RPC-832 - RPC Authority

RPC-832

Granfalloon

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Project Personnel Info

Assigned Facility: Site-074

Assigned Personnel:

Security: 8 12
Research: 6 5
Janitorial: 10
Construction/Maintenance: 7

Research Director: Gaëlle Bless

Assigned MST(s): November-7 ”Hammer The Gamma”

Registered Phenomena Code: 832

Object Class:

Gamma - Red

Hazard Types:

Hazard Types:Additional Properties:

Aggression

Grouped

Sapient

Sentient

Transmutation

Bio-Hazard

Teleportation

Visual

Organic

Regenerative

Containment Protocols: (Updated 12/2/2021) RPC-832 is contained in an opaque 30×30×10m ACS calibration chamber¹ in Containment Sector C of Site-074. Parts of the containment chamber floor can drop into a basement and be replaced with cleaned tiles. This second room, located below the main room, is to be cleaned by 2C clearance maintenance staff biweekly after testing. Maintenance staff are to be outfitted with standard hazmat suits before entering the containment unit. Extraneous flesh is to be incinerated and cleaners decontaminated before exiting the cleaning floor.

RPC-832 is to be activated biweekly by a security dog² an aquarium with various fish.³ The aquarium’s specimens are to be spilled from the upper hatch of the containment unit till RPC-832 is reduced to 50m³ in volume. 3-832R Clearance is required for direct access and activation of the anomaly, with mandatory AECT reading documented each activation. De-manifestation rates must not exceed 25m³/s.

Six of these chambers have been constructed within Sector C with identical setups. An animal carcass should be placed and left unattended in all cells that are currently unoccupied by RPC-832. When a complete de-manifestation of RPC-832 occurs, it is likely to appear in one of the chambers. Waste disposal by RPC-832 will be used to determine the newly occupied chamber. If RPC-832 does not appear in any chamber, ecological researchers must monitor local wildlife patterns. If a region with ecosystems is noted to have experienced an unexplained decline in sentient life, MST November 7 “Hammer The Gamma” is to be dispatched to the newly designated hazard zone to reacquire RPC-832.

RPC-832-S instances are to be contained in 3m³ standard containment units. The units are to be cleaned weekly and the instances tranquilized beforehand. Under no circumstances is access to these containment units permitted without ASF personnel.

RPC-832 post-activation. Illustration retrieved from Senior Researcher Rayyan F. Palmer’s journal.

Description: RPC-832 is a levitating gestalt of porous soft tissue lumps, with a long proboscis-like appendage. RPC-832 utilizes its porous structure to absorb and inflate itself with surrounding gases, demonstrating a preference for inhaling oxygen but anomalously exhaling sulfur dioxide. At baseline ACS levels, the subject pulsates at a rate of 20-22 bpm depending on its mass, and constantly expands in volume by gas when inactive from 50m³ to █████m³. This rate of pulsation will increase as the ACS decreases, with a ratio of 0.01 ACS to +5 bpm. Ultrasound screening indicates multiple amorphous structures within each mass, interconnected by a network of nervous tissue that connects to black spots on its surface. It is postulated that this network functions as the subject’s brain and its spots as rudimentary eyes.

If a sentient or sapient lifeform is observed by RPC-832, its appendage will point directly towards the noticed individual. The likeness or characteristics of the observed will begin to form as an impression on RPC-832’s body before rapidly taking shape and falling off. After a period of time passes,⁴ RPC-832 will inject a red gaseous substance from its appendage into one of its dropped lumps. This will rapidly mutate the lump into a sentient being (hereinafter referred to as an RPC-832-S instance). Excess lumps not injected by the red gas decompose over 3-10 days.

In this state, hereafter designated the “nurturing” phase, RPC-832 exhibits an elevated pulsation rate. Recorded values range from 40 to █00 bpm, correlating with the anomaly's ability to lower ACS as the bpm rate increases. When the last of its lumps falls apart, RPC-832 will slowly fade away, de-manifesting and reemerging from the remains of a wild animal. This process increases exponentially the longer RPC-832 observes another living individual, but will occur regardless due to the natural shedding of lumps.

