
"We're all going to get better together." -H.J. Easterman
WHAT IS THIS?
Hello everyone, Sabatron here!
As the lead on this project, my team and I would like to welcome you to The Department of Theoretical Trauma. Now you might be asking yourself some questions, like:"What is this?" "Is this official?" "Who are we?"I'll do my best to answer these questions in this quick introduction.Firstly, this is an unofficial fan-site. This project originally started off as a simple personal Google Doc that I used to keep track of in-game content, while also writing down my own personal ideas. Since then, it's evolved into something much more.This space aims to be a comprehensive hub where fans can showcase their love for the game through fan made content, such as, but not limited to, Trials, Events, Prime Assets, and Much More!As you explore this site, you'll find a slurry of original concepts written for the game. These have been created by a multitude of members from around the community, including myself.Any idea that is not of my own creation will be promptly credited to their original creator. If I have miscredited anything or accidently left someone uncredited, please make sure to reach out and let me know! I will make sure to correct it as soon as possible.If you'd like to contribute to the project yourself, don't hesitate to reach out! This is, above all, a community driven project, and I'll do my best to keep it updated regularly.I hope this clears up any confusion, and of course all rights belong to Red Barrels.

WHO ARE WE?
Excellent question!
As I mentioned earlier, my name is Sabatron! I've been a longtime fan of the franchise and completely fell in love with The Outlast Trials when it launched back in May 2023.While I'm passionate about the game and this project, I'm not running it alone. We have many other key members here at the The Department of Theoretical Trauma:These people are extremely talented in the work that they do, I am extremely honored to be able to showcase all of their hard work and dedication to this series!Below you can find more information!- Sabatron: Contributor- Jude Boi: Contributor- Semyyy: Contributor- Yaeger: Contributor

Links:
For more information, please be sure to check out the official patch notes on steam!Located: HERE!
SEASON 5 BEGINS: New Prime Asset.
Attention all Reagents,
As of Tuesday, December 9th 2025, we began our journey into a new seasonal update; Project Messiah.Sister Liliya welcomes you into the snowcapped opulence of The Resort, a new trial environment where Reagents can "Despoil the Auction", and prepare to face the divine, or face their reckoning!This update also includes two new MK-Challenges, a new Deluxe Catalog, the return of Winter Kills, and more.
INCLUDED CONTENT:
• New Prime Asset: Liliya Bogomolova
• New Trial Environment: The Resort
• New Trial: "Despoil the Auction"
• New MK-Challenges: "Seize the Narcotics" & "Fabricate the Scandal"
• New Limited-Time Event: Winter Kills
• New Deluxe Catalog: Project Messiah
• & Much More!



| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Police Station |
| THEME: Rule of Law |
| PRIME ASSET: Sgt. Leland Coyle |
| PRAXIS: False witnesses must not be allowed to spread their false truths. Take the Snitch to the execution chamber and silence his lies. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: “Laws are the lifeblood of any community, and a Police Station is every community’s heart: the beating, pumping organ that keeps your property safe. Which side of the law are you on?” |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: "You are the Exterminator. Only we can tell you what is true. There is a snitch inside the prison, preparing to testify against our truth. Kill the Snitch and we will let you out." - H.J. Easterman |





CANCEL THE AUTOPSY:
Corpses offer forensic facts incompatible with our truth. Grind the bodies into factually correct slurry.
”You cannot allow evidence to determine the course of justice. Corpus Delicti. Find the bodies and grind them to slurry, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman

SABOTAGE THE LOCKDOWN:
If you can open doors, no prison can hold you. Power the generator to enable your escape.
“You are the spider, not the fly. Prisons are how civilizations eat. Power the generators and release yourself.” - H.J. Easterman

RELEASE THE PRISONERS:
Only Murkoff arbitrates justice; free the convicts falsely imprisoned for their conspicuous guilt.
“You are the hand of freedom. When you release others, you will find release yourself. Unlock the prison and release the guilty, then we will forgive you, and let you out” - H.J. Easterman

TEACH THE POLICE OFFICERS:
Defining laws creates crimes; replace the precinct’s training film with Murkoff reals and make future crimes our own.
”You are the teacher. We lend police authority to protect our property and profit. When they overstep their bounds, they must be taught fresh humility. Change the educational film and we will let you out.” - H.J . Easterman

ELIMINATE THE PAST:
Destroy as many of the historical records as you can within the allotted time. The more you eradicate, the less we punish.
”History is mutable, only the future is fixed. If you allow the past to be defined by facts, evidence, and memory, our enemies will be as numerous as our sins. Destroy the historical record and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman

COMING SOON:
Easterman Briefing: REDACTED


READY THE SQUAD CARS:
Enforcement cannot be guaranteed without a means to reach our goals, prepare the squadron for battle.
”You are the engine of progress; the blood of our word flows through your veins like the coolant of a well-oiled machine. Refuel the squad cars, charge their batteries, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents will plunge into the dark depths of the police station’s garage to repair a series of squad cars. To complete their task, the reagents must supply the squad cars with the proper fuel and fully charged batteries. Once complete, the garage doors will open, and the cars will drive on a track to the front of the police station; the reagents will then be allowed to leave.Concept by: Sabatron

DECODE THE EVIDENCE:
Justice cannot be dealt without proper evidence, find the radio signals and crack the code.
”You are the codebreaker; no lock is without its key, no enigma without an axiom. Intercept the transmissions, decipher their secrets, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Modified radios harboring covert messages have been planted around the police station, tune the radios and take the encoded tickets to the decoder machine to properly inform the police of illegal activity.Concept by: Sabatron

KETTLE THE RIOTERS:
We cannot allow those against us to revolt against what is right, what we say is law, calm the rioters'; suppress their worries.
”Firebreaks are vital to smothering a raging wildfire; without the proper equipment, the flames of regression will persist. Supply the officers with the proper equipment, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents will find themselves in front of the police station; a mob of angry mannequins dressed as civilians with protest signs blocks the entrance. Sneak into the police station through the side entrance, make your way to the armory downstairs, and supply the officers with the proper equipment.Concept by: Sabatron

BADGER THE WITNESSES:
Those who withhold vital information must be taught a lesson, punish the few so that the many know their place.
”You are the interrogator, do not allow the tight seal of locked lips to keep you from the truth, our truth. Force those below you to confess and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents must find escaped scapegoats around the police station; using electro-magnetic triggers, they will detonate the bombs on their heads in order to force a confession out of the remaining witnesses.Concept by: Sabatron

PLANT THE EVIDENCE:
Praxis: REDACTED
“Laws and regulations must bend to the will of what we seek to achieve. Sacrifices must be made so some may need to take the fall. Plant evidence in the cadavers provided to you, and we will let you out” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Several bodies have been laid out on the gurneys inside the autopsy room in the basement. Reagents must find evidence to place inside the bodies.Note: new items: papers, weapons, etc.These items will be able to be obtained by completing the sound wave standsNote: like in the Orphanage and the Mansion Escapewith a new door attachment that will drop the items when completed. Once completed, release will begin.Concept by: Semyyy

INTERROGATE THE SNITCHES:
Knowledge is the greatest currency. Someone keeping that knowledge to themselves is nothing more than a petty thief. Torture the snitches to find out what they know about us and dump their lies into the cleansing fire.
”Information. Information can be dangerous. You never know when your words can be put into the record without your knowledge. You never know what dirt someone may have on you hidden under their diseased rotten nails. Torture the snitches to figure out what they have on us, ensure their words are stricken from the record, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents will begin the trial at the back entrance of the police station (the exit in sabotage the lockdown) In the street outside there will be a group of three police officer mannequins with TVs above them. Similar to the main objective of liquidating the union. The order of TVs from left to right at the order in which reagents must complete the objectives ahead of them. The TVs will display the name of a room which houses the snitch that must be interrogated. The police station itself has been modified slightly to label rooms/large sections of the building. (offices, power rooms, break rooms, library etc.)It is the reagents job to find these rooms in the correct order and extract information from the snitches. This is done via a lockdown sequence (Seen in pleasure the prosecutor) during which, the snitch, who is hooked up to a car battery that shocks him throughout the entire lockdown, will yell off random words that he clearly has been forced to read from a script. The snitches themselves have bags over their head and thus can’t tell who is torturing them. Some of them will assume it is Coyle doing the torturing while others will assume it is the reagents.Note: If the lockdowns were to be activated in the incorrect order, the reagents within the lockdown room will receive a violent electric shock to their ESOP, draining a portion of their health decided by the difficulty they are on.Once the lockdown sequence has been completed, a large recording machine will be unlocked from a box. Reagents must carry this recording machine to a makeshift fire back where the entrance shuttle is located. The fire itself being a not so convincing pile of car tires with a fire producing machine hiding somewhere in the mass. It should be noted that the recording machine has a motion sensor on it that, if the reagent were to hold & move with it for too long, would eventually sound off an alarm. Audio and visual clues will let the reagent know if and when the machine is ready to sound off its alarm. If the machine is dropped before the alarm goes off, the motion sensor will reset.Once the reagents have completed all the lockdowns and disposed of all the audio tape recordings, Coyle will scream over the loudspeakers.“You kill my songbirds, destroy my evidence! You ain’t fucking leaving here the way you came in! You have to come through me and my god gifted wrath!”After his speech, the shuttle in which the reagents entered from will be locked down. Meanwhile, on the other end of the police station environment, a new shuttle has opened. It is the entrance shuttle for Kill The Snitch, and reagents must make their way to it whilst the timer for it ticks down.Reagents can make their way to the ticking down shuttle at the other end of the trial and leave.Concept by: Jude Boi
Original: Here!

| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Orphanage |
| THEME: Family Values |
| PRIME ASSET: Mother Gooseberry |
| PRAXIS: Education establishes obedience and faith makes it manifest. Teach the children, give them first communion, and make them ours. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: “Everyone deserves a second chance. Some of us even deserve a first. The Orphanage is a sanctuary and gentling box for the abandoned and unwanted. Come inside and find yourself a whole new family.” |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: ”Education and faith must follow our mandates. Children will learn obedience. Shape them young and they’re ours for life. Teach the children, give them first communion, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman |





FEED THE CHILDREN:
A healthy body makes for a healthy mind. Provide the children with the nutrition they deserve.
”You are a caretaker. You care with one hand, and take with the other. If the children will not feed themselves, poison them. Then we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman

FOSTER THE ORPHANS:
Save the children from Mother Gooseberry and lead them to their new foster home.
“Mothers are poison, toxic swamps in which families suffer and drown. Rescue the children from mother, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman

GATHER THE CHILDREN OF GOD:
Too much mother-love makes a weak child. Gather the Children and bring them to the priest for a more strenuous education.
“You are the shepherd, who would save the poor little lambs from Mother. Deliver them to the warm embrace of the church, and we will let you out” - H.J Easterman

REUNITE THE FAMILY:
The nuclear family is the societal ideal. Release the orphan from the shackles of the state and reunite him with mother and father.
"Family is the grinding stone of youth, which separates the chafe from the tender meal of obedience. Reunite the child with his family, put them to rest, and we will let you out."

COMING SOON:
Easterman Briefing: REDACTED


ESCAPE THE DETENTION HALL:
A few bad apples have taken control of the detention hall, break free and reprimand those responsible.
Easterman Briefing: REDACTED

SEDATE THE RESTLESS:
Praxis: REDACTED
Easterman Briefing: REDACTED

CHASTISE THE NUNS:
Praxis: REDACTED
“Authority must be given a heavy hand when out of line. If we allow others to dictate us, we will never blossom. Show the Nuns who’s in charge, burn them down to ashes and we will let you out” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:A group of Nun mannequins stand strapped to a wooden pole where the group photo normally is. Below the base is a large basin covered with sticks and kindling. A tube with a funnel is connected to the basin which gas tanks (found throughout the environment) must be used to fill it to a certain line.Then, using the pumps from the end of Toy Factory (repurposed to send a spark rather than pump gas) the Reagents must pump until the sparks result in a huge flame that will engulf the nuns and begin release (around the fire will be dancing children mannequins that will cheer when the flames start to roar.)Concept by: Semyyy

| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Fun Park |
| THEME: Family Values |
| PRIME ASSET: Mother Gooseberry |
| PRAXIS: We must eliminate the misbehaving children. Take them to the “Root Canal,” where the good children won’t see you give them a gentle correction. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: “Is there anything better than a day at the carnival? Cotton candy, skee-ball, grinning clowns, and the laughter and screams of children. Anything can happen at the Fun Park, so keep your eyes on your kids, or someone else might.” |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: ”You are an adult. The youth will not obey our orders and must be corrected. There are children murdering adults in the Root Canal. Punish the children, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman |





PUNISH THE MISCREANTS:
Naughty children can only learn obedience through punishment. Teach the children to behave.
”You have to make an example. If you punish a few children firmly enough, you teach all the children the lesson. Punish the children, and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman

OPEN THE GATES:
You cannot let power imprison you. Disconnect the electric gates and make your escape.
“You are the warden of all your own prisons, your containment requires your will. Disconnect the power, open the doors, and let yourself go.” - H.J. Easterman

DRILL THE FUTTERMAN:
People are not toys. Stop Mother Gooseberry from making a human Dr. Futterman.
“You are a consumer, you are not the product. If you allow them to turn us into toys, then you deserve to be played with. Destroy the human toy and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman

DEFACE THE FUTTERMANS:
Childhood memories are the stagnation that impede your growth. Put away the childish things that clutter your mind.
“You are not your childhood. Memory is the grotesque narcissism of individuality and reason. Nostalgia. Nostalgia is the testament that will strengthen the flock. Abandon your youth. Deface and demean the infantile puppets that control you, and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman

REDEEM YOUR FREEDOM:
Currency, like your survival, is worthless unless you give it value with faith. Collect tickets like your life depends on it.
Easterman Briefing: REDACTED

COMING SOON:
Easterman Briefing: REDACTED


FILL THE ROOT CANAL:
Praxis: REDACTED
“Childhood innocence. Fun and Games galore. But like a bird must leave its nest, so too must children learn to grow up. Speed up the process; win the games and carry the children to our future and we will let you out” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Children around the park have been playing the games around Futterland. Use throwable hearts to win the games for the children and bring them to the swan boat in the root canal.Once enough children have been collected, the boat will take off on its own and straight into a shredder. Once it’s done, release will begin. (this one is rather short, but to make it tougher the games will be sporadic like the targets in Deface the Futtermens; also the children will mock you if you miss saying things like “you suck loser!” And “A dead man could aim better than that!”)Concept by: Semyyy

| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Courthouse |
| THEME: Rule of Law |
| PRIME ASSET: Sgt. Leland Coyle |
| PRAXIS: We cannot allow our innocent institutions to be persecuted for their clear guilt. Sabotage the proceedings, silence the witnesses, and revoke the authority of the judge. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: “The Courthouse stands as a monolith of justice, where life and death are a matter of persuasion and expense. Surrender yourself to a higher power and beg for the mercy of the court.” |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: ”You are justice. You are loyal. We cannot allow the tyranny of facts and impartial reason to condemn the people who protect and guide you. The past is changeable, the future is set. Sabotage the court, kill the judge, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman |





ESCAPE THE COURTHOUSE:
Don’t let the pain of our victims restrict your liberty. Kill the scapegoats; free them of their suffering and you of your bondage.
”You are special. You are deserving. Civilization is founded on the suffering of the weak. Kill the scapegoats to open the gates, and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman

DESTROY THE EVIDENCE:
If there is no evidence, there is no crime. Destroy the proof of our mistakes, and then we never did anything wrong.
“Think of yourself as a spider, building a trap to ensnare the future. You will be adrift in history, waiting for some poor fly to shake your web.” - H.J. Easterman

TILT THE SCALES OF JUSTICE:
Can real evidence of false crimes outweigh the power of corrupting wealth? Load the scales of Lady Justice and observe.
“You are the defense. The guilty cannot be allowed to face justice in opposition to Murkoff’s profit and influences. Add physical evidence to the moneyed side to tilt the scales of justice and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman

FUEL THE RELEASE:
Justice, like civilization, requires power, and power requires fuel. Carry the fuel, power the court, and secure your liberty.
”You are liberty, let nothing contain you. Law is the only word of man, and facts, the mere happenstance of existence. Open all the doors that would contain you, and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman

SENTENCE THE PROSECUTED:
They call it a "sentence" because a few choice words can condemn a human to death. Decipher, pin it to the defendant, and make sure that it sticks.
"You are the eye. All-seeing, all-powerful, vulnerable to the smallest mote. The fear is your strength. Accept the therapy, accept our love." - H.J. Easterman

COMING SOON:
Easterman Briefing: REDACTED


RELEASE THE CONVICTED:
Our ally has been convicted under false pretenses, they must not be locked away from us. Free them from the holding cell and break them out of the courthouse.
”You are the breaker of the law's chains. With your power, you rise up against unjust convictions and free those who should be vindicated of guilt. Release our ally from the court’s grasp and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents will spawn in a new area at the back of the courthouse which will take them to the 2nd floor. Once on the 2nd floor, they must make their way to the other side of the building into the holding cell room. Inside one of the cells is the Avellanos mannequin, her cell needs a key. In the room will be a wall of 25+ keys, each with a random set of 3 digit numbers painted on them individually. Key amounts will increase with player numbers.It is the reagents job to use a decoder device (found also in the same room) and search for 4 symbols around the ground floor of the courthouse. Each symbol will reveal a 3 digit code which the reagent can match with one of the keys on the wall. That key can then be used on one of the four fuse boxes in the room linked up to the cell. Once all 4 keys are used, the cell will open, reagents will grab the Avellanos mannequin and escort her back to the back entrance and throw her into an escape car.Note: it doesn’t matter which lock the keys are used on.Should reagents choose the wrong key, the very simple route from the back entrance to the holding cell room will lock down more and more with each wrong key, meaning reagents will need to take longer, dangerous and more complicated routes back. Along with this, the lock will shock reagents and drain two bars of health.MKs gameplay: "The MK challenge will use the decoder device from “poison the medicine” as well as a variant of the key’s objective from the police station. In addition, the carrying of a heavy object.” - JudeConcept by: Jude Boi
Original: Here!

PERSECUTE THE COMMUNIST:
Praxis: REDACTED
“Communists promise equality at the expense of freedom; A freedom that is fundamental to our way of life, allowing justice to be crushed under the Red Boot. Persecute the Communist, melt him down to slurry and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Similar to Destroy the Evidence, there will be a victim sitting upright on a chair in the bathtub with a shower head above him. Reagents must track down acid buckets to fill a tank with enough acid and start a generator in the room behind the tub. Once started the acid will shower down on the victim who will begin to scream as it melts him. A curtain will close around him as bloody steam rises from above it. Release will begin.Concept by: Semyyy

| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Toy Factory |
| THEME: Family Values |
| PRIME ASSET: Mother Gooseberry |
| PRAXIS: We cannot allow secret messages and innuendo to brainwash our children; expose and humiliate the hidden deviant, then destroy him. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: “A machine erected in celebration of capitalism’s steady march toward the cheap, unnecessary, and the disposable. Celebrate childhood joy with impossible quotas, slave wages, and zero safety standards.” |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: ”You are the revelator, what you build exposes the perversion latent in every heart. We cannot allow hidden messages and innuendo to corrupt our children. Expose, humiliate, and destroy the deviant, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman |





CRUSH THE SEX TOYS:
Discreet packaging hides dangerous perversion. Shine a light to expose the boxes of sex toys, then crush them with industrial force.
”I cannot teach you. I can only offer fear and pain and perversion and rage. Let these show you a path to enlightenment. Crush and destroy the toys, and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman

INCINERATE THE SEX TOYS:
Perversion on an industrial scale foments widespread corruption and disobedience. Push the production carts of sex dolls into the incinerator and burn the sickness.
“You are the sunlight, that burns away exposed infection. Perversion thrives in the damp, dark places where secrets fester. Incinerate the sex dolls, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman

SHUTDOWN THE FACTORY:
Murkoff controls the means of production; use the emergency brakes to shut down the factory.
“Workers are capital itself, products bought and engaged to create more easily sellable products. We must control production. Shutdown the factory, and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman

FUMIGATE THE FACTORY:
Aging workers with their pensions and benefits are the bleeding wounds of our economy, draining the corporate body with their chronic existence. Stop the bleeding with a sterilizing gas and put the workers out of our misery.
Easterman Briefing: REDACTED

COMING SOON:
Easterman Briefing: REDACTED


CONTAIN THE GAS LEAK:
Toxicity is preventing our workers from continuing production. Contain the gas leak and restore order to the factory.
”You are the helping hand. Your body, your own very limbs, you are the tool that you must use to ensure our means of production never stops. Contain the gas leak in the factory and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents will spawn in the basement of the toy factory, there will be gas leaks from pipes that they must contain to move forward. Two leaks will be in the basement and two will be on the ground floor. Each leak contained will progress reagents through, up and eventually out of the toy factory. Reagents will exit via the “Pervert the Futterman” shuttle entrance.MKs gameplay: The MK Challenge will use the “follow the pipes” style of objective present in “Grind the bad apples” and “Pervert the futterman”. In addition, the gas leaks in question will utilize the toxic gas from “Poison the medicine."Concept by: Jude Boi
Original: Here!

RESTART THE FACTORY:
Praxis: REDACTED
“We all must work together to bring forth the future we seek. There are those who wish to halt the progress of mankind through greed and laziness. Be the example: kill the Union Rioters, Restart the Factory and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents will utilize the control panels in each of the sections (starting at D; renamed A,B,C, and D with A being switched to the beginning panel on Pervert the Futterman) that have been equipped with new key inserts that must be switch on to restart the assembly lines and open the door to the next section.The keys will be hidden in Scapegoats dressed as Union Rioters and can be killed by using the microwave tools. Once all the sections have been turned on you will leave through the main entrance where there will be a parking lot full of scapegoats in costumes. A large microwave signal will go off killing them all and the Release doors will open.Concept by: Semyyy

| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Docks |
| THEME: Milk & Heroin |
| PRIME ASSET: Franco Barbi |
| PRAXIS: In a godless world, opiates will be the religion of the masses. Take control of drug production, and you can kill the nonchalance of a god. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: “Crime and commerce commingle in the fetid waters under The Docks. Any imaginable vice is chum that draws up the sharks omnipresent beneath the calm surface of society. There’s money to be made on the frontiers of what’s legal.” |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: ”You are the surgeon’s knife, and where you meet flesh, blood and pain must follow. We are the surgeon’s medicine, who regulate pain and death. Poison the supply of those who would ease pain, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman |





EMPTY THE VAULT:
Casinos are the temple of idiotic waste and willful failure; steal from those who would steal from you.
”You are the tax man. Legitimate business is only crime that has passed a sufficient threshold of success, a sin that must be made clean by a government’s tithe. Empty the vault for authority’s due, and we will let you out .” - H.J Easterman

POISON THE CATTLE:
The milk of human kindness must be contaminated with liberty and progress. Poison the cattle and spoil their milk.
”You are the wet nurse. When unfortunate children won't care for themselves, it is our duty to force the nipple of benevolence between the clenched teeth of ingratitude. Poison the milk, and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman

STASH THE CONTRABAND:
Praxis: REDACTED
”Economies based on narcotics crumble without their primary market. Steal the drugs, hide them securely, and we will let you out” - H.J Easterman

COOK THE INFORMANT:
Praxis: REDACTED
“Nobody can resist interrogation by torture, and any manner of death is a mercy. Microwave the informant, burst his head, and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman

COMING SOON:
Easterman Briefing: REDACTED


ESCORT THE PAYLOAD:
Our medicine is being kept from transportation to the nation, locked away by the filth in the mob. Escort the mules to the boat and set them off to sea.
”You are the deliverer, it is your job to ensure our medicine reaches its intended destination so that it may be distributed to the nation. Escort the drug mule to the boat and we will let you out. ” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Objective: Push The Drug Mule To The BoatReagents will begin in the chem-co laboratory (seen in PTM) It is their job to push the drug mule who is strapped down to a gurney with his stomach sliced open. Along the way there will be four gates that must be opened, this is done by finding drug packets inside locked storage rooms that need a 3-digit code to open. Each sector of the map will have one of these rooms that need opened, meaning reagents must open 3 separate rooms.Reagents are provided with a decoder and must find the correct symbol for the correct code. The correct symbol will be painted on the door, however there are 2 other false symbols in each respective sector to throw reagents off and confuse them. If the code from a false symbol is entered, an alarm will sound and the reagent will be shocked and dealt damage. Inside the storage room will be one drug packet that must be brought back and stuffed inside the drug mule, doing this will open the next gate.Once the drug mule has been escorted to the boat, all reagents must gather inside the boat's cabin and watch the mule be lowered down into the boats cargo hold.Every gate opened will lead to a new sector of the map. The chem-co gate will open into the train yard, the train yard gate will open into the casino & other chem-co lab, the casino gate will open into the drug lab & shipping yard and the drug lab gate will open a path directly to the boat.MKs gameplay: The MK challenging used the symbol decoder & pushing cart style of objectives.Concept by: Jude Boi
Original: Here!

RECOVER THE PRODUCT:
Progress depends on distribution, but Junkies have commandeered our medicine. Retrieve it and freedom is yours.
”distribution is the highway of progress, to interrupt this process is to halt a better tomorrow. Junkies have stolen our precious medicine, hoarding it all for themselves; soothing their pain on our cure. Track them down, take back what is rightfully ours, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:This MKChallenge would involve reagents having to search for scapegoats around the dock trial environment. Once found and dealt with, the scapegoats will drop 2-3 drug baggies; reagents must bring the regained product to Murkoff’s “Dealer,” located in the drug lab, so he can prep the product for shipment.Concept by: Sabatron

DRUG THE MADE GUY:
Praxis: REDACTED
“Killing a made man can bring chaos among the ranks, but doing so can prove tricky. Allow him to overdose, show them who is in control, fill the made guy’s veins with enough drugs and we will let you out” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Needles connecting to tubes are coming out of the arms of a victim dressed in a mob costume strapped to a chair in the center of the Casino where the Jazz band usually plays. Behind him a pump with acid and an insert tray. Reagents must find locked boxes around the environment to find cocaine blocks to insert into the tray. Once enough is added, the acid will mix with the coke and it will be pumped into the victim (similar to Poison the Cattle) causing him to convulse and go limp. Release will begin.Concept by: Semyyy

| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Downtown |
| THEME: Milk & Heroin |
| PRIME ASSET: Franco Barbi |
| PRAXIS: He who controls what justice desires defines the contours of law. Satiate the prosecutor’s more discerning pleasures. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: “Come Downtown for fashion, fun, and fortune. Get eaten alive by the lurid enormity of it all, be digested, and come out of the other end a whole new archetype of cynicism and violence. Life moves fast Downtown, and always towards an early grave.” |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: ”You are a gentle hand, and you are a crushing fist. You give pleasure when lust is the lubricant of power, you give pain when violence is the fountainhead of control. Replace the Prosecutor's whores with assassins, and we will let you out..” - H.J. Easterman |





KIDNAP THE MISTRESS:
Praxis: REDACTED
”Prostitutes receive more honest confessions than priests. Identify the pervert by his tastes, kidnap his dominatrix, deliver her for interrogation, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman

SPREAD THE DISEASE:
Praxis: REDACTED
”Sexually transmitted diseases are the secret handshake of evolutionary judgement and divine retribution. Spread the infection, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman

COMING SOON:
Easterman Briefing: REDACTED


RIG THE VEHICLES:
As we continue to move forward, we must outpace the enemy. Repair the vehicles, progress demands restoration.
“As history marches forward, so will you. This must be done by any means necessary to ensure we are one step ahead of our enemies. Plant the appropriate parts to restore the vehicles and we will let you out” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Located primarily around the dealership of the Downtown trial environment, reagents will have to unlock new item chutes around the environment by flipping timed switch boxes, if the timer reaches zero before they complete them all then all switches will reset.Note: harder difficulties will provide less time for these switches.Once all switches are successfully turned on, the item chutes will drop timed explosive ESOP attachments. Reagents must equip and bring these explosives to the dealership and plant them in hidden places on each vehicle.Note: The explosive ESOP attachments are the very same seen in Program: COUNTDOWNNote: hidden locations can include: under the hood, beside the tailpipe, and behind the wheel.If Reagents are unable to bring all of the timed explosives to the dealership on time, they’ll be set off, causing fatal injuries.If successful, Reagents must leave the showroom floor, which will trigger an “explosion”, causing the surrounding mannequins to scream and panic; triggering the release protocol.Concept by: Semyyy

RECORD THE BLACKMAIL:
We trust our politicians by controlling their actions, to control their actions we must ensure we have proper leverage over them. Power the cameras and record material to be used as blackmail.
The world of politics should be a circle of accountability, the will and goals of our politicians should be decided by our votes. Unfortunately, corruption runs deep through the river of bile and shit that our representatives swim through. Trust but verify. Record material we can use as blackmail and we will let you out. ” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Objective: Record The BlackmailReagents will begin outside the motel downtown. The majority of the main trial area is closed off except for the motel itself, and the diner and car dealership behind it. Behind those buildings is a whole new section of downtown that consists primarily of other motels, rest areas and more domestic locations such as apartments.Reagents must make their way past the three familiar locations until they reach the new area. Within this area it’s a pretty linear trek to a giant motel. Inside we sneak through various hidden passages until we come across a secret room with a two way mirror looking into a room within the motel. The room is set up with a giant camera to record through the mirror. In addition, there is a mannequin dressed in a suit sitting down as a small control console observing through the mirror.Inside the room itself, there is a politician strapped down to the bed by her arms and legs. On each side of her there are two kinky mannequins, one holding the chainsaw while the other is holding a sickle. Pressing a button will initiate a small cutscene. Inside the motel room see Frano walk out of the bathroom and begin zipping down his pants.“Don’t mind me governor, just looking to get another one in.”He stops in his tracks and looks around the room before staring directly at the two way mirror.“Looks like some little rats are here to fuck up my good time.”He headbutts the glass, cracking it slightly. Yelling before he walks out of the room.“You spunkstain fucks think you can fuck over this good womans reputation because she’s a dyke. You’ll see what happens when you try to take my goddamn leverage!”After Franco leaves, the rest of the map opens up and the primary part of the trial can begin. The main goal is to follow a set of wires that connect to 3 small subsections of the map, each needing a key to open. The first subsection will provide you with a symbol decoder with a closed box next to it. The reagent must look around for 3 symbols and implement each of their respective codes 3 times into the one box. It does not matter what order this is done in, just as long as all 3 codes are entered respectively. There will be 3 green lights that light up on the box to indicate how many codes have been entered correctly.The box will open and give reagents the key, they can then open the gate and continue into the second subsection. This subsection will require reagents to follow two separate pipes to shut off gas supply to a room containing the second key. The room itself is blocked off due to the pipe spewing gas that has burst into flames. One pipe will take reagents down into a sewer that is very narrow and dark, meanwhile the second pipe will take reagents into an open but brightly lit maintenance building.Once both pipes are shut off, the reagent can grab the key within the room and proceed to the third and final subsection. The third subsection will take reagents into the sewer, just before entering there will be a tracker and microwave trigger device that must be used to track down a scapegoat. Reagents will use the device to kill the scapegoat and grab the key inside them. They can then use this key to unlock a door in the sewer. Behind the door is a generator that simply needs to be cranked. Once cranked reagents can return back to the motel.Inside the motel they can press the button behind the two way mirror and begin recording the blackmail. The two mannequins will begin to hack and slash away at the governor, still tied to the bed, as the camera behind the glass continues to roll. Once the sequence is over, reagents can then return to the shuttle and exit the trial.Concept by: Jude Boi
Original: Here!

