

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Registered Phenomena Code: 419

Containment Rating: Beta

Lethality Rating: Orange
h-aggression.png Aggression h-grouped.png Grouped h-invisibility.png Invsibility h-sapient.png Sapient h-transmutation.png Transmutation h-aquatic.png Aquatic
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Image 419.A: Location of OL-Site-419, before containment {Circa. 10/06/2015}


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Image 419.B: Civilian photographed evidence of extended RPC-419 activity near String Lake {Circa. 06/13/2023}

Containment Protocols (Update 09/01/2023): Due to the anomaly's aggression and proximity to civilian centers, observational containment of RPC-419 has been deemed a failure. An extermination order has been authorized of the central RPC-419 colony.1 An internal audit has turned over all relevant documentation to the Department of Occult Concerns (BoA) for sustainable study, with the present file remaining under temporary construction.

A standard cover story concerning abnormal animal migration patterns has been disseminated. Bi-weekly maintenance on the chain link fence securing Leigh Lake — otherwise designated as OL-Site-419 — has been suspended. Further instructions to collapse the underground entrances under the lakebed, along with plans to liquidate OL-Site-419, will be specified after the Site-002 Q3 Budgetary Meeting.

The remaining ASF/Protectorate personnel assigned to IB-100/419 have been issued standard F88 aquatic tranquilizer pistols and are advised to travel in groups while avoiding immediacy to the lakefront. Any civilians able to breach containment, especially adolescents, are to be considered unrecoverable. All further excursions into the subterranean tunnels to recover human remains have been postponed.

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Image 419.C: Confiscated drawing of RPC-419, found on civilian Chris Johnson's unconscious body.

Description: RPC-419 is an enlarged species of largely aquatic, humanoid insects native to Leigh Lake, Wyoming. RPC-419 exoskeletons are jet-black with bright blue and green markings, possessing a head similar in appearance to the cephalic tagma of a Zygoptera (or "damselfly"). RPC-419 is only 1.4 meters tall on average. Their thorax is humanoid, possessing an emaciated physique with a bulbous abdomen protruding from the back. Two pairs of natatorial hind legs and scansorial mid legs allow for quadrupedal movement. A pair of spiny raptorial forearms allow for optional hexahedral movement and enhanced self-defense when threatened.

RPC-419 instances possess the currently unexplained ability to turn invisible when partially or fully submerged in water. Whether this is through paranatural means or via mirrored plating is presently unknown. However, some possible theories proposed by Dr. McGinnis point towards special proteins able to emit ultraviolet light when in contact with certain water solubles found within the waters of Leigh Lake.

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Image 419.D: Polaroid of Chris and Lee Johnson, fourteen hours before the first disappearance (photographed by their parents)

Discovery: The existence of RPC-419 came to the Authority's attention during an unrelated ACI investigation into two infamous missing persons cases. Leigh Lake had already been on the Authority's radar due to local gossip. Articles of child clothing or trinkets that had washed ashore, as well as unfounded reports of buried human remains, had plagued the tourist spot for decades prior. Local coverage of the missing children had led to an uproar in scrutiny over the area.

Brothers Lee Johnson (age 10) and Chris Johnson (age 15) were both adolescent residents of Jackson Hole, WY. During their camping trip, their parents had originally planned a boating trip to the Mystic Isle. It was postponed after their father, George Johnson, complained of tinnitus and a nauseating headache. Chris and Lee were separated from their parents' base camp after straying too close to the beachfront. Neither child would be seen for the next six days. The search would remain inconclusive and out of Authority interest until 88 hours later, when Chris was able to contact local rangers on a two-way radio.

During his brief conversation with local law enforcement, Chris remained in a state of paranoid delirium. He revealed several failed attempts to call his parents' phone number before discovering a battered shortwave radio next to a stash of abandoned gardening equipment. Chris claimed to have dived after his brother after Lee was swept under the water. He claimed to have arrived at his current location after climbing through a pit of "salt and rotting meat." Through trial and error over the speaker, Chris eventually gained enough reception to upload several pictures of the "strangers" he claimed were stalking him from the treeline. ACI assets intercepted the initial radio call and Chris' reception. They were able to lock his phone as a smaller Protectorate rescue force was sent to the island for rescue.

Addendum 419.1: Discovery Debriefing

Addendum 419.2: IB-100/419 (Relevant) Incident Logs

Addendum 419.3: "Engaged with Gaige" Season 20, Ep. 24 (included for archival purposes only)

Addendum 419.4: OL-Site-419 Remote Submersible Expedition-012

Incident Report 419-M: On 08/22/2023, the severed heads of seven small children were discovered near Gate B via a surveillance camera. Displaying advanced signs of aquatic decomposition and skin discoloration, each head was wrapped in mud-covered, torn parchments of clothing. The display was submerged in a large trench of water, dug inland, with several patterned rings of salt encircling the hole. To the surprise of the ASF guards investigating the display, the human remains were found to have been reanimated via supernatural means, silently able to move what remained of their eyes and ears with full facial articulation.10 The severed adolescent heads, referred to as RPC-419-A, were sent to Site-002 Low-Containment Unit for study. Reclassification of RPC-419 to Beta Containment is pending review has been granted as of 08/28/2023.

Incident Report 419-N: On 08/27/2023, civilian George Johnson, father of Chris, was shot while trying to breach the perimeter of FH-Installation-5. Following a preliminary interview, Mr. Johnson had made several phone calls to Dr. Byron (under his official alias) and the then-disguised Protectorate Installation. A SNAFU occurred as ASF-Transfer ███ █████ tried to detain Mr. Johnson, then scaling the northwest perimeter, after attempting to flee deeper into the field camp. ACI informants had noted plans by George and Laurine Johnson to temporarily move out of the area due to continued skepticism by cryptid-enthusiasts. However, further Authority interference was deemed frivolous by the Protectorate.

A full log of the phone calls has been included:

Mr. Johnson would succumb to blood loss during a scheduling conflict between remaining paramedics, stabilizing him, and an amnestics team trying to transfer him to a civilian hospital to avoid overcrowding in the camp. His death would be reported as a likely drowning a day after. The burner number given to Mr. Johnson was a generic ACI line later revealed to have been misfiled within the ASF directory. The Site-002 Ethics and Review Board would later review Chris's further detainment as unethical, transferring him to a mental health facility in Jackson Hole under Authority observation. Requests by Dr. McGinnis to begin the extermination of Leigh Lake and displacement of relevant entities to Site-009, as well as requests for disability restitution for the surviving members of AET-1/419, are pending review.


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