By My Father's Working Hands
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The following document contains outdated information due to sickness-related personnel shortage.
View temporary addendum 'Unprocessed Data' for unincorporated discoveries.
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The Office of Information Records and Security
| Registered Phenomena Code: 637 Containment Rating: Alpha Lethality Rating: Orange |
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The mansion housing RPC-637 phenomena.
Containment Protocols: OL-Site-637 quarantines the perimeter of RPC-637. Five ASF guards are stationed on-site and resupplied monthly. To decontaminate smaller items of CRSH residue, OL-Site-637 has been provided with four Oil-Charkov chambers.
Description: RPC-637 is a luxury manor located in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri. No official documentation on RPC-637’s estate exists, however, the acquisition of RPC-637 established its owner as paranatural architect “Mason Du Ziggur,” son of Xaxier Du Ziggur.1
RPC-637’s floor plan consists of a fully furnished basement library, ground floor, and second level housing, and attic.
RPC-637’s anomalous phenomena manifest during any attempts to modify or damage its interior. Moved furnishing will levitate to the previous positions. Damage to RPC-637 is repaired via rematerialization of disturbed components, as broken assets vanish. If enough alterations to RPC-637 are made — ala, insisted relocation of items or repeated damage to the structure — the affected object will start to produce a highly anomalous compound along with faint vocalizations of sobbing.
Cutaneous Remodelling and Swift Hypertension substance, or CRSH, is highly neurotoxic and mutagenic when it comes into contact with biomatter. Prolonged muscle spasms characterize CRSH poisoning. The skin — typically starting in the face — becomes mucilaginous. The visceral tissue of organs, followed by bone marrow, will gradually be replaced by muscle fibers. Rhythmic contractions typically accompany this cellular replacement, followed by prolonged cramps. While muscle tension can support enough of the body weight to prevent collapse, the body typically begins to deform and reshape. Sporadic muscle activity results in a kneading effect, causing the boneless subject to adopt a spherical shape. The subject is currently only capable of exerting random and directionless force. During the entire process, there is a steady increase in blood pressure, which at the final stages reaches a peak intolerable to the ligaments and skin. The resulting discharge is removed by the effects of RPC-637.
RPC-637-1, -2, and -3 are incorporeal entities inhabiting the ground floor of RPC-637. They take the appearance of a middle aged woman covered in paint, a teenage boy wearing regalia, and a teenage girl in a long black dress and a sun hat. All communication attempts have failed, as the entities are incapable of interacting with any objects not originating from the mansion. Behavioral studies have discovered 637:1-3 frequently attempting to enter the basement and a number of rooms of interest2 in the ground floor, however, always being hindered by an external force.
The second floor’s volume is completely flooded by CRSH and therefore only explored with remote operated underwater vehicles (ROUVs). Expeditions have revealed the unidentifiable remains of at least seven potential human bodies, paramilitary gear, and an attic entrance located in the west wing (currently inaccessible).
Addenda:
Discovery
Monitors of Malthus activity intercepted part of a communication:
“Do it like a botched acute organ transplant. Pull out Du Ziggur as fast as possible, we don’t care about anything else. Rip down the walls if you need to, and don’t be afraid to catch some flesh in the cross-fire. If you get him quick, let him catch glimpses of the rest of the show. We’ll see what his excuse is after “time with family”. Collect what's left of them too. We'll put it in the next lab he’ll build, perfect irony or whatever.”
Further investigation uncovered a light, camp-site research facility based around an undocumented estate in the Ozark Highlands, Missouri. Probing by ACI stealth drones and long-distance imaging proved the development of a suspected liquid bio-weapon.
After acquisition, interrogated Malthus operatives revealed the estate to belong to a relative of PoI-DuZ:269 by the name of Mason Du Ziggur. The final extracted piece of intel3 was that the operatives were surprised by the presence of a bio-weapon on the premises, and that their attempted exploitation was a salvaged decision after failing the main objective. Post-op cleanup led to the establishment of RPC-637, but neither Xavier or Mason Du Ziggur have been found.
Auxiliary insight
The following are descriptions for the library on the basement level, a bedroom, and a painter’s studio on the ground floor. These rooms are inaccessible to RPC-637:1-3, and each contains corpses identical to the appearance of the entities, if liberty is taken to imagine a healthy form. Contact with the corpses will implant consistent foreign memories into the subject.
