InstaDinos! Grow Your Prehistoric Pals!
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Registered Phenomena Code: 715
Containment Rating: Alpha
Lethality Rating: Yellow |
 Aggression |
 Ballistic |
 Climatological |
 Geological |
 Grouped |
 Invisibility |
 Psychotronic |
 Sapient |
 Sentient |
 Transmutation |
 Bio-Hazard |
 Contact |
 Corrosive |
 Electromagnetic Force |
 Explosive |
 Extreme Temperature |
 Radiation |
 Toxic |
 Destabilization |
 Extra-Dimensional |
 Gravitational |
 Teleportation |
 Temporal |
 Auditory |
 Emotional |
 Ideological |
 Info-Hazard |
 Memory Alteration |
 Mind-Control |
 Mind-Regression |
 Sensory |
 Visual |
 Animated |
 Aquatic |
 Ecological |
 Extra-Terrestrial |
 Immeasurable |
 Incorporeal |
 Mechanical |
 Microscopic |
 Organic |
 Regenerative |
 Titanic |
 Tychokinetic |
 Replicating |
 Newtonian |
 Ontological |
 Divine |
 Hallucinogen |
High Velocity |
 Proto-Mechanical |
 Proto-Newtonian |
 Proto-Sapient |
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Containment Protocols: All RPC-715 instances are to be stored within standard medium-grade containment lockers. Usage is prohibited without prior authorization from the Site Director. Owing to the limited quantity of RPC-715, usage is to be restricted to instances of substantial population decline among RPC-715-A subjects. RPC-715-A populations exceeding 50 individuals may be designated for livestock utilization.
Infant RPC-715-A instances are to be transferred to incubators or assigned to surrogate parental hosts immediately upon creation. Only personnel possessing 715-/2R clearance or higher are permitted to imprint upon live specimens and assume full custodial responsibility. Due to their nature as domesticated animals, RPC-715-A instances are to be classified using taxonomic nomenclature reflecting their status as domestic subspecies of extinct fauna.
On days of historical significance in paleontology, a day-long surveillance sweep will be instigated. Museum gift shops, toy stores, and other retail locations will be monitored for instances of RPC-715, which may be disguised as non-anomalous toys. Constant surveillance of the illegal pet trade is also in effect to find live instances of RPC-715-A in circulation. ACI assets planted in toy companies are to monitor the creation of expandable water toy lines for possible anomalous interference from Amazing! Co.
Description: RPC-715 designates an Amazing! Co.-produced toy line resembling commercially available "Magic Grow Capsule" products. Sold under the branding of "InstaDinos! Grow Your Prehistoric Pals!" RPC-715 packages are often disguised as non-anomalous toys. Each comes with random pictures of extinct creatures, typically members of the clade Archosauria or Pleistocene mammals. The specific organisms offered vary based on regional distribution and temporal marketing trends, including the release of paleontology-adjacent media. For example, instances recovered from Chinese stores featured organisms found in nearby fossil sites, such as zhenyuanlong or liaoningosaurus. In total, each package contains fourteen RPC-715 capsules.
When submerged in water, RPC-715 capsules undergo a rapid metamorphic process, resulting in the emergence of RPC-715-A instances. RPC-715-A designates domestic subspecies of previously extinct fauna, each corresponding to species depicted on the rear panel of RPC-715 packaging. Genetic analysis of RPC-715-A instances and their extinct wild analogues (e.g., raphus cucullatus, pinguinus impennis) reveals near-identical genomes, with deviations limited to genes associated with domestication syndrome.
One documented RPC-715-A instance, a domestic acheroraptor temertyorum authorensis, is currently housed at Site-012 alongside twelve more of its species.
The intelligence of individual RPC-715-A varies significantly depending on the species. Mammals typically exhibit higher intelligence on average compared to other animals. Despite this, all RPC-715-A instances can be trained to follow commands to varying degrees of success, given that they are within a species' natural capability. Despite apparent genetic modification, no sufficient explanation has been devised for the increased intelligence of RPC-715-A specimens. RPC-715 creations are fertile and will attempt to procreate with instances of the same species upon reaching sexual maturity.
Discovery: RPC-715 was discovered in May 1993, when RPC operators flagged 300 suspicious calls made across North America and Europe with similar reports. All unsuspecting callers combined have produced 1,000 RPC-715-A instances. Caller IDs were flagged, and their purchase history was traced back to 12 stores across both regions. The marketing and timing of the product's release correlated with the then-upcoming film Jurassic Park, which was scheduled to be shown in theaters the following month. All packages containing RPC-715 advertised fourteen creatures, including:
1. Awesome Archeopteryx!
2. Audacious Auk!
3. Sly Coelophysis!
4. Cool Compsognathus!
5. Dauntless Diictodon!
6. Dumb Dodo!
7. Daring Dire Wolf!
8. Intrepid Iberosuchus!
9. Mesmerizing Microraptor!
10. Mighty Mini-Rex!
11. Perky Paleoloxodon!
12. Powerful Protoceratops!
13. Valiant Valdosaurus!
14. Vicious Velociraptor!
Supervisors at the stores were questioned by ACI investigators, which led to the identification of a single factory as the primary producer of RPC-715. MST Sierra-08 ("Sundowners") was dispatched to seize the installation, located near Xalapa, Mexico. The manager of the facility could not be found; however, the employees at the facility were aware of RPC-715's effects, as some had brought home RPC-715 packages to their families. An interview with a technician working at the factory was conducted and may be found below:
Interviewed: Juan Diego Martes
Interviewer: Union Rep Daniel Gonzales
Foreword: The following interview was translated into English from Spanish. Mr. Martes was the chief technician at the factory, often reporting to the manager to talk about changes in employee workloads.