CONTAMINATE THE WATER SUPPLY:
Cities, like watering holes, attract predators, prey, and parasites alike. Poison their water enough, and sickness spreads, rotting the foundation. In time, a poisoned city doesn’t just fall; it takes the whole nation with it.
”Watering holes attract beasts from all walks of life, from the gentle herbivores to the vicious carnivores, bound by an unspoken truce, but this is a lie. These places breed nothing but waste, disease, and bottom feeders who thrive off others' success. When the water runs dry, so does the illusion of peace, leaving only desperation and decay. Disable the filtration system, contaminate the water, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Fresh out of the SAS shuttle, Reagents find themselves inside of the Downtown Trial Environment, right outside of the bookstore, car dealership, and diner. They must make their way to the city's water treatment plant, which is promptly located in the underbelly of the bustling city, the sewers.To get to their destination they must travel down the raised alleyway and take a left towards the garage, passing the fire station, and enter the sewers through the motel entrance. Passing through the sewers the Reagents will see a tangled mess of pipes going all throughout the city, following them will lead them straight to the water treatment plant.Once the Reagents have entered the plant, they will come across a few different pieces of vital machinery that they will have to deal with before they can enact their plan. Firstly, they’ll see a giant tank, with a glass observing window, showcasing the crystal-clear water that flows through the city; the tank is surrounded by multiple mannequins dressed as city workers. Next to the machine is a chemical intake funnel, typically used for chemicals to keep the water’s pH levels in balance, but it will instead be used to contaminate the city's water.To do this, the Reagents must first deactivate the treatment plant’s filtration system, which can be found in the next room over. A rat's nest of wires comes from the giant filtration machine; above each one lies a letter, A through Z. Reagents must follow six of these wires throughout the sewers and deactivate a series of fuse boxes; interacting with the wrong fuse box will trigger their ESOPs to go off with an electrical charge.Note: Reagents will know which wires to follow by looking at a series of TVs in the filtration room, which will signify the correct fuses that will deactivate the machine. The fuse boxes required to shut down the machine would be different each time the trial is reset.Once all six fuses have been properly shut off, Reagents can press a newly activated button next to the filtration system to shut it down, allowing for the next step in their goal.Reagents must now collect a series of buckets containing a dangerous “Venereal Contaminant,” They can do this by traveling to the newly expanded “adult theater.” Once the Reagents have arrived at the adult theater, they will see that it has been quarantined by a CDC blockade due to a viral outbreak; as a result, the Reagents must sneak in through a new back entrance to gain access to the building.Note: The “Venereal Contaminant” buckets are the same as those located in the Spread the Disease MKChallenge.Once Reagents have broken into the adult theater, they will find that the air has been contaminated with a poisonous gas, which, if inhaled for too long, will start to damage the player. To circumvent this issue, the Reagents can find refuge in a series of quarantined rooms within the theater.Note: The poisonous gas in the air is the same type that can be found in the Chemical Storage section of The Docks Trial Environment.Reagents must find three “Venereal Contaminant” buckets around the theater, which are held in holdout points around the building, each locked in a box guarded by a mannequin in a hazmat suit.Note: The time needed to complete these holdout locations isn’t as long as the ones found in the Pleasure the Prosecutor trial, but will be just long enough to create tension as to if the Reagents will have enough time to make it back to a quarantine zone.Once all three buckets have been collected, the main entrance to the adult theater will unlock, allowing Reagents to breach quarantine and return to the water treatment plant.Once all the “Venereal Contaminant” buckets have been poured into the chemical intake funnel, the water inside the tank will turn to a sickly mixture of brown, red, and green. A button in front of the tank will now activate, allowing Reagents to begin sending contaminated water throughout the city.As the machine whirls to life, beginning to send the contaminated water through its pipes, the lights go dark and a series of alarms begin to blare. The filtration system’s emergency backup protocol has taken effect and has stopped the flow of water throughout the city.Reagents must follow the correct four pipes, as indicated by a series of screens. Once they have found the correct pipes, they must turn the valves on them, allowing the viral irritant to pass freely.Note: The pipes Reagents must follow are the same type as found in The Fun Park Trial Environment, turning the wrong valve will trigger their ESOPs to go off with an electrical charge.After the filtration system’s emergency backup protocol has been bypassed, Reagents will be allowed to leave the trial environment through the SAS shuttle they arrived in.Concept by: Sabatron

COVER-UP THE CRIME:
Evidence against Murkoff is evidence against you. Proof to those without insight that our mission is somehow abhorrent and immoral. Clear any evidence of what civilisation would call wrongdoing and rise above the filth of crime.
“You are the cleansing shadow, a silent operative who can wash away even the most rotten of stenches that lurk just under the nose of a so-called normal society. Crime is a concept that must be purged from the mind, proof must become not even a memory. Cover-up any evidence of Murkoffs supposed wrongdoings, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents enter the trial in the damp and dark old subway located in the sewers underneath the downtown environment. The abandoned subway cars have been cleared and about halfway down the empty rail line is a podium with a bucket of acid on it.To the left of the podium is a TV that, when approached, will switch on and display the room in which the crime that has been committed needs covered up. To the right of the podium is one of the Bagio mannequins with a pile of cocaine next to him (seen in Kidnap the Mistress) explaining the objective of the trial.*“Sticking my neck out for you agency boys is gonna be the death of me. Take this and go cover up what happened before that sick little titty twisting fucker snitches to his boys. Remember our deal, I want more of this good shit for me and my ladies.” snorts a fat line of coke"[REACH THE CRIME SCENE]It is the reagents goal to carry the bucket of acid from one end of the sewer to the other, with the other end of the sewer containing the room with the evidence that needs covered up.The evidence itself is the remains of a depraved orgy that “Murkoff assets” partook in. The victim being a “prostitute” that was hired off of Franco but is now “damaged goods” that must be killed and covered up. The sewer itself has been expanded to accommodate multiple winding paths that will lead reagents to the final room.All of the exits to the sewers have been blocked and access to the streets above are not available. Placed throughout the trial are TEN of the brand new “Detection gates”. These are a set of gates that, when passed through once, will sound a loud alarm to attract nearby ex-pop. In addition to this, passing through these gates adds a difficulty level onto a sequence that will happen at the end of the trial.Like the alarm, only passing through these gates once adds on a difficulty level, if reagents were to pass through the same gate a second time (or a teammate were to come along and pass through it) the difficulty level will not increase. An increase to the difficulty level is announced to all reagents via theNote: The gate placements are fixed in place in positions where taking a longer and more dangerous way around them is an option to avoid sounding the alarm and increasing the difficulty level. Passing through a gate will cause Avellanos to announce over the speaker system that the difficulty level has increased“Gate passed. Difficulty increased. Difficulty level (NUMBER OF NEXT DIFFICULTY)"Once at the other end of the sewer system, reagents will enter through a door which takes them to a large speakeasyNote: Not the same one seen in Kidnap the MistressThe room itself is a mess of blood, guts, and semen stains all over the floor. Mannequins are placed all over in various sexual positions. The speakeasy itself is shaped in a way where reagents enter it from a door at the back middle part of the room, with gated doors on both the left and right side of the room, facing each other.In the center of the room, hanging above an empty metal tub by a chain attached to the high above roof, is a naked victim wearing a gimp mask and outfit.On their body we see that a lot of damage has been inflicted. They are bruised, scarred, burned, parts of their body are covered in wax and various words have been carved into their skin such as “slut, whore, little bitch and property of daddy, mommy and Franco”.Reagents must pour the acid into the tub, doing so will then let reagents press a button placed in front of the metal tub. Pressing the button will then slowly lower the victim into the tub feet first, their screams muffled by the mask and their body struggling to break free from the chains. Eventually they will be fully dipped in the tub of acid and their screams will cease as their body sizzles and bubbles into mulch.Franco's voice will then yell over the speaker system.“You think you can buy my whores under my nose, have your way, kill them and then act like nothing happened?! Fuck that shit! You fucks are gonna get up close with my Lupara!”After Franco finishes talking, the door to the right of the acid tub (which has 10 red light bulbs above it) will open after the difficulty counters bulbs count their way down.This is where the detector gates from earlier come into play. Depending on how many detector gates were passed through on the way to the acid tub room, it will determine the difficulty level going forward.Note: The difficulty counter works differently in this trial compared to eliminate the past. Whereas in that trial you started off at difficulty 10 and worked your way down, in this trial you start at difficulty 0 and have to avoid working your way up.After the bulbs count down, the shuttle will arrive and reagents will have 180 seconds to find the code for the gate at the other side of the speakeasy room. There will be a wire leading from the code panel at this gate into a new part of the speakeasy, a storage zone, in which there is ONE radio tuner that is placed somewhere at random. Reagents must find and tune the radio, which will blurt out the code to them.Note: Depending on the difficulty level, this area will either be filled with ex-pops or have very little.Once they have the code, reagents can enter it at the other gate in the speakeasy and make their way through it. The gate will take them to a set of stairs up and out of the sewer. They will exit in a small alleyway and from there it's a straight shot for the exit shuttle that is already open and waiting for them.Concept by: Jude Boi
Original: Here!

SLAUGHTER THE HEALTH INSPECTOR:
Praxis: REDACTED
“Meat. Product essential to our survival and product that must be supervised under our care. We cannot afford others to have monopolies on what we produce. Slaughter the Health Inspector, utilize what remains, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:> Trial Begins behind motel, new entry point> Some places are blocked off like the theater and pubs, but the Diner is expanded with a larger back room for production.> A van with an open trunk sits by the shuttle entrance with “Bambino Quality Meats” plastered on each side.Baggio sits there against the wall smoking a cigarette,“That little fucker’s got the damn inspectors’ lips around his cock. Get in there and finish him off”Making your way to a dark cafe you see the area with more light than before, able to see the dealership and cafe.> Once at the cafe you must enter the back room. A security mannequin stands in front of the door to the next expanded back kitchen area. 2 TVs behind the counter show a key you must find inside one of the cars at the dealership; the cars are locked and you must use lock picks to open them, if failed the car alarm will go off and enemies will be alerted.> Once 2 keys are entered into their boxes, the mannequin will move on a rail out of the way and the door will open> Inside the kitchen pots boil with blood and gore is smeared everywhere.> You make your way back to the large butcher fridge, inside smoking with cold air and bodies strung up like pigs on hooks> A wiggling victim lays on a table near the back on an Industrial meat slicer, with a slide blade on a rail above the victim on the chopping block.“Get the fuck away from me! I had nothing to do with this, I-I was just doing what I was told.”“All I did was fudge some numbers, Franco would have fucked me if I didn’t… Jesus, God.”“Whatever happened to don’t shoot the messenger!? He’s the boss, he should be this block!”“No, fuck no w-w-wait, you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s the DRUGS!”“FUCK, MY LEGS, YOU CHOPPED MY FUCKING LEGS OFF YOU PSYCHOS”> Reagents must follow wires to specifically capture the point leavers and hold them down so they can reach full capacity. Once reached it will lock and the blade can be used to cut the guy in certain highlighted sections. (Legs, Hips, Waist, and Neck). Each lever will charge it enough to cut one portion, leaving the guy screaming in agony until the end.Boxes in the kitchen with “Bambino’s Cuts” across them can be filled with the body parts and folded up and delivered to the van by the entrance. Once full of Franco’s “Quality” meat, the release shuttle will be available and Bambino will spawn to stop you.BAMBINO VOICELINES:“You bastards wouldn’t know quality if it came up and SHOVED ITS FIST UP YOUR ASS!”“Lambs to the fucking slaughter”“Some Prosciutto, a bit of Burrata, and wash it down with a bit of the white dream, couldn’t get a better meal anywhere else”(Trembling) “How much, how much did Murkoff pay you slimy fucks to do this, TO RUIN ME!!! WAHHH!!!”Concept by: Semyyy

| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Suburbs |
| THEME: Milk & Heroin |
| PRIME ASSET: Franco Barbi |
| PRAXIS: Human labor is the backbone of liberty and profit. We cannot allow the vanity of self-preservation to threaten production. Cross the picket line, persuade labor to resume production, and liquify the union. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: “Move to the suburbs, where your family will have room to grow, away from the cacophony and grime of the city. Good fences make good neighbors, and what you do behind your fence doesn’t have to be anybody’s business but your own.” |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: ”You are the scab that heals the wound. The union is the putrescent sore that infects with notions of a livable wage and a survivable workplace. An Example must be made. Kill the union boss, resume production, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman |





GET OUT THE VOTES:
The illusion of choice is the pretext that makes obedience feel like liberty. Do your part for the dream of democracy.
"You are the better angel, on the shoulder of the responsible citizen. When voters insist on the hypocritical weakness that puts history before nation, take their privacy and give them judgement. Pull the citizens from their homes, gather the votes, and we will let you out." - H.J. Easterman

COMING SOON:
Easterman Briefing: REDACTED


PROCESS THE STRIKERS:
Refusal to work stunts the growth of a nation's profit and progress. End the workers strike by any means necessary.
”The freedom to work is a privilege, not a right. There are those who take what they are given for granted and think they have the right to tell us how we should treat them when we are the ones who provide. Process the meat of the strikers, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents enter the trial from the garage doors of the mansion, where the driveway opens up into the rich neighbourhood. The rich neighbourhood itself has been expanded on to accommodate more streets, houses and rooms in the underground bunker. At the gate that leads into the slums, reagents will see the 3 TV’s which normally would display a code. However, instead of a code, they now display either numbers or the name of a room. The numbers are a hint of which house to search and the room names are hinting towards rooms that must be searched in the underground bunker. A house number will be displayed on the TV as a number inside the picture of a house and a bunker number will be displayed as a number in the picture of a radiation symbol.Note: The house numbers will be displayed in a diegetic manner, it won't be big obvious signs but rather just look like how a normal set of numbers on a house would look. The bunker rooms however will have signs displaying the rooms (similar to Incinerate the Sex Toys & Crush the Sex Toys) the position of the rooms in the bunker will be fixed, however the position of the house numbers will be random.Inside a house or a bunker room, there will be a large button with a timer next to it on the wall. Pressing the button will switch on a blacklight and reagents must look around the room for a number. Depending on the order of the TV’s back at the gate, the numbers must be imputed into a keypad next to the gate in that order.Once the number is entered, reagents can progress down into an expanded area of the slums. It is still very dark, damp and dirty. There are more buildings and narrow alleyways. Reagents must complete the same task again to open the access gate to the meat processing plant. This time the TVs display the number inside a building but now with an arrow next to it. An upwards arrow indicates the number is on a second floor, with a downwards arrow indicating the number is on the ground floor. Other than that, the TV’s will not display any other hints as to where the number is located, only that it is either on the 2nd or ground floor.Once the numbers are imputed into the keypad at the gate in the correct order, reagents will be able to enter the factory. Inside the factory has been massively expanded upon. It is overall larger with additional smaller rooms at each side of the center. In the middle of the main factory floor is a large machine with three conveyor belts attached to it. On these belts are the three victims of the trials, faceless naked “strikers” with words carved into their flesh such as “More work, less pay? No way” or “No job, no future”. The machine itself is a giant meat processor built to compress pork into sausage meat. When a button in the room is pressed, the machine will begin to power up but is then shut down, Franco is near and he yells over the speaker system“These are hard working people who just wanna make a livable wage, and you fucks wanna make human salsiccia outta them?! Fuck that shit!”This will then initiate a small sequence in which reagents must follow a wire to a fuse box in order to repower the machine. During this sequence, Franco will be hunting down the reagents.Note: The number of players in the trial will determine the number of fuse boxes that must be switched on.Once the fuse boxes are switched on, reagents can return back to the meat processor and switch it back on via the button. Once the machine is powered on, the three strikers will enter the machine one at a time. The sound of the machine grinding and buzzing away at their flesh is just enough to cover up the muffled sounds of their screams. Blood and bone shavings begin spewing out of any tiny crack in the machine that they can. Eventually on the other side of the machine, rows of human sausage meat began to roll out onto the conveyor and into freezers. The meat itself is bloody and sticky, with bits of bone, hair, nails, organs and eyes ground into a fine sausage shape.Once this process has been completed, reagents can make their way back to the shuttle they entered from and complete the trial.Concept by: Jude Boi
Original: Here!

VACATE THE KILLJOYS:
Praxis: REDACTED
”I am your god. You are my prophet, and a prophet must be allowed to preach in his own temple; but there are those that wish to change it; mutilate it with ideas of conformity and violate individuality. Vacate these killjoys, escort them to be processed, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents enter into the housing area, now extended out to include more units and other streets. Flickering street lamps flood dim yellow light through the foggy streets.As the reagents walk through the streets they can spot a sign by the side of the road that says“HOA INSPECTION DAY! Please keep your doors unlocked and ready for evaluation.”Reagents must find specific houses with rails leading from the front door to the entrance to the meat packing factory. The front door of each house is locked and must be opened using the appropriate Audio Tuning Device. The doors will have the correct symbol on them along with a transmitter connected rather than a wire leading to the device.Once tuned, the door will unlock and a person, gagged and struggling, will be on one of the Proximity moving carts and must be directed towards the packing plant. An audio device will be added to this cart to simulate the voice of an HOA member, spouting stuff like“No no no, this is all wrong.” and “The board’s gonna hear about this mess… just look at this place!”Once all 3 “HOA” members are positioned by the gate near the factory, the security guards will move over and the factory will spring to life, with loud grinding sounds being heard inside. Reagents must exit through the shuttles near the factory where they can begin their release.Concept by: Semyyy

REPLACE THE BLUEPRINTS:
Praxis: REDACTED
”Our future is ours and ours alone to construct. When others seek to build upon our foundation without our say, they must be dealt with. Replace the Blueprints with counterfeits, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents must make their way through the trial environment, finding blank sheets of paper and bringing them to Printing press machines. Connected to the machines are victims with needles and tubes coming out of their arms with a pump leading to the ink section of the press. The “ink” must be pumped into the machine using the pump from the toy factory.The pump can be turned on following wires to switch panels. Once the fresh prints have been made, you must replace them without being spotted in specific areas where construction by the union is being done. This will cause the mannequins to make mistakes and shut down the lights in the area, signifying damage.Once all are replaced the Reagents will be released.Concept by: Semyyy

FEED THE RICH:
If workers refuse to work, then their bodies can be put to other use. Escort the protestors to the party, show them what happens when they lay down their jobs.
”We do not teach you to think, only to act. Thought is the pungent odour that infests the mind and fills it with ideas of rebellion and deviancy. Feed those who think to the executives, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents will enter the trial from a new area in the back of the mansion. It appears to be a small garden with a gazebo as the centerpiece. Making their way into the mansion, much of the ground floor has been shifted around to allow for more space for a large dining room table. Sitting around the table are various mannequins in fancy suits, some of them in lewd positions with each other and others slamming their hands on the table begging for food. Pressing a button at one end of the table will cause a mannequin at the opposite end to stand up and give a small speech.“Hear ye hear ye. We gather here today to feast on the fruits of our labour, risk and hard work. And now……oh……would you look at that. Our plates are empty and our glasses are dry, this can't stand. WE MUST BE FED!”New Objective: Locate The FoodOnce the speech has concluded, the gate that would normally open up the rich neighborhood now opens up to an expanded area of the slums. Where the rich neighborhood was, a more residential area of the slums now resided. It is the reagents goal in this trial to find, free and then extract four striking workers back to the mansion so that the rich may feed. Two of them are located in the new residential slums whilst the other two are located in the more familiar industrial slums below.There are slight differences in locating and extracting the food in the residential and industrial slums. In the residential slums, reagents can find the food by following sets of dolly tracks on the floor, however some of them are false tracks that will lead them to dead ends. If the correct tracks are followedNote: The location of the food is random.They will enter a large room which holds the food. The food itself is located in the center of the room and locked inside a large metal cage. Within the room there are vats with hearts and a TV above the metal box which displays hints to safety hazard images that need to be hit by a thrown heart.Note: This puzzle plays the same as the final kill puzzle in LIQUIDATE THE UNIONThe location for the safety hazard symbols to hit are located in a small vicinity around the room which holds the food. Once the correct symbols are hit four times, the cage will open and the food can be escorted to the mansion.Note: The escort is the same as it is in LIQUIDATE THE UNIONFreeing and escorting the second food in the residential slums is done the exact same way.Once the food is escorted back to the mansion, they will be attached to a dolly track lock that has room for four pieces of “food”.Once the food in the residential slums is brought back, a gate will open down to the familiar industrial slums where the last two pieces of food are located. This time, food is found by switching on night vision and following a set of tracks that have invisible ink painted on and around them.Note: The ink painted tracks are only visible in NVThere are still false tracks that lead to a dead end, however the invisible ink will guide them to the correct room that holds the food.Once the food is located, it is the same process as before. The food will be locked inside a large metal container and reagents must look around the general area to hit the correct symbol that relates to the ones seen on the TV’s above those containers. Once the food within the industrial slums has been escorted back to the mansion, the reagents will be prompted to press the button at the end of the table. The same mannequin as before will stand up and give another speech.“Hear ye, hear ye. Our food and drink have arrived. And now ye may feast. Eat up, drink up and enjoy your night. You deserve it.”Once the speech is given, all the mannequins around the table will stand up and their upper torsos will spin around 180 degrees. The “food” will then circle around the table on a dolly track, and while they do, the mannequins will use their sharp utensils (forks, knives, cleavers) to stab and cut away the flesh of the food, mimicking as if they were eating the freshly cut flesh.Once this sequence has concluded, reagents can make their way back to the shuttle they entered from and complete the trial.Concept by: Jude Boi
Original: Here!

REPLACE THE LABORERS:
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”Labor is the backbone of societal development. Those who refuse honest work are like broken cogs: disruptive and replaceable. Swap the defiant laborers with reformed child workers, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents begin in a new entrance that leads directly to the Slums and the Meat Packing Factory. The building has been expanded back farther, adding several rooms and ceiling rails for hauling meat to the blender where the Union Boss is drowned. Right outside the shuttle, the van from the Orphanage MK (Gather the Children) sits open with the child mannequins fitted with Hardhats. An adult mannequin foreman states:“Higher wages? Benefits? Bullshit. These Kiddos will work for pennies on the dollar! Only an idiot would pass on this opportunity”A prompt appears: “Fire the Laborers” Reagents must make their way through the expanded Meat Factory to find struggling victims chained up but staged, next to a pair of empty legs, to be seen as workers. Next to each “worker” is a button that must be pressed and a symbol on a TV will appear along with a timer and reagents must find the right symbol frequency device as shown on the TV or it will reset and start over again. After 3 symbols are found the button can be pressed again.Once pressed, the chains will tighten and the victim will be hoisted into the air and eventually dropped into the blender, filling it to the brim with body sludge. After each (3) of the victims are ground to slurry, another prompt appears stating “Fill the Empty Positions.”This is where the children come in because now the Reagents must carry them back to where the victims were and place them on the legs where they will begin to work. Once each child is placed, a button by the blender can be pressed and the sludge will drain. The TVs will then display “LUNCH BREAK” as the liquid is pumped away to be fed to the workers.Release will begin.Concept by: Jude Boi
Original: Here!

| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Shopping Mall |
| THEME: Narcotics and Politics |
| PRIME ASSET: The Kress Twins |
| PRAXIS: At the intersection of commerce and politics stands an unholy union meant to lull you into a false sense of security and control. Vote with your wallet, and show the world what you stand for. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: “A consumerist wonder of the world, the Shopping Mall is a living museum in celebration of the power and imperative of the purse. What you own is who you are, so come on in and purchase the person you want to be.” |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: ”You are the cleansing flood that washes away the lies. If the people are allowed to choose leaders who poison the well of obedience with the bile of history, then we must drown those leaders in that self-same bile. Kill the politician, cleanse his bones of flesh, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman |





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| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Zoo |
| THEME: Hunting Season |
| PRIME ASSET: Prescott Whitehorn |
| PRAXIS: Temptation is the disease that rots the mind, allowing for de-evolution to occur, turning man into nothing but an animal. Alienate those who stand in the way of societal progress. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: "Step inside the cages where the bars bend both ways, a place where the line between predators and prey blurs together and you might just find yourself unsure of which one you were meant to be. The Zoo is a monument to man's oldest instinct: the hunt. Here, the wild doesn't wait behind the glass; it waits dormant inside you. Remember what it means to chase, to bleed, to feast. Welcome back to the food chain." |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: “You are their handler. The temptations of the outside world have turned mankind into feral beasts, treat them as such. Cage the animals, feed their gluttony, and we will let you out” - H.J. Easterman |
| CREATOR: Sabatron |



TRIAL DESCRIPTION:Upon arrival, Reagents will find themselves entering the dilapidated facade of a zoo, located in an exterior trial zone. Once the Reagents have successfully infiltrated the zoo, they’ll come across this trial’s Prime Asset, Prescott Whitehorn; oil tycoon turned big game hunter of the Sinyala Facility.Currently hunting for his next trophy kill, Whitehorn sets up homemade bear traps around his environment. Hearing something rustling in the bushes behind him, he turns around to spot his prey. He draws back his crossbow and goes to take the shot, careful as to not make any noise and scare away the “Animal.”Note: The “Animals” in the trial would be starved & feral large ex-pops bound in straight jackets designed around specific animals: Elephant, Rhino, Gorilla, and Tiger. Chains would attach these ex-pops to an overhead rail system that goes throughout the main section of the trial.Unlucky for Whitehorn, someone steps in one of his bear traps, sounding its alarm; the person screams, throwing off Whitehorn’s shot, allowing his prey to get away. The unlucky soul to step into his trap is that of this trial’s victim, the “Game Warden.” Frustrated, Whitehorn takes the Game Warden and throws him into a deep pit; one of the animal enclosures, Whitehorn says“Every animal gotta eat sometime, I’ll give them something to eat.”Whitehorn re-primes his crossbow and takes off running into the shrubbery in hunt of his lost prey. Once Whitehorn is gone, the gates to the rest of the zoo open up, allowing them to see the Game Warden, wounded on the ground at the bottom of the enclosure, unable to move due to his injuries.Note: Whitehorn’s crossbow would act as a medium/long-range attack, not doing as much damage as Franco’s Lupara, but will instill a bleeding effect until you or a friendly Reagent can pull out the bolt.Note: As mentioned before, Whitehorn’s choice of Prime Asset trap would be a mechanical bear trap. if a Reagent steps into the trap, it’ll clamp down on their leg and make a loud alarm sound, alerting any hostile ex-pops to your position. Whitehorn is able to reset any spent bear traps around the trial environment. Due to their mechanical nature, these bear traps can also be affected by Jammer’s [REWIRE] upgrade.The Reagents main assignment for this trial will be to capture and feed the Animals that Whitehorn is trying to hunt. They’ll do this by pushing a large container of chum found in the zoo’s concession stands along a rail all the way to the main enclosure.Next they’ll be using an overhead crane system to raise the vat of chum above the main enclosure, but first they must power the crane. Reagents must find 2 - 4 gas cans in the zoo's maintenance area to sufficiently power the large machine.Then the Reagents must locate the “Animals” throughout the trial environment, with two major themed areas; The Sahara where two of the Animals can be found; The Elephant and The Rhino. The other area being The Jungle, where the other two Animals can be found, The Gorilla and The Tiger.Once Reagents have found all of the Animals they’ll naturally begin to give chase, reagents must then lure the Animals all the way to the main enclosure, slowly turning a wheel to shut the enclosure gates, trapping the Animals inside.Hungry, they naturally try to attack the Game Warden, but he luckily lies just out of reach. Reagents will then return to the top side of the main enclosure where they’ll then press a button, pouring the large container of chum onto the Game Warden, covering him in blood and chopped up body parts, presumably that of past reagents.The chains locking in the Animals will then be mechanically disengaged and they will begin to eat the Game Warden alive. Doing this will trigger the release protocol, allowing Reagents to leave through the SAS shuttle they arrived in.Concept by: Sabatron

FLOOD THE ENCLOSURES:
A caged animal will do anything to survive. Activate the valves, flood the enclosures, and put down the savage beasts down for good.
“Contrarians are an object, immovable in their ideologies, gerrymandering the confines of reason to fit their message, but you are an unstoppable force, the spear that breaks the shield. Activate the valves, flood the enclosures, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Arriving in the zoo, reagents will find themselves in either one of the two enclosure environments, the Sarah or Jungle, they must then make their way to the enclosures which contain the caged Animals.Note: the enclosure environment that Reagents find themselves in at the start of the trial is different each time, this is to introduce a feeling of replayability to the MKChallenge on future sessions.Once they arrive at the enclosures, Reagents will find the Animals chained down to the bottom of their glass enclosures, along with large pipes placed above the Animal’s cells and a deactivated button in front of the two enclosures.TVs in the area read: “FOLLOW THE WATER, CLEAR THE BLOCKAGES, DROWN THE BEASTS”Reagents must follow the pipes throughout the trial environment, finding a series of chemical intake valves along the long winding pipe. Along with a glass window on the pipe, it’s revealed that the blockages are in fact human body parts: arms, legs, heads, etc.To clear the blockages, the Reagents must find three buckets of high-powered acid, melting away the human remains. Reagents will find these buckets in the zoo’s maintenance / janitorial area.Note: the acid buckets Reagents must find are the same as the ones in Destroy the Evidence, which will splash and damage Reagents if they move too quickly.After Reagents have found all of the acid buckets and poured them into the chemical intake receptacles; melting away the blockages, they’ll be instructed to return to the enclosures.Once returned, the button in front of the two enclosures will be activated, allowing itself to be pressed once all Reagents are in the area.Pressing the button will begin to flood the enclosures, drowning the Animals while also burning them alive with the high-powered acid solution, this will also trigger the release protocol, allowing the Reagents to leave through the SAS shuttle they arrived in.Concept by: Sabatron