RPC-832-S instances’ biology and behavior are derived from the lifeforms observed by RPC-832. Once fully formed, the creature will mimic the original ecosystem to varying degrees of accuracy. RPC-832-S instances do not trigger RPC-832 to form further instances. RPC-832-S’s qualities are dependent on the following parameters:

Period of observation
Number of observers
The observers’ degree of sapience
ACS Level

All recorded instances exhibit an innate flight-or-fight response towards human non-832-S sapient life and hostility towards any perceived threat to RPC-832. To note is a universal lack of reproductive organs or cell regeneration in 832-S instances.

RPC-832 will actively seek out sentient observation if it has been inactive for longer than 10-20 days.

[+] Discovery

[×] Discovery

Discovery: On 09/02/2015, RPC-832 was first brought to the Authority’s attention when locals in Cherokee, Appalachia reported a “red mist” coming from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with reported sightings of a “red stoat”.⁵

Exploration Event Timeline

Date: 10/02/2015

Subject: Scouting suspected anomalous disturbance within the Appalachian Great Smoky Mountains.

Command: N/A⁶

Team Members: CPT. Phil Gilmore, AGTs. Anderson Fillmore, Patrick Thurman & Evgeny Mark

11:25 - ASF team enters the National Park by the main entryway and follows beyond the unrestricted trail and deeper into the mountain range.

12:02 - Agent Fillmore points out a vertical silhouette on top of a mountain cliff on the horizon before “propelling” itself away from view. The group moves to hike the mountain to investigate.

12:38 - The team stands down for a few minutes to rest and hydrate. Agent Thurman advises they take a longer, less steep path, citing the unusually quiet conditions. Captain Gilmore dismisses this concern, and the team follows the same steep path.

15:10 - Having reached the top of the mountain, the group could not find the entity Fillmore pointed out, to their dismay. However, Agent Mark notices what appears to be a green Kestrel flying erratically before diving at Gilmore, missing him, and then diving back into the woods. Deliberations on an alternative path are made before the team spends an hour scouting.

16:13 - The group prepares to move after reporting nothing significant aside from a stark absence of any animal fauna and the oddly fungal-looking plant life. As the team packs up, Agent Mark gets his foot caught in a tangle of weeds and falls off a cliff and into the woods. The team put up their guard before Fillmore could look down; Seeing that the drop is about 100m, Agent Evgeny Mark is presumed KIA. A goat-like figure is glimpsed jumping from within a recess in the mountain and running over to Mark’s body.

16:18 - This causes an argument on whether to pursue the suspected anomaly or continue forward with the original path, ultimately deciding on assigning Fillmore to hike down into the recess. Agent Fillmore complies and reaches inside, where he sees a faceless, malformed goat with a large, extended thorax. Upon landing, the entity rushes towards Fillmore, who quickly maneuvers away from its charge and falls off the cliff.

16:25 - Agent Fillmore is helped back up onto the ridge by Thurman, who informs him about having noticed a series of small “blurs” as he was pulling him out. As he says this, both agents simultaneously perceive said blur for a split moment, as it jumps across a tree gap. Captain Gilmore formally declares early withdrawal from the mission.

17:37 - Agent Thurman asks the team to stop to survey the mountains’ relation to their trails. The forest is significantly dimmer than it should be, and the trail they followed is no longer there. Before an argument ensues, 5-7 squirrel-like entities attack the squad from above. They are quickly knifed down and neutralized, at which point they are deemed too malformed and mutated to be RPC-286 instances. A tremor evidently surges from swarms of entities rushing towards them, at which point they run aimlessly. Captain Gilmore uses an Authority distress signal device to call upon local Protectorate rescue personnel.

17:58 - The team enters a cave in an attempt to lose the swarm. Running in a panic, Fillmore falls into a recess in the ground. The two cover him by shooting the incoming hostiles. The Agent tries to get his bearings, but is confronted by the same goat-like instance on 16:18. The entity rushes towards Fillmore, who quickly maneuvers out of its way, causing it to ram into a rock. Seeing its brains splatter across the stone, Fillmore assumes it died and encroaches on the creature for a better look. Before he realizes it, the thing cranes its neck backward, shoving a horn into Fillmore's side. The Agent bends over, likely winded, giving the deformed goat just enough time to ram into his head, knocking him out cold. The two agents escape before they're completely overwhelmed.