BEGIN LOG
Gonzales: Greetings, Mister…
Martes: Martes, sir. You're not with corporate, are you?
Gonzales: No, sir. We're from the union.
Martes: It's about time you guys arrived. What the hell took you so long?
Gonzales: Language, Mr. Martes.
Martes: Sigh How can I help you, sir?
Gonzales: We want you to tell us everything you know about this InstaDino toy line.
Martes: I should have guessed that you were here for that. Why else would you be here?
Martes drinks from his water bottle.
Martes: We all thought we were crazy at first - maybe all these years of working in this grey, hot factory were finally getting to us. I still remember the screams of the quality control guy when he put some of those little pills into the water and was greeted by a baby dinosaur and a tiny fucking elephant the size of my hand. We all thought he was crazy! Then we took a look for ourselves and started wondering the same thing about ourselves.
Gonzales: For how long was your factory producing these capsules?
Martes: That's what sticks out to you? Anyways, we've been producing these things since April 15th. That's when the manager started acting strange, too.
Gonzales: Judging by your reaction, your relations with your manager seem difficult. Would you be willing to elaborate?
Martes: Laugh Difficult? Yeah, you could say that. Mister Lopez used to be an alright guy before April. He always ate with the boys, was nice to the new guys and always kept us up to date on any changes to our routine. I don't know what happened to him.
Gonzales: What did he do that was strange?
Martes: One day, he just walked into work with this exaggerated stride and huge grin on his face. I didn't even know it was possible for a smile to stretch so wide! He was accompanied by these two thuggish-looking individuals in black hoodies, each of 'em about, err, two meters tall I want to say? They followed him wherever he went. Anyways, he told us that we'd only be making this one type of toy for the foreseeable future - you know the one. Whenever we'd ask him a question, he'd only ever give "yes" or "no" answers, even if it wasn't a yes-or-no question.
Gonzales: Why didn't you contact the authorities earlier?
Martes: Easy for you to ask! We were scared out of our minds. One guy brought a package home to his family without permission and we never heard from him or his family again. I'm telling you: It was those thugs that did them in.
Gonzales: What can you tell us about Mr. Lopez's guard detail?
Martes: They aren't people. I don't mean they don't feel emotion or that they're cold-blooded killers, I mean that they aren't human. I was looking through the door to his office, right? And for a split second, I saw the two grunts take their hoodies down. They weren't people! They were some sort of fucking balloon creatures! I ran off before they could see me.
Gonzales: Did anyone else witness these "balloon men"?
Martes: Sigh I thought I was crazy until Vicente and Alejandro told me they saw the same thing. I'm just glad it's over now. Are we done yet? Because I have nothing more to say.
Gonzales: We are. You may leave now.
Martes: Thanks a ton.
END OF LOG
Following this incident, ACI assets were planted in the offices and factories of various toy companies to stop further infiltration from Amazing! Co. and other entities of interest.
The extent to which RPC-715-A specimens can be trained to follow commands has been studied since their discovery. From the years of 1999 - 2001, Researcher Altar Batbayar, a master falconer employed at Site-130, noted the similarities between the behavior of dinosaurian RPC-715-A instances and birds of prey, most commonly dromaeosaurids and other small theropods. The greenhouses and open farms of Site-130 were prone to being infested by invasive flora and fauna, resulting in a 40% decrease in annual crop yields.
As pesticides proved ineffective, Researcher Batbayar proposed utilizing RPC-715-A instances as a means of pest control. 10 of the facility's 100 RPC-715 packages were utilized and over the course of 1 1/2 years, the 60 instances were trained to follow commands and to eat only specific prey items, including common pests, and in the case of the protoceratops, weeds. The instances were released into the fields upon reaching maturity, resulting in a significant decrease in the population of invasive species and the use of pesticides in the site. Batbayar's efforts are estimated to have saved 5% of the budget allocated to Site-130 and RPC-715-A instances continue to see usage as pest control.
Doctor Miller Theodore Johnson, a psychologist assigned to Site-045, began to experiment with the use of preexisting RPC-715-A instances as therapy animals. Paleoloxodon proved particularly effective in this function, with most subjects reporting an increase in mood after therapy sessions including RPC-715-A. Several proposals to reclassify RPC-715 as a Utility object were drafted but were ultimately rejected upon review due to the logistical issues pertaining to vetting and limited availability of RPC-715.