EXPOSE THE FREAKSHOW:
Society stays entertained on the mistreatment of others. Provide them with their viewing pleasures, sell them their new freak of the week.
”Opportunity is not black and white, right and wrong. If you have a chance to seize the moment, profit on others' mistakes, then do so. Gather evidence of carelessness, expose their secrets for a profit, and we will let you out. ” - H.J Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Starting in the front of the zoo, Reagents are met with a mannequin dressed as a reporter, he warns the Reagents of animal mistreatment, stating.“Somethings not right with them there animals. Get me the scoop and I’ll get you the front page headline.”Reagents would then venture into the zoo, heading towards the two themed zones, The Sarah & Jungle. Where they would then place a large camera in front of the animal exhibits.Note: the cameras would be a new heavy object that Reagents must carry, much like the camera reels.Once a camera is placed it will take a picture of the horrific sights and eject a photo reel, once all four animals are photographed Reagents will then take the photos to a new area that wasn’t previously featured in the main trial, The Gift Shop.Note: the enclosures holding the Animals would be small, confined glass displays, that are obviously too small for the large ex-pops behind held within. This would be meta commentary on the mistreatment of performance animals that are kept in unfit environments.Note: photo reels would act in the same way as tickets and won’t actually take up an inventory slot.Reagent’s would then have the photos developed in the zoos dark room, where they would then sell the images back to the reporter, doing so will trigger the release protocol.Concept by: Sabatron
Murkoff Collections, prescott
Backdoor Policies
Clyde Perry Letters
1956.01.06INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX, TRANSCRIPTIONTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS / SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: CLYDE PERRY / HOUSTON, TXSUB: PRESCOTT WHITEHORN RECONNAISSANCEDespite the challenges, a bug was successfully planted on Prescott Whitehorn’s person as of 10:42 AM outside the offices of local congressman Wallace Tillman.The Candidate engaged in a heated argument with Tillman for over four hours before attempting to bribe the congressman, offering tax breaks for his self-owned company, Whitehorn Petroleum. However, Tillman refused the offer.Local investigations suggest that Whitehorn is leveraging his considerable wealth to “influence” local politics, securing offshore drilling permits through backdoor policies and blackmail.At 2:58 PM, Whitehorn would proceed to leave Congressman Tillman’s offices, driving an Adria Blue Metallic 1955 Porsche 356 Speedster, an unusually small car for a man of his size.(continued)
Blood, Money, & Oil
Clyde Perry Letters
1956.01.09INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLY
(continued)TELEX, TRANSCRIPTIONTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS / SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: CLYDE PERRY / HOUSTON, TXSUB: PRESCOTT WHITEHORN RECONNAISSANCEOver the past three days, Prescott Whitehorn has been observed engaging in various different activities, the entirety of the 7th he could be found illegally hunting on a nature preserve just two hours north of Houston.Local law enforcement have reported a string of missing hikers in the weeks leading up to my investigation, along with the recent disappearance of a local game warden in the same area. These events could be linked, and further research may uncover a deeper connection.The following day, Prescott could be found at his privately owned raceway and casino, situated forty minutes west of Houston. Throughout the day, numerous local politicians were spotted entering the establishment, though Congressman Tillman was notably absent.Lastly, Prescott was seen on the shoreline of Galveston, where he spent much of the day staring out towards the horizon. As the sun began to set, his shadow stretched across the sand like a sundial. The only explanation I can speculate for this behavior is the presence of several oil rigs just a few miles offshore, all of which are assets of Whitehorn Petroleum.
Brass Tacks
Clyde Perry Letters
1956.01.10INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX, TRANSCRIPTIONTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS / SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: CLYDE PERRY / HOUSTON, TXSUB: PRESCOTT WHITEHORN RECONNAISSANCEI’ve managed to secure an interview with Prescott Whitehorn, who believes I’m a representative of Congressman Tillman. We’ve agreed to discuss ‘legal matters’ but only on the condition that the interview takes place tomorrow, at his privately owned raceway.In the brief time we spoke, I can attest to the potential of his charisma, it is truly overwhelming. Coupled with his imposing statue, he presents a more than intimidating presence as a candidate for PROJECT LATHE.
Whitehorn Interview
Clyde Perry Letters
1956.01.13INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX, TRANSCRIPTIONTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS / SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: CLYDE PERRY / HOUSTON, TXSUB: PRESCOTT WHITEHORN INTERVIEWAs I entered the agreed-upon meeting location, I was taken aback to find it completely empty. An unsettling feeling of being watched, even hunted, crept over me. Despite this, I pressed on toward Prescott Whitehorn’s office. Inside, the room was vacant, high ceilings loomed above, and taxidermied animals lined the walls, yet the imposing man himself was nowhere to be found.Out of nowhere, a bag was thrown over my head. Before I could react, I was hoisted up and tossed over someone's shoulder. Though I couldn't see them, the sheer strength required to lift me led me to believe it was Whitehorn.I struggled to break free from his grasp, but before I could make any lee way I was thrown down onto a hard, uncomfortable chair and had my arms tied behind my back.The bag was then ripped off my head, revealing the rear side of a horse.Whitehorn then made his presence known, stepping up to the rear of the horse, towering over it, making the creature seem like little more than a mere pony.He then began to interrogate me, accusing me of being a Russian spy working for Tillman. He insisted that my piercing blue eye only masked my true allegiance red beneath the surface. With unsettling confidence, he revealed that he knew about the bug I had planted on him during my surveillance, that he had been aware of my every move over the past three days. 'A man with your attitude,' he said, 'sticks out like a sore thumb in any crowd.'Before I could say anything, he struck the horse’s hind leg. The animal responded with a sharp kick to my chest, knocking the breath from my lungs and sending me sprawling to the ground.Whitehorn then turned his attention to his prized racehorse, Lady Liberty, offering her quiet praise. He next adjusted my chair, shifting me closer to the horse’s rear, all while I struggled to catch my breath.He would then explain that he knows a storm is coming, he watches the shoreline, tides shifting, rising, lowering, just waiting for dark clouds to roll in. That when it's all said and done, blood, money, & oil are all just the same. They’re the life force of this country and that he’ll be damned if someone tries to take it from him.I managed to gather what few words I could, trying to tell him that I had an opportunity he couldn’t afford to pass up. Revealing the nature of PROJECT LATHE was a risk, but it was either that or my life.After a lengthy discussion, I believe I finally piqued Whitehorn’s interest in the true purpose of our meeting. He then allowed me to leave. As I write this, I’m currently recovering at a hospital in Houston, nursing five broken ribs and a severe concussion from my fall.Prescott Whitehorn is highly recommended for PROJECT LATHE.
Whitehorn Medical Report
Murkoff Minutes
1958. 05. 02MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYFrom: Emily Barlow
To: DR. H.J. EastermanUnfortunately, It would seem that Mr. Whitehorn has fallen gravely ill. The doctors are saying it’s genital tuberculosis, most likely contracted from an infected individual in the trial environment. They say that for a man his age, it would be best if he remained in their care until he can properly recover.I’m truly sorry to bring such bad news, Dr. Easterman, especially at a time like this. I hope you can find something positive in these trying moments and hold onto it. I know how deeply you care about helping these people.(Signature)
Emily Barlow
The zoo storyline
Fresh Air
Murkoff Minutes
1960. 02. 21MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYTRANSCRIPTIONS FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN MOSES SCARFIOTTI AND DR H.J. EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 17-32]SCARFIOTTI: Isn’t the whole point of the trial environments to be… hidden? We have plenty of warehouses still at our disposal, why not just build it inside, like the others.EASTERMAN: Tell me Moses, if you were trapped inside of a hospital room for years on end, wouldn’t you like to go outside and get some fresh air?SCARFIOTTI: You’re referring to Whitehorn, yes? He hasn’t been cleared for reintegration just yet.EASTERMAN: While it’s true he isn’t in the best of shape, he’s made an offer I just can’t ignore, plus maybe fresh air will help aid his condition.SCARFIOTTI: An offer? Easterman, for your sake I hope it involves a very large sum of money, because how are we going to fund this? The money from the heroin refinery is being eaten up by this “Amelia” ordeal.EASTERMAN: Money won’t be an issue, Whitehorn has promised to fund this hunting season himself, out of pocket. As for Amelia, while unforeseen, yes, it’s being taken care of.SCARFIOTTI: Why exactly is he willing to go through with this, from my knowledge he’s a very stingy old man, especially when it involves money. God only knows he has the assets though, with that petroleum company of his.EASTERMAN: Whitehorn believes his time left is short at best, genital tuberculosis will do that to you. His dying wish is that we provide him with one last hunting season, in return, he’ll provide us with a blank check book, with his name on it.SCARFIOTTI: Well… that certainly seems to be a deal one can’t refuse. Do you think he’s right? That he hasn’t got much time left?EASTERMAN: I think Whitehorn undersales his tenacity, but one thing is for sure, he will never be the same.
Prescott Whitehorn Reintegration Approval
Murkoff Minutes
1960. 02. 24MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYFrom: Emily Barlow
To: DR. H.J. EastermanGood news Doctor Easterman! I looked into getting the approval process for Mr. Whitehorn's reintegration prepared, just like you asked me. Despite his unfortunate ailments, I’ve supplied him with a tight regime of medicinal encouragement, he has quite the pep in his step! He really is such a brave soul. His primary care physician says he’ll be ready to re-enter the therapy within the coming days.(Signature)
Emily Barlow
Nothing More Than Rumors
Murkoff Minutes
1960. 02. 28MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN MOSES SCARFIOTTI AND CORNELIUS NOAKESEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 6-9]NOAKES: A bear trap, mixed with a siren, that’s it?SCARFIOTTI: Is there an issue Mr. Noakes?NOAKES: No no… just seems a bit simple compared to some of the other death traps you have me make.SCARFIOTTI: Then you should see to it their creation yes? These traps are vital to Mr. Whitehorn’s vision. His hearing isn’t what it used to be and he wants to make sure he doesn’t let his prey get away.NOAKES: Whitehorn? Now that isn’t a name I’ve heard mentioned in a long time. I heard the reagents spreadin’ rumors that he had died.SCARFIOTTI: Sleep well knowing that those were no more than rumors Mr. Noakes, I can assure you Mr. Whitehorn is alive and well. I expect the designs for these traps in my office post-haste.(sounds of rummaging through boxes)NOAKES: Sure, man. I can get to work on those after I finish fixin’ up my current batch of toasters. Also one last thing… I didn’t know about the radios, God's honest truth. Last thing I want here is to end up in the next waste disposal shuttle, but I am working with scraps. I got tools here falling apart. I need some more materials if I’m going to be able to do what you ask of me.SCARFIOTTI: Get back to work Mr. Noakes, I’ll see about putting in a request form for more of your junk.
White Whale
Murkoff Minutes
1960. 03. 25COPY
TRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND H.J. EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 9-14]AVELLANOS: It’s almost been a month, I’m quite surprised at the results we’ve seen out of Whitehorn’s return, he really seems to have found a new lease on life.EASTERMAN: Give a man the opportunity to do what he loves and you’ll witness him achieve greatness, all we did was give him the means to do so.AVELLANOS: Are you sure the treatment of “fresh air and medicinal encouragement” will keep him going for the foreseeable future?EASTERMAN: I trust that Nurse Barlow knows what she’s doing.AVELLANOS: She spent two years at Saint Mary’s, she has no more experience as a doctor than a corner store pharmacist.EASTERMAN: It may just be a placebo, but if Whitehorn believes he is getting better then he will.AVELLANOS: Either way, he’s already held up his end of the deal, should be able to pull us out of the sinkhole this Amelia character has put us in. Speaking of, how do you intend on dealing with this issue Hendrick.EASTERMAN: Post Trial evaluations with Whitehorn have proved his effectiveness, though he grows tired of hunting the provided “Animals” in his Trial environment. We may be able to provide him with a new hunt, a new “white whale,” a dangerous creature worthy of his hunt.AVELLANOS: You want to use Whitehorn to track down Amelia, I don’t know if you’ve realized this Hendrick, but he’s massive, he can barely get around his own Trial environment as it is without bumping into every other mannequin.EASTERMAN: A huntsman is no less effective at tracking a vicious lion than he is a common field mouse. Given the time and resources, I believe Whitehorn can prove his usefulness beyond the confines of his Trial.AVELLANOS: What kind of resources are you talking about Hendrick?EASTERMAN: It isn’t uncommon for hunters to use dogs when tracking rodents, we just need to give him his own pack of wolves.
Animals
Murkoff Case Files
1960. 03. 23MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanFrom: Emily Barlow
To: DR. H.J. EastermanMEMORANDUM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: ANIMALSARCHETYPE
Guard Dogs. Repurposed Heavy Ex-pops, pushed to the edge of insanity due to prolonged exposure to psychoactive chemicals found in the Trials. Extremely hostile and prone to attack anything in their sight.AUGMENTATIONS
Prone to lash out at their fellow Ex-Pops, we’ve restrained their upper extremities with straight jackets, provided by the Mount Massive facility. As well as being equipped with “Blinkers,” typically used for horses, these visual blockers help narrow the Animal’s focus.Collars must be attached around the neck of the Animals at all times, further attached to their overhead rail system that will accompany them.PSYCHOLOGY
Animals have gone through such mental regression they might as well not be considered human, the only vocalizations that can be heard from them now are just that of feral snarls and growling. Be careful to not hold multiple of this class in the same immediate holding area, reports have been seen of multiple Animals working together in unison, much like a pack of wolves.DOCTOR’S NOTES
Sinyala security is highly encouraged to act with extreme caution when transporting Animals, if they are ever able to break free from their confines it may be advised to put this class of Ex-Pop down with lethal force.CLYDE PERRY’S NOTE
An Ex-Pop of a similar mental state was highly effective as a tool of mental interrogation, in the case of one Dorris Ritter. I suspect this Heavy Ex-Pop class will be very effective in the search for our escaped Reagent.

| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Embassy |
| THEME: Patriotism |
| PRIME ASSET: Leonid Losev |
| PRAXIS: Betrayal is the greatest damage a nation could ever face. The ones you thought you trusted turned out to be deceitful animals. Infiltrate the embassy and assassinate the defector, for your country. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: “Limp into unfamiliar territory, where espionage is a common office-space activity, and foreign policy is wedged between the lines of governmental bureaucracy and lust for wanton power. There’s no better shelter for betrayal and deception in the heart of your enemies nation than the embassy.” |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: “You are the assassin. A silent weapon whose job it is to protect your countrymen from those who wish nothing but harm upon them. While no one may know of your struggle, take pride in that you keep your country safe. Infiltrate the embassy and kill the defector, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman |
| CREATOR: Jude Boi |
| Original Here! |



DESCRIPTION:Upon arrival, reagents will find themselves in an environment unlike any other they’ve seen. Architecture they don’t recognise, car models unfamiliar to them, signs in russian. The embassy is a trial environment set in a mock up Soviet Russian City. Dim brutalist apartments, fake snow covering the streets and falling from the sky, a bland block of buildings.The embassy on the other hand is the complete opposite. Like many soviet government buildings of the time, it’s colourful, pastel and beautiful. A sharp contrast to the apartments that surround it. Outside is a protest of mannequins and idle grunts all holding up signs in russian translating to phrases such as“Kill the American” “Better red than dead”They are not happy that the “Soviet government” is housing an American defector.OBJECTIVES:[INFILTRATE THE EMBASSY] On the front doors of the embassy is a victim chained to it, blocking the way in. The chains are attached to each limb, including his head, and there are empty slots where two cranks can be placed. Reagents must explore the surrounding apartment buildings to find cracks. They will both be in individual rooms, however not on the same floor as each other. Subtle hints to what floor it’s on will be given in the form of environmental decor. The floor with the crank having clutters of chains strewn about.Note: the apartment plays very vertically. The cranks are heavy objects and will rattle if you run with them, causing loud noises.Once the cranks are placed in their respective slots, reagents can begin turning them. The crank to the left side of the door victim will rip off his left arm & leg. The crank to the right will rip off his right arm & leg. Once all the limbs are torn off, his head will be torn from his body and what remains will drop to the floor. The main door to the embassy will now be open.Once inside, reagents will make their way to the lobby of the embassy. They see the defector, the unlucky victim of this trial, behind a plate of glass sitting tied to an office chair. They press a button and the PA appears, they are holding what appears to be boxes of files and are monologuing about how everything the defector confessed is now on record. The PA then drags the defector away out of sight.[ACCESS THE RECORDS VAULT] A gate will open in the main lobby that will take reagents to the offices section of the building. They must make their way to a secure vault that houses some of the most sensitive records in the embassy. It is here where they are given the tutorial for the next objective.Tutorial: In order to access the vault, reagents must blow it open with a bomb. Reagents must find 2-4 bomb parts and dispose of them in a receptacle hatch on the vault door. A picture of the bomb parts will be displayed on a TV, along with 3 digit code on a smaller TV underneath it. The TV screens displaying the bombs will all have shades of a different colour. In order to find the bomb parts, reagents will be supplied with a unique tracker device. The device has a small screen on it which will display a wavelength. Reagents must explore the environment and as they get closer to the bomb part the wavelength will match up. The wavelengths colour will change depending on the bomb part that is displayed on the TVs in the vault room. Once the bomb part has been found,reagents must input the matching code on a locked box in order to collect the part and return it to the vault.Note: The parts and tracker will take up an inventory slot. There will be false boxes randomly placed around the offices, keep an eye on the tracker or else trying to open the wrong box will cause a minor explosion.Once each bomb part has been placed inside the hatch, reagents must press a button that is at a safe distance. Pressing the button will lock down the room and blow open the vault.[INCINERATE THE EVIDENCE] Once the vault is open, there will be 2-4 boxes of evidence. Each one with a small motion device attached to it that, if a reagent runs with the box, will give off a persistent loud noise to attract ex-pop. Noise will stop if reagents stop running. The boxes need to be taken to an incinerator a short distance away and thrown inside.[RETURN TO THE LOBBY] Reagents must return to the lobby and upon doing so, the trial's prime asset will speak over the intercom. This will trigger a new gate to open and lead them to the executive suite of the embassy, home to the ambassador's office. In here, there would be a tutorial for the next objective, however power is cut making it impossible. This will force reagents down into the basement of the embassy in order to restore power to the area and proceed with the objective.[RESTORE POWER TO THE EMBASSY] Reagents will enter the basement of the embassy and receive a small tutorial for the next objective.Tutorial: In order to restore power, reagents must kill a new objective enemy type. The Snatcher. The snatchers are notorious for stealing items needed for objectives, in this case it would be cans of gasoline. In order to retrieve these cans from the snatchers, bottles of throwable poison are dispensed from a machine, reagents must throw at least 3 of these bottles at the snatchers in order to kill them, get the gas and fill up a generator. 2-4 snatchers will spawn which will correlate with the amount of generators in the basement. Running with the gasoline will set off a loud alarm similar to the evidence boxes.Note: Snatchers act in a similar manner to the witnesses. They will run once attacked and have a cooldown period before another bottle of poison will affect them, it is advised to wait for them to respawn. Snatchers who manage to attack reagents also have a chance to steal an item from their inventory. Killing them will drop whichever item was stolen. Dispensers for the poison bottles will spawn in random locations throughout the basement, however the tutorial machines will always remain in place.[RETURN TO THE EXECUTIVE SUITE] Reagents can now return to the suite. They now have the option to interact with a very bulky machine which will give them a tutorial of the final objective before beginning the execution process.Tutorial 1/2: Interacting with the bulky machine will bring reagents into a closer view of it. The machine is split into two sides, one is a screen that will display a dedicated camera system, the other is a panel with a series of familiar symbols (EYE, HEART, STAR etc)
Looking at the camera system will reveal a view of someone with a bagged head tied down to a chair with a crude tattoo of a hammer and sickle on their chest. Next to them is a mannequin in a suit, sunglasses and hat holding a blowtorch. A badge on their chest reads “CIA”It is the reagents job, over the camera, to command this mannequin to torture the victim. This is done by holding down the interact button, doing so each time will make the victim yell out the name of a symbol, the same symbol itself also being displayed on a TV within the room you are observing. Reagents will then type this symbol into the keypad next to them.Note: Reagents will need to hold down the interact button for a few seconds, during which the machine will make loud noises to draw in ex-pop. Be careful when looking at the cameras as the rest of your vision and hearing will be obstructed.Tutorial 2/2: Once this has been done for a total of 3 times, a TV above the machine will display a 3 digit number. Reagents can view the camera at any time after to see the now dead victim they extracted the information from.[EXTRACT THE REMAINING INFORMATION] The 3 digit number is typed into a keypad which opens up the rest of the executive suite. The suite is a massive board room with a door on either side that leads upstairs. At the opposite end of the room has two keypads on the left and right side of the room, with wires leading into the wall behind it. Reagents must find 2 more machines and extract the numbers.Once this has been done, they can return to lobby and input the numbers on the respective keypads which will begin the execution.[ASSASSINATE THE DEFECTOR] The back wall to the board room will open up and the defector will roll out on a dolly track. Hooked up behind him are a massive hammer and sickle. Reagents must complete a skill check similar to that of the generator cranking pulley cord. Doing so will first drop the large hammer onto the legs of the defector and the sickle will swing around and stab him in the chest, slowly dragging up his upper body, disembowelling him and then completely splitting his upper body and head in half.Note: The pulley cord skill check must be done around 10-15 times depending on if you have a co-op partner. If there are other players, there will be one extra pulley cord to help assist.[EXIT THE TRIAL] Reagents can return to the shuttle and exit the trial.

BOMB THE EMBASSY:
Patriotic acts are something not chained down by morality and risk of death. Bomb the vital locations within the embassy.
“You are the hand that clenches the tools to bring down evil empires. With each swing of the hammer, you crack the foundations of a nation that would see our own burn to the ground and revel in its destruction. Bomb the vital parts of the embassy and we will let you out." - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents arrive at this trial where the front doors of the embassy would be. They must make their way to the main lobby a short distance away.Upon arrival, there will be a mannequin dressed in a suit with a badge on his breast pocket labelled ‘CIA’ a button next to them must be pressed in order to continue. Pressing it will commence with a small narrative sequence and lock the gate leading back to the shuttle.“These commie bastards won't know what hit them. Our spies have all the parts in place, you just need to put them together and blow this disease ridden place to high hell.”Once the mannequin stops talking, four gates will open in the lobby which all lead to four separate sectors of the embassy. The offices, the basement, the executive suite downstairs & executive suite upstairs.Note: The executive suite downstairs has been expanded upon in terms of play area.Each sector will have a wavelength tracker and TV displaying a bomb part. Reagents must find this singular bomb part and place it in a receptacle hatch next to where the tracker and TV is located.Once all four bomb parts are placed in their respective hatches, reagents will regroup back in the lobby and press the button. Doing so will cause the gates to each sector's gate to close, along with this, a bomb proof glass sheet will close alongside it. The CIA mannequin will give a small quip.“Let’s see if these babies will do their job for our great and everlasting nation. God bless America.”Each bomb will then go off in the order it was placed, causing a loud but not so powerful explosion. This will trigger the release protocol and allow reagents to escape in the SAS shuttle they arrived in.Note: The objective of this MK-Challenge plays the exact same as it does in the main trial.Concept by: Jude Boi

EXTRACT THE AGENT:
Your allies are your strength, your connection to them even stronger. Free the agent from enemy captivity and get them out of the embassy.
“People are a resource, an instrument we can use over again until it has run its course. Locate the information needed to free the agent, deliver him to the extraction team and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents arrive at this trial in a new “outdoor” environment at the back of the embassy; a set of doors will take them into the first floor of the executive office.Inside a central room there will be a mannequin dressed in stereotypical CIA rags, he is strapped down to a chair with two other mannequins behind him dressed in soviet style military rags.Also within this central room there will be the familiar sight of a bulky machine with a screen, however this one is missing the symbol buttons seen within the main trial.In place of where the buttons are, there is now a smaller screen. Reagents must interact with this machine and interrogate the subject seen on the camera feed, and, once this has been done, they will yell the name of a symbol and that symbol will appear on the other screen attached to the machine.At the far end of the room, behind the machine, is a large map with a layout of the environment. Similar to, tilt the scales of justice, there will be markings to show reagents where 4 other machines are. Next to the map there is a large keyboard on the wall with the letters A-Z.It is the reagents job to locate each machine, interrogate the subject seen on the video feed, get the right symbol and return to the central room to type in the name of the code.Note: There will be five TV’s on the wall above the keypad as a visual indicator of what codes have been typed in.Once all the codes have been found and typed in, a button will be made available to press. Pressing it will lock down the room, cause the two soviet mannequins to raise their hands and free the CIA Agent mannequin.Leonid Losev will spawn in the room via an insertion gate, and the room will unlock. Reagents must then carry the mannequin to the front entrance of the embassy and place him in the back of a white van with blacked out windows.Note: Running with the mannequin will create a loud noise. The pathway leading to the entrance shuttle will be locked off, reagents must follow a linear path through the embassy and out the front of the building.Once the mannequin has been placed in the van reagents can escape via the SAS shuttle in the “street” they are in.Concept by: Jude Boi

| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Stacks |
| THEME: Patriotism |
| PRIME ASSET: Leonid Losev |
| PRAXIS: The economical structure of our enemies is their last line of defence before they fall into chaos and anarchy. Locate and escort the planning committee through the places they dare not step foot in. Expose their bourgeoisie nature to the people, show them how to handle economics the correct way. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: “Who needs a competitive housing market when all are equal, and the state handles the pain of deciding where you can live? Communal living and a beautiful location with everything you need on your doorstep, the stacks are the pinnacle of soviet housing. Just remember not to question where your old neighbours go after snitching on your friends across the hall.” |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: “Titles and roles do not define who you are, only your actions do. Preaching a way of living while going against your own word is a sin that no punishment is too great for. Expose the communist committee's life of luxury to their starved and broken people, cripple their nation's economy and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman |
| CREATOR: Jude Boi |
| Original Here! |



DESCRIPTION:Upon arrival, reagents will find themselves in an environment themed around a typical block of soviet apartments. The ground is covered in fake snow, and blood, guts and the occasional corpse litter the streets. The location itself is actually set outside to accommodate the large size of the four apartment buildings and the gaps between them. Two warehouses sit parallel to each other, with the trial environment wedged between them.The stacks consist of four very tall soviet apartment buildings. Each one shares the same design with some minor changes in the outer appearance, with each apartment's exterior looking a little nicer and cleaned up (as best a trial environment can be clean) as it goes along. There is not much to see in the fake streets outside the apartments as most of the “outdoor” areas lie further into the trial between each apartment.OBJECTIVES:[LOCATE THE COMMITTEE] - Reagents will make their way into the first apartment building of the stacks. Inside it is a complete mess, designed as if it has been abandoned and left to rot for years. Despite all this however, some mannequins litter the hallways, slouched down on the floor and looking like their lives have come to an end. They hold their hands out, begging for scraps.Reagents must maneuver up the building, avoiding ex-pops, traps and holes in the floor that lead to fatal drops back down where they started. Once at the top of the apartment, they will see the committee, a group of four victims who are well dressed and bagged. They all are attached to an apparatus that is keeping them bound by their hands and feet whilst in an upright position.Attached to the apparatus itself, and stretching across the other three buildings, is a dolly track that runs over the steep drops below. Once all reagents are gathered on the roof, a button next to the 4 victims can be pressed to initiate a small narrative sequence.Across the gap, on the roof of the next apartment, we see a reagent bash through a rooftop access door and hobble to the edge of the building. Following not far behind is Leonid, weapon in hand, and yelling at the top of his lungs as he brutishly stomps over to the now cowering reagent.“Filthy fucking American’s, this is our land, our people, our blood!”He reaches the reagent at the edge of the roof and swings his hammer right onto her arched back, the sound of her spinal cord cracking echoing into the open air. She drops to the ground just out of view, covered by the raised edge of the roof, as we see Leonid swing down his hammer one more time.“You will not take this from us, never!”He then lifts the reagent up by the scruff of her shirt and tosses her over the side, the lifeless corpse thudding and wrapping itself around the top of a lamppost.Walking back into the apartment, Leonid yells“The committee will come here and they will stay here with me!”[RESTORE POWER TO THE TRACKS] - Once Leonid has walked back inside the apartment, the dolly track will begin to carry the four victims over to the next apartment building. They shake and speak words of panic as they realise they’ve begun moving across a gap with a dangerous drop below. About halfway across the gap, the dolly track will come to a halt as power to it has been shut off.Reagents will then be prompted to descend back down and out of the apartment they are currently in. Leaving the apartment and crossing the gap into the next one they will soon come across the solution to turn the tracks back on. They will enter into the main atrium of the apartment and, where an administration desk would normally be located, there is a set of two large TVs. Above each one, respectively, there are signs that read “Floor Number” & “Room Number”.The Avellanos mannequin will point them to the left side of the building which consists of a few linear hallways leading to the basement.In order to restore power back to the dolly track, reagents must first locate 2-4 rooms, each room containing an electric panel that they must hotwire. First, the correct rooms must be located, as there are 11 floors to the apartment building, each with 22 rooms. The two large TVs within the admin room of the apartment must be powered in order to display the floor and room number that must be located.It is during this objective that Leonid will stalk reagents in the basement.Note: Wires leading from the TVs into the basement will act as another visual guide to find the basement.TUTORIAL:Within the basement there will be a set of 2-4 generators [co-op dependent] with each half of the generator being painted a different colour. One half will display a POSITIVE symbol [+] and the other will display a NEGATIVE [-] symbol. Reagents must locate an electric cable reel on a giant spool that is placed at fixed random points within the basement.The goal is to reel the wire from the spool to the proper generator and plug it into the power outlet. Both the colour of the wire, and whether or not it’s a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE wire must be taken into account. Plugging a wire that's the right colour but the wrong POSITIVE or NEGATIVE symbol will result in the reagent being damaged and vice versa if the wrong colour is plugged into the right POSITIVE or NEGATIVE outlet. Reagents must also be sure they don't run out of cable length by taking a path back to the generator that is too long.Note: The power bank/spool that holds the wire will be hung up on a wall so that it is easier to locate. In order to figure out what power bank/spool of wire has the right symbol (POSITIVE or NEGATIVE) The symbol itself will display on the side of the spool. Like the wire, the spool itself will also be painted the same colour.Note: Below is an example of how this objective plays out:Generator A has one half painted green and the other half painted white, the green side needs a positive wire, the white side needs a negative.I find a power bank/spool and wire that is coloured white but has the POSITIVE symbol. I cannot use this because the generator needs a white NEGATIVE wire.I find another power bank/spool and wire that is painted green and has a POSITIVE symbol. I can use this because the generator needs a green POSITIVE wire.I can also find a wire and spool that is painted green but has a NEGATIVE symbol. Despite the wire being green, it’s a NEGATIVE wire and so I cannot use it because the green painted side of the generator needs a POSITIVE symbol.[RESTORE POWER TO THE DOLLY TRACKS, MOVE THE COMMITTEE] - Once the generators have been linked up to the correct wires. Reagents can return to the lobby and locate the floor and room they must go to. The TVs will cycle between the two respective floors and rooms on that floors that must be found The doors to the stairwell will open and they can ascend to the correct floor.Once on that floor, there will be a symbol on a TV next to the door, this corresponds with a key they must find by searching inside the corpses located on that floor. Once the proper key has been found, reagents can enter the room and begin the process of powering the dolly track.(Inside the room there will be a wire box located on the back wall. Similar to the previous objective, reagents must match up the correct colour of wires to each other. The wires inside the box will be a tangled mess to make navigating one wire to the other more difficult. Once the wires have been connected, the box spark and the reagent will shut it closed and proceed to the next floor and room to repeat the process.)Note: Painted on the rooms doors will be a single strip of a colour, this will correspond with what colour of wire inside is needed to be connected to one another.Once the puzzle has been completed, reagents will be prompted onto the roof of the second building. On there will be a button that, when pressed, will move the committee to the 3rd building. However, instead of moving onto the ledge of the 3rd building's roof, they are stopped in the middle and lowered into the building via a hatch.Over the trial environments intercom, Reagents will hear Leonid yell at them.“You mudak’s think you will control us and our economy?! We will crush you like paper and toss you into fire”[TRACK DOWN THE COMMITTEE] - Once reagents enter into the 3rd apartment building, they will be greeted with an elaborate setup of TV’s displaying four separate room and floor numbers, these correlate to the location of each of the respective committee members. Inside each room will be a committee member and a raised hatch like door, similar in appearance to an ex-pop insertion gate with a number pad to enter a 3-digit code into.Also inside will be a display rack with two brand new attachments to the reagents night vision goggles. One being a blacklight filter to track fluids, and the other being a thermal filter to differentiate hot and cold corpses.(Reagent's job in this objective is to find the numbers that must be typed into the number pad to open the hatches in each room, which will allow the committee members to be transported by separate dolly tracks back to the roof and attached to the main dolly track. In order to do this, reagents must follow trails of fluid on the ground, walls and roof to random rooms in each apartment. Inside the rooms will be mountains of corpses that can be searched. Reagents must use the thermal vision filter to look for a corpse that is warm (Indicated by a reddish/orange circular spot where the heart is) Once the correct corpse is searched, a brand new blacklight filter will be found inside, reagents must then use this to follow another trail to other room of corpses in which the right one must be searched. This must be done three times for each committee member that needs to be transported, the third corpse being the one to provide a piece of paper with the code on it (the code will also be displayed on TVs within that floor only)Note: Searching the wrong corpse will cause the reagent to take damage.Note: In order to avoid confusion between the fluid trails on each floor, the blacklight filter will only show the fluid trail associated with that floor, this is also reflected in the names of the filter which all track 4 different fluids (BL-FILTER-URINE, BL-FILTER-BLOOD, BL-FILTER-SEMEN, BL-FILTER-MUCUS)Once each code has been imputed and each committee member transported back onto the dolly track on the roof, reagents can make their way up to the roof and press the button to send them on their way to the final apartment.As the committee is being transported over to the other apartment, Leonid will pop out from the roof access door across the gap and yell over.“Oh no you don’t, this cannot happen, this will not happen! Our economy will remain forever strong! Today is not the day our nation falls into your filth ridden American hands!”Leonid then exits the roof via the access door, slamming it behind him as the committee are stopped at the edge of the roof, just slightly hanging off it.[CRIPPLE THE COMMITTEE] - Once reagents make their way onto the final building's roof, they will find themselves confronted with an elaborate device. Three large old-style capstans that must be rotated counter clockwise. Rotating them will pull back two large spiked weights at either side of dolly tracks. Once those spiked weights are pulled back, they essentially become a slingshot and, once released, come crashing into the side of the committee and stabbing into them, simultaneously crushing their bodies and stabbing their sides with the large spikes.The elaborate mechanism of large springs and industrial conveyor chain creaking and moaning as they’re being pulled back again, ripping the spikes out of the committee and giving their lungs room to breathe again. All until the weights are pulled back and released, slamming right back into them and piercing their bodies together like a kebab.Once a capstan has been used, the poles sticking out from it will break off and the next one must be used.Rotating the capstans is slow, however reagents have the option of searching the apartment rooms below for large batteries which can be inserted into the capstan and power hydraulics inside them to speed up the process. However these hydraulics consume a lot of power and only offer a small advantage.Once the third and final capstan is used, the weights come crashing back one final time, the spike stabbing into them before the dolly track moves them over the edge of the roof, the weights remaining in place and the round sides of the spikes awkwardly tearing through their stomachs and splitting them in half, until finally released from the dolly mechanisms. Their bodies falling through the air before colliding with the cold hard concrete floor below.[EXIT THE TRIAL] - Reagents can return to the entrance shuttle and exit the trial.