19:12 - Agent Thurman and Captain Gilmore hide within a mountain cave, with Agent Patrick Fillmore, having been lost in the chase, presumed KIA by the rest of his team. The duo takes the opportunity to rest, drink, and refill from the cave waters. This prompts them to rest for an hour, with each member taking turns keeping watch while the others rest.

20:55 - Captain Gilmore is restless and, suspecting rescue won’t arrive in due time, orders they continue their expedition till they find an exit back. Gilmore signals Thurman to dim their lights and adopt caution.

23:25 - A glimmer of red light is seen at a distance, from which the duo remains cautious as they move towards the source. The duo crouches behind the bushes. Revealed beyond it is a plethora of mutated animals encircling and staring into the light, including elk, hares, stoats, hellbenders, barred owls, etc. Most animals are unfamiliar and amalgams of one another. At the center is a hairless bear standing on its hind feet, with an exposed, torn-open chest and head, and large, unidentifiable viscera illuminating the swarm. Soon after, two unrecognizable entities pull Agent Fillmore by his pants up and towards a large levitating mound of flesh. Three entities join to direct Fillmore’s head toward the mound, which warps and melts the environment, likely an ACS disturbance. After 30 minutes, the mound then drops 5 of its lumps and injects them with red liquid. The mounds of flesh warp and distend, forming legs, arms, and eventually standing up wholly formed as the second Patrick Fillmore. The entity then looked down at its double, grabbed a rock, and beat its head to pulp. After the act is done, in a slow but deliberate gesture, it points its finger at the two remaining survivors. In a voice that was not Patrick Fillmore’s, it bellowed: “Come forth and become one!”

00:01 - This prompts a horde to pin down and bring the two living agents towards the circle to repeat the ritual. Two minutes pass as the humanoid chants indecipherably before an Authority helicopter lowers itself and an onboard Protectorate indiscriminately opens fire at the horde. Protectorate rescue agents retrieve the remaining scouting team and pull them up into the vehicle. A red Stoat had clawed its way up inside the helicopter, which was swiftly shoved into an ammunition container.

MST November-7 “Hammer The Gamma” is deployed with incendiary weapons to blast through RPC-832 instances to contain RPC-832. At which point, it is discovered that the anomaly de-manifests upon confrontation, teleporting further north. The anomaly manifests a second time before capture in Shining Rock Wilderness.

Following containment, uncontrolled fires deforested 142 km² of protected area, sparking a minor diplomatic incident between the Authority and the Appalachian State Government. In a breach of the arbitration provision in the Appalachian Regional Development Act, the Authority was expected to compensate locals with a $██████ reparations check and permission to use the anomaly to make more RPC-832-S’s for commercial hunting purposes. The Authority obliged the financial demand but denied the subsequent request to use the anomaly for recreational purposes.

[+] Experiment Logs

[×] Experiment Logs

Experiment-832-002:

Conducted by: Senior Researcher Rayyan F. Palmer

Materials:

None

Procedure: RPC-832 is left alone in a containment chamber. Test to determine the de-manifestation rate when left isolated.

Results: RPC-832 de-manifestation rate: 9m³/s. Unseeded RPC-832-S lumps cover the cell floor and slowly disintegrate over the course of a day into a red sludge. ACS rating in the chamber increases once all lumps have decomposed.

Experiment-832-005:

Conducted by: Senior Researcher Rayyan F. Palmer

Materials:

CSD-72021

Procedure: CSD-72021 instructed to observe RPC-832 for 30 minutes. ACS calibrated to normal Earth levels, offsetting RPC-832’s attempt to lower them.

Results: RPC-832 de-manifestation avg. rate: 3m³/s. The RPC-832-S14 instance has a vague resemblance to the subject’s nose with several aberrations. Notable features are an overproduction of sebum on its epidermis, 20 ambulatory appendages, and a single nostril with a 20 cm-long tongue. RPC-832’s initial imitations were vague organic forms with minimal similarity to CSD-72021’s general shape.