Library: Various records spanning multiple epochs were located, including books, codices, papyrus script, stone/clay tablets, archeological findings, and USB storage were present. Attempts to access the data stored in these records have failed, as all casual or expert interpreters are unable to comprehend the content, despite many of it being written in understood languages such as English, French and Egyptian hieroglyphics. Future attempts have been barred due to the risk of CRSH secretion.
The corpse of a teenage boy floats in the middle of the room. Around its neck lies a rope, long since having snapped, yet the corpse hangs still. Attempts to relocate it have only resulted in RPC-637's modification reversion.
Studio: An art studio for painting. Much paraphernalia lies spurred around a central canvas with a depiction of three entities on it. A red man with a goat’s head stands tall with his hands on the shoulders of two other figures. To his right is a woman with mutilated limbs and sown facial orifices, to his left is another, shorter red man with a goat’s head. Above the second man floats a golden halo. The bottom end of the painting is covered in blood and can not be removed without risking CRSH secretion.
On the opposite end of the entrance and in front of the canvas is a small, mahogany stage covered by a red curtain.
In the middle of this stage floor, lies the corpse of a woman. Her body lies atop a large studio canvas (36’54) with her throat slit. Their arms were extended to the sides, legs straightened, with her gaze positioned towards the entrance. Blood has been crudely used to paint wings on the canvas.
Eastwing Bedroom: A typical bedroom of common furnishings, including a bed, walk-in wardrobe and television. Blood coats the dressing table near the southern wall.
The corpse of a teenage girl with a disfigured head from a shotgun blast is propped up on a stake extending from the cauda through the neck. She has been dressed in a white wedding dress and jewelry.
Unprocessed Data
The following addendum [revision 4] is unfinished, and requires approval from OIRS/637 Oversight.
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While submersible drones have been used to explore the CRSH flooded volumes of the second floor, the third has remained out of reach due to an attic hatch which opens inwards.
The Engineering Component has therefore developed a customized ROUV, the 637-SIREN. Equipped with four extendable hydraulic arms, this flatter model is capable of great pulling forces by latching on with a modifiable gripper, and pushing off with the hydraulics. Additionally, it bears limited land-traversing capabilities with its jointed arms.
Using the SIREN, enough force was exerted to forcibly open the entrance to the attic. The SIREN climbed into the area, revealing it to be a form of workshop. Diverse types of materials lay about the area. A desk to the side contained documents, including blueprints and records of business transactions with multiple Groups of Interest. Examples follow.
Struck 2025/01/18
Man of Many Parts: The Legal Trading Company (Nihilists)
Edifice of will's irration: Warehouse compartment to preserve environment sensitive artifacts.
Price: 120.000 upon completion.
Comment: Tough to make it generalized for whatever they might store. Time-warp geometry, maybe?
Status: Pending Complete 2025/03/21
A contraption of uncertain make lies within the center of the attic. Later study discovered it to be constructed of primarily spruce, but also pine, polyisocyanurate, paint, steel, concrete, nails, human remains, and other materials not before discovered. The components are not ordained in an intuitive manner. Many attempts to document or memorize the intricacies of the structure have failed, as no current method holds enough capacity.4 An adult male's arm emerges from the contraption at the elbow.
Under the arm was a male individual, in early puberty, slouched over the ground in a prostration. The SIREN approached the boy who was later discovered to be named Amel Du Ziggur. While operators discussed the next course of action, Amel discovered the drone and stared at it for a moment, then glanced back at the opened hatch, before verbalizing:
“Oh.”
Amel attempted and failed to lift the SIREN, and instead dragged it by the arms back to the hatch, where it was kicked back. Before operators abandoned the mission, Amel requested for him to be brought a number of items, among which an oxygen tank and nutrition.
Upon delivery of the items, they were promptly used. Amel held the hand extending from the contraption in the attic, before diving into the submerged second level. Upon arriving at the ground level, Amel would thank personnel, who were hesitant to approach due to the CRSH. Amel has so far simply resided in RPC-637, and only interacted with personnel to request necessities. It has been observed how most of his time is spent in the basement library.
Further exploration of the attic revealed it to be barred from the typical effects of RPC-637. It was therefore possible to extract organic matter from the corpse inside the contraption using a ROUV. This was done as researchers aimed to to study whether this instance would induce memory alteration, which it in fact, did.
A proposal has been left to the Board of Global Directors, it suggests for Amel Du Ziggur to receive the designation of PoI-DuZ:271.