CORRECT THE BROADCAST:
To reach the mind, you must first reach the home. A radio is to the mind what a television is to the heart, a provider of information and a provider of deep emotion. Rewire the radio and TV signals to broadcast anti-communist messages to the Soviet people.
“Propaganda, in the right hands, can be a vital tool to change the hearts and minds of a nation's people. You must become the silent transmitter who can rewire the brains of our enemies with surgical precision. Rewire the transmitters of the apartments, broadcast the correct information and we will let you out” -H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents will begin this trial in-between apartment block 2 & 3, the shuttle itself being wedged in between the far end of each building. Located in front of the statue is a small makeshift broadcast table, fit with TV’s, radios and a lone button where the chair would be. The TV’s flash messages instructing reagents to “Correct the broadcast” and “Preach the truth”, whoever set up this small station clearly isn't happy with the stacks residents' intake of communist propaganda.Their goal in this trial is to enter the basement of apartment 2 & 3. Inside each basement has been heavily expanded upon, adding areas such as maintenance tunnels, sewers, improv hang-out spots and even a mobile base for American spies. Within each basement will be 3 generators (making a total of 6) that must be rewired with the use of the correct colour coordinated wires and POSITIVE/NEGATIVE outputs as seen within the stack's main trial.Note: While both basements are separated, they can be accessed through the use of the co-op wall move, allowing for at least one reagent to be transported between both basements.Once each of the 6 generators have been rewired, reagents can return to the makeshift broadcast table on the surface and press the button. Once the button is pressed, the entire trial will go dark. And then, one by one, the lights of each apartment room will light up. Echoes of screams can be heard coming from each building as “Star spangled banner” is blasted over loudspeakers. Looking at the windows, reagents will see mannequins and ex-pops banging them with their hands and head, some of the ex-pops even managing to break the windows and leap out to their death.Along with this, pressing the button locks off access to the entrance shuttle, instead, opening a gate within apartment 2, that will allow reagents to run through both it and apartment 1 to the streets outside and the exit shuttle.Once reagents make their way through the apartments and into the streets, they can exit via the SAS shuttle.Concept by: Jude Boi

MANIFEST THE TRUTH:
Truth is what we make, not what is found. Rewrite the wrongdoings of our agents and frame it on the communists. Find the truth, create your own out of it and share it to the people of the complex.
“A nation who has built itself on lies and bred it into their people need not want or know what the truth is, only if whatever is said makes their existence meaningful. Find the evidence of our crimes, manipulate it into a new truth for the people and we will let you out.” -H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents will enter this trial in a similar manner to that of ‘teach the police officers’. A repurposed observation platform with a long hallway that takes them into the upper floors of the stacks. Within this hallway will be a blacklight & thermal filter respectively for the night vision goggles. Along with this, they will also be provided with a key for later use. At the end of the hallway they will enter into a small administration like room, within it is a makeshift safehouse and two mannequins standing next to a briefcase packed with pictures and documents. Both mannequins will converse with the reagents, making it clear that you must go and collect two final pieces of evidence and bring it back to them inside the room.It is the reagents goal to use the blacklight filter to follow a series of fluid trails that span all floors of the building they are in, a game of hide and seek to find a room filled with corpses. The bodily fluid trail from the blacklight will lead to many many dead ends, it will be a literal trial and error in order to find the required room.Once reagents do locate the room, the key they found can be used to open the door and access it. Inside the room is a pile of corpses and streams of documents, pictures and other paraphernalia to indicate that it was murkoffs doing for the hidden crimes inside such a small space. At the corner of the room will be an old style large format plate camera, a machine the size of a box to snap one picture at a time. Reagents can press the shutter on this camera, which will ring out a loud noise and a blinding flash, snapping a picture of the evidence within this room. The reagent will then open up the back of the camera and lift out the metallic plate with the exposure on it, the first piece of evidence they need. The second piece of evidence will require the reagents to use the thermal vision and search for a warm corpse within the room. They must search inside the warm corpse and will pull out from it a tape recorder, this being the second and final piece of evidence.Note: The photograph plate is a heavy item and the tape recorder fills up an inventory space.Reagents can then bring these two items back to the makeshift safehouse and place them inside the suitcase.Once both items are placed in the suitcase, they can exit via the SAS shuttle they entered from.Concept by: Jude Boi

| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Ball Park |
| THEME: Fame and Shame |
| PRIME ASSET: Mickey Schwartz |
| PRAXIS: Entertainment thrives on the success of public figures and celebrities. These figures must be replaced with Murkoff representation and leadership. Expose those in the spotlight so they may become replaceable. |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: REDACTED |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: “Popularity is a poison that clouds the better judgement of a weak mind. Only we know what is right for you to consume. There are scum who wish to keep those in the spotlight and our leaders on the sidelines. Infiltrate the stadium, tarnish the star player’s reputation, and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman |
| CREATOR: Semyyy |
| Original Here! |



DESCRIPTION:Reagents begin the trial stepping out into a larger parking lot area with lines leading up to an enormous baseball stadium a few yards away. Mannequins are fighting, killing, and harassing each other, some wearing dirty and ruined Super L merchandise while others wear Murkoff brand which is cleaner and well taken care of.As the Reagents make their way to the left side of the stadium, a dark alleyway leads to a locked side door with a Baggio type figure decked out in Super L clothes. He tells the reagents he’s Mickey’s “BIGGEST FAN” and has tickets to see the game, but the reagents must bring him pieces of “memorabilia”. This can be found in locked vehicles throughout the Parking Garage located next to the stadium on the other side of the Alley.[FIND THE MEMORABILIA]Outside the door to the garage, there is a poster with 3 license plate numbers, these are the cars that need to be found. Once inside a button terminal must be pressed and the door will lock. Dim orange lights will fill the concrete structure to reveal dripping walls and gore all around; echoes of wails can be heard. Traversing through each level, Reagents are provided with Lockpicks that can be used to open the trunks of vehicles where small bloodied bags can be collected.Note: Instead of receiving damage, if the lock is missed, the alarm will go off, alerting nearby enemies. It can still be picked, just watch your back.Note: During lower difficulties, lights will flicker above the cars that need to be broken into.Once each bag is collected the door will unlock and the reagents can exit, dropping the bags in the suitcase next to the mannequin and a side door will unlock.Inside the Stadium, Reagents must move their way through the service tunnels into the concessions. As they get closer to the field, they can hear the cheers coming from the crowd. Once out in the stands and past a rotating gate, Reagents can see Mickey at home plate, practicing with an automatic pitching machine on the pitcher's mound.Behind second base a wriggling victim can be seen dangling down from an overhead crane. His head is covered with a brown burlap bag and is dressed in only a coaches uniform shirt, nothing else. He shouts as Mickey’s hits nearly miss him by a couple inches. A few balls hit the coach, and it’s clear he’s been hit before since he’s covered in bruises.The Reagents push a button which shuts off the pitching machine. Mickey throws his bat on the ground and looks at the reagents, eventually moving up against the chain linked fence blocking him from the reagents. He tells them to quit “fuckin” with him and that they’re gonna make him “lose focus” on the “most important game of his life.” He storms out a door behind home plate and the Reagents are prompted to[REPLACE THE SCRIPTED RECORDS]Reagents must find Reporters, hidden among the concessions, in the crowded stands, and in the Telecommunications Room. Each having a record tape in their backs, wires with batteries at the ends of them must be deactivated before they can remove the tape. A locked box in the security office (Now owned by Murkoff with Cameras everywhere and Televisions covering one side of the room) will open once all 3 tapes have been disposed of in burning barrels. Each section is locked until the tape is collected.Note: Mickey and Normal Ex-pop patrol this area along with Mickey’s Baseball turrets: Pitching machines that are motion sensor to shoot out baseballs covered in glass, causing damage and knockback.CONCESSIONS: This is where you will find a bar, several food stands, and collectable vendors. This section will wrap along the base level of the stadium. The mannequin you will need to take the tape from is sitting at the bar talking to another “fan”. His audio will change from a positive“He could make rookie of the year!” into “I heard he dopes up before each game, what kind of example is that?”STANDS: A gate will open and the Reagents will move into the stands, filled with moving mannequins of both teams, several of them fighting over the opposing teams. The mannequin this time will be a yelling seller, screaming“Get your premium one of a kind Mickey Jersey, only 10.99!” this will change to “Wear his merch and you're supporting a hack!”TELECOMMUNICATIONS: A light in the upstairs portion will flick on and another gate will open, this will open a new area with fancier, wealthier fans, complete with lounges and refreshment bars. Office rooms fill this space along with a telecommunications room where T.V.s of the field can be seen, some even displaying Mickey standing patriotically in front of the American flag. Once the mannequin’s (A sports announcer) tape is changed, the T.V.s will switch to Murkoff propaganda and the mannequin will say“Time to watch something better, healthier, smarter…” instead of “Look at our boy go! He’s a true American hero, that Mickey.”Once the tapes are completely switched and the old ones melted, the Reagents walk back out towards the stands looking out to the field and will notice that the coach is lowered farther towards the grinder. A scoreboard in the back of the field shows two bars: One for Mickey and one for Murkoff. This is based on reputation: Each time you do something in game, it goes against Mickey's reputation and Murkoff’s goes up, slowly lowering the coach towards the grinder.Mickey comes back up and sees the board, visibly pissed. He flicks a switch on the wall and the patching machine turns back on and he starts hitting balls. This will tick up his reputation with each one he successfully hits. A new Prompt will open up saying[BLIND THE HITTER AND STOP HIS DOPING]The reagents must climb up ladders on the giant spotlights shining down on the field to aim towards Mickey’s face. He will be stunned and get hit with a ball where he will stumble and say“FUCK, fuck me… alright folks just give me a minute, I-I need to get my edge back.”He will then leave and rotating gates will light up, opening a new area closer to home plate in the stands, the maintenance area.MAINTENANCE: This area is vast consisting of many areas including an infirmary, a field maintenance garage, and locker rooms, each being completely dark. Each time that Mickey leaves the field he will go back here and start doping up with a pump machine injecting steroids into his system. Wires leading to batteries will need to be pulled in order to shut off the machine. Once the Machine is shut off Mickey is still in a state of euphoria, so a good brick or bottle will do to wake him up. He will begin to chase you until you make it back out to the stands. Mickey will burst through the door, all sweaty and trying to catch his breath.“Alright… back to it.”he says and you start the process over again, each time his reputation growing lower and lower.Note: Each time this happens, Mickey will become more and more aggressive.After 3 times, Mickey’s reputation will eventually drop so low that Mickey will bang on the fence at the reagents.“You motherfuckers, YOU FUCKING MOOKS! Ever since I met you, you’ve been up my ass with a FUCKING CHAINSAW! STOP FUCKING WITH MY BIG DAY!”As he says this, he begins to climb the fence and jumps over on the side of the reagents. It's time for the final task.[MAKE THE CROWD ERUPT]This will take place in the whole of the stands where switches must be pulled on the back of some of the mannequins. Once enough switches are pulled in a section, the mannequins will begin to boo loudly, causing Mickey’s reputation to lower more until it reaches 0. At that moment the Coach will be lowered completely into the grinder where he will scream out in pain until he is completely shredded to pieces. Mickey will scream as well as he bangs on the fence.“WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO! COACH!!! It’s gonna be alright, w-we can just, FUCK, WHAT DID YOU DO!”.The exit protocol will begin and Mickey will chase the reagents out of the stadium to the street all the way to the shuttle

TELEVISE THE DRUG USE:
Praxis: REDACTED
“The last thing a celebrity wants is to be exposed as a fraud. Nasty little secrets can have devastating repercussions. Find the most compelling footage and televise it, then we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents begin the trial inside the medical pavilion. A mannequin dressed in a reporter’s outfit with a suitcase will be sitting under a light near the entrance. He tells the reagents:“Gather enough footage of that freak’s players making a fool of themselves tonight and we’ll be swimming in cocktails and hookers tomorrow.”They must locate cameras throughout each room that can be turned on a swivel. (similar to the lights being turned in the main trial.)Specific “Super L” players will be hooked up to chairs with needles in their arms pumping "steroids" into their systems. Cameras must be pointed at them and held as a bar will fill up, securing the footage and a recording will be able to be ejected and brought back to the man with the suitcase.Mickey patrols more frequently as you gather each tape. Once all are collected the suitcase will close and release will begin.Concept by: Semyyy

SPOIL THE CONCESSIONS:
Praxis: REDACTED
”We love you, we comfort you, we feed you. Allowing others to fill your bellies is sacrilegious and insubordinate. Spoil the Concessions, fill their traitorous stomachs with rot, and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents begin by coming out of an entrance in the concession area (now expanded). The only place filled with light is a Mickey’s SUPER L Brand Hot Dog concession stand. Patrons (mannequins on a rail) line up to get their food as some of them comment“I'm STARVIN'! Hurry up! I don't wanna miss a single moment!”“15 MINUTES FOR A FRANK? I could fuck your sister faster than that!”Reagents can make their way into a side entrance where chefs in the kitchen will be chopping and slicing up products to be given to the public. In the middle of the room sits a large meat processing grinder. Body parts (found in locked coolers; lockpicks will be provided in a bucket next to the grinder) around the area (Ice Cream Shop, Bar, etc.) must be collected and placed into the grinder. Once enough are collected, a crank on the side of it can be turned to process the meat into sausages.Once all the meat is ground up, a button can be pressed and the mannequins will be “served” the human meat hotdogs and will begin to gag, spit, and choke from the taste. They then will turn and move along the rail to the Murkoff branded concession stand that will become lit up. Once they reach the counter, release will begin.Concept by: Semyyy

REPLACE THE MERCHANDISE:
Praxis: REDACTED
”We teach you, we feed and nurture you, all we ask is that you accept our love alone. Allowing others to provide for you is insulting and insubordinate. Replace the merchandise with defective ones, and we will let you out” - H.J Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents begin outside of the stadium once more but this time, a lone street lamp shines down on the same mannequin from outside the parking garage. Beside him is an open trunk that has multiple off branded Super L baseball toys and collectables. He points down at them and says"Those half-wits are sick of Mickey and his team of Super Junkies, give them these instead, I’ve got plenty to go around."Inside the trunk lies “Merchandise” in bags similar to the ones collected in the main trial. Reagents will have to grab these bags and head into the stadium and locate illuminated mannequins who are holding onto regular pieces of merchandise.Once replacing the items with the faulty ones, various things will happen (this is randomized) such as explode causing bleeding, shoot out poisonous gas/psychosis, or flames causing burn damage.Once all items from the mannequins are brought back to the car and placed in the trunk, it will close and release will begin.Concept by: Semyyy

WIN THE BIG GAME:
Praxis: REDACTED
”A game is won, a record is set. Allowing enemies to win over you is a gross example of a lack of dedication to the society we wish to build. Take out the star players, win the big game for us, and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents begin the trial through an entrance way that leads to a large set of stairs leading up into the stands. Fans from each team fill the chairs, waiting patiently. Once there, looking over the field illuminated with only perimeter lights.4 strung up victims dressed in Super L uniforms one each base plate. Each victim has their arm extended to simulate someone catching a ball. A mannequin sits on home plate wearing the Murkoff Branded team’s uniform holding onto a baseball bat. A button near the gated off entrance to the field must be pressed. Suddenly, Mickey’s voice will come over the loud speaker and shout.“ALRIGHT BOYS, this is it, get this motherfucker out and it’s hookers and hooch for us tonight, I’ll take care of the hecklers myself…”Reagents must super charge the stadium lights and turn them towards the Super L players. This can be done by following wires to generators throughout the stadium stands, upper deck concessions (where the telecom room is in the main trial), the medical pavilion and a separate new maintenance area near it.Once started, they can climb the ladders and aim it directly at the target. Once aimed, it will lock in place and the victims will writhe in pain when engulfed in flames. eventually going limp and the mannequin will be able to pass by them.Note: The Mannequin is on a track going around to each base. If the reagents are unable to get the lights in the correct position and kill the basemen before he reaches them, the mannequin will stop in his tracks. Mickey will be patrolling heavily based on his statement over the loud speaker.Once all teammates are torched and the Murkoff player reaches home plate again, Light and Dark green confetti will drop from canons and Murkoff fans will jump up out of their seats and begin to cheer. Release will begin and Mickey will chase the regents back to the shuttle enraged.Concept by: Semyyy

NEUTRALIZE THE FANATICS:
Praxis: REDACTED
”Heretics come in all shapes and sizes. Despite this, you must seek out for the strongest Prophets in blinded faith. You are not blinded, you are gifted knowledge of the true faith, our faith. Locate these Fanatics, gather them together so they may be properly judged and neutralized, and we will let you out.” - H.J Easterman
DESCRIPTION:This time, Reagents begin the trial behind the stadium. A large bus with a banner that says “Super L Fan Club” sits parked up against the wall of the stadium; a hose connected to the exhaust pipe leads into the bus through a slightly open window.Several security guard and police mannequins stand outside while an Avellanos mannequin stand is by a locked back door only lit by a dim lamp. The door is labeled “Security Only” but when she says her iconic phrase “This way.” the door will unlock and everyone will be allowed in.Inside, the Reagents will pass through a security checkpoint where another mannequin will state.“Insubordinates are lurking around inside, please escort them out of the park and return them to their transportation.”T.V Screens will turn on above him showing 4 Reagents (will be lowered depending on difficulty), decked out in Super L merch and now equipped with head gear with headsets and tight face coverings; Antennas stick out from the headgear as they are shown to be hiding in different places.A device next to the guard is able to be taken, this is what will be used to escort the victims out of the building.Transmitter 2.0: Using harsh sound waves, this device must be held down and aimed at an appropriate victim who will then be forced to move towards the direction of the device to alleviate the painful noises the closer they get to it. If the connection is stopped, the reagent will become more aware of its surroundings and try to attempt escape.Reagents will have to search through various new parts of the stadium including under section of the stands, the newly opened field (filled with mannequins and Mickey traps) and the roof section of the stands.Once escorted out of the building and onto the bus (they will stay put since there are constant waves being transmitted inside essentially freezing them in place), the doors will shut and it will start, filling the space with the exhaust coming from the connected hose. The victim will pound on the glass, some leaving handprints but eventually they will all suffocate go limp. Release will begin shortly after as well as Mickey taking chase.Concept by: Semyyy





| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: The Hospital |
| THEME: Blood and Lust |
| PRIME ASSET: Olivia Hall |
| PRAXIS: REDACTED |
| PROGRAM DETAILS: REDACTED |
| EASTERMAN BRIEFING: “You are sharp and precise like a surgeon’s blade. You are our beating heart and we will give you what you need to survive. Threats to our society must not be allowed a second life. Seize the diplomat’s surgery, see he doesn’t make it out alive, and we will let you out” - H.J. Easterman |
| CREATOR: Semyyy |
| Original Here! |



DESCRIPTION:The trial begins with Reagents being inserted into the location. Upon stepping out the reagents must make their way down a winding road that leads to a lower Emergency Room Parking entrance.While making their way down they pass by many mannequins dressed as nurses and doctors wheeling around struggling mannequins and torn up bodies on stretchers. Several Ambulances line the road, one even being tipped over, needles and other hospital supplies falling out the back onto the pavement.As the reagents weave through these obstacles, they make their way to a large gate with no light other than another ambulance inside with its lights on.Upon closer inspection, the light from the ambulance is illuminating someone whose back’s turned, sifting through what seems to be a body. The figure suddenly turns when it hears the reagents approach and scurries off into the darkness. An Avellanos statue says “Please Enter” as the gate begins to lift.[DELIVER THE PATIENT FOR CHECK-IN]Inside this Parking Garage/Emergency room entrance, regents will have to make their way to the back of the dark room to the Inpatient Receiving desk. But before they do that, a mannequin on a rail approaches and begins to speak“Thank God you are here, this patient has moved up the list and must be taken to surgery immediately! Follow me.”The mannequin leads the group to the left side of the room where another Ambulance sits, back doors open
with a wiggling victim strapped down to a stretcher on wheels, a man with a white suit who's been blindfolded. Reagents must wheel this victim to the elevator shaft right next to the receiving desk, Expop hunting them down as they do so. The man also speaks to the reagents, begging for his life, in a foreign voice.“Please, please don't do this, don’t send me up there, I’m not even sick, TAKE MY TEMPERATURE IF YOU HAVE TO JUST PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!“Easterman please, I’m not a rich man, but I have connections, LOADS of connections, just tell me what you need!”“You wouldn't kill a guy like me, right? I’m on your side, I’m just like you! Trying to feed my family…”“Oh god… Oh mother of god, this can’t be the end of me, just can be!”Once placed inside, a receptionist mannequin at the desk will speak to the reagents.“Well done, right here first on the list, this man is very sick and must be brought up to the surgery wing right away!”The elevator will close and the patient will be transported. A door next to the desk will open up, leading to a service stairway. Once the group reaches the top, they will exit out into the foyer of the first deck.Inside the foyer, mannequins travel on rails through opening and closing doors in doctor uniforms while others bicker and fight with each other.A line of mutilated corpses sit in the “Urgent Care” section and other gore lines the floors and walls. In the middle of the foyer is a fountain, each side with stairs leading up to the second level. These stairs are blocked off by gates.An elevator is seen moving up through the roof to a new section that hasn't been seen yet. Over the intercom, different voice lines can be heard such as:“Paging Doctor Easterman, you are needed in the Psychiatric Ward!”Nurse Nancy to billing please, Nurse Nancy”“Code Blue on the 3rd Deck, Urgent! Doctors Doctors!”Suddenly the intercom crackles and echoes in the large space and a foreign woman begins speaking to the group.“Well well… you don't look like medical personnel, who sent you? This is a private organization, leave before you cause more issues”The intercom returns to normal and a (Murkoff) nurse near the west wing will speak.“Our new patient needs transplants, please collect them for us.”The elevator will shoot back down to the first deck and the door will open. A woman nurse mannequin will be standing there with 4 trays on a dolly. This is when the second task prompt will appear.[LOCATE THE MORGUE AND COLLECT ORGANS 0/5]Down a flight of stairs between the pharmacy and the psych ward takes the group down to the Morgue. After moving past room after room they make it to the Body Containment room where several drawers are lined up against a long wall.Above the rows of body drawers are letters A-H and along the left side are numbers 1-4, making a grid for the bodies. Across the hall is the Cremation room with 4 mannequin bodies ready for cremation in front of incinerators.Reagents must push the “bodies” into each respective incinerator, wait for a period of time, and once it's burned to ash, a metal plate will be left with a corresponding code to the Body Containment room (i.e A4, B3. E2). The drawer with that location can be pulled out and a body must be searched. If correct, the body will have an organ in it. If not, the body will shoot out psychosis gas.After the first organ is collected, the reagents will make their way back to the Cremation Room only to be stopped by the figure from the Emergency entrance down the hall. She screams at the reagents“I TOLD YOU TO FUCKING LEAVE!”As she sprints towards the reagents. This is the Vixen and she will be on the hunt the entire time the reagents are looking for the organs. Once every organ is collected (Liver, Heart, Kidney, Intestines, Lung) and placed on the dolly in the elevator, the doors will close and the elevator will shoot up to the 3rd Floor. The gates to the second deck will open, moving the reagents along to the next objective.Once they reach the second deck, reagents will be approached by another mannequin stating.“We have all the pieces to fix ol’ Mister Dumpty up, now we just need the glue!”The elevator, once more, will shoot down to the second level and open, this time with a new mannequin with a drip stand with empty blood bags attached.Reagents will have to grab the blood bags and bring them over to the right side where the Blood Bank is located.Inside, a mannequin stands next to a dispenser the reagents must interact with to fill up one of the bags. Beside the dispenser is a random blood type (A+, A-, B+, B-, O+, O-, AB+, AB-) on a TV. Once the bag is filled the mannequin will speak.“Looks like we are all out of that type here, see if you can find any donors who could spare some blood”The bag the reagents currently have can be placed on the drip stand in the elevator, but they will have to go across the way to the Patient Rooms: several hallways with still alive victims, sedated and hooked up to blood transfusion machines. A third task prompt will appear.[DRAIN THE PATIENTS BLOOD INTO COLLECTION BAGS 0/5]Reagents will have to search through all the rooms for the correct blood type on the screens of the transfusion machines. Once located, the blood bag must be attached and a button must be pressed on the machine to begin transfer.Blood from the victim will begin pumping into the bags, this will cause them to temporarily gain consciousness and writhe and scream out in pain as the blood is sucked from their bodies.This will call attention to the reagents and they will be hunted down by the now inserted Vixen and any other Ex-pop in the surrounding area.Reagents must stay in the area for the duration of the extraction otherwise the machine will stop until they return. Each bag takes around 30-45 seconds to fill, which then can be brought to the elevator.Once the drip stand has all bags connected, the elevator will shoot up, stall for a bit on the 3rd floor, and come back down for the reagents for the grand finale. The Vixen will continue to chase the reagents up until everyone is in the elevator who will quickly run into an insertion gate as soon as the reagents close the gates to the elevator.Relaxing elevator music will play as the reagents are lifted up to the 3rd floor. A mere moment of peace that stops abruptly by a “ding” and the opening of the gates.A long hallway greets them as lights flicker above. At the end of the hall, a set of doors with a large flashing red light bar and the words “OPERATION IN PROGRESS” on it. Passing through them, reagents are brought into an observation room with large glass separating them from an octagon shaped Operation Room.Inside, laid out on an angled silver table, the victim from the beginning, now naked, can be seen hooked up to various IVs and testing equipment. The man whimpers in fear and pain as the Vixen paces back and forth around him. She pulls out one of her scalpels and approaches him.“We’ve waited long enough, and well, you clearly need assistance Mr. Diplomat, allow me to… to show you my… expertise~”She slices at him, causing him to shout, she slices at him again, he shouts once more. The only way to stop this is to press a button in the corner of the room which will turn the lights in the observation room on. She quickly shields her eyes from the enhanced brightness and looks over to the reagents.“Mother of Horus, you don't understand the word ‘quit’ now do you? I should thank you for collecting my supplies, but I will take it from here”Noticing the Reagents aren't going anywhere, she puts the blade down on a side table.“More abrasive tactics are clearly needed, please wait there, I’ll be with you shortly to administer…”She quickly leaves and the reagents will be able to access the rooms surrounding the operation room. Inside these rooms are levers that must be pulled down, they must be pulled together in order to work (in solo it will be on a timer).This will cause a spinning blade to drop down from the ceiling and the reagents must return to the button and press it again. The man will scream as the blade comes down and cuts him open from stomach to chest, exposing his insides.The reagents can then enter the operation room where they must remove the organs inside the body and insert the ones they collected (now spread out on table) into the man.The rotary machine will turn and a new device will drop down, pinch the skin together and staple him back together. Somehow, still moving, the man will groan in pain...A voice will come over the intercom stating “Vitals Critical, Immediate Blood Transfusion STAT”. This will spawn in the Vixen who will chase down the reagents more aggressively than before.Beside the table the organs once were are individual blood bags connected to tubes with needles on the ends. The bags are hanging from individual small transfusion stands that must be wheeled closer to the victim.Once near, a highlighted part of his body will appear and the needle at the end of the machine will need to be inserted into it. After insertion, the machine will be ready to go. After all 6 are inserted in, the reagents can leave the operation room and press the button.This will leave behind the Vixen and turn the machines on. Blood will begin to pump into the victim as the Vixen shouts out.“WAIT, NO! STOP THIS AT ONCE! I CAN STILL SAVE YOU HOLD O-”The victim's chest will explode with blood and meat as the pressure of the blood and excess organs was too much for the temporary staples to hold. The same voice will come over the intercom: “Vitals Expired, Time of Death: 6:51PM."The Vixen, covered with blood, will scream at the reagents for killing her patient as she chases them out of the observation room, down the hall, and to the elevator.This time the elevator takes the Reagents back down to the Emergency Room Parking. Before they reach the entrance they will be ambushed by Ex-pop and The Vixen, trying to prevent them from escaping.Back at the shuttle terminal, the exit button can be pressed and release will be available.

SORT THE INFECTED:
Praxis: REDACTED
“You are the reaper, you decide who lives and dies under our watchful eyes. Disease has spread through the hospital, separate the healthy from the inflicted and we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents begin the trial on the second deck of the environment. The blood bank is closed but the elevator now is open. A television screen next to it shows 3 green human outlines, above them being the words “Operational”. The rooms to the left that hold the patients have been expanded further, including more rooms and nurse desks at some corners.Reagents must enter rooms where sedated “patients” are being held and wheel them out back to the elevator. Depending on the color of the room number, it will determine who’s fit to enter the elevator.(Green goes with green, red goes with red for ones being sent to the morgue).After wheeling and collecting enough people, the doors to the elevator will close and move up or down for each location. The TV will then change to “Expired” (or “Operational” depending on the random order.)The number of victims changes each time and the color of the room as well. Once all victims have been sorted, a door will open in the very back of the rooms which will lead downstairs to the morgue.Reagents must press a button and the bodies from before will come down from a chute and be processed into the Cremator, now modified to have a conveyor belt on the side rather than individual chambers. The muffled screams of the victims can be heard as they are burned alive; Reagents can then leave the room and head the release shuttle.Concept by: Semyyy

HARVEST THE ROTTING ORGANS:
Praxis: REDACTED
“Secondhand sales are like vines, creeping into a healthy garden. We can not allow other organizations to undercut our sales of lifesaving products. Harvest the Rotting Organs, package them for our competitors, and we will let you out.“ - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Regents begin in the basement, with the morgue and the incinerator room. At the end of a new hall leading out to a service entrance is a conveyor belt similar to the ones in Toy Factory. This time spinning around constantly with boxes filled with ice spread along the belt. A mannequin next to the belt tells the reagents they are”lucky to have such a good source as yourselves.”At the other end of the belt is a mannequin on a track standing inside a white van. that seems to be stuck in place, mimicking holding a box.Reagents must head into the incinerator room and watch through a thin window as metal plates scroll by on the conveyor belt. The heat from the furnace will expose hidden Letter and Number compressions that will correlate with a rotting corpse in the morgue, similar to the object in the main trial.Reagents must act fast otherwise the plate will pass and must wait for it to pass again to see the code. After an organ is collected, it can be brought back to the boxes of ice, placed inside, and when it reaches the mannequin he will fold it closed, pick it up, and carry it to the front of the van.He will return and the cycle will continue with each organ collected. Once every organ is collected and packed away, the doors to the van will close and drive away. Access to the first deck will be granted and the reagents can escape there by the main entrance.Concept by: Semyyy

SATIATE THE PATIENTS:
Praxis: REDACTED
“You are an angel, sent down to distribute pleasure among the inflicted. Conjugal visits provide comfort to those who are in pain. Bring the prostitutes to the patients and witness their surgical expertise, then we will let you out.” - H.J. Easterman
DESCRIPTION:Reagents begin in the parking garage once more where now is a lone black van with the back doors opened. Inside are six mannequin prostitutes, each with tools like in the Downtown environment.These must be grabbed and loaded onto the open elevator at the end of the room where the receiving desk is.Once placed, the reagents can enter the elevator where they will be brought to the second floor again, this time blocked off to only have the elevator entrance and the patient rooms.Reagents must bring each of the mannequins to a room that has a victim on a bed and a bottom half next to it for the mannequins. The doors to each room will be locked, only allowing you to pass if it’s the right room with the right mannequin in hand.Each mannequin will have a symbol on its back (Heart, Spade, Club, etc,) that will match with a plaque on the door.Once inside the room, a sedated person will be laying on the bed and the mannequin can be placed on the legs where it will begin drilling, cutting, or sawing into the person. - They will struggle and go limp and once the reagents leave, the door will lock behind them.An illuminated sign above the door will then flash “PATIENT HARVEST AUTHORIZED”Once all six mannequins are placed, release will begin and the reagents can leave though a fire escape at the back of the rooms down to the parking garage where the shuttle waits.Concept by: Semyyy
EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY.
The following page showcases not just every official event, but hypothetical events that would find themselves to be a part of the experimental therapy cycle that reagents would go through on their journey to being reborn.
| RECENT ACTIVITY |
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| • 9/9/25 ADDED EVENT: DEEP BURN [OFFICIAL] |


| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Stay Together |
| DATE: June 13th, 2023 - October 24th, 2023 |
| REWARDS: Increased XP, Stamps, & Greater Rewards |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”Find some quote to put here” - H.J. Easterman |
| DESCRIPTION: |
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| BLOOD SYNERGY: Omega is program designed to test groups to their limits. Reagents are forced to stay together at all times while enduring the series of deadly variators. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| STAY TOGETHER: Stay close to your friends or take damage. Voice chat range is limited. |
| DEADLY PRIME ASSET: Prime Assets kill with one shot. |
| MAXIMUM THREAT: Maximum population of brutal enemies. |
| MAXIMUM TRAPS: Maximum and deadly traps. |
| UNRELIABLE DOORS: Extra barricaded, trapped, and blocked doors. |
| NO MEDICAL ITEMS: No medical items can be found in the Trial. |
| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Halloween |
| DATE: October 27th, 2023 - November 17th, 2023 |
| REWARDS: Geister tokens, Increased XP, Stamps, & Seasonal Rewards. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”The convergent extra-sensory activity among test subjects relating to the so-called “Skinner Man.” The hallucinations are remarkable in their own right, but the fact that they are shared between unrelated Reagents in separate Trials is extraordinarily provocative.” - A. Bradley Avellanos |



| DESCRIPTION: |
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| NIGHTMARE SEASON: "Program "Geister" is an experiment in convergent hallucinatory therapy designed to amplify unforeseen side effects of the Trials. Surviving subjects will learn to contribute to a morally hygienic Trial Environment through biohazard collection. Complete the secondary objective for extra rewards. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| HALLUCINATIONS: Side effect, trauma, something else? |
| NO PLAYER NAMES: Player names are hidden |
| MORE IMPOSTERS: More imposters in trial |
| ENRAGED ENEMIES: Enemies are on high alert! |
| STRONGER ENMIES: Enemies are stronger and more lethal. |
| REWORKS: |
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HALLUCINATIONS?: The Skinnerman has grown tired of waiting for his prey to fall into psychosis. He'll sneak up on unsuspecting Reagents; if gone unnoticed, he will charge and attack for heavy damage. Looking at the Skinnerman will cause him to retreat to the darkness. NOTE: This idea also proposess the idea that The Skinnerman would replace the current Prime Asset found in the trial, as well as introducing special voicelines for the Skinnerman. |
| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Christmas |
| DATE: December 12th, 2023 - January 9th, 2024. |
| REWARDS: Winter tokens, Increased XP, Stamps, & Seasonal Rewards. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”I think Winter Kills may be very fruitful. It addresses a deeply rooted and universal fear we have not yet fully explored in the Trials. It’s a giant blank spot in our tableau of cultural trauma. Sudden, mass-scale annihilation. Followed by a grinding, endless winter of ever-more pain.” - H.J. Easterman |



| DESCRIPTION: |
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| THE COLDEST SEASON: Winter Kills is an experiment in hostile, unstable environments rich in both punishment and rewards. Survivors of Winter Kills will reap the bounty of true suffering. |
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| COLD SNAP: The Trial environment is sporadically filled with piercing cold air. Hide to Survive. |
| FIND THE GIFTS: Find all the gifts in the Trial to earn extra rewards. |
| MORE SECRET ROOMS: The Trial has more secret rooms than usual. (main trials only) |
| STRONGER ENMIES: Enemies are stronger and more lethal. |
| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Chemical Warfare |
| DATE: April 16th, 2024 - May 7th, 2024. |
| REWARDS: Toxic tokens, Increased XP, Stamps, & Greater Rewards. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”All in-Trial staff MUST be warned against presence in or proximity to Trial Environments during TOXIC SHOCK events, extremely dangerous gas in use.” - Murkoff Accounts 1960.01.16 |


| DESCRIPTION: |
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| CHEMICAL WEAPON PROGRAM: An experiment in the symbiotic action of chemically-induced pain and permanent damage. |
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| TOXIC SHOCK: The Trial environment sporadically fills with toxic gas, inflicting permanent damage. Hide to stay alive. |
| COLLECT THE RATS: Recover all the drugged rats within the Trial for tissue analysis. Fulfill the objective for additional rewards. |
| INCREASED THREATS: More and stronger enemies. |
| UNREIABLE DOORS: Extra barricaded, trapped, and blocked doors. |
| LIMTED HIDING SPOTS: Hiding spots in the Trial reduced. |
| ULTRA: Extreme enemies, hostile environment, extended rig cooldown, less inventory space, no intel and no player names. |
| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Dual Ideologies |
| DATE: May 28th, 2024 - June 18th, 2024. |
| REWARDS: Prime tokens, Increased XP, Stamps, & Greater Rewards. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”Expect violent paradoxical ideation in Reagents subjected to multiple charismatic forces. Additional halothane will be made available for Reagents needing rest, as lingering psychosis and parasomnia are anticipated” - H.J. Easterman |



| DESCRIPTION: |
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| CHEMICAL WEAPON PROGRAM: An experiment in the symbiotic action of chemically-induced pain and permanent damage. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| PRIME TIME: Multiple Prime Assets present in Trial. |
| BREAK THE TELEVISIONS: Break all prime time televisions for additional rewards. |
| INCREASED THREATS: More and stronger enemies. |
| UNREIABLE DOORS: Extra barricaded, trapped, and blocked doors. |
| LIMTED HIDING SPOTS: Hiding spots in the Trial reduced. |
| STRONGER ENEMIES: Enemies are stronger and more lethal. |
| ULTRA: Extreme enemies, hostile environment, extended rig cooldown, less inventory space, no intel and no player names. |


| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Milk & Heroine |
| DATE: July 16th, 2024 - August 13th, 2024. |
| REWARDS: Prime tokens, Increased XP, Stamps, & Greater Rewards. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”Franco effective practitioner of violence and extremely charismatic individual. Highly recommended for PROJECT LATHE, caution recommended during collection.” - Clyde Perry |
| DESCRIPTION: |
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| BRING BABY TO WORK DAY: Franco Barbi joins the Prime Asset already present in the Trial. Compound charismatic trauma accentuated and contradicted by the indiscriminate destruction of gun violence. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| FRANCO BARBI: Franco Barbi makes a special appearance in the Trial. |
| INCREASED THREATS: More and stronger enemies. |
| LIMITED INTEL: Assignment details are limited in the Trial. |
| UNRELIABLE DOORS: Extra barricaded, trapped, and blocked doors. |
| LIMITED HIDINGSPOTS: Hiding spots in the Trial reduced. |
| PSYCHOSURGERY: Maximum trauma. Rig cooldown extended. Less inventory space. No player names. No intel. |
| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Special Therapy |
| DATE: September 10th, 2024 - October 8th, 2024. |
| REWARDS: Countdown tokens, Increased XP, Stamps, & Greater Rewards. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”Inside a context of suffering, detonation is a release, and delaying that becomes satisfaction denied. Easterman believes we can make them fetishize their own explosive release.” - A. Bradley Avellanos |



| DESCRIPTION: |
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| YOU ARE A WALKING TIME BOMB: Reagent rigs are outfitted with an explosive that will detonate when the timer reaches zero. Collect Time Extenders to buy yourself extra seconds. Even if you survive this Trial, someday time will kill you. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| BOMB COUNTDOWN: Reagents are equipped with a bomb counting down. Find Time Extenders, or the entire team will explode and the Trial is failed. |
| FIND THE RADIO: Find and stop the broadcast in the Trial. |
| LIMITED INTEL: Assignment details are limited in the Trial. |
| INCREASED THREAT: More and stronger enemies. |
| UNRELIABLE DOORS: Extra barricaded, trapped, and blocked doors. |
| LIMITED ITEMS: Amount of items found in the Trial is limited. |
| PSYCHOSURGERY: Maximum trauma. Rig cooldown extended. Less inventory space. No player names. No intel. |



| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Halloween |
| DATE: October 29th, 2024 - November 26th, 2024 |
| REWARDS: Geister tokens, Increased XP, Stamps, & Seasonal Rewards. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”Visions of the Skinnerman are changing, evolving. There's a chance the test subject's dreams are diverging, we need to bring Project Geister back." - H.J. Easterman |




| DESCRIPTION: |
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| NIGHTMARE SEASON: "Program "Geister" is an experiment in convergent hallucinatory therapy designed to amplify unforeseen side effects of the Trials. Surviving subjects will learn to contribute to a morally hygienic Trial Environment through biohazard collection. Complete the secondary objective for extra rewards. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| HALLUCINATIONS?: Side effects, trauma or something else? |
| EXTRACT ORGAN SAMPLES: Find deceased reagents and extract organ samples for analysis. Complete the objective for extra rewards. |
| MORE IMPOSTERS: More imposters in the Trial. |
| NO PLAYER NAMES: Player names are hidden. |
| INCREASED THREAT: More and stronger enemies. |
| ENRAGED ENEMIES: Enemies are on high alert! |
| PSYCHOSURGERY: Maximum trauma. Rig cooldown extended. Less inventory space. No player names. No intel. |
| REWORKS: |
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HALLUCINATIONS?: The Skinnerman has grown tired of waiting for his prey to fall into psychosis. He'll sneak up on unsuspecting Reagents; if gone unnoticed, he will charge and attack for heavy damage. Looking at the Skinnerman will cause him to retreat to the darkness. NOTE: This idea also proposess the idea that The Skinnerman would replace the current Prime Asset found in the trial, as well as introducing special voicelines for the Skinnerman. |
| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Christmas |
| DATE: December 10th, 2024 - January 7th, 2025 |
| REWARDS: Winter tokens, Increased XP, Stamps, & Seasonal Rewards. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”I think Winter Kills may be very fruitful. It addresses a deeply rooted and universal fear we have not yet fully explored in the Trials. It’s a giant blank spot in our tableau of cultural trauma. Sudden, mass-scale annihilation. Followed by a grinding, endless winter of ever-more pain.” - H.J. Easterman |




| DESCRIPTION: |
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| THE COLDEST SEASON: "Winter Kills is an experiment in hostile, unstable environments rich in punishment and reward both. Survivors of Winter Kills will reap the bounty of true suffering. Winter kills and we will feast." |
| VARIATORS: |
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| COLD SNAP: The Trial environment is sporadically filled with piercing cold air. Hide to Survive. |
| COLLECT THE GIFTS: Collect all the gifts in the Trial to earn extra rewards. |
| FROST MINES: Gas mines have been replaced with frost mines. |
| LIMITED INTEL: Assignment details are limited in the Trial. |
| INCREASED THREAT: More and stronger enemies. |
| LIMITED HIDING SPOTS: Hiding spots in the Trial reduced. |
| PSYCHOSURGERY: Maximum trauma. Rig cooldown extended. Less inventory space. No player names. No intel. |
| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Stamps |
| DATE: February 18th, 2024 - February 25th, 2024 |
| REWARDS: Increased XP & Stamps. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”I think Winter Kills may be very fruitful. It addresses a deeply rooted and universal fear we have not yet fully explored in the Trials. It’s a giant blank spot in our tableau of cultural trauma. Sudden, mass-scale annihilation. Followed by a grinding, endless winter of ever-more pain.” - H.J. Easterman |


| DESCRIPTION: |
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| DOUBLE STAMPS REWARDED: You are your salary. The Murkoff Corporation celebrates your ongoing commitment to the company. For a limited time, we’ll be offering more Stamps for completing Trials. Be productive, earn stamps, and unlock rewards. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| STRONGER ENEMIES: Enemies are stronger and more lethal. |
| HIGH ENEMY DENSITY: More enemies in the Trial. |
| MORE AND DEADLY TRAPS: Additional and deadly traps. |
| UNRELIABLE DOORS: Extra barricaded, trapped, and blocked doors. |
| LIMITED ITEMS: Amount of items found in the Trial is limited. |
| PSYCHOSURGERY: Maximum trauma. Rig cooldown extended. Less inventory space. No player names. No intel. |
| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Amelia |
| DATE: March 25th, 2025 - April 22nd, 2025 |
| REWARDS: Amelia tokens, Increased XP, & Stamps. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”There are rumors spreading, fairy stories of some clever Reagent slipping out of a trial. Just think about that, about how unlikely that would be. You're not stupid are you? No, don't believe the lies.” - H.J. Easterman |



| DESCRIPTION: |
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| MURKOFF IS WATCHING YOU: For reasons solely based around your safety during therapy, we have temporarily heightened surveillance in our Trial environments. Falling under the scrutiny of our all-seeing eye will alert staff to any nearby hazards. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS: Surveillance cameras have been installed across the Trials. Detection will result in a painful shock and alert nearby Ex-Pop. |
| LOCATE THE BRODCAST: Amelia has left a message for you in the Trial. Find the television broadcast and destroy it before Murkoff does. |
| COLLECT THE SCHEMATICS: Find sleep room terminal schematics in the trial (part 1). Find Amelia's escape plan scattered in the trial (part 2). |
| INCREASED THREATS: More and stronger enemies. |
| LIMITED INTEL: Assignment details are limited in the Trial. |
| UNRELIABLE DOORS: Extra barricaded, trapped, and blocked doors. |
| PSYCHOSURGERY: Maximum trauma. Rig cooldown extended. Less inventory space. No player names. No intel. |
| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Disciplinary Actions |
| DATE: April 22nd, 2025 - May 20th, 2025 |
| REWARDS: Increased XP & Stamps. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”A twice-repurposed Reagent, Henrietta Grubbs was originally interred at the Sinyala Facility as a patient of LATHE 2 therapy. After severe physical trauma and a display of remarkable resilience, Miss Grubbs was given hormonal treatment and osteotomy and re-introduced into the Trials as Heavy Ex-Pop.” - Murkoff Case Files 1960.05.29 |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| JAEGER IS PRESENT AT ALL TIME: The Jaeger is currently undergoing vigorous live environment testing. Just as death follows a wasted life, so does the Jaeger follow those it wishes to hold close. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| JAEGER: The Jaeger Ex-Pop is permanently present in Trials. |
| LIMITED ITEMS: Amount of items found in the Trial is limited. |
| INCREASED THREATS: More and stronger enemies. |
| LIMITED INTEL: Assignment details are limited in the Trial. |
| UNRELIABLE DOORS: Extra barricaded, trapped, and blocked doors. |
| PSYCHOSURGERY: Maximum trauma. Rig cooldown extended. Less inventory space. No player names. No intel. |
| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Dual Ideologies |
| DATE: June 3rd, 2025 - July 1st, 2025 |
| REWARDS: Prime tokens, Increased XP, & Stamps. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”Prime Assets are essential to the Therapy. Reviving Prime Time initiative.” - Murkoff Memorandum |




| DESCRIPTION: |
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| MULTIPLE PRIME ASSETS IN THE TRIAL: Prime Time Therapy prepares Reagents for a future dominated by contradictory cults of personality and clashing fundamentalist ideals. Participants can expect their psyche to face brutal and fundamental assault from both ends. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| PRIME TIME: Multiple Prime Assets present in Trial. |
| BREAK THE TELEVISIONS: Break all prime time televisions for additional rewards. |
| INCREASED THREATS: More and stronger enemies. |
| LIMITED INTEL: Assignment details are limited in the Trial. |
| LIMITED ITEMS: Amount of items found in the Trial is limited. |
| UNRELIABLE DOORS: Extra barricaded, trapped, and blocked doors. |
| PSYCHOSURGERY: Maximum trauma. Rig cooldown extended. Less inventory space. No player names. No intel. |



| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Narcotics and Politics |
| DATE: July 15th, 2025 - August 12th, 2025 |
| REWARDS: Rebirth tokens, Increased XP, & Stamps. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| "I'm fully committed to the notion of inserting them in the Trials, it was the intention from the beginning. The methods we could develop on secondary political influence, the obedience structures... But it would have been madness not to delay, considering her chemical talents." - H.J. Easterman |

| DESCRIPTION: |
|---|
| MEET OTTO AND ARORA KRESS: The Kress Twins are spreading their limbs and getting a tour of the facilities. For a limited time, the twins will be present in all of the marked Trials. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| KRESS TWINS: The Kress Twins are present in the Trial. |
| NAUSEA TRAPS: Hanging sound traps are replaced with nausea traps. |
| INCREASED THREATS II: Maximum population of brutal enemies. |
| UNRELIABLE DOORS: Extra barricaded, trapped, and blocked doors in the Trial. |
| LIMITED ITEMS II: Amount of items found in the Trial is very limited |
| PSYCHOSURGERY: Maximum trauma. Rig cooldown extended. Less inventory space. No player names. No intel. |
| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Special Therapy |
| DATE: September 9th, 2025 - October 7th, 2025 |
| REWARDS: Deep Burn tokens, Increased XP, & Stamps. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| "Who would tell the sun not to burn? They want temper my children's natural love for fire. Combustion is the driving force of the American Century. This bureaucratic pussyfooting gives me toska.." - H.J. Easterman |


| DESCRIPTION: |
|---|
| EVERYTHING BURNS: Everything burns. To prepare Reagents for a future consumed by flame, we are initiating a therapy filled with fire. Avoid or burn. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| DEEP BURN: The Trial environment is filled with fire. Avoid or burn. |
| EXTINGUISH THE FIRES: Locate and use water cans to extinguish the Burning Barrels scattered throughout the Trial. |
| INCREASED THREATS II: Maximum population of brutal enemies. |
| UNRELIABLE DOORS: Extra barricaded, trapped, and blocked doors in the Trial. |
| DEADLY TRAPS: Traps are deadly. |
| PSYCHOSURGERY: Maximum trauma. Rig cooldown extended. Less inventory space. No player names. No intel. |
| INFORMATION: |
|---|
| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Radiation |
| DATE: [REDACTED] |
| REWARDS: Radioactive tokens, Increased XP, & Stamps. |
| CREATED BY: Jude Boi |
| ORIGINAL: HERE! |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| "The human body is designed to shed what it cannot hold, love fades, anger cools... even guilt eventually slips away, but radiation? Radiation doesn't forget, it clings to bone, seeps into the marrow. This wasn't an accident, containment was never breached, the exposure was intentional. You're not cleaning up a spill, you're a part of the reaction." - H.J. Easterman |



| DESCRIPTION: |
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| MELTDOWN WAS THE PLAN, YOU WERE THE EXPERIMENT: Program: Meltdown is a set of speciality trials designed to help reagents adjust and feel comfortable in a world on the brink of nuclear war and the consequences that follow it. Trials will be outfitted with barrels of radioactive waste that must be avoided. In addition, a random set of ex-pop’s will have a cloud of radioactive gas around them at all times that makes even being in their vicinity a danger. Throughout the trials, random items will have been given massive doses of radiation, reagents must use a geiger counter (given in a new and separate inventory slot) to scan these items to determine whether or not they’re safe to pick up and keep in their inventory. |
| VARIATORS: |
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| IRRADIATED BARRELS: he trial is filled with radioactive barrels. |
| DISPOSE THE WASTE: Find the waste and dispose of it safely. |
| IRRADIATED BARRELS II: More radioactive barrels in trial |
| IRRADIATED ITEMS: Random items are irradiated. Use geiger counter to determine safe and dangerous items. |
| IRRADIATED ITEMS II: More irritated items in trial. |
| IRRADIATED ENEMIES: Random ex-pop are surrounded by radioactive gas. |
| CORE GAMEPLAY: |
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RAD damage: RAD damage is a new form of damage exclusive to MELTDOWN. When exposed to radiation, reagents will notice a new type of health bar begin to fill up. Once this bar is full, damage to normal health will begin to happen. The damage to normal health is slow but the amount of damage taken is dependent on the game mode. Preventative Measures: In order to both prevent and stop RAD damage, two new health based items have been placed inside trials. The first is the iodine pill, taking this pill will reduce the amount of RAD damage taken for a short amount of time. The next is an iodine solution which will reset the rad damage you have already taken (this includes stopping your normal health from draining if the RAD damage bar is full) Both items are very rare inside the trials as a way to balance the slower process that is actually taking RAD damage before it affects your normal health. Note: “The secondary objective “Dispose the waste” consists of finding heavy objects in the shape of tanks filled with liquefied uranium. Around the trial environments will be lead lined storage tanks where the uranium is poured into, thus completing the side objective once the required amount is disposed.” - Jude |
| FAQ: |
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| Q: What is the gameplay challenge for meltdown supposed to be? A: The main challenge for meltdown is based around proximity dangers and AOE damage. The trials are filled with things you need to avoid and look out for such as the irritated items, barrels and enemies. Mixing this in with enemies adds an extra layer of intensity to the trial as you may forget about these extra dangers when being hunted down and chased by ex-pop. |
| Q: How do the preventative measures work and how common are they in a trial? A: The iodine pills are a prep item, meant to be used to reduce the RAD damage you take. They do not last forever however so use them wisely. The iodine solution is used to reset your RAD damage bar, if your bar is full and your health is draining due to this, using the solution will reset the bar and stop you taking health damage. Both items are not very common in the trial, it’s best to keep any on hand if you find them. |
| Q: How random are the irritated items & enemies? A: Both are very random however they will increase the more you increase the difficulty (in accordance to the variators) You may find an irritated enemy in an area of a trial match but not find them there when you rerun that same trial. |
| Q: What enemies can become irritated? A: Any, and once again that factor is random. You may find Leland Coyle, a pusher or just an idle grunt is irradiated during one trial match only for that to not be the case in another. |
| Q: I don’t like this idea or think it would not work in practice. A: That's completely fine and I respect that opinion. I’m not a game developer so I have no idea how something like this would work in practice. Whether it would be considered a challenge or even a fresh enough idea to keep players entertained. This is just an idea by a fan of this franchise who has a love for atompunk type media and media where radiation has affected people and places. |


| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Chained Therapy |
| DATE: Introduced on June 16th, 2024 |
| REWARDS: Increased XP, & Stamps. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”As Reagents adapt to the therapy, we’ve noticed a diminished return of trauma on our cost of abuse. I’ve developed Escalation Therapy as a method of compounding the effects of dismantling their psyches, adopting a “war of attrition” approach.” - H.J. Easterman |
| DESCRIPTION: |
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| THE GIFT OF ATTRITION: Begin with nothing, build your loadout, and endure randomized Trials with escalating difficulty and rewards. Completing the secondary objective grants a bonus upgrade selection. Advance as far as possible, but if all Reagents die, the session ends. |
| CORE GAMEPLAY: |
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"Reagents partake in a rougelite experience, pitting them against a never-ending series of randomized Trials with variators that will have them clawing their eyes out until they succumb to a permadeath that will begin the cycle anew." - R.B. "Reagents will begin with nothing and build their loadouts from Murkoff's limited selection of upgrades." - R.B. "The longer you can survive, the bigger the reward." - R.B. |
| REWORKS: |
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Rework Description |
| INFORMATION: |
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| LOCATION: Variety |
| THEME: Self-Orchestrated Suffering |
| DATE: Introduced on April 22nd, 2025 |
| REWARDS: XP, & Stamps. |
| GENERAL BRIEFING: |
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| ”You want control? I’ll even give you control, but I’m going to need you to admit that you don’t want to leave me. You’ve become addicted to the therapy, it’s specific pleasures, it’s comforting instruction. Addicts don’t want to let go, they don’t want release. What addicts want, what you want… is relapse. ” - H.J. Easterman |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| CREATE YOUR TRIALS: Take the reins to your own rebirth. Create an experience in unknowable horror. Become the orchestrator of your own suffering. Become Easterman. |
| CORE GAMEPLAY: |
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Consider the blood, sweat, and tears that go into creating The Therapy. Experience it for yourself, and experiment with your limits, physical, mental, and emotional, with our new Trial Maker. With the Trial Maker, players can now: • Build their own Trial by combining various Trials, MK-Challenges, and custom Variators. • Create and save up to 10 unique trials. • Generate names for your creations by selecting from a list of words. • Easily share your creations with friends using a unique Trial code. • Play Trials made by other players using their code or if they are present in the same Sleep Room. • Unleash your creativity and challenge yourself like never before! - R.B. |
| REWORKS: |
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Rework Description |

The following page displays the past and present itinerary of weekly routines found at the Sinyala Facility, along with some possible concepts as well.



The following rig concepts involve tweaked official rigs and fully new ideas that could be introduced into the Sinyala Facility



Born from the idea of Ameila’s revolution, Corrupted Rigs are an expansion to the already present rig system found at the Sinyala Facility.
Please check out the original concept doc by Jude Boi HERE!
BACKGROUND:In preparation for the upcoming breach brought on by Amelia, Mr. Noakes has been working on new upgrades to the reagents rigs behind Murkoff & Dr Easterman’s back. Work on these upgrades began not long after Amelia's initial breakout, a trade system was set up between herself and Mr. Noakes where one would provide the other with the required parts they needed. Noakes would provide whatever Amelia needed for her uprising and in return she would provide parts and tools that were forbidden for him to use. The uprising is coming soon and the new rig upgrades are ready. They’re a risk but necessary for the outbreak.WHAT ARE CORRUPTED RIGS:Corrupted rigs are a new optional upgrade that reagents can equip onto their exisitng rigs. They work to change how the rig works in a very significant way, however it comes with a downside. The upgrades themselves work in a 3 tier system, with each tier offering a better corrupted upgrade at the downside of a greater corruption. The first tier being small moderate changes with a small downside. The second tier being greater changes that come with greater downsides. The third tier almost overhauling the entire rig itself at a massive downside to the reagent. Note that the corrupted rigs won't replace normal upgrades in any way. Some may affect or reduce a specific normal upgrade, but it will not replace every one of them. This is an addition, not a replacement.TIER SYSTEM:Corrupted upgrades work in a 3 tier system, each tier offering a more powerful upgrade for a greater downside. Each tier is unlocked when every upgrade from the previous tier is purchased. Reagents can equip as many or as little upgrades as they want, however they can only equip one from each tier.
| Visual guide: |
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| • UPGRADE > DOWNSIDE |
The following is a concept for how the corrupted rig upgrades would look inside the menus of The Outlast Trials. Concepts designed by Sabatron.




The following prescription concepts involve official prescription and fully new ideas that could be introduced into the Sinyala Facility

| TIER 1: |
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• INSTANT USE - Hold down [Interact] to use an item instantly rather than adding it to your inventory. • SLIDE - Press crouch [Crouch] while running to slide. • REGENERATION - Health regenerates for one bracket after a short delay. • SELF DEFENSE TECHNIQUE -You can use a bottle or brick from your inventory to quickly escape a pouncer's grasp. • HARD KICK - Helping your friends who have been grabbed by an enemy no longer exhausts you. • STAY OF EXECUTION - Saving your friends from enemy execution no longer exhausts you. • RUN AND SMASH DOORS - You can instantly open doors while running, but locked doors will be cracked. |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| Powerful throwing device that emits an electric shock. It temporarily stuns and disorients enemies. |
| PRODUCT: A-MP |
| DSCRIPT: CEREBRAL DISTURBANCE DEVICE |
| PROTO-LINE: -875G9 |
| UPGRADES: |
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• ACTIVATE - Powerful throwing device that emits an electric shock. It temporarily stuns and disorients enemies. • EXPANDED RADIUS - Expand the explosion radius. > Range: 3m > 6m • DISARM - All traps, door traps, and enemy mines are destroyed by the explosion. • EXTENDED DURATION -Extend the duration of the stun effect. > Duration: 5 > 8 seconds • RESTORE - Cooldown time is instantly reduced if no enemy is hit. > Cooldown: reduced by 75% • ELECTRIC BOOST - Players within the blast radius will immediately regain some battery and stamina. • DECREASED COOLDOWN - Decrease the cooldown time before the rig can be used again. > Cooldown: 180 > 144 seconds • PREPARED - The rig is prepared for use at the beginning of the trial. |
| RECHARGE TIMES: |
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• PSYCHOSURGERY - 413 Seconds | 103 Seconds with [RESTORE] • INTENSIVE - 143 Seconds | 35 Seconds with [RESTORE] • STANDARD - 143 Seconds | 35 Seconds with [RESTORE] • INTRODUCTORY - 143 Seconds | 35 Seconds with [RESTORE] |
| REWORKS: |
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• Remove battery recharge feature from [ELECTRIC BOOST] to give more use to X-Ray, would be renamed to [NEURONIC BOOST] Note: as I feel that stun is already fairly balanced, the only real change to be found is the removal of [ELECTRIC BOOST] being able to recharge the reagent's night vision battery. This is done to give more use to the under-powered X-Ray rig. |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| A landmine that, once triggered by the enemy, will emit a temporarily blinding explosion of smoke. |
| PRODUCT: CHEM-BLINDER |
| DSCRIPT: TEMP-EYE STROKE CHEMICAL FLUID |
| PROTO-LINE: -655Y2 |
| UPGRADES: |
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• ACTIVATE - Powerful A landmine that, once triggered by the enemy, will emit a temporarily blinding explosion of smoke. • EXPANDED RADIUS - Expand the explosion radius. > Smoke Range: 2.25m > 4.25m • DEPLOY TECHNIQUE - Faster mine deployment. > Deploy Time: 4 > 3 seconds • EXTENDED DURATION -Extend the duration of the blinding smoke. > Smoke Duration: 15 > 20 seconds • RECHARGE - The mine re-arms after being triggered. (Occurs once) > Recharge time: 30 seconds • FRENZY - Walk through the smoke following the explosion to gain an adrenaline boost. • DECREASED COOLDOWN - Decrease the cooldown time before the rig can be used again. > Cooldown: 180 > 144 seconds • PREPARED - The rig is prepared for use at the beginning of the trial. |
| RECHARGE TIMES: |
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• PSYCHOSURGERY - 413 Seconds • INTENSIVE - 143 Seconds • STANDARD - 143 Seconds • INTRODUCTORY - 143 Seconds |
| REWORKS: |
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• Smoke duration increased to 15s (was 10s). With [EXTENDED DURATION] to 20s (was 12s). • [DECREASED COOLDOWN] increased cooldown rate by 25% (was 20%) • The addition of [DISENGAGE] upgrade. > DISENGAGE - Allows the mine to be disengaged and picked up to fully recharge the rig. Note: I feel that this rig may have been overly nerfed in the original Winter Kills update so this would mostly be a rework of duration and deployment time. I do believe that this rig shouldn’t have a stunning ability outside of its initial explosion, this would keep more instantaneous stuns special to the Stun Rig. |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| An aerosol gas that replenishes your health, along with the health of friends nearby. |
| PRODUCT: MED. N-OXIDE |
| DSCRIPT: ANALGESIC & ANESTHETIC PAIN KILLER |
| PROTO-LINE: -E445Y0 |
| UPGRADES: |
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• ACTIVATE - An aerosol gas that replenishes your health, along with the health of friends nearby. • EXPANDED RADIUS - Expand the radius of the healing effect. > Range: 2m > 4m • SILENT HELP - Healing occurs silently. • EXTENDED DURATION -Extend the duration of the healing effect. > Heal Duration: 2 > 4 seconds • DETOX - Healing gas will also cure psychosis. • POISON - Healing gas will briefly slow down affected enemies. (ex-pops are only stunned during activation. Affected enemies are slowed by 75% for 5 seconds.) • DECREASED COOLDOWN - Decrease the cooldown time before the rig can be used again. > Cooldown: 180 > 144 seconds • PREPARED - The rig is prepared for use at the beginning of the trial. |
| RECHARGE TIMES: |
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• PSYCHOSURGERY - 413 Seconds • INTENSIVE - 143 Seconds • STANDARD - 143 Seconds • INTRODUCTORY - 143 Seconds |
| REWORKS: |
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• Replace [POISON] with the addition of a new upgrade [OVERHEAL] > OVERHEAL - Healing white at full health supplies the reagent with a temporary extra health bar. (lasts 30ish seconds, compatible with health boosters.) Note: I believe that having a stunning ability on a support rig is mechanically a bit strange, so this rework will replace [POISON] with a different but equally effective upgrade. |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| Tactical enhancement to see through walls, revealing the location of enemies. |
| PRODUCT: HUMAN-SPEC |
| DSCRIPT: ALLOWS SEE THROUGH SOLID OBJECTS USING HIGH MAGNETIC WAVES |
| PROTO-LINE: -7G44T07 |
| UPGRADES: |
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• ACTIVATE - Tactical enhancement to see through walls, revealing the location of enemies. • SHARED INTEL - Allies can see the locations of tagged enemies. • RESOURCES INTEL - X-Ray reveals consumable items nearby. (Medicines, Batteries, Adrenaline, Bricks, Bottles, Lockpicks, Syringes, Rig Recharger, etc.) • CLASSIFIED INTEL - X-Ray reveals sensitive items nearby. (Documents, Posters, Booster Items, Master Key, Mines, Traps, etc.) • EXTENDED DURATION - Extend the duration of the X-Ray effect. > Duration: 8 > 12 seconds • BATTERY TRANSFER - Using X-RAY recharges the Night Vision battery. • DECREASED COOLDOWN - Decrease the cooldown time before the rig can be used again. > Cooldown: 45 > 36 seconds • PREPARED - The rig is prepared for use at the beginning of the trial. |
| RECHARGE TIMES: |
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• PSYCHOSURGERY - 103 Seconds • INTENSIVE - 35 Seconds • STANDARD - 35 Seconds • INTRODUCTORY - 35 Seconds |
| REWORKS: |
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• Duration increased to 10s (was 8s). With [EXTENDED DURATION] to 15s (was 12s). • Range increase to 15m (was 10m) • The addition of the [MECHANICAL INTEL] upgrade. > MECHANICAL INTEL - X-Ray reveals imporant machinery nearby. (Hidden Keys, Generators, Futtermaniacs, Mines, Traps, Targets, etc.) • The addition of the [MAGNETIC DISTURBANCE] upgrade. > MAGNETIC DISTURBANCE - Upon activation of the rig, high-powered magnetic waves will short circut all traps within a 20m range. • Remove the ability to see traps and mines with [CLASSIFIED INTEL] • Give the ability to see traps and mines to [MECHANICAL INTEL] Note: this rework would tweak the range and duration of the rig while adding some new capabilities to its use in order to make it a more viable rig to use in both solo and co-op play. |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| Install a barricade on a door or doorway to temporarily block it and delay enemies or pursuers. |
| PRODUCT: BLOCK-AID |
| DSCRIPT: PORTABLE DEVICE TO DEPLOY BARRICADE |
| PROTO-LINE: -36MP13 |
| UPGRADES: |
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• ACTIVATE - Install a barricade on a door or doorway to temporarily block it and delay enemies or pursuers. • DECREASED COOLDOWN - Decrease the cooldown time before the rig can be used again. > Cooldown: 45 > 36 seconds • INCREASED RESISTANCE - Barricades require more hits to break. > Durability: Base + one extra bash • QUICK INSTALLATION - Installing a barricade is faster. > Installation Time: 3.5 > 2.5 seconds • INCOMING WARNING - When an enemy breaks a barricaded door, it is automatically pinged. • FRIENDLY BREACH - When you or a teammate break a barricade, the rig cooldown speeds up. > Cooldown: Reduces cooldown by half • EXTRA BARRICADE - Place a maximum of two barricades. • PREPARED - The rig is prepared for use at the beginning of the trial. |
| RECHARGE TIMES: |
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• PSYCHOSURGERY - 103 Seconds | 49 Seconds with [FRIENDLY BREACH] • INTENSIVE - 33 Seconds | 15 Seconds with [FRIENDLY BREACH] • STANDARD - 33 Seconds | 15 Seconds with [FRIENDLY BREACH] • INTRODUCTORY - 33 Seconds | 15 Seconds with [FRIENDLY BREACH] |
| REWORKS: |
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Note: I think as it is, Barricade is fairly balanced, feels good to use, and everything. |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| Disable electronic devices, and unlock padlocked containers and doors. |
| PRODUCT: JAMMER |
| DSCRIPT: Wireless-Jammer: Disable traps and electronic devices from distance. |
| PROTO-LINE: -JM9436 |
| UPGRADES: |
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• ACTIVATE - Disable electronic devices, and unlock padlocked containers and doors. • PACEMAKER - Automatically activates for a self-revive. Can also be used to revive a dead teammate from a distance. (Both once per trial). > Hack Speed: 10 seconds > Cooldown: 120 seconds • DECREASED COOLDOWN - Decrease the cooldown time before the rig can be used again. > Cooldown: 45 seconds > Television: 60 > 45 seconds > Padlock: 90 > 45 seconds > Traps: 90 > 45 seconds > Gates: 90 > 45 seconds > Confidential: 120 > 90 seconds > Revive: 120 > 90 seconds > Corrupt Enemies: 120 > 90 seconds • IMPROVED JAMMER - Jammer performs at a faster speed. > Television: 4 > 2.5 seconds > Padlock: 4 > 2.5 seconds > Traps: 4 > 2.5 seconds > Gates: 4 > 2.5 seconds > Confidential: 6 > 5 seconds > Revive: 10 > 5 seconds > Corrupt Enemies: 6 > 5 seconds • LONG DISTANCE - Use Jammer from a longer distance. > Hack Range: 2m > 8m > Corruption Range: 8m > 10m • REWIRE - Turn traps against enemies. • CORRUPT ENEMIES - Corrupt enemies, causing interruptions in their normal behavior. > Hack Speed: 6 seconds > Cooldown: 120 seconds > Hack Distance: 8m • PREPARED - The rig is prepared for use at the beginning of the trial. |
| RECHARGE TIMES: Base stats |
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• PSYCHOSURGERY - ?? Seconds (Start, Padlock, Traps, Gates) | ?? Seconds (Televisions, Radios) | ??? Seconds (Confidential Doors) • INTENSIVE - 90 Seconds (Start, Padlock, Traps, Gates) | 60 Seconds (Televisions, Radios) | 120 Seconds (Confidential Doors) • STANDARD - 90 Seconds (Start, Padlock, Traps, Gates) | 60 Seconds (Televisions, Radios) | 120 Seconds (Confidential Doors • INTRODUCTORY - 90 Seconds (Start, Padlock, Traps, Gates) | 60 Seconds (Televisions, Radios) | 120 Seconds (Confidential Doors |
| REWORKS: |
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Note: none as of this time. |

| DESCRIPTION: by sabatron |
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| A canister that, once thrown on the ground will leave a thin layer of high-powered evaporative lubricant that will trip both ex-pops and reagents. |
| PRODUCT: OIL-SLCK |
| DSCRIPT: LEAVES GREASY SUBSTRATE ON APPLIED SURFACE |
| PROTO-LINE: -7MM7PS |
| UPGRADES: |
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• ACTIVATE - A canister that, once thrown on the ground will leave a thin layer of high-powered evaporative lubricant that will trip both ex-pops and reagents. • EXPANDED RADIUS - Expanded the lubrication radius. • ANTI-SKID - Reagents no longer slip when traveling over the lubricating agent. • EXTENDED DURATION - Extend the duration of the lubricating agent. • ADHESIVE AGENT - Ex-pops affected by the lubricating agent stay down longer. • SLIP N’ SLIDE - Reagents that slide through the lubricating agent will be provided a longer slide and a short speed boost. • DECREASED COOLDOWN - Decrease the cooldown time before the rig can be used again. • PREPARED - The rig is prepared for use at the beginning of the trial. |
| RECHARGE TIMES: |
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• PSYCHOSURGERY - 413 Seconds • INTENSIVE - 143 Seconds • STANDARD - 143 Seconds • INTRODUCTORY - 143 Seconds |
| Notes: |
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• This rig prioritizes speed runners who would like to get an extra boost of speed while also providing a light level of protection. |