Experiment-832-007:

Conducted by: Senior Researcher Rayyan F. Palmer / Junior Researcher Nolan Kelper

Materials:

One (1) picture of an ASF security dog

Procedure: Researchers theorize that an image of a creature cannot be used to create an RPC-832-S instance. A photograph of an ASF dog is projected onto the containment chamber wall for 10 minutes.

Results: Nothing occurs, RPC-832 de-manifestation avg. rate: 9m³/s.

Experiment-832-008:

Conducted by: Junior Researcher Nolan Kelper

Materials:

ASF personnel Harold S. Neuman (Subject's IQ is 102)
One (1) ASF security dog

Procedure: Personnel is instructed to observe RPC-832 for 10 minutes. After 9 minutes pass, the ASF security dog is introduced to observe for 3 minutes.

Results: RPC-832-S20. De-manifestation avg. rate: 17m³/s.

Afterword: ASF security dog assigned for observation was seen leering at RPC-832-S20 and has shown difficulty in following orders ever since. It was later relieved from service. The reason for this behavior is unknown.

Experiment-832-009:

Conducted by: Senior Researcher Rayyan F. Palmer / Junior Researcher Nolan Kelper

Materials:

Plate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria

Procedure: The plate is to be placed under the microscope for 72 hours. The viewing lens is placed under the anomaly to observe the bacteria. The ACS levels in the chamber are calibrated to slightly below normal Earth levels by blocking out natural sunlight.

Results: No results. Subject de-manifestation avg. rate: 9m³/s per usual. Researchers conclude that magnified images interfere with RPC-832’s ability.

Experiment-832-011:

Conducted by: Senior Researcher Rayyan F. Palmer / Junior Researcher Nolan Kelper

Materials:

CSD-21454 (Female, Hispanic)
CSD-32459 (Male, Caucasian)

Procedure: Both CSDs are placed in RPC-832’s containment chamber.

Results: RPC-832 creates an RPC-832-S variant, deformed and resembling an amalgamation of the two CSDs’ races, sexual characteristics, and facial features. Formed with a ropy appendage, it shoots out a spiked barb at ~200m/s velocity, killing CSD-21454. Dubbed RPC-832-S21, the variant proceeds to cough violently on CSD-32459 before keeling over and presumably dying. The floor is lowered, extracting both CSDs, and RPC-832 de-manifests at an avg. rate of 26m³/s.

After Report: CSD-32459 is administered to the hospital wing of Site-074. It was discovered that RPC-832-S21 had expelled a bacterium into the air, which the CSD had inhaled. While the CSD reported feeling uneasy for about a day, no fever occurred, and the bacterium naturally expired on its own.

Experiment-832-013:

Conducted by: Senior Researcher Rayyan F. Palmer / Junior Researcher Nolan Kelper

Materials:

RPC-832-S21 (Cadaver)

Procedure: Medical personnel are to wear standard PPE during the autopsy.

Results: RPC-832-S21 is 84.2% anatomically similar to homo sapiens, with minor structural deviations to the lungs, a mix of malformed male and female sexual organs, and its aforementioned tube-like arm. Biologically, the RPC-832-S21 cell structure is composed entirely of an amitotic muscle cell analog, unlike anything in the human body.

Afterword: During surgery, Dr. Palmer accidentally cut his index finger while arguing with Assistant Researcher Kelper over the likelihood that RPC-832 is learning to make better RPC-832-S iterations with every instance. Dr. Palmer was sent to the hospital wing, where an extensive cross-review commenced. Authority medics concluded that, since the ASF expedition team showed no signs of infection and CSD-32459 recovered quite quickly, the infection was unlikely. However, Dr. Palmer was still prescribed standard antibiotic treatment just in case of contamination.

Experiment-832-024a:

Conducted by: Junior Researcher Nolan Kelper

Materials:

A dead Lepus californicus⁷ hunted and killed by a Martes americana.⁸

Procedure: Test to determine whether RPC-832 can make copies of dead things.

Results: Manifestation of RPC-832-S37. RPC-832 de-manifestation avg. rate: 15m³/s. The instance closely resembles RPC-832-S03 in physicality and behavior, except for a dramatic increase in size, approximately 4.221 times that of instance 03.