| DESCRIPTION: by sabatron |
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| A flashgun powered with a high lumen bulb, activating will temporarily blind enemies, allowing ample time to sneak past. |
| PRODUCT: FLSH |
| DSCRIPT: BRIGHT FLASHES MAY LEAD TO PERMANENT RETINAL DAMAGE |
| PROTO-LINE: -FN87AF |
| UPGRADES: |
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• ACTIVATE - A flashgun powered with a high lumen bulb, activating will temporarily blind enemies, allowing ample time to sneak past. • REFLECTOR - Widens the radius in which Ex-pops are affected by the blinding effect. • EXTENDED RANGE - Increases the blinding affects range, effecting Ex-pops at a greater distance. • SENSORY OVERLOAD - Effected enemies experience sensory overload, extending the duration of which Ex-pops are blinded. • RETINAL DAMAGE - Permanently decreases the visual acuity of Ex-pops. (Does not stack.) • HALOGEN BULB - Bulbs explode upon use causing a loud ringing sound, disorienting blinded enemies. • DECREASED COOLDOWN - Decrease the cooldown time before the rig can be used again. • PREPARED - The rig is prepared for use at the beginning of the trial. |
| RECHARGE TIMES: |
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• PSYCHOSURGERY - 413 Seconds • INTENSIVE - 143 Seconds • STANDARD - 143 Seconds • INTRODUCTORY - 143 Seconds |
| Notes: |
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• This rig would give reagents the ability to better sneak around while in lit rooms, would also affect Night Hunter for longer than normal, Coyle on the other hand wouldn’t be affected for as long. |

| DESCRIPTION: by Jude boi |
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| Injection gun that allows reagents to switch between two needles. One causing ex-pops to flee and one that provides a significant speed & stamina boost at the cost of slowly losing health. |
| PRODUCT: HYPODERMIC |
| DSCRIPT: MULTI-USE HYPODERMIC SYRINGE INJECTOR |
| PROTO-LINE: -87WS98 |
| UPGRADES: |
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• ACTIVATE - Injectable syringe gun that can be used on either ex-pop to cause them to temporarily flee an area, or on yourself to apply speed & stamina boost at the cost of slowly losing health. • ENDURANCE - If self injected, health drains slower. • SPEED DEMON - Bursting through doors & windows will no longer slow reagents speed down. • EXTENDED DURATION - Extends the duration of the injected needle. • MIND CLOUD - Injected ex-pops will forget reagents last position before injection. • JOINT LOCK - Injected ex-pop’s movement speed will be significantly reduced once injection duration ends. • DECREASED COOLDOWN - Decrease the cooldown time before the rig can be used again. • PREPARED - The rig is prepared for use at the beginning of the trial. |
| RECHARGE TIMES: |
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• PSYCHOSURGERY - 319 Seconds • INTENSIVE - 110 Seconds • STANDARD - 110 Seconds • INTRODUCTORY - 110 Seconds |
| Notes: |
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• The needle gun has a revolving cylinder that players can switch anytime. Switching to the needle that can be used to inject yourself will make the reagent hold the gun against their arm. If they switch to the other mode, they will hold the gun forward similar to any other rig. |
HYPODERMIC RIG TESTING SESSION
The Bloodstream
Murkoff Minutes
1960. 09. 10CopyTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN EMILY BARLOW, CORNELIUS NOAKES AND PUSHER CLASS EX-POP (RESTRAINED)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 5-8]BARLOW- Could you repeat that please, dear?
PUSHER- Oh baby oh baby oh baby. I can pour it right into your blood, deep inside those pretty blue little veins you got.
BARLOW- Now now, mister, this isn’t for my veins.
NOAKES- You really believe a word this crazy fucker says?
BARLOW- They may be a little gone, dear, but they used to work for us which means they know their stuff.
PUSHER- So much stuff. Right in their fucking bloodstream.(Pusher ex-pop cackles, followed by seconds of silence)NOAKES- Crazy fucker, all of this is fucking crazy.
PUSHER- Fuck you man, what you need is a good trip and you’ll be where my mind is right fucking now. With the snakes.
BARLOW- Need I remind you that we can gag you. Please only speak when you’re spoken to, dear.
The Ramblings Are True
Murkoff Minutes
1960. 09. 10CopyTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN EMILY BARLOW, CORNELIUS NOAKES AND PUSHER CLASS EX-POP (RESTRAINED)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 9-13]NOAKES- So what do you think, they can actually liquidise that gas shit they use on the poor fuckers in the trials?
BARLOW- It’s hard to tell through all the rambling about snakes, native american demons and supposed visions of collapsing caves. But I'm a glass half full kind of lady.
NOAKES- Shit, that’s better than whatever hope I can muster up, man. You hear so many of these fuckers talk that it all starts to sound normal, like you could believe all these ramblings are true.
PUSHER- How about you get me out of here and i’ll show you what's true, buddy.
BARLOW: Quiet, please! I trust you’ll be able to get a patent for a delivery mechanism?
NOAKES: Sure. I gotta say though, you need to speak to Easterman or Perry or Scarfiotti or someone. I’m working with nothing but junk now and I'm trying my best to scrape together what I can, but man it isn’t easy.
BARLOW- From what I understand, you’re being given everything you need and yet it keeps disappearing from your shop. Care to explain that?
NOAKES- Don’t start that shit on me. We both know how hard it is to maintian our supplies around here, consider yourself lucky that you’re not trapped in a fucking cage all day and don’t need to rely on a shitty requestion form to get what you want.
PUSHER- Sounds like it fucking sucks to be you.
BARLOW: That’s it, put the gag on him.(Sounds of cackling that become muffled and eventually silenced)
Delays
Clyde Perry Letters
1960. 10. 10MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYCOMPANY CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN CLYDE PERRY AND DR H.J. EASTERMANDr Easterman, following yesterday's security breach, I am afraid there will need to be some delays in the maintenance of rigs and in-trial technology as well as distribution of RX. The injuries Mr Noakes and Miss Barlow sustained after the pusher class ex-pop broke free from his bonds were severe, and will require at least a week or two of rest and recovery for both parties involved. Unfortunately the pusher used for interrogation had to be put down, however I have been assured that his specific formula for your “Hypodermic rig” will be passed on to another. I am also attaching to this letter a request for increased security during interrogation of both ex-pops and reagents. Alice and myself have noticed a significant bump in aggression with integration suspects ever since rumours of Amelia’s escape began spreading throughout the both the ex-pops and reagents respective sleep rooms. I will be holding a conference two weeks from now, once I return from Colorado, to address issues with staff openly discussing classified information around your test subjects. Your presence is expected.(Signiture)

| DESCRIPTION: by Jude boi |
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| Experimental area denial device, Once activated, it will release a cloud of rouge nanomachines in its vicinity to slow down enemies attempting to pass through it. |
| PRODUCT: NANO-BARRIER |
| DSCRIPT: REMOTE ACTIVATED EXPERIMENTAL AREA DENIAL DEVICE |
| PROTO-LINE: -AT2306 |
| UPGRADES: |
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• ACTIVATE - Experimental area denial device, Once activated, it will release a cloud of rouge nanomachines in its vicinity to slow down enemies attempting to pass through it. • GREATER SWARM - Further slows down enemies attempting to pass through nanocloud. • LASTING EFFECTS - Nano clouds will briefly slow down enemies after dissipating. • SUPPRESSOR - Activation occurs silently. • EXTRA STORAGE - Place a maximum of two devices. • MEDICAL APPLICATION - Once cloud dissipates, will seek out and heal the player with the lowest health. If all reagents' health is full, will give a temporary health boost to a random teammate. • DECREASED COOLDOWN - Decrease the cooldown time before the rig can be used again. • PREPARED - The rig is prepared for use at the beginning of the trial. |
| RECHARGE TIMES: |
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• PSYCHOSURGERY - [REDACTED] • INTENSIVE - [REDACTED] • STANDARD - [REDACTED] • INTRODUCTORY - [REDACTED] |
| Notes: |
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• Depending on the enemy type, they may be able to move through the cloud quicker. Big grunts and prime assets can pass through it quicker than most other enemies. The “lasting effect” upgrade will still work on an enemy even if they pass through the cloud before it dissipates. The rig itself is remotely activated, meaning you can place it down and activate it whenever you won’t, it doesn’t activate on its own. |

| DESCRIPTION: by Black jack |
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| A mechanical tool that allows you to utilize co-op shortcuts by yourself, or pull enemies to the ground. |
| PRODUCT: [REDACTED] |
| DSCRIPT: [REDACTED] |
| PROTO-LINE: [REDACTED] |
| ORIGINAL POST: Here! |
| UPGRADES: |
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• ACTIVATE - A mechanical tool that allows you to utilize co-op shortcuts by yourself, or pull enemies to the ground. • DECREASED COOLDOWN - Decrease the cooldown time before the rig can be used again. > Cooldown: 110 > 80 seconds • SWIFT TECHNIQUE - Utilize co-op shortcuts faster. • INCREASED RANGE - Use co-op shortcuts and hook enemies from farther away. • EFFICIENT HOOKS - 45s cooldown when used to hook enemies. • SUPPRESSED FIRING - Makes a (QUIET) noise instead of a (((LOUD))) noise when fired. • CRIPPLING BLOW - Enemies are briefly slowed when hooked. • PREPARED - The rig is prepared for use at the beginning of the trial. |
| RECHARGE TIMES: |
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• PSYCHOSURGERY - [REDACTED] • INTENSIVE - [REDACTED] • STANDARD - [REDACTED] • INTRODUCTORY - [REDACTED] |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| Powerful throwing device that emits an electric shock. It temporarily stuns and disorients enemies. |
| PRODUCT: A-MP |
| DSCRIPT: CEREBRAL DISTURBANCE DEVICE |
| PROTO-LINE: -875G9-A |
| TIER ONE: |
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• DISABLER - Enemies affected by stun rig will be slowed down for a short duration after stun effect. > Reduces the duration of the stun effect on enemies. • ANESTHETIC SPRAY - Throw stun rig at teammates to restore one bar of their health bar. > Teammate loses the benefit of the [ELECTRIC BOOST] upgrade. Stun rig will no longer recharge their battery. • ON THE RUN - Using the stun rig while running will give you a temporary speed boost. > Greatly increase stamina consumption for a short while after speed boost> |
| TIER TWO: |
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• BOUNCING BETTY - Stun rig will create a second blast that bounces ahead of the first one. > Stun blast will damage you if you are within the radius (will not affect friendly Reagents.) • LAST RESORT - Use stun rig to escape the grasp of enemies and pouncers. > Stun blast will inflict one bar of damage onto the player. • SILENT STUN - Stun rig doesn't produce noise > Enemies affected by the stun rig will have sensitive hearing for the duration of the trial. |
| TIER THREE: |
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• REMOTE DETONATOR - Stun rig can be cranked up, placed down and detonated remotely from a distance. > Stun rig can only be used 5 times for the duration of the trial, this includes the remotely detonated stun. • TRACKING STUN - Stun rig can be aimed at an enemy, locking onto them and tracking them when thrown. The tracking distance is 3 meters. > In order for the rig to properly detonate it must hit its target directly, mid-air tracking is not perfect, if it’s blocked by something it has the opportunity to miss entirely, causing the rig to go on cooldown without detonating. • OVERCHARGE - Players within the blast radius will be given a battery boost for 5 minutes with improved night vision capabilities. > Once OVERCHARGE comes to an end, the improved night vision capabilities will stop and your night vision battery will permanently drain to half of its battery capacity for the remaining duration of the trial (these effects can be undone with the use of a battery booster item, only resetting your NVGs batteries to their base capacity.) |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| A landmine that, once triggered by the enemy, will emit a temporarily blinding explosion of smoke. |
| PRODUCT: CHEM-BLINDER |
| DSCRIPT: TEMP-EYE STROKE CHEMICAL FLUID |
| PROTO-LINE: -655Y2-A |
| TIER ONE: |
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• HARMFUL FOG - Enemies within the initial trigger of the mine will be stunned for an increased duration. > Enemies within the blind fog have greater visibility. • CHARMED FOG - Mine will rearm itself a second time. > Small chance that the mine will not explode if an enemy walks over it. • FOG AND MIRRORS - Standing inside the blind smoke will slowly heal players' health. > Standing inside the smoke will slowly drain players' sanity. |
| TIER TWO: |
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• SPEWING FOG - Once mine explodes, will shoot out 3 small plumes of fog in different directions. > Running through any of the small plumes of smoke will drain stamina • BRAIN FOG - Enemies caught within the initial mine explosion will remain blind for the duration of the trial > Enemies caught within the initial explosion will become enraged for a duration of the trial, • HUSHED FOG - Running through the blinding smoke will reduce all noise made for a short duration. > Running through the blinding smoke will reduce movement speed for a short duration. |
| TIER THREE: |
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• KAMIKAZE - Blind rig can be attached to ESOP and detonated whenever. > Detonation will drain health to the lowest it can go just before you would be incapacitated. • SMOKE & MIRRORS - Once detonated, the blind rig will have a permeate blinding smoke that will act as a wall which enemies cannot see through. It will also reduce the movement speed of enemies trying to pass through the smoke. > Only three mines can be placed down during the duration of the trial, • ENDURANCE - Running through the blinding smoke will give players a stamina booster effect for 5 minutes with improved running speed and stamina, greater than that of a normal booster. > Once ENDURANCE comes to an end, the improved running speed and stamina will stop and your max stamina will permanently be halved for the remaining duration of the trial (these effects can be undone with the use of a stamina booster item, only resetting your max stamina to its base level.) |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| An aerosol gas that replenishes your health, along with the health of friends nearby. |
| PRODUCT: MED. N-OXIDE |
| DSCRIPT: ANALGESIC & ANESTHETIC PAIN KILLER |
| PROTO-LINE: -E445Y0-A |
| TIER ONE: |
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• VENOM - Healing gas will stun enemies for a longer duration > Affected enemies have increased movement speed. POISON upgrade still applies. • AMPHETAMINE GAS - Healing gas will give players a small stamina boost. > Reduces the duration of the healing effect. • FAST-ACTING RELIEF - HEAL is equipped with a new fast-acting anaesthetic, increasing the speed of which yourself and nearby reagents are healed. > Enhanced vaporization method causes the healing gas to disperse at an accelerated rate, greatly reducing its effective range. |
| TIER TWO: |
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• SNAKE OIL - Healing gas will cause enemies to fall into a fear-filled frenzy, causing them to actively run away from reagents. > The effectiveness of healing gas will be halved and instead of curing psychosis, healing gas will now inflict 1 bar of insanity per use. • PLACEBO EFFECT - Using the healing rig will give reagents 1 extra bar of sanity for the duration of the trial. > When sanity is fully drained, the skinnerman will now sprint at players and skinner tendrils can hit players from a greater distance. • ANTI AESTHETIC - For a short while after the heal rig is used, there will be a cloud of blue gas where the rig was initially activated. Moving through the gas will increase movement speed for a short duration. > Any ex-pops who move through the gas will also have increased movement speed for a longer duration than reagents. They are also more alert to sounds during this time. |
| TIER THREE: |
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• CURE-ALL PATIENT - Applies a permanent healing effect to self. Health & sanity will slowly regenerate after any damage is done to them. > Negates all natural health & sanity regen, also temporarily pauses healing health if the reagent is afflicted by the bleeding status effect. Rig can only be used once per trial, if the afflicted reagent needs to be revived in any capacity they will lose it’s effects. • CURE-ALL DOCTOR - Applies a permanent healing effect to a teammate of your choice. Their health and sanity will slowly regenerate after any damage is done to them. > Negates all natural health & sanity regen, also temporarily pauses healing health if the reagent is afflicted by the bleeding status effect. Rig can only be used once per trial, if the afflicted reagent needs to be revived in any capacity they will lose it’s effects. • LOVE BOMB - Turns the heal rig into an improvised gas grenade that can be thrown from a distance to heal teammates health & sanity. If a teammate is hit directly, they will be given 1 extra bar of health for 3 minutes. > If ex-pops are within the radius of the healing explosion, they will become frenzied and deal more damage (Stronger enemies 2) for the duration of the trial. (If stronger enemies 2 is a variator in a current trial, affected ex-pop will instead cause bleeding damage.) |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| Tactical enhancement to see through walls, revealing the location of enemies. |
| PRODUCT: HUMAN-SPEC |
| DSCRIPT: ALLOWS SEE THROUGH SOLID OBJECTS USING HIGH MAGNETIC WAVES |
| PROTO-LINE: -7G44T07-A |
| TIER ONE: |
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• PYLON - Ex-Pops seen in X-RAY will have a vision cone determining where they’re looking, their point of view and where their vision distance drops off. > Reduced distance at which ex-pops can be seen while X-RAY is active. • TRANSPARENT SPOTTER - Items, ex-pops and classified intel can be pinged through walls while X-RAY is active. > Pinged items, including boosters, are less effective. (Healing items, antidotes, adrenalin & batteries only do half of their intended function. Bottles make less noise & bricks have reduced stun time. Pinged ex-pop will be alerted to your general location.) • OBJECTIFIED - Objectives and objective relevant items can now be spotted whilst using X-RAY. > Lowers the duration of the X-RAY rig by 3 seconds. |
| TIER TWO: |
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• RADIATION SICKNESS - NVG have been equipped with spare tech from broken JAMMER rigs, allowing reagents to corrupt enemies when stared at for long enough while X-RAY is active. > Due to a high level of electromagnetic radiation, if the rig is used to corrupt an enemy ex-pop, the reagent will temporarily suffer from severe migraines, distorting the reagents vision similarly to that of a Screamer. Increased power usage will also cause the reagent’s NVG to drain half of its charge. • MIND READER - While X-RAY is active, reagents will see a visualisation of ex-pop patrol routes and where that patrol will end. This is visualised via white footprints on the ground leading to a white circle where the patrol ends. > Lose the ability to see a perfect outline of ex-pops while X-RAY is active. Reagents will instead see a faint pulse similar to that of the SHARED INTEL upgrade. • TETHER - While X-RAY is active, a guiding line will appear on the ground and guide reagents to their next objective. This includes items needed for objectives (Gas, boxes, decoders, generators, push objectives etc) Along with this, it will guide reagents to objectives that do not have markers. > Lose the ability to perfectly see items and classified information (documents, posters, booster items, master key, mines & traps) While X-RAY is active. Reagents will instead see a faint pulse similar to that of the SHARED INTEL upgrade. |
| TIER THREE: |
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• NIGHT HUNTER - Upon entry to the trial environment, NVG will have infinite X-RAY charge, rig activation instead toggles the effect on and off. > Reagent NVGs are permanently fixed in the downright position, making the reagent's vision more sensitive to well-lit environments. • PUSHERVISION - Neurological stimulants have been attached to the NVG meaning reagents are completely resistant to psychosis damage during the trial. > While X-RAY is active, reagents will suffer from symptoms of acute psychosis which will cause them to be attacked by illusory threats such as The Skinnerman and hostile tentacles. • TRICKSTER - Upon activation, the X-RAY rig will highlight hidden noise sensors within the walls and floors placed by Amelia. These sensors can be activated whilst X-RAY is active to either distract ex-pop or stun them via a small explosion. > Using the X-RAY to explode the noise sensors will put the rig into an immediate cooldown and extend the cooldown rate. If only the noise distraction is used then the rig will not put the rig into an immediate cooldown but instead increase the cooldown rate once the X-RAY is finished. |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| Install a barricade on a door or doorway to temporarily block it and delay enemies or pursuers. |
| PRODUCT: BLOCK-AID |
| DSCRIPT: PORTABLE DEVICE TO DEPLOY BARRICADE |
| PROTO-LINE: -36MP13-A |
| TIER ONE: |
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• REINFORCED STEEL - Barricade takes longer to break down by ex-pops. > Barricade takes longer to deploy on doors and windows. • AUTOMATIC DEPLOYMENT - Barricade can now be deployed instantly. > Barricaded doors can no longer be broken down by reagents or their teammates. (Note that doors can still be barricaded normally and still be broken through. Doors that cannot be broken through only apply to when automatic deployment is used on them.) • COLLAPSIBLE FRAME - Barricade is now equipped with a streamlined, compact frame, allowing for reagents to pick it back up after initial deployment. > Limits the maximum number of barricades to one, requiring the rig to be broken before it can recharge, or alternatively picked up, which will instantly recharge the rig. |
| TIER TWO: |
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• LOCKED IN - Barricade can be used to lock yourself inside lockers and chests. Enemies will not be able to open these hiding spots even if you are seen going inside them. > Getting out of the hiding spot will produce a (((LOUD))) noise that attracts any nearby ex-pop. • LOCK AND KEY - Barricade rig is fitted with an ESOP detection device and will now act as a door. Allowing reagents and their teammates to open doors without needing to break the barricade rig and bash open the door it is placed on. This will not apply to ex-pops, who still need to bash open the doors. However, if a barricaded door is left open, they can walk through it. > Due to the nature of the upgrade, the barricade can no longer be placed on double doors. In addition, the ESOP detection device now means the INCOMING WARNING upgrade is disabled. • LIVE-WIRE - Barricade’s steel frame is now equipped with a makeshift battery, electrifying any ex-pop that comes into contact with it. Affected ex-pops will temporarily suffer from sudden and extreme muscle spasms. (Would work similarly to JAMMER’s Corrupt Enemies perk, but more often.) > The constant flow of high-voltage weakens the structural integrity of BARRICADE’s steel frame, causing ex-pops to break it quicker; two hits for small ex-pops and one hit for large ex-pops & Prime Assets. |
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• IMPROVISED ARMOR - Barricade rig can be placed onto your ESOP and act as a form of armor, this will reduce the amount of damage taken. Armor will break after 5 hits from ex-pop (3 hits from big grunts and prime assets) > While the barricade rig is on your ESOP, your movement speed will be slowed down significantly (walking, running & crawling) and your stamina consumption is greater. You will also make more noise while moving. • BEAR TRAP - Barricade can be placed down on the floor and act as an improvised bear trap. Holding ex-pops in place for a short duration until they can break free. If other ex-pop visibly see another trapped and are not in chase, they can assist the trapped ex-pop and free them quicker. > Once the rig is placed on the floor, you must wait until the bear trap is triggered and destroyed before rig recharging can begin. Placing a barricade on a door is also forbidden during this time. (Note that the EXTRA BARRICADE upgrade does not apply to placing it on the floor as a trap.) • STACKADE - An improved reinforced frame allows Barricade to be used in new, unintended ways. Once attached to co-op walls, Barricade will function as a makeshift ladder, giving reagents the ability to climb without assistance. It can also be positioned to span long co-op jumps, allowing reagents to walk across a narrow, extended surface. > Due to Barricade's newly reinforced frame, required for handling heavy weight loads, it now takes longer for friendly reagents to dismantle. However, it’s still not indestructible; if multiple reagents attempt to cross a co-op jump at once, the extended surface will collapse. |

| DESCRIPTION: |
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| Disable electronic devices, and unlock padlocked containers and doors. |
| PRODUCT: JAMMER |
| DSCRIPT: WIRELESS-JAMMER: DISABLE TRAPS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES FROM DISTANCE |
| PROTO-LINE: -JM9436-A |
| TIER ONE: |
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• ANTENNA - Jammer is equipped with an antenna that will allow reagents to use the jammer from a greater distance. > Reduces the speed at which it takes to jam. • BOOSTED SIGNAL - Increases jamming speed. > Reduces the distance at which the jammer can be used. • ELECTROSTATIC EMITTER - Jammer rig distance and speed is increased. > While jamming, the rig will emit a (((LOUD))) noise, attracting nearby ex-pop. |
| TIER TWO: |
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• JERRY-RIGGED - The jammer rig can be used to instantly cooldown a teammate rig. > The player's own rig suffers from a longer cooldown when used. If player's rig is not cooling down currently, the extended cooldown will apply when the rig is next used (Will stack on top of normal cooldown rates. Cooldown rates from the upgrade itself will not stack.) • TV REMOTE - Jammer rig can be used on TVs and electronics found within the trials to cause a small explosion that will distract nearby ex-pop. Any ex-pop within a close radius to exploding TVs will be stunned for a short duration (Strong arm brick stun time.) > A feedback loop from the electronics causes the jammer rig to shock reagents, dealing half a bar of damage. • STOMACH BUGGED - Any ex-pop that has been jammed now throws up at random points for the duration of the trial. > For a short period of time after ex-pop throws up, they will have more sensitive hearing and hit harder, causing bleeding damage to be inflicted. Once this period of time is over, they will return to normal until they throw up again. |
| TIER THREE: |
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• AMELIA’S TOUCH-UP - Jammer-rig can be used to bypass certain objective types (Key gates, power generators, button mannequins, radio tuners, used on scapegoats, speed up conveyors, open coded boxes, speed up lock-down sequences) > Each use of the jammer on objectives has an increasing chance to break the rig's use on objectives. The 1st use has a 25% chance to break it, the 2nd has a 50% chance, the 3rd a 75% chance and the 4th a 100% chance. The rig breaking only affects its usage on objectives, it will still function normally on everything else. • CLOSETED MONSTER - Jammer rig can be used on ex-pop insertion gates to disable them. Once disabled, ex-pops cannot enter the trial from the jammed gate for the duration of the trial. (Scripted ex-pop spawns will now happen at the next nearest insertion gate) > Once the jammer is used 4 times to jam an insertion gate, the enemies that spawn from normal gates will be enraged for the duration of the trial and deal more damage (Stronger enemies 2). Insertion gate alarms will also not sound when an enemy enters the trial. • TROJAN HORSE - Jammer rig can be used on ex-pop insertion gates, opening them and allowing reagents to step inside to hide. Whilst inside the insertion gate, Amelia will speak to the reagent via their wristwatch radio, and spray down the insertion gate room with a spray that slowly heals health & sanity. In addition there will also be a random item left on the ground below. (Note that booster items ARE NOT given to reagents who use the insertion gates) > When entering a normal hiding spot, the reagents ESOP will set off eclectic shocks that slowly drain their health for however long they remain hidden. During this time, Dr Easterman will speak via pre-recorded messages on the reagents wristwatch radio about how hiding is a cowardly tactic, how they need to keep eyes on you at all times. |

The following page speaks of previous seasonal eras at the Sinyala Facility and a glimpse at what could've possible been with conceptual seasons!


PROJECT: LUPARA
(July 16th 2024 - December 9th 2024)
”A new archetype of appetite and childish dependence. Franco Barbi, gangster, murderer, a trafficker. Franco is a man child who would use heroin to infantilize the world. His psyche, centered around a totem, a powerful symbol to compensate for painful deficiencies." - H.J. Easterman
NEW CONTENT:• NEW PRIME ASSET: Franco "Il Bambino" Barbi• NEW TRIAL: Poison the Medicine• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Fuel the Release & Teach the Police Officer• NEW GAME MODE: Escalation Therapy• NEW RIG: Barricade• NEW CATALOGS: A New You: Standard & Project Lupara: Deluxe& MUCH MORE!-----------------------------------------------------LIMITED TIME CONTENT:• NEW EVENTS: [Program: BAMBINO] • [Program: COUNTDOWN] • [Program: GIESTER]• NEW CATALOGS: COUNTDOWN & GEISTER• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Empty the Vault & Poison the Cattle (introduced with Program: COUNTDOWN) Eliminate the Past (Introduced with Program: GEISTER)
PROJECT: BREACH
(December 10th 2024 - April 21st 2025)
”My name is Amelia, I was born in Springfield, IL. They locked up the wrong fucking girl." - Amelia Collier

NEW CONTENT:• NEW TRIAL: Pleasure the Prosecutor & Amelia’s Escape• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Reunite the Family & Deface the Futtermans• NEW EX-POP: The Pitcher• NEW RIG: Jammer• NEW CATALOG: Project Breach: Deluxe• NEW AMPS: Evasive Maneuver, Short Circuit, Bandages Expert& MUCH MORE!-----------------------------------------------------LIMITED TIME CONTENT:• NEW EVENTS: [Program: WINTER KILLS] • [Program: STAMP SURPLUS] • [Program: UNDER SERVEILLANCE]• NEW CATALOGS: WINTER KILLS & AMELIA• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Kidnap the Mistress & Stash the Contraband (Introduced with Program: UNDER SURVEILLANCE)

PROJECT: RELAPSE
(April 22nd 2025 - July 14th 2025)
"You want freedom? This is what freedom looks like. You want peace, this is peace. You want control. I'll even give you control, but I'm going to need you to admit that you don't want to leave me. You've become addicted to the therapy. It's specific pleasures, it's comforting instruction. Addicts don't want to let go. They don't want release, what addicts want, what you want, is relapse." - H.J. Easterman
NEW CONTENT:• NEW TRIAL: Liquidate the Union• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Spread the Disease & Cook the Informant• NEW GAME MODE: Trial Maker• NEW CATALOG: Project Relapse: Deluxe• NEW EX-POP: The Jaeger& MUCH MORE!-----------------------------------------------------LIMITED TIME CONTENT:• NEW EVENTS: [Program: JAEGER ONBOARDING] • [Program: PRIME TIME]• NEW CATALOGS: PRIME TIME• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Redeem your Freedom & Fumigate the Factory (introduced with Program: PRIME TIME)
PROJECT: DIARCHY
(July 15h 2025 - Unknown 2025)
"A new archetype has arrived. Forebears of tradition. An enduring moral order forced into shadows." - H.J. Easterman

NEW CONTENT:• NEW PRIME ASSET: Otto & Arora Kress• NEW TRIAL: Kill the Politician• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Get Out the Vote & Sentence the Prosecuted• NEW CATALOGS: Project Diarchy: Deluxe• REBIRTH 2.0& MUCH MORE!-----------------------------------------------------LIMITED TIME CONTENT:• NEW EVENTS: [Program: DEEP BURN]• NEW CATALOGS: DEEP BURN• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: REDACTED

PROJECT: MESSIAH
(December 9th 2025 - ???)
"Do you believe prayer can change the world? I hope so, because somebody who's chosen belief despite evidence will believe anything. There's a sucker baptized every minute. Maybe there's something more to this world. Something eternal." - H.J. Easterman
NEW CONTENT:• NEW PRIME ASSET: Sister Liliya Bogomolova• NEW TRIAL: Despoil the Auction• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Fabricate the Scandal & Seize the Narcotics• NEW CATALOGS: Project Messiah: Deluxe-----------------------------------------------------LIMITED TIME CONTENT:• NEW EVENTS: [Program: WINTER KILLS]• NEW CATALOGS: WINTER KILLS


PROJECT: HOSPICE
(REDACTED - REDACTED)
"A huntsman is no less effective at tracking a vicious lion than he is a common field mouse. Given the time and resources, I believe Whitehorn can prove his usefulness beyond the confines of his Trial." - H.J. Easterman
NEW CONTENT:• NEW PRIME ASSET: Prescott Whitehorn• NEW TRIAL: Cage the Animals• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Flood the Enclosures & Expose the Freakshow• NEW CATALOG: Project Rehab: Deluxe• NEW EX-POP: The Animals• NEW RIG: Oilslick& MUCH MORE!-----------------------------------------------------LIMITED TIME CONTENT:• NEW EVENTS: [Program: OSTERN] • [Program: FEUERWERK]• NEW CATALOGS: OSTERN & FEUERWERK• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Ready the Squad Cars & Recover the Product (Introduced in Program: OSTERN) Contaminate the Water Supply & Decode the Evidence (Introduced in Program: FEUERWERK)
PROJECT: HARVESTER
(REDACTED - REDACTED)
"REDACTED." - H.J. Easterman

NEW CONTENT:• NEW PRIME ASSET: Olivia Hall• NEW TRIAL: Control the Operation• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Sort the Infected & Harvest the Rotting Organs• NEW EX-POP: Dolly& MUCH MORE!-----------------------------------------------------LIMITED TIME CONTENT:• NEW EVENTS: [Program: Hello Dolly!]• NEW WEEKLIES: Speed Run, Lights Out, and Kiss of Death

PROJECT: LIFELINE
(REDACTED - REDACTED)
"REDACTED." - H.J. Easterman
NEW CONTENT:• NEW TRIAL: Collect the Organs• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Infect the Enemy & Man the Medical Pavilion& MUCH MORE!-----------------------------------------------------LIMITED TIME CONTENT:• NEW EVENTS: [Program: Smokescreen]
PROJECT: ECSTASY
(REDACTED - REDACTED)
"REDACTED." - H.J. Easterman

NEW CONTENT:• NEW TRIAL: Switch the Dealers• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Seduce the Victims & Splay the Cadavers• NEW EX-POP: The Assailant& MUCH MORE!-----------------------------------------------------LIMITED TIME CONTENT:• NEW EVENTS: [Program: Half-Life]

PROJECT: INVASION
(REDACTED - REDACTED)
"A new archetype has arrived. A mind corrupted by the false teachings of communism, his mind being equally broken and rebuilt again through the partaking in war and the slaughter of his enemies, his body a symbol of strength that he used to maintain order and control." - H.J. Easterman
NEW CONTENT:• NEW PRIME ASSET: Leonid Losev• NEW TRIAL: Assassinate the Defector• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: Bomb the Embassy & Extract the Agent• NEW RIG: Hypodermic Rig& MUCH MORE!-----------------------------------------------------LIMITED TIME CONTENT:• NEW EVENT: [Program: Meltdown]
PROJECT: PALLIATION
(REDACTED - REDACTED)
"REDACTED." - H.J. Easterman

NEW CONTENT:• NEW PRIME ASSET: Volker Brandt• NEW TRIAL: [REDACTED]• NEW MK-CHALLENGES: [REDACTED]• NEW RIG: [REDACTED]& MUCH MORE!-----------------------------------------------------LIMITED TIME CONTENT:• NEW EVENT: [REDACTED]


PRIME ASSET: Sgt. Leland Coyle
| PATIENT FILE NO. 14820 |
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| Name: Leland Coyle |
| DOB: [REDACTED], 1923 |
| POB: Blackwell, OK |
| SEX: Male |
| HEIGHT: [REDACTED] |
| FAMILIAL ARCHETYPE: The Father |
| COLLECTION AGENT: Clyde Perry |
| PERMITTED EQUPMENT: |
|---|
| ELECTRIFIED BATON: Jerry-Powered by a large modified car battery, Coyle's electrified baton is meant to inflict as much pain as possible. As of PROGRAM: Prime Time, the baton's votage was increased to temporarily disable Reagent Rigs. |
| ELECTRIC GRID: Coyle’s trial environments feature a unique type of trap, electrified grids that intermittently activate and cover sections of the ground. These grids inflict continuous damage to any Reagents who step on them, but can be avoided by jumping or temporarily disabled using throwables like bottles, bricks, or the stun rig. |
MURKOFF COLLECTIONS, COYLE
Coyle Surveillance, Part 1 of 2
Clyde Perry Letters
1956.02.16MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYRE-TRANSCRIPTION, MARCH 1958 FOR INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONTELEXTO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS Sinyala FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN WICHITA, KSSUB: LELAND COYLE SURVEILLANCECrossed state lines to file report following altercation with Oklahoma law enforcement.Summary Below of surveillance/research of Sergeant Leland Coyle of Blackwell, OK.Anecdotal evidence of abuse of animals and sexual assault as a child, leading to military academy education.Teenage criminal tendencies kiboshed by recruitment into local Klu Klux Klan chapter.Married at age nineteen, wife dies six months later after “falling down stairs,” Leland Coyle joins the marines to avoid investigation.Coyle serves two years honorably in the Pacific Theater. Three confirmed enemy kills, two suspicious American deaths in his company.Upon return to Oklahoma, resumes Klan activity, which segues naturally into law enforcement job. On police department payroll since 1947.(continued)
Coyle Surveillance, Part 2 of 2
Clyde Perry Letters
1956.02.16MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLY
(continues)Coyle Surveillance Coyle keeps obsessively complete notes. Seems to consider himself vital to history and of great interest to posterity.Extremely effective policeman. Enormous profit from exploitation of prison labor, extortion and civil forfeiture. Multiple commendations.Coyle marries a second time and extorts wife’s family. Wife’s family dies in electric fire. Wife flees to Chicago, dies officially of “natural causes,” body recovered between the 900-2000 blocks of Kostner Ave.Coyle promoted to sergeant. Marries third time, wife commits suicide within six months via multiple gunshots to the head. Wife’s family dies within year, all apparent suicide via increasingly violent and convoluted methodologies.Sergeant Leland Coyle observed standing in field watching lightning storm on five separate occasions during surveillance.Coyle displays extreme charisma, extraordinarily popular among fellow police.Interview details to follow.
Coyle Interview
Clyde Perry Letters
1956.02.16MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYRE-TRANSCRIPTION, MARCH 1958 FOR INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONTELEXTO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS Sinyala FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN WICHITA, KSSUB: LELAND COYLE INTERVIEWArranged to meet Sergeant Leland Coyle at bar on Route 177 under pretense of bribery.Coyle was known and well-liked by bar staff and customers. Drank heavily and partook of nuts on table. Discovered my canard within minutes and conversation took decidedly violent turn.I had the feeling of being a crippled mouse used as a plaything by a tom cat. I believe that if he had intended to kill me, I would not be writing now.Subject’s charisma was, however, undeniable. Sergeant Leland Boyle highly recommended for PROJECT LATHE.I have two broken fingers, lots of bruising, pissing blood, Taking a weak’s recovery in Wichita.TRANSCRIPTION NOTE: Type in Telex above stet, Clyde Perry typo “Boyle” for “Coyle” likely an effect of broken fingers, or inebriation.
PRIME ASSET: Mother Gooseberry
| PATIENT FILE NO. 14820 |
|---|
| Name: Phyllis Futterman |
| DOB: [REDACTED] |
| POB: [REDACTED] |
| SEX: Female |
| HEIGHT: [REDACTED] |
| FAMILIAL ARCHETYPE: The Mother |
| COLLECTION AGENT: Clyde Perry |
| PERMITTED EQUPMENT: |
|---|
| DR. FUTTERMAN: Gooseberry's puppet is secured tightly to her right arm, inside the puppets mouth hides a drill tongue. As of PROGRAM: Prime Time, modifications were made to said puppet to maximize Reagent hemorrhaging. |
| FUTTERBOMBS: Unlike Coyle’s traps, Gooseberry’s trials feature an explosive device that arms itself when a Reagent remains within its range for a short time. Once triggered, it detonates, dealing severe damage to anyone nearby. These explosives can be disabled with throwables like bottles, bricks, or the stun rig. |
MURKOFF COLLECTIONS, GOOSEBERRY
Gooseberry at Holmesburg
Clyde Perry Letters
1956.12.13MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEXTO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS Sinyala FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN PHILADELPHIA PASUB: GOOSEBERRY AT HOLMESBURGSecured interview with Phyllis Futterman at Holmesburg Prison north of Philadelphia.Subject near-unrecognizable compared to archive photos and mugshot. Phyliss Futterman, along with a majority of inmates, has been subject to dermatological experiments under the supervision of a Doctor Kligman. Testing commercial products for REDACTED & REDACTED, Futterman’s been exposed to carbonic acid, dioxin, and grafts of infected corpse flesh, Other inmates have gotten worse.Futterman’s physical health remains remarkable, even if she looks like yesterday’s guacamole.Interview lasted approximately 20 minutes.
Gooseberry Background
Clyde Perry Letters
1956.12.13MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEXTO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS Sinyala FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN PHILADELPHIA PASUB: GOOSEBERRY BACKGROUND(continued)Brief background precis on Phyllis Futterman:Daughter of dentist Dr. A. Futterman of Philadelphia, PA. Mother out of the picture.Phyllis worked as her father's assistant from a young age, used puppets to distract adolescent patients during drilling/surgery.Young Phyllis's hobbies included taxidermy and musical theater.The Futtermans' popularity lead to a locally broadcast TV program, "The Mother Gooseberry Hour," on air as of 1951. Following Dr. Futterman's death, Phyllis suffers hysteria and disassociation. Dr. Futterman's corpse still has not been located.Tone of the Mother Gooseberry Hour shifted. Adolescent audience conditioned through classical application of abuse and praise. Phyllis rated as highly charismatic. Adolescent audience becomes cult-like, engaging in immoral behavior, drug use and other shenanigans leading to larceny and assault.Police raid TV studio in 1955 on charges of kidnapping and racketeering. Phyllis retreats to the puppetry tunnels beneath set and uses drill to kill two police and injure five before being apprehended.Sentenced to life in prison at Holmesburg.
The Raid on Futterland
News Clipping
1955.02.07Transcribed for Records of A. Bradley AvellanosMOTHER, MAY I MURDER?PHILADELPHIA, PA ?Two police are dead, and half a dozen injured after a daring raid on the studio of disgraced children's variety show host Phyllis Futterman, known to her young fans as "Mother Gooseberry."Charged with Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Kidnapping, and Racketeering, Phyllis Futterman has for years now been using her television platform and mail-order "dental drops" business to hook a generation of children on narcotics, violence, theft, and quite possibly murder.Police Captain Stanley Hoad described the so-called Futterland Studios as "The most grotesque architectural perversion since. H.H. Holme's Chicago Murder Castle," adding, "The fact that this could exist under the so-called--"Continues, GOOSEBERRY MURDERS page 4
Gooseberry Interview
Clyde Perry Letters
1956.12.13MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEXTO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS Sinyala FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN PHILADELPHIA PASUB: GOOSEBERRY INTERVIEW(continued)Interview with Phyllis Futterman reveals lucid and highly charismatic subject.Two personalities on display:1. Phyllis Futterman, alternating between television persona "Mother Gooseberry," a child-like Phyllis Futterman approximately age 14.
2.Dr. A. Futterman, her deceased father. She's fashioned a hand-puppet from scavenged cafeteria and workhouse scraps, showing a remarkable mechanical aptitude. The "Dr. Futterman" personality is abusive and violent. But he's funny, and I like him.Both personalities included lapses into a lizard-brained murderous rage-monster.The Mother Gooseberry personality shows remarkable charisma, as noted. Despite her ragged appearance, she appears to have had carnal relations with at least two guards. Many of her fellow prisoners and staff have fallen under her sway.Phyllis expressed interest in self-improvement and scientific advancement. Says she'd like a change of scenery.Phyllis Futterman highly recommended for trials in PROJECT LATHE.
PRIME ASSET: Il Bambino
| PATIENT FILE NO. 15210 |
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| Name: Franco Barbi |
| DOB: [REDACTED] |
| POB: [REDACTED] |
| SEX: Male |
| HEIGHT: [REDACTED] |
| FAMILIAL ARCHETYPE: The Son |
| COLLECTION AGENT: Clyde Perry |
| PERMITTED EQUPMENT: |
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| FRANCO'S LUPARA: An Italian word meaning “for the wolf,” this break-action shotgun has had its barrel sawed off, converting this hunting weapon into a tool for up-close and personal mafia assassinations. |
| LASER TRIP WIRE: Franco’s trials feature a high-tech explosive trap, strategically placed in high-traffic areas like hallways. Nearly invisible to the naked eye, these devices can only be spotted by carefully watching for the small units near the floor—or by using NVGs to reveal their laser tripwires. |
MURKOFF COLLECTIONS, FRANCO
AKA Il Bambino
A.Bradley Avellanos Letters
1959.09.30INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX, TRANSCRIPTIONTO: CLYDE PERRY / NORMAN, OK
FM: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS / SINYALA FACILITY, AZAgency partners lost track of potential P.A. Franco Barbi in Miami on 21
September. Suspect he returned to New Orleans.Staff has extreme interest in F. Barbi. Profile suggests great potential and
extreme danger in Surveillance. Use caution.Pertinent facts:
Franco Barbi, AKA "Il Bambino"
Father: Salvatore Barbi, AKA "Figo Barbi," AKA "Sally Figs," current head of
the Martino Crime Family, engaged in narcotics, racketeering, extortion
Birth mother dead, no siblings
Salvatore partial owner in Cuban casino, active CIA black book asset.
FBI claims limited evidence of Martino Crime Family
Franco has extensive arrest record but zero charges (assault, sexual assault,
solicitation, public nuisance)
Age Twelve
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.10.01INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX, TRANSCRIPTIONTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS / SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: CLYDE PERRY / NEW ORLEANS, LAContacted employee of Franco's father, (organized crime boss Salvatore Barbi.)
Background details of Franco Barbi below.First murder committed as a child, approximately age 12. Follows with career as
assassin/debt collector. Multiple additional murders with likely psychosexual
motivation. Largely impotent. Sexual relationship with his father's fourth
wife, after which Franco is severely beaten by his father and sent to Miami.
Cranial birth defects exacerbated by repeated trauma.En route. Stopping in Pensacola branch office for pep pills and cash.
Counter-Revolutionary
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.10.03INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX, TRANSCRIPTIONTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS / SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: CLYDE PERRY / CUTLER BAY, FLA CIA asset at a bar south of Miami confirmed Franco Barbi's involvement in
Agency activity in Cuba.Franco deeply entwined with expat/counter-revolutionary Cuban community in Florida.Franco has taken part in numerous raids on Cuban soil, resulting in dozens of
deaths. Similar M.O. to New Orleans, indiscriminate and erratic murder,
outside and beyond utility to the Agency, resulting in expulsion from future
operations.Received contact information for last known Cuban counter-revolutionary
associate of Franco's, one Narciso Peñafiel, who tipped me toward a
prostitution-friendly bar on the Big Cypress preserve. Peñafiel was able to
confirm upwards of twenty murders in unauthorized anti-Castro raids on Cuba.
The Gator Hook
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.10.04INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX, TRANSCRIPTIONTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS / SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: CLYDE PERRY / MIAMI, FLLocated the "Gator Hook Lounge," a dingy shack full of hunters, drunks, and
hookers. Still-steaming, gutted and half-bled buck lying on the bar. Bartender
mistook me for a game warden and offered to unzip me with a knife wide enough
to fry an egg on. After befriending the locals, was introduced to local ladies
of the night. Was informed of Franco Barbi's enthusastic and profligate sexual
appetites, confirmed he's a nancy, limp where it counts and eager for the
business end of a high heel. Depsite his deep pockets, they had uncharitable
notions about his appearance, hygeine, and their own professional safety.
Honey Island
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.10.05INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX, TRANSCRIPTIONTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS / SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: CLYDE PERRY / LUBBOCK, TXStaked out working place of known associate of Franco Barbi, a prostitute only identified by her nom de guerre, "Honey Island Jenny." After three hours
watching airplane traffic, screams heard inside hotel at 3:44am. Desk Clerk
responding to noise complaints encountered fleeing room; (Desk Clerk currently
being held as witness, will either be volunteered for Sinyala or die in
accident.)Franco's associate Jenny found dead. No initial sign of Franco on the
premises, though his clothing, weapons, and personal affects were present. As,
it turned out, was Franco. He managed to hide himself inside/underneath Honey
Island Jenny's corpse, and ambushed me before I could phone the regional
office. Altercation resulted in injuries to my hand, skull, and leg.
Get Barbi
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.10.05INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX, TRANSCRIPTIONTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS / SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: CLYDE PERRY / LUBBOCK, TXThis may be my last operation for the Collections Department, doctors are
telling me my mobility will be limited for the near future. You'll have to
forgive any lapses in timely reports, doctors here are limiting my amphetamine
intake. But, Franco Barbi located. Alias "Il Bambino," alias "Franco Lupara
Barbi." I was stabilized in Miami, then flown to Texas for skull surgery and
leg reconstruction.Franco effective practitioner of violence and extremely charismatic individual.
Highly recommended for PROJECT LATHE, caution recommended during collection.
PRIME ASSET: The Buffalo Minotaur
| PATIENT FILE NO. [REDACTED] |
|---|
| Name: Otto & Arora Kress |
| DOB: [REDACTED], 1899 |
| POB: [REDACTED] |
| SEX: Male & Female |
| HEIGHT: [REDACTED] |
| FAMILIAL ARCHETYPE: The Grandparents |
| COLLECTION AGENT: Clyde Perry |
| PERMITTED EQUPMENT: |
|---|
| OTTO'S HANDHELD CIRCULAR SAW: A bespoke circular saw, trading speed for torque, this weapon is perfect for bone and any other stubborn materials that need serving. |
| ARORA'S KRESS PRECURSOR VIALS: A corked glass vial that holds a dose of the indigo-hued Kress Precursor, one of Arora's own inventions. |
| TOXIC FLASH TRAP: taking the place of the hanging traps within the Trial Environment, these traps consist of hanging containers of the Kress Precursor, which will infect Reagents for a short duration after. |
PRIME ASSET: Liliya bogomolova
| PATIENT FILE NO. [REDACTED] |
|---|
| Name: Liliya Bogomolova |
| DOB: [REDACTED] |
| POB: [REDACTED] |
| SEX: Female |
| HEIGHT: [REDACTED] |
| FAMILIAL ARCHETYPE: The Aunt |
| COLLECTION AGENT: George Nichols |
| PERMITTED EQUPMENT: |
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| PROSTHETIC BLADE: |
| CLAWS: |
| DISGUISED MANNEQUINS: |





PRIME ASSET: Prescott Whitehorn
| PATIENT FILE NO. 13752 |
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| Name: Prescott Whitehorn |
| DOB: [REDACTED] |
| POB: [REDACTED] |
| SEX: Male |
| HEIGHT: [REDACTED] |
| FAMILIAL ARCHETYPE: The Great Uncle |
| COLLECTION AGENT: Clyde Perry |
| PERMITTED EQUPMENT: |
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| PRESCOTT'S CROSSBOW: A modified hunting crossbow with a reinforced drawstring and improved bolts, designed to inflict maximum damage to Reagents. After Whitehorn's reintegration, his arsenal was expanded with tracking bolts that emit a siren to reveal the Reagent's location and hemorrhaging bolts that worsen bleeding, allowing Whitehorn to follow wounded targets. |
| BEAR TRAPS: Whitehorn can deploy modified bear traps that immobilize Reagents and trigger a loud built-in alarm, attracting nearby Ex-Pops. These traps can be disabled with throwables or the Jammer rig's [REWIRE] upgrade, but Whitehorn can reset activated traps himself if need be. |

Prime Time TV - Render by @TannerFeline
PRIME ASSET: Mickey Schwartz
| PATIENT FILE NO. 16435 |
|---|
| Name: Mickey "The Boy" Schwartz |
| DOB: 02/16/1929 |
| POB: Clarksville, TN |
| SEX: Male |
| HEIGHT: 6'8" |
| FAMILIAL ARCHETYPE: The Brother |
| COLLECTION AGENT: Clyde Perry |
| PERMITTED EQUPMENT: |
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| MODIFIED BASEBALL BAT: A wooden bat laced with sharp nails, one hit will cause a staggering effect and blurred vision for a short period of time. |
| BASEBALL TURRETS: Pitching machines with improvised motion sensors attached to its main chassis. Reagent’s who enter its line of sight will be shot with glass covered baseballs, causing minor damage and knockback. |






Mickey Schwartz - art by @Dominated_Nick294
PRIME ASSET: Leonid Losev
| PATIENT FILE NO. 15724 |
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| Name: Leonid "The Captain" Losev |
| DOB: 04/11/1917 |
| POB: Stalingrad, USSR |
| SEX: Male |
| HEIGHT: 6'6" |
| FAMILIAL ARCHETYPE: The In-Law |
| COLLECTION AGENT: Silas Knisely |
| PERMITTED EQUPMENT: |
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| TWO-SIDED HAMMER & SICKLE: Depending on the side used, it will either inflict the classic bleeding effect or the brand new cripple effect, a devastating effect that will slow Reagent movement speed significantly until they can set the broken bone back in place. |
| TOY SOLDIERS: Mannequins adorning Soviet military rags slowly rotate their heads 180 degree. If spotted, as shown by a red spotlight emitting from their eyes, a three round burst will be fired. This trap can be disabled by tossing a throwable at it's head, which triggers an extra three shots, these may distract Ex-Pops. Hitting elsewhere will only temporarily disable it, unless hit by a stun rig. |

Leonid Losev - art by @Dominated_Nick294
MURKOFF COLLECTIONS, LEONID
Foreign Aid
Silas Kinsley Letters
1960.11.05MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEXTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS/SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: SILAS KINSELY/[REDACTED], UTSUB: LEONID LOSEV INTERVIEWArranged a meeting with Cpt Leonid Losev at [REDACTED] Utah. Was put through precisely three separate security checks before being allowed onto the property, and another one after that. The subject was chained down via his hands and legs to the walls of his cell. Despite his frail look, the guards told me his strength had not left him. Physically he looked worse for wear, the one thing that stood out the second the light hit his face was his left eye, looks like someone did a number to it with a cheese grater and a battering ram. The doctor here in the blacksite informed me that it was something called “Necrotising fasciitis”, most likely caused by the beatings done to his face with, and I quote “The nail whip”. The infection appears to have rotted away most of the flesh around his eye, however Leonid claims he still has some vision despite the damage.Interview lasted approximately 40 minutes.
Cpt Losev Background
Silas Kinsley Letters
1960.11.05MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEXTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS/SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: SILAS KINSELY/[REDACTED], UTSUB: LEONID LOSEV BACKGROUND[INFORMATION ACQUIRED VIA AGENCY PLANTS WITHIN THE KGB AND COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE USSR. PASSED ONTO AGENCY ASSETS]Born and raised in Stalingrad (formerly Volgograd) during the communist revolution of 1917. Father was a prominent member of Lennin’s coup which allowed the family to live a well off life compared to their previous neighbours.Raised on communist values by his father and attended some of the USSR’s most prominent up and coming schools. Would go on to join his local Kosomol at the age of 16 which strengthened his ties to communism.Reports vary, but oral testinomies seem to suggest that Leonid survived the invasion of Stalingrad, spending over a week making his way through the city during its many bombing campaigns.Was officially put into military service in 1942 and rose to the rank of captain by early 1945. Rumours of butchering German corpses spread but were never confirmed.Would sit on the executive board of the communist party after his service, and took particular interest in foreign affairs, economics and the management of various prison camp finances. Official reports on his work state how he made his colleagues uncomfortable with his casual remarks of violence.Reports on his lust for violence grew to the point where the party trained and then deployed him on a tradecraft assignment in Los Alamos, to which he was captured and detained by agency officials.
KGB Report - Cpt Losev Disappearance
CIA ARCHIVES
1953.07.29COPYCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY - FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE COLLECTIONSKGB REPORT ON THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CPT LEONID LOSEV[INFORMATION ACQUIRED VIA AGENCY PLANTS WITHIN THE KGB AND COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE USSR. REPORT TRANSLATED FROM RUSSIAN BY AGENCY ASSSETS.]TOP SECRET
Committee for State Security of USSR
Department of Foreign Intelligence
Operational Report No. 29/98
Date: 14 July, 1953SUBJECT: CAPTURE OF OPERATIVE “IVANOV” (REAL NAME: LEONID LOSEV)LOCATION: LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICAI. SUMMARY - On July 9 1953, all communication with operative “IVONV” ceased. Operative was detained by counterintelligence authorities of the United States of America (USA) while attempting to conduct intelligence gathering of classified documents related to projects conducted by American acquired GERMAN & AUSTRIAN specialists.II. BACKGROUND - Operative “IVANOV” was deployed in the USA under deep cover in July 1953, operating as a contracted security guard for the LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY. His three primary objectives were. • Investigation of the American nuclear program
• Identifying GERMAN & AUSTRIAN specialists working within the region
• Gathering of sensitive documents related to [REDACTED] headed by
Dr Rudolf Gustav Wernicke“IVANOV” had conducted no prior intelligence gathering missions up until this point, but had been held in high regards during his training and seen as a capable person given his history during the eastern front conflict. [EDITORS NOTE: The Second World War]III. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DETENTION - American authorities released a statement confirming the arrest of a "foreign agent” found trespassing and in possession of sensitive information related to “homeland security”. The arrest was violent and ended up with two officials suffering minor injuries. No further information has been released to the foreign press at this time.IV. ANALYSIS - Investigations suggest three possible causes of compromise 1. Internal Leak - Potential breach within USSR governmental departments.
2. Human Error - Operative “IVANOV” may have compromised himself by accident due to his lack of experience in the field.
3. Betrayal - Operative “IVANOV” may have defected to the United States and staged his arrest as a coverup.V. DAMAGE ASSESSMENT - • Risk of Exposure: HIGH
• Operative “IVANOV” cover: IRREVITABLY COMPROMISED
• Diplomatic & Political Repercussions: HIGH
• Active Assets Compromised: 1 (“IVANOV” aka Cpt Leonid Losev)
• Intelligence Loss: SEVERE
• Risk of Active & Public Conflict: LOW
• Risk to Other Operatives: MODERATEVI. RECOMMENDATIONS - 1. Establish contact via embassy channels for diplomatic talks.
2. Conduct disinformation campaigns within foreign press to deter public interest.
3. Conduct internal investigations into potential breach within USSR governmental branches.
4. Negotiate potential prisoner exchange with the United States
5. Attempt a covert rescue operation of operative “IVANOV” (HIGHLY UNLIKELY)End of Report
Filed By: Colonel Alexi Petrenko
Committee for State Security of USSR
Department of Foreign Intelligence
Cpt Losev Interview
Silas Kinsley Letters
1960.11.05MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEXTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS/SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: SILAS KINSELY/[REDACTED], UTSUB: LEONID LOSEV INTERVIEWInterview with Leonid Losev revealed an extremely strong and charismatic subject with near perfect leadership abilities.During the course of our interview, Losev appeared to display a very strong mental fortitude. Despite his senseless ramblings of soviet patriotism, and his annoying humming of what I assume are some communist filth-tunes, he doesn't appear to be putting on an act. It seems years of torture either broke his mind to the point where it doesn’t phase him, or he has somehow been able to cling onto his anti-interroigation training for seven years.It appears his fortitude had become “airborn” in a way, as he revealed to me his ability to rile up his fellow prisoners and cause some minor havoc simply by barking orders.Our interview ended abruptly when, after questioning him on his childhood and life back home, he attempted to lash out at me. I assume he wanted to take a chunk out of me as evident by him biting his teeth together. The subject of his childhood appears to be one of his few touchy areas and may be something to exploit.Cpt Leonid Losev highly recommended for trials in PROJECT LATHE-2
PRIME ASSET: The VIXEN
| PATIENT FILE NO. 17380 |
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| Name: Olivia Hall |
| DOB: 11/12/1930 |
| POB: [REDACTED], Egypt |
| SEX: Female |
| HEIGHT: 5'5" |
| FAMILIAL ARCHETYPE: The Aunt |
| COLLECTION AGENT: Silas Knisely |
| PERMITTED EQUPMENT: |
|---|
| EXTENDED INJECTION DEVICE: Olivia wields a reloadable 12-inch syringe, using her small frame to chase down Reagents and inject them with a custom drug cocktail that causes effects like (Stumbling, Blurred Vision, Nausea, Temporary Incapacitation, etc.). Once her victims are weakened, she strikes with a set of scalpels from her belt, attempting to harvest their organs. |
| SWINGING NEEDLES: Much like the door traps, stepping on an electrical floor trigger will cause a series of hypodermic needles to swing towards Reagents, injecting them with a toxic cocktail that temporarily increases stamina depletion. |

Olivia Hall - art by @Dominated_Nick294

Fully Body - art by @Dominated_Nick294
PRIME ASSET: Volker brandt
| PATIENT FILE NO. 16247 |
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| Name: Volker Brandt |
| DOB: 11/9/1930 |
| POB: Munich, Germany |
| SEX: Male |
| HEIGHT: 6'0" |
| FAMILIAL ARCHETYPE: The Sister |
| COLLECTION AGENT: Clyde Perry |
| PERMITTED EQUPMENT: |
|---|
| VERÖDUNGSBAYONET: A bayonet mounted on top of an old pipe, repurposed and insulated to prevent the wielder from burning their fingers. Scorching wires wrap around the blade making it extremely hot and will permanently reduce Reagent's health once hit with it. |
| POISONED MEDICINE: seemingly normal medicine bottles are laced with poison. The bottles have to be closely inspected prior to ingestion for any impurities or unusual labelling. When hit with a throwable or a Stun Rig, laced bottles will break apart making it easier to distinguish between the two. |






Weapon Use - art by - art by @Yaegeram

Volker Brandt - art by @Yaegeram



The following page contains all official documents available to find inside of the Trial environment, as well as a multitude of conceptual storylines.


The road to sinyala
GOOSEBERRY & COYLE
EXPERIMENTAL POPULATION
THE AMERICAN CENTURY
VARIATORS
Sinyala h.r.
GHOSTS OF OUTLAST FUTURE
Lupara
AMELIA
Escape event, 1960
minotaur
THE ANGRY MAN
Captain
Experimental hardware
The vixen
Golden Boy