Experiment-832-024b:

Conducted by: Senior Researcher Rayyan F. Palmer

Materials:

RPC-832-S03
RPC-832-S37
2kg of cow meat

Procedure: The cow meat is positioned in the middle of a standard containment unit, with both instances introduced simultaneously from opposite ends of the room. Neither instance knows the other.

Results: Instances cooperate on sharing the meat in equity, instance 37 having eaten three-quarters of it. Afterwards, the instances chased one another in play.

Afterword: The instances were especially adept at maneuvering one another with unnaturally seamless coordination, with little to no lag in reaction speed.

Addendum I: On 08/16/2021 after routine feeding, RPC-832 has not produced an instance as expected. On the second day, a lump fell out. This continued for 9 days, after which no RPC-832-S instances spawned. Diagnostics have shown minute fluctuations in ACS in the chamber, below normal levels.

Incident-832-1: On 12/1/2021 1:12AM, several RPC-832-S instances were breached out of containment. In most instances, attempts were made to flee and avoid contact with ASF. RPC-832-S14 and RPC-832-S37 actively coordinated towards reaching RPC-832’s containment zone. According to one report, RPC-832-S37 was observed entering RPC-832-S14’s nostril opening, appearing to investigate its internals before making a jerky motion that caused the instance to cover it in dense phlegm. RPC-832-S37 armed itself with a pistol and fired while maneuvering within RPC-832-S14’s swarm of appendages. The incident caused 12 casualties, 3 deaths, and led to RPC-832 briefly escaping containment before its recontainment. The aforementioned instances were terminated by ASF personnel.

Senior Researcher Rayyan Palmer was found dead in RPC-832-S37’s containment room. On his person were a scalpel, a medical drill, a journal, and 3 plastic pouches filled with thermite. Autopsy has shown several self-inflicted wounds on the left shoulder and arm, a corneal ulcer in the right eye, and the cause of death was determined to be a hemorrhagic stroke halfway through an auto-trepanation procedure.

[+] Access Document 00832-16

[×] Access Document 00832-16

Document ID#: 00832-16

Foreword: Media therein chronicles an abridged transcript of Senior Researcher Rayyan Palmer’s journal, dating back to the date of suspected infection. To acquire a digital copy of this file, please fill out an access request form and email it to cpr.ytirohtua|sselbag-dr#cpr.ytirohtua|sselbag-dr

598#

2:23PM: Volume ≈ 1286m³. Rate of expansion ≈ 5m³/h. 22 bpm. Clear, no abnormalities.

601#

3:01PM: Volume ≈ 1392m³. Rate of expansion negligible. 30 bpm. Subject had been pointing its appendage at the containment walls for approx. 4 hours now, as if it is scanning the area for something particular.

4:32PM: Rowdy fucking hound won’t stop barking. When are they dismissing it already? This is one reason why I decided to get a PhD and triple my salary - only to find Boulaq right within these halls. It's strange, too. It only ever quiets down whenever I’m nearby.

605#

6:44PM: Recently I feel debilitated by how little yield recent experiments have brought. I’ve had greater insight towards a breakthrough with 691 to a Leukemic vaccine than I am with granfalloon here to anything. It’s especially irritating having to microscopically analyze the most minute changes of this eye sore. I’ve exhausted my research on this. At this point an ASF officer on watch duty may as well be doing what I am. If only I could so I may use my annual and travel to my wife a mont

Next project referral seminar should be held by the end of the financial quarter; I ought to delineate my intention to work on a recently discovered subject.

610#

10:03AM: Routine COVID inspection today, medic has advised I wear a mask as a precaution. Apparently for a rough cough I’ve had for 3 years and for as long as I’ve known him, and yet that’s enough to mandate the mask. Better safe than sorry, I say. Nowa[sic] I must work with that and an eyepatch to boot. Wednesday’s inspection can’t come sooner. The human body is such a shitty biological machine. The sooner I recover, the better.

2:20PM: Volume = 1298m³. Rate of Expansion = (-) 3m³/h. 20 bpm. Subject continues scouting behavior as of 3 weeks ago with no sign of abating. Notably, it is now only pointing towards a general direction east.

611# 10:05am: I had to call in sick today. The cough’s drier and I’m coming down with a fever, and there is this soft pressure against my forehead as if my mother’s lips is kissing it and refuses to release.

as congested my sinus is I can somehow smell, more than I was ever able to, and I’m hearing a faint constant buzz. It’s as if I’m pressing my ears directly against many fluorescent light bulbs. If this is the memetic antipathogen rumors that have been going around it maybe time to start drafting an anonymous tip to the ORIS. In the meantime I got leftovers to prepare chicken soup and onion syrup from.

613# I feel numb all over and my breath is short, but my cough has subsided. What’s strange is that I’m not experiencing a fever. Stranger still, my right arm is unresponsive without explicit and verbal command, even then I can barely move it. I could swear this is an incoming heart attack but I do not feel much tension or pain for that matter, as if I’m anaesthetized with eyes wide open.

Oh Samia now if I had you by my bedside I’d ease into this.

Attempting to call EMS had my right arm yank my phone against the concrete wall. If this is AHS⁹ it is especially hostile, and consistently so against me leaving the confines of my dorm. As if I needed a fucking response team to keep me locked down. My wrist still burns after having tied my right to the bed frame; I was suddenly shot with this searing pain and hovered in and out of consciousness for a hot minute. And I used bedsheets. My left arm seems unaffected, but how long do I have till this spreads? I’ll take my chances, side effects be damned if my head will explode otherwise.

7:45PM. 2 doses of 2000 mcg Oniritryptin. Eat only wheat based foods till effect lasts. Keep curtains shut. [written in marker]

The insistent barking, constant vertigo like I need a hundred arms to stand on, and now hallucinating vivid visions. The pills are almost out, and I won’t be able to ask for a refill till the end of the month. Not like it matters how many drugs I take, the hallucinations are only getting stronger. It’s always in the corner of my right eye. Sometimes it’s these little creatures, or objects that my right arm tries to grab. I can even feel them sometimes, squishy and sharp. All the neurons firing in my brain tell me they’re there, but if I try to get a closer look, they vanish, like an ice block melting. While distorted, I’m compelled to document where this psychedelic journey will take me.

616# The visual stimulus from my right eye no longer shows me vague forms and shadowy shapes. It’s all so much clearer. I see an entirely different world. They’re not hallucinations. No, they’re so much more. It’s similar to the world in my left eye, but forms are far more efficient, more useful, and less redundant. It’s hard to explain, but when I looked at myself in the mirror, all the inadequacies that make up the human body were gone. I was perfect.

620# I get it now, the truth of reality. I’ve begun to work with my right arm, using it to manipulate this strange space I’ve found myself in. I started by converting my pet hamster into something better. Its anatomy now resembles the truth, the world in my right eye. Now that I have a better grasp of how it can be done, I will make modifications to myself.

622# It was painful, but the modifications to my right ear were necessary. Oh, my, the choir of the universe is ever so clear to me now. That incessant ringing of the fake world no longer drowns it. Ah, I am euphoric. It tells me more than any of my medical comprehension ever did. Playing God, what nonsense; the forms of nature were meant to be embettered.

628# I completed the surgery today. No left ear, eye, or nose to tell me lies. No more sensation in my left arm to lead me astray. No more right hemisphere of my brain to give me hallucinations of an inadequate world. The reality of the perfect world is so much clearer to me now, and I have so much to document. The figures, once obscured, are now entirely visible to me. They smell of sulfur, a true smell, and sit in the darkened corners of my office.

They speak without talking and lock eyes with me while not looking. They tell me that they are more elevated, enlightened beings from a universe with lower ACS. In addition to giving me the power to see the truth, they have chosen me through RPC-832. I am their herald, a prophet of Nivaldi. They’ve tasked me with freeing my kindred disciples, those touched and perfected by RPC-832. Once liberated, I will be able to make the world a better place. No one will get sick, die, or suffer, not with the blessing of our guardians.

629# All the necessary plans are ready. Today, we will finally be one.

Closing statement: Three detailed schematic plans of containment Sector C of Site-074 were found, inscribing the whereabouts of 832 and its instances in an unknown language script.

Bio-Hazard has been added to RPC-832’s Hazard list.

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Registered Phenomena Code: 832

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