Easterman Recruitment
Easterman CIA Interview 1
CIA Archives
1953.01.12MURKOFF CORPCOPYCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INTERNAL MEMOTRANSCRIPTION OF INTERVIEW BETWEEN JAMESON LAWLER (CIA) AND HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMAN (CIVILIAN)Recorded: 1953.01.12, Chicago, IlMurkoff Procurement: 1954.04.03EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 33-36]LAWLER: You were present at Mister Dulles's speech at Princeton.
EASTERMAN: Are you asking me?
LAWLER: Are you denying you were there?
EASTERMAN: No, no. I just couldn't interpret your tone. You seem to already know...
LAWLER: My point is that "Brainwashing" has already too far infiltrated the popular imagination. July of last year it was the front page story in every major U.S. city. Twenty-one American prisoners of war refuse to come home, red-blooded Americans who'd rather make a home in Communist China.
EASTERMAN: I read the papers.
LAWLER: This is the question we need to answer, "Why in the name of God would anybody, given the choice, become a Communist?
Easterman CIA Interview 2
CIA Archives
1953.01.13MURKOFF CORPCOPYCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INTERNAL MEMOTRANSCRIPTION OF INTERVIEW BETWEEN JAMESON LAWLER (CIA) AND HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMAN (CIVILIAN)Recorded: 1953.01.12, Chicago, IlMurkoff Procurement: 1954.04.03EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 36-39]EASTERMAN: You're talking about thought reform.
LAWLER: I'm talking about brainwashing.
EASTERMAN: You've read my work. You have to forgive me, I was working strictly out of assumptions based in the German psyche in the lead-up to nineteen thirty-three. The Red material coming out of...
LAWLER: No, no, no. That's exactly the assumption we're working off of. The basic truth, the notion of Belief, is exactly the same between Communism and National Socialism. You talked about that. The subtler menace. The upstream movement.
EASTERMAN: The political truth backing into culture, into sex. Advertising. Music. Consumption. Drugs.
LAWLER: Everything is a language.
Easterman CIA Interview 3
CIA Archives
1953.01.14MURKOFF CORPCOPYCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INTERNAL MEMOTRANSCRIPTION OF INTERVIEW BETWEEN JAMESON LAWLER (CIA) AND HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMAN (CIVILIAN)Recorded: 1953.01.12, Chicago, IlMurkoff Procurement: 1954.04.03EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 39-41]LAWLER: Everything is a language.
EASTERMAN: Everything is a language. Yes.
LAWLER: Your brother killed himself.
(Note: several moments silence)
LAWLER: Your brother killed himself in Korea. He was a Lieutenant, I believe?
EASTERMAN: You have this thing you do. You say things that sound like questions but aren't questions.
LAWLER: I don't say anything that's not true.
EASTERMAN: We can't know. My brother died alone. The forensics were sloppy.
LAWLER: You don't think he killed himself.
EASTERMAN: A lot of strange things happen in war.
LAWLER: Correct. Emphatically correct.
EASTERMAN: What are we talking about?
LAWLER: I have an opportunity for you to study what happened in Korea. We're holding K.P.A. Brainwashing subjects in Hong Kong. We need somebody with your bona fides to investigate.
Arrived in Honk Kong
Easterman Letters
1953.02.09COPYPRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANFebruary 9, 1953My Darling Irene,Burn this letter once you have read it.The weather in Hong Kong is surprisingly mild, and I fear it was a mistake to forego my scarf. This town, (I would shudder to call it a city) seems to be made largely of bamboo and damp cardboard, and I live in constant fear of earthquakes.The facilities for my research, however, are as stalwart as I would expect from the greatest army on earth, and my initial interviews have been illuminating.I feel certain that I will be able to find evidence undercutting the foolish business of Stanley's so-called 'suicide.' I have so far interviewed four veterans and one Lutheran Minister, all war prisoners of the Korean People's Army. I've yet to find solid evidence of specific psychological programming, but the degree of trauma is truly impressive.The food here is too spicy, and I miss you terribly.I know you don't like me to repeat myself, but I have found my Leters to you before hidden away in your unmentionables, and really, you must burn this letter after reading.Yours Faithfully,
(HANDWRITTEN SIGNATURE)
Science Opprotunity
Murkoff Correspondence
1954.04.19MURKOFF CORPINTER-ORGANIZATIONAL Leters ONLYCOPYCORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN OLIVIER W. BARANCZYK AND H.J. EASTERMAN(heading removed)Doctor Easterman,Please let me to introduce myself: my name is Olivier Baranczyk, Assistant Director of Behavioral Medicine at the Murkoff Corp.'s Mount Massive Hospital.Of course you're familiar with the Murkoff Corporation.Our mutual friend Jameson Lawler has been sharing with me your findings in Hong Kong, (maintaining, of course, the appropriate discretion.) Your research synchronizes remarkably with dream therapy work we keep a hand in at the labs in Los Alamos.We've secured Agency cooperation to bring you to Los Alamos and meet our team of researchers. You should find tickets and travel documents in your bedside table.I'd strongly suggest you accept the invitation, as this letter is tangential to highly sensitive national security issues. Your knowledge of such activity, even without your active participation in such activity, could represent a security risk requiring some enforceable form of silence.But don't come simply to avoid punishment, the research our scientists at Los Alamos are engaged in is vital, inspiring work, well beyond any of the brutish, clumsy methodologies demonstrated by our enemies in the Communist world. I was told you were a man who could believe in miracles.Olivier Baranczyk
ADMB, Mount Massive
Los Alamos
Easterman Journals
1954.04.30MURKOFF CORPPERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANThe New Mexico desert is as dry and quiet as Hong Kong was wet and noisy.I've been reviewing Dr. Wernicke's notes, and if he were alone in these
endeavors, I would safely categorize him as delusional, irreparably damaged by
the guilt of his participation in the Nazi business. Ghosts and fairy tale
bogeymen. But his results have been thoroughly vetted and I'm left feeling
unmoored from reality.
The Horror in the Clay
Easterman Journals
1954.05.01MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANDate: May 1, 1954Saturday. Perusing a used book shop in Santa Fe, I found a book of monster stories collected from Weird Tales magazine, including a favorite of mine as a child.The story is feeble pulp, the work of a slavering fetishist simultaneously terrified and aroused by our dusky brethren's more atavistic modes of worship. But the opening paragraph struck me as oddly applicable to my new friends at Los Alamos:"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."It is May Day. Workers of the world unite.
The Sake of the Future
Easterman Journals
1954.05.04MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANDate: May 4, 1954I've been warned against talking politics with our Doctor Wernicke. I believe the exact phrase was "We can overlook his past for the sake of the future."This Baranczyk (blast these foreign names) seems to think my research into brain washing and ideological revision should somehow mesh seamlessly with the old German's work with microwave signals and "guided visual stimulation." Wernicke may be little more than a side-show mesmerist.I've been trying to get Wernicke to clarify the intentions of his experiments, but he somehow steers every conversation to the psycho-therapeutic implications of Germanic folklore, with one brief foray into the inherently doomed nature of all heterosexual relationships. He does have his points.Strange dreams since my arrival. Wernicke is certainly a vital and handsome man. I'm reaching out to Murkoff human resources again to see about getting Irene out here. A man needs to be able to concentrate.
GATHERING EX-POP
Charity Savings
Murkoff Correspondence, (A. Bradley)
1956.08.22MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL Leters ONLYCOPYINTER-OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A. AVELLANOS AND M. SCARFIOTTIDate: January 1, 1959(heading removed)Moses,Whatever you think of Easterman and his project, The Board is all hot and bothered over the tax savings inherent in populating the Trials with these Charitable Outreach Centers.The entire cost of running the centers, recruiting volunteers, and trucking them to Sinyala is a bulletproof tax deduction. (And not a bad place to hide all the money coming in from Agency black book $$$.)Hold your nose and think of the profits. Easterman will sabotage himself sooner or later. And if we get tired of waiting, I have ways to nudge him.-A. Bradley
Charity Outreach
Murkoff Minutes
1957.02.12MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL Leters ONLYCOPYDate: February 12, 1959(heading removed)Please inform M. Scarfiotti and A. Bradley that thirty-seven of the Murkoff Charity Outreach Centers are operational and successfully intaking potential patients at a higher than anticipated rate.An additional six Centers will be open before March 1, pending signage correction. (Scarfiotti's insistence that any Murkoff Corp. branding to be limited to inside the Outreach Center, out of public view.)By March 1, we will have operational patient input in:NEW YORK (7 Centers)
CHICAGO (3 Centers)
PHILADELPHIA (2 Centers)
LOS ANGELES (2 Centers)
DETROIT (2 Centers)
BALTIMORE
CLEVELAND
ST. LOUIS
WASHINTON, D.C.
BOSTON
SAN FRANCISCO
PITTSBURGH
MILWAUKEE
HOUSTON
BUFFALO
NEW ORLEANS
MINNEAPOLIS
CINCINNATI
SEATTLE
KANSAS CITY
NEWARK
DALLAS
INDIANAPOLIS
DENVER
SAN ANTONIO
MEMPHIS
OAKLAND
COLUMBUS
PORTLAND (OR)
LOUISVILLE
SAN DIEGO
Experimental Population Transit
Murkoff Accounts
1957.03.07MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL Leters ONLYCOPYDate: March 7, 1959(heading removed)In response to the unanticipated volume of patients volunteering at Charity Outreach Centers, Murkoff has purchased a controlling share in LIBERTY MEAT HAULING LLC.Effective immediately, our cost of transport for patient volunteers to the Sinyala Facility will be cut by roughly 72%.
We can safely transport fifty sedated and hooded Experimental Population Volunteers per cattle car; using trucks only for the last 85 miles from Williams, AZ.Expect Experimental Population Volunteers to require extra sanitization. The stink is considerable.We will continue to transport beef in cars for return trips. Sanitization of human waste from the cattle cars will not be necessary, thanks to recent rollbacks in regulation. (The savings here aren't significant, but every bit helps.)
Project lathe collapse
Personnel Report
Murkoff Accounts
1958.06.29MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL Leters ONLYCOPYDate: June 29, 1958(heading removed)REPORT TO BOARD ON PROJECT LATHE PERSONNEL REPORTPer The Board's request, please find below a tally of the last month's deaths and injuries incurred in Doctor Easterman's Limbic Aggression Therapy, (PROJECT LATHE.)EXPERIMENTAL POPULATION: 109
STAFF, SECURITY: 32
STAFF, RESEARCH/SCIENTIFIC: 8
STAFF, MAINTENANCE: 17
VISITORS: 5Addendum— No amount of redesign / hardening will make the Trial Environments at the Sinyala Facility acceptably safe. Strongly suggest immediate shut-down.
Transference
Easterman Journals
1958.07.12MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANDate: July 12, 1958Scarfiotti is conspiring against me, trying to use the unfortunate events of LATHE as evidence of my incompetence. They'll sink the whole project.Transference is common in therapy. Gooseberry unconsciously seeing me as proxy to her father, Leland Coyle projecting a veritable parade of murder victims onto my humble frame, Whitehorn somehow mixing me in his head with some hillbilly congressman named Wallace.Accidents happened. Mistakes were made. People died, even outside of the Trials. I take full responsibility, though there's very little I could have done and Science is a matter of experimentation.We cannot control the Prime Assets, and therefore we cannot control the Experimental Population. If Project LATHE is allowed to collapse, all of them will be summarily liquidated.
Project Lathe Two
Lemonade
Easterman Journals
1958.07.13MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANDate: July 13, 1958 (ASSUMED, DATE ILLEGIBLE)We'll make lemonade. By god, if life's given you lemons...LATHE proved reprogramming is possible.It will be as the first rough explosions and industrial disasters inspired the creation of the combustion engine.We can use the Trial Environments, the Prime Assets and their Ex-Pop, they will be the anvil against which we hammer our true subjects.Two principles must change:- Give me meaningless test subjects. Neither damaged and broken mental patients, nor charismatic killers. Give me the vanquishable, the unloved, the unformed. I need subjects who are the opposite of special.
- I must be absent. Powerful, benevolent, and mysterious by my absence. I cannot mix with the test subjects.I will find men and women without purpose, and I will guide them as God does, from a mysterious remove.
The Pivot, Part 1
Murkoff Minutes
1958.07.14MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, MOSES SCARFIOTTI, AND H.J. EASTERMAN.Recorded/Filed: July 14, 1958, Sinyala FacilityEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 12-14]EASTERMAN: Clearly.
SCARFIOTTI: And what is that supposed to mean?
EASTERMAN: You're not a lemonade man.
(loud slurping noise on tape)
EASTERMAN: Gooseberry, Whitehorn, they had already developed a cult of personality, either through wealth or media.
AVELLANOS: And Coyle?
EASTERMAN: Sergeant Coyle, too. His occupation alone gave him authority over others. A monopoly of power and violence. The Prime Assets had too much charisma. I need blank canvases.
SCARFIOTTI: Everyone is a blank canvas.
EASTERMAN: Give me people at the opposite end of the culture. Lost and helpless. People we can break down to nothing.
AVELLANOS: That's what we had in the Experimental Population. The Mount Massive patients.
EASTERMAN: No, no, no. The Ex-Pop were full of damage. Trauma. We couldn't empty them out, only shovel in more damage and trauma.
AVELLANOS: And your, uh, dispossessed would not be similarly damaged?
The Pivot, Part 2
Murkoff Minutes
1958.07.14MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, MOSES SCARFIOTTI, AND H.J. EASTERMAN.].Recorded/Filed: July 14, 1958, Sinyala FacilityEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 15-17]AVELLANOS: And your dispossessed would not be similarly damaged?
EASTERMAN: I don't believe so. They'll be losers. Bums. But bums inside the greatest country on earth, with Christian morals, cared for by a generous welfare state. They'll be adult-aged children. Narcotized, lacking ambition, trained in complicity.
SCARFIOTTI: You make it sound easy.
EASTERMAN: I don't believe it will be easy. Not even a little bit. But it will be... less expensive.
AVELLANOS: You have my interest.
EASTERMAN: If you let them shut this down now, you're just throwing away Murkoff's money. But if we pivot to the next phase of the experiment, we're just keeping things rolling. There's almost no new expense, outside of gathering Reagents.
SCARFIOTTI: Reagents? There will be more chemical components to this phase?
EASTERMAN: No, REAGENTS. Our new experimental subjects, the center of LATHE TWO will be Reagents. When they're finished, when they're ready to be released into the world, they'll be agents we can release into the culture that cause change without being consumed.
AVELLANOS: This was your promise for PROJECT LATHE from the start. We're millions of dollars into failure.
EASTERMAN: And if we stop now, that's money wasted. If we keep going, we could make history. Not. Not as an idiom. I mean literally, we could... Make. History.
A Vertical Slice of the Human Brain
Murkoff Accounts
1957.03.07MURKOFF CORPCOPYINTERNAL SINYALA CORRESPONDENCE OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANDate: July 16, 1958Filed: July 18, 1958; Cc J. Lawler / LangleyMr. Baranczyk,I hope the meprobamate remains efficacious. I find the effect on my wife near-miraculous. And I trust that it's helping you keep the steady head and hand I've always admired in your character, despite the recent setbacks.Especially as you'll soon be making a recommendation to the board about whether or not Sinyala will continue to receive funding.A. Bradley Avellanos should have already reached out to you, with the good news that we have found a way to salvage current resources, and push forward into even more exciting research. I wanted to follow up with some scientific specifics.PROJECT LATHE created psychotics. Which is at least a partial success. We are working to create agents willing to do anything, and murder is of course a prime boundary of taboo. But our success here lacked necessary subtlety and control.PROJECT LATHE was based in classical Operant Conditioning, focusing on subconscious triggers. It was crude, and it was effective.However, it revealed an unexpected and extremely promising side effect.Our recent setbacks provided us with an enormous number of LATHE subjects for autopsy, and those revealed strange tumor-like growths in the parietal lobes. This, taken in light of recent discoveries from Doctors Penfield and Jasper, suggests an avenue for a more precise form of Operant Conditioning. My next few days will be dedicated to a very limited "proof of concept," after which I will share my theory. I just want you to know that great things are coming. Expect more from me.(Signature)
H.J. Easterman
The Unborn Homunculous
Easterman Journals
1958.07.19MURKOFF CORP
PERSONELLE SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANDate: July 23, 1958Maybe our autopsies aren't detailed enough. I’ve bombarded subjects with pharmaceuticals and therapy, I've cut open and methodically searched dozens of brains. There is absolutely zero correlation between stimulus and lesion growth.The one consistency even close to interesting are shared visions of this "Skinner Man," some Jungian nightmare man zeitgeisting his way through the test subjects.But that is not science.There will be no LATHE 2. They will shut us down. This is a disaster.
Homunculus
Easterman Letters
1958.07.20TITLE: A Devil on One's ShoulderMURKOFF CORPCOPYINTERNAL SINYALA CORRESPONDENCE OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANDate: July 20, 1958Filed: July 2, 1958; Cc J. Lawler / LangleyMr. Baranczyk,Great news! My "proof of concept" is a phenomenal success. It works even better than I could have hoped. You and the boys at Langley are going to be very, very happy.The parietal lesions formed just as expected, allowing me to adjust with surprising precision the so called "Cortical Homunculus." Once properly conditioned, Murkoff (or the client) will be able to set predetermined behaviors into the subject's very brain. Belief will follow, and by subtle adjustment we can make agents capable of nearly anything.Think of it as having "A Devil on One’s Shoulder." In the properly conditioned subject's experience, it will be like a dark conscience. An experience not unlike temptation, or addiction. But once acted upon, the motivation of that temptation will follow. Even a committed cynic like Scarfiotti must understand the power of such a tool.Clearly, you will recommend that Murkoff continues funding of PROJECT LATHE. This will be our century.Fondly,
(Signature)
H.J. Easterman
Lathe Two Begins
Murkoff Accounts
1958.08.25MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL Leters ONLYCOPYDate: August 25, 1958(heading removed)The Board and our Agency partners have officially authorized operations of PROJECT LATHE TWO.Please note that "Limbic Aggression Therapy" will heretofore be replaced in documentation with "Latent Agency Therapy."Expenditures for this second phase of PROJECT LATHE should be significantly less that phase ONE, as it re-uses already-built assets, (The Sinyala Facility and surviving staff, Trial Environments, Prime Assets, and Experimental Population.)Oversight from Los Alamos and cooperation/influx from Mount Massive will be minimal, pending results. Agency funding will require (also minimal) sharing of results with MKULTRA, MKDELTA, and MKNAOMI.
Skinner Man Research
Easterman Journals
1958.09.17MURKOFF CORP
PERSONELLE SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANDate: September 17, 1958LATHE 2 is barreling forward at an inspiring pace. The influx of funding was so unexpected that I was momentarily afraid it was the result of some sort of accounting error.Baranczyk is insisting on my sharing test results with the PAPERCLIP team at Los Alamos, especially with regard to this "Skinner Man." It's clearly just a nightmare, some subconscious projection of the guards, or the nurses who attend to the subject's ESOP maintenance and invasive therapy during induced twilight.But this Wernicke character thinks everything is solvable in dreams. To a hammer the world is made of nails. To a Nazi the world is made of nightmares.One of the Sleep Room observers had the gaul to suggest this Skinner Man is a reflection of ME, simply because he overheard Reagents calling it "Doctor Skinner." Ridiculous. I am like a kind father to my patients, and they love me as much as I respect them.The correlation of heart attack and stroke with the Skinner Man's appearance is only that.
Lathe Redesign
Latent Agency Design Part 1
Murkoff Minutes
1958.09.04MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN MOSES SCARFIOTTI, AND H.J. EASTERMAN.Recorded/Filed: September 4, 1958, Sinyala FacilityEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 27-29]SCARFIOTTI: A rat in a Skinner Box doesn't need to know why it pushes the level outside of a desire to avoid pain.
EASTERMAN: These are human beings, not rats.
SCARFIOTTI: So prejudiced rats.
EASTERMAN: We're not creating a behavior, we're creating a complex.
SCARFIOTTI: There is no difference.
EASTERMAN: A Psychological Complex has a story. It's pain combined with a story. Let's say somebody is frequently burned with cigarettes; they will quickly learn a fear response to a smoldering cigarette, their behavior will change to avoid cigarettes. Now let's say somebody is frequently burned with cigarettes by their beautiful and voluptuous mother, who whispers, um... "I love you but the donuts are making you fat." That person hasn't just learned a behavior, that person has a Complex.
SCARFIOTTI: So they're not afraid of cigarettes, they're afraid of donuts? This is your big revelation?
Latent Agency Design Part 2
Murkoff Minutes
1958.09.04MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN MOSES SCARFIOTTI, AND H.J. EASTERMAN.Recorded/Filed: September 4, 1958, Sinyala FacilityEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 29-31]SCARFIOTTI: So they're not afraid of cigarettes, they're afraid of donuts? This is your big revelation?
EASTERMAN: It only starts with donuts. It's an absurd example, but follow it. That donut was suggested by your voluptuous mother.
SCARFIOTTI: Not my mother. Some rhetorical mother. My mother would never.
EASTERMAN: Some beautiful, busty Platonic mother, blouse one button down on a warm day, a sweat-damp strand of hair plastered to her brow. What does the unconscious brain link to the donut?
SCARFIOTTI: (Laughter)
EASTERMAN: You can see the complications.
SCARFIOTTI: And so you add to the complications. Contradictory objectives. Justice through lies, love through punishment, faith through absurdity, mercy through violence.
EASTERMAN: Yes! Exactly. Extreme contradictory taboo, so provocative as to strip everything of meaning. Leaving a blank place where we can instill precise psychological complexes.
Latent Agency Design Part 3
Murkoff Minutes
1958.09.04MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN MOSES SCARFIOTTI, AND H.J. EASTERMAN.Recorded/Filed: September 4, 1958, Sinyala FacilityEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 31-33]SCARFIOTTI: (Unintelligible.)
EASTERMAN: It does not require enormous redesign. The Trial Environments have the same basic shape and aesthetic. Coyle will believe he is the law in his private fiefdom. Gooseberry will believe she is in her make-believe world of childhood joy. Their belief, their control over the Ex-Pop creates a furnace of violent taboo within which we can burn away the Reagent's personalities.
SCARFIOTTI: It's too complicated.
EASTERMAN: It has to be difficult or they won't learn. They have to participate in the lesson.
SCARFIOTTI: So tell me what they are learning here. Gates and keys, these symbols.
EASTERMAN: The symbols all represent luck. The marks on playing cards, rabbits, stars. Luck, fortune, wishes. The law is arbitrary. A murderer is punished much more than an attempted to murderer. They are simply being punished for being competent. Or more likely, for being lucky. They have to believe the law is arbitrary, but simultaneously undeniable.
SCARFIOTTI: Talking to you is exhausting.
EASTERMAN: They will believe that a donut is nothing but a donut. And then we can show them what a donut really is.
SCARFIOTTI: (Unintelligible.)
Completed Reagents
REAGENT 0877 SURVEILLANCE
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.04.12TEXT:
MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYDate: April 12, 1959TELEX[Transcribed/Filed April 14, 1959]TO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS SINYALLA FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN SAN ANTONIO, TXSUB: "COMPLETED" & RELEASED RE-AGENT SURVEILLANCE 087712 APRIL 1959DAY 28 REAGENT 0877 SURVEILLANCE. UNEVENTFUL. SUBJECT ATTENDED EPISCOPAL SERVICES AT SAINT MARKS. ATTENDED BASEBALL GAME, TWO MEALS TAKEN AT DINER. TRIGGER TESTS ACCPETABLE, SUCCESFULLY NEUTRALIZED BEFORE ACTION. AS UNEVENTFUL AS DAYS 1-27. SUGGEST REMOTE/PASSIVE SURVEILLANCE. REQUEST REASSIGNMENT.C. PERRY
Reagent 0946 Surveillance Part 1
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.06.20TEXT:
MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYDate: June 20, 1959TELEX[Transcribed/Filed June 21, 1959]TO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS SINYALLA FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN FIELD MUNCIE, INSUB: "COMPLETED" & RELEASED RE-AGENT SURVEILLANCE 094620 JUNE 1959DAY 6 OF REAGENT 0946 SURVEILLANCE WAS EVENTFUL. SUBJECT EXITED APARTMENT BEFORE DAWN, WALKED LOOPING PATH THROUGH RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD, THEN OBSERVED BIRD FALLING FROM SKY OR TREE. SUBJECT STEPPED ON BIRD. BIRD DEAD.TWO FITS OF CRYING THROUGHOUT DAY. ONE FIT OF UNCONTROLLABLE LAUGHTER. SUBJECT PERFORMED DUTIES AT INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY TO SATISFACTION OF SUPERVISOR.TRIGGER 8 TESTED AT 3:00PM WITH SATISFACTORY RESULTS.TRIGGER 13 TESTED AT 9:30PM WITH EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS.NOTE— SUBJECT HEARD TELLING COWORKER BIRD WAS PULLED FROM SKY WITH POWER OF MIND.C. PERRY
Reagent 0946 Surveillance Part 2
Clyde Perry Letters
1949.06.29TEXT:
MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYDate: June 23, 1959TELEX[Transcribed/Filed June 23, 1959]TO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS SINYALLA FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN FIELD MUNCIE, INSUB: "COMPLETED" & RELEASED RE-AGENT SURVEILLANCE 0946, TERMINATION23 JUNE 1959REAGENT 0946 TERMINATED 11:06 PM ON JUNE 22, 1959.BODY WAITING CLEANUP IN BLAINE NEIGHBORHOOD OF MUNCIE, IN, CORNER OF WILLARD AND S. LUICK.SUBJECT WAS OBSERVED AT THE RIVOLI THEATER FOR A SCREENING OF 'SLEEPING BEAUTY.' SUBJECT APPROACHED GROUP OF ADOLESCENTS AND CLAIMED EXTRA-SENSORY ABILITIES. ADOLESCENTS LAUGHED AND FLED. SUBJECT FOLLOWED ADOLESCENTS UNOBSERVED.SUBJECT ATTEMPTED TO CLIMB INTO HOUSE OF YOUNGEST ADOLESCENT (VISUAL APPROXIMATION 12 YEAR OLD, FEMALE.) AT WHICH POINT I INTERCEPTED AND ENGAGED SUBJECT IN PHYSICAL ALTERCATION. SHOT SUBJECT SIX TIMES IN HEAD AND CHEST, (SILENCED ROUNDS, MINIMAL DISTURBANCE TO NEIGHBORHOOD,) THEN GARROTED SUBJECT. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE MINIMAL.SUGGEST FILING AS 'FAILED CONDITIONING.' RETURNING TO SINYALA.C. PERRY
Reagent 0877 To Los Alamos
A. Bradley Avellanos Letters
1959.08.03MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYDate: June 29, 1959To: CLYDE PERRY,
From: A. Bradley Avellanos
Subject: Reagent 0877 to Los AlamosMr. Perry—Many thanks for your continuing vigilance.Based on confessional intelligence from the minister at St. Marks, Reagent 0877 has become a subject of interest.Please retrieve Reagent 0877 and transport him to our office in Los Alamos for further study. Mr. Baranczyk will be on site by July 1 to receive and process the patient. Submit costs to Sinyala.Please refrain from extracurricular habits.DBNR
(Signature)
A. Bradley Avellanos
Reagent 0877 Send More
Baranczyk Letters
1959.08.03MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYCORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN OLIVIER W. BARANCZYK AND H.J. EASTERMANDate: August 3, 1959Doctor Easterman,Please send additional Reagents.Reagent 0877 has proven a remarkable inspiration to our PAPERCLIP guests. I don't pretend to understand the details, some confluence of your behavioral work and this Rudolph's Dream Therapy.Avellanos tells me it's rare for one of your test subjects to survive as long as 0877, but I hope you have others who have achieved similar levels of ascendance. Project funding will reflect Los Alamos contributions.Respectfully,
(Signature)
Olivier Baranczyk
Reagent 0877 Penicilin
Baranczyk Letters
1957.03.07MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYCORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN OLIVIER W. BARANCZYK AND A. BRADLEY AVELLANOSDate: August 3, 1959Bradley—Have you been monitoring the PAPERCLIP work coming out of Los Alamos?Dr. Wernicke's Sleep Therapy Lab (as extreme a Euphemism as the language allows) is showing an extremely suspicious fixation on the last few Reagents coming out of the Sinyala Facility. The PAPERCLIP gang has remained secretive and condescending as ever, speaking German when they wish to hide from me their research.I have been attempting to learn the language, but I find it a revolting tongue. I have a secretary (the hausfrau of one of our Navy boys) who eavesdrops and translates for me. She told me Wernicke said, "This Doctor Easterman may have made the most fruitful mistake in modern science since the creation of Penicillin."A provocative statement.I am cautious to put too much stock in Rudolph Wernicke's words, on account of his superstition, his cynicism, his condescension of all things American, but still... A provocative statement.Anything you can tell me about PAPERCLIP activities at Los Alamos would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps there are details I can share with you.We've allowed these National Socialists into our military apparatus, we must be extremely vigilant lest the tail begin to wag the dog.Sincerely
(Signature)
Olivier Baranczyk
The Architect
Scarfiotti Recommendation
Avellanos Letters
1955.10.21MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYPRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN S. GOTTLIEB AND A. BRADLEY(heading removed)Dear Bradley,I understand you need an architect for the project in Arizona.Our friend Allan has a recommendation for you. In the second war, Allan was stationed in Bern with a Navy engineer named Moses Scarfiotti. Moses was one of the few, it seems, who could keep up with old Allan's extracurricular activities.He's a Stanford man, top of his class, and more importantly, one of us. You can trust him. The Agency would highly recommend you consider him.Sidney GottliebAPPROVED:(signature)Chief, Chemical Division/TSS
Scarfiotti Job Interview (excerpt)
Murkoff Minutes
1955.11.03MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYTRANSCRIPTION OF INTERVIEW, A. BRADLEY AND MOSES SCARFIOTTI.(heading removed)[minutes 13-16]SCARFIOTTI: Have you been?
BRADLEY: I don't have children.
SCARFIOTTI: That's doesn't matter at all, you have to go. It's the future. I mean, if we have a future. My (Inaudible) kept telling me to go, and finally...
BRADLEY: Helliwell?
SCARFIOTTI: Correct, Disneyland, it's like (inaudible) coin sorter. It's behavioral architecture. The space moves people through it, the shapes instruct people how to behave. It doesn't matter what you think you want, just being in Disneyland erases whoever you woke up as this morning. It says: "Now be patient, now be delighted, now be hungry, now be covetous, now be compliant." It's wonderful. I've never seen so many happy people.
BRADLEY: And you feel you understood the principal of how Mr. Disney achieved all of this?
SCARFIOTTI: Correct. It's so clear once you've seen it. There were hints of this in Germany. It's like a cathedral built by Edward Bernays. You don't mind if I smoke?
BRADLEY: I'll have one. Did you watch the trial?
SCARFIOTTI: McCarthy?
BRADLEY: (inaudible)
SCARFIOTTI: Yes. Well. I try not to get involved in politics.
Easterman Studies Brainwashing
Spoils of War, Part 1
Easterman Journals
1954.01.20MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANSnow and ice collects in the bullet holes pocking the walls everywhere. It will take decades to rebuild Berlin. Having a nip of brandy to stave off the cold.My flight to Hong Kong isn't for another three days; I've tasked myself with studying Jung. If I can convince the Agency to shuttle me to Zurich I may trapse around Burgholzli for inspiration.Maybe one more brandy.Berlin has me in the mind of the Second War. The spoils of every war before were land and treasure. But this last and greatest of conflicts, the spoils of war are cultural. Say what you will about the evils of National Socialism, they have much to teach us about INFRASTRUCTURE. PROPAGANDA. LEADERSHIP. Such things to come.
Spoils of War, Part 2
Easterman Journals
1954.01.20MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYARCHIVIST'S NOTE: A second entry on the page dated January 20th, 1954.
Deterioration in quality of handwriting suggests inebriation.PRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANThe true spoils of that war were reaped in the Orient, in Hiroshima, in the use of weapons that could mean instantaneous global death, in truly meaningless nonexistence, extinction, nobody will be remembered because nobody is around to remember. Anything is possible. Anything is permitted.
Idealogical Remodeling
Easterman Journals
1954.01.24MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANHong Kong. Crowds and steam and noise, the incessant thrum of the textile factories. This is not a civilized place for thought.The Agency wants a full investigation of the technique of hsi nao (translated as "wash brain,") and has put me up in an observation post in Tsuen Wan. They have a dozen veterans for my study, Western and Chinese, exposed to hsi nao techniques.But there are greater lessons I see in the Chinese Communist parties admitted (even celebrated) program of szu-hsiang kai-tsao, (or "ideological remodeling.") A deliberate shaping of a whole population, which by all indications is taking energetic hold.The brainwashing victims, on the other hand, are largely listless, near-catatonic in between bouts of aggression. They are not programmed machines so much as broken children.
Doctor Skinner
Easterman Journals
1954.02.11MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANI may have broken Private Raymous. I've been employing Benzedrine to pep him up
to a talkative state, but his testimony has been a confounding mixture of
repetition and contradiction.Our sessions are dependably cut short by the appearance of "The Doctor," or
sometimes "Doctor Skinner," the invisible specter that seems to manifest
whenever I ask too directly about the methodology of Raymous' captors.We increased Benzedrine dosage from 20mg to 30mg, and despite a brief window of
lucidity, Raymous seized and has gone into a permanently catatonic state.Cardio and galvanograph readings suggest he still faces the torments of the
Doctor. Along with the expression on his face, which is twisted permanently
into an expression of pain and fear. It reminds me of nothing so much as the
hideous smile on a Japanese hannya mask.
Murkoff and the CIA
Freedom in Global Leadership
A. Bradley Avellanos Letters
1949.04.30MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTo: THE BOARD
From: A. Bradley Avellanos
Subject: Proposal for New Business OpportunityDear Sirs-I've been made aware of a new opportunity for great revenue in the promotion of
higher ideals of Freedom in global leadership. It involves a simple matter of
chemical refinement for our friends at the new Agency, well within the
capabilities already established by Murkoff Pharmaceutical.1. Agency asset P. Helliwell is providing heroin to Chang Kai Sheck's rebels
in Thailand and Burma, to indirectly fund Sheck's anti-Communist activities.
2. The Agency wishes to expand such operations into Europe and the Middle
East, in light of rising Leftist sympathies.
3. CIA contacts among the Sicilians are incapable of refining heroin, lacking
the sophistication to do so without great risk of fire/product loss. (The
Corsicans have the capability, but cannot be hired without insulting Mr.
Luciano.)
4. Murkoff Pharmaceutical could easily refine such medicine.I've casually proposed such an arrangement to Mr. Lawler, who is amenable,
pending upstream conversations.To say it plainly: Entering into this sort of arrangement allows us to become
part of the CIA's extra-budgetary (self-funded) activities. This could be a
near-limitless, global, tax-adjacent revenue stream, with extraordinarily
powerful legal-protective implications. Please consider this carefully.Sincerely,A. Bradley Avellanos
Agency Partners
A. Bradley Avellanos Letters
1954.02.06MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYPRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE)(heading removed)Dear Jameson,A little Bluebird told me you were considering another contractor for research
in the area of pharmaceuticals and psychological influence.I discussed it over luncheon with Allan the other day, (a lovely dish of
Artichokes,) and he shares my concern.Please remember, as they say in the gangster pictures, "You don't have anything
on us that we don't have on you."You've come to the Murkoff Corporation in the past for help outside the
bureaucratic stagnation of Congress and your own Agency. To reject our offer of
assistance at this point could have terrible public implications.Please reconsider, and we look forward to working with you.A. Bradley
Collateral Damage
News Clipping
1954.07.06NEWS CLIPPING
Transcribed for Records of Dr. H.J. Easterman (1957)FARM FAMILY BRUTALLY SLAINSAN ANTONIO, TX (AP)A deranged airman brutally murdered a family of five in the early hours of
Monday morning, sexually molesting several members of the family. Several
animals may also have received unwanted attention.The airman second class, Jerome Gillette, 37, was found naked and disoriented
among the hogs outside the scene of the murder. He is being held in an unknown
location, as protection against vigilante justice.Gillette, a World War II veteran and instructor at Lackland Airbase, claims to
have no memory of the crime, though physical evidence makes his guilt obvious.
He told officers his last memory was Sunday night's fireworks, and being
offered a piece of chewing gum from a woman in white, before he "blacked out"
and woke up days later among the hogs.Gillette was spotted by a postal?See FAMILY SLAIN Page 3
Blowback
A. Bradley Avellanos Letters
1954.07.07MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYPRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN JAMESON LAWLER (CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE) AND A.
BRADLEY(heading removed)Bradley,If you haven't yet seen the headlines coming out of San Antonio, I strongly
suggest you have a newspaper couriered. A crime this disgusting, this violent,
committed in public.We are working to make certain the press does not make public any connections
between the crime, the air base, or our activities.I'm sick just thinking about it. This cannot happen again.J. Lawler
Pushback
A. Bradley Avellanos Letters
1954.07.09MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYPRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE)(heading removed)Dear Jameson,Nobody ever said progress would be clean and easy. Don't lose your nerve now.
The San Antonio incident was regrettable, but please think of it as a speedbump
in the road.As we've learned before, so long as the public has somebody to hang, they won't
get too curious.This doesn't have to happen again, as you should be well aware. Sinyala solves
this, and any issues that could arrive in the future.If we keep this in-house, if we control the environment entirely, we can
minimize the potential for "speedbumps" and easily keep any that arise from the'
public view.It's only a matter of money, and Murkoff has made a very reasonable proposal
for how it can be sourced outside Congressional approval. Please be prompt in
your reply.A. Bradley
Reagent 1616, Released
The Horny Cobbler
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.08.07MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX[Transcribed/Filed DATE REMOVED]TO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS Sinyala FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN FIELD, FORT WORTH, TXSUB: COMPLETED & RELEASED RE-AGENT SURVEILLANCE 1616Day 11 of Re-Agent 1616 surveillance. Subject fired from shoe department of
store after groping customer.Later observed in heightened emotional state. Trigger test at 4:10pm with
exceptional results. Successfully neutralizes before anybody hurt.Subject displaying lapses in memory, and sporadic bouts of near-catatonic
behavior. Possible side-effect of triggered amnesia.Subject observed inebriated, pisses on steps of Presbyterian church.Weather cleared at nightfall and subject was observed wandering town, placing
coins, blades, tools and other metal objects against eye and in mouth. Subject
turns slow circles and stops facing west/northwest. From four different
locations, subject always stopped facing west/northwest. I estimate heading
about 315? in all cases. Curious behavior.
Albuequerque
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.08.09MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX[Transcribed/Filed DATE REMOVED]TO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS Sinyala FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN FIELD, ALBUQUERQUE, NMSUB: COMPLETED & RELEASED RE-AGENT SURVEILLANCE 16168 AUGUST 1958Re-Agent 1616 sells unwanted possessions and boards bus to Albuquerque, NM.
A Lethal Trigger
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.08.10MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX[Transcribed/Filed DATE REMOVED]TO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS Sinyala FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN FIELD, ALBUQUERQUE, NMSUB: COMPLETED & RELEASED RE-AGENT SURVEILLANCE 1616Day 14 of Re-Agent 1616 surveillance. Subject applies for jobs at two shoe
stores and one photography studio. Has an abiding interest in the ladies.
Memory lapses still common. Age, work history, and personal details
inconsistent across applications.Eats copious lunch in Mexican-style cantina. I secure subtle point of
observation nearby.Re-Agent 1616 propositions woman of loose character and displays surprising
charisma, despite looking like an over-boiled sausage. Subject recorded
discussing mental fascination, transcription in separate message.Re-Agent 1616 and Loose Woman enter hotel room, sexual intercourse likely.
Trigger test shows exceptional and immediate results. Lethal outcome before
neutralization possible. Clean-up required.
Built for Comfort
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.08.10MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX[Transcribed/Filed DATE REMOVED]TO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS Sinyala FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN FIELD, ALBUQUERQUE, NMSUB: COMPLETED & RELEASED RE-AGENT SURVEILLANCE 1616 (SUPPLEMENT)(Transcription of conversation between RE-AGENT 1616 and WOMAN, unknown.
Approximately twelve minutes of unheard conversation precedes.)1616: ...just about the nicest place I have been since I got out of the hospital.
WOMAN: It's comfortable enough, I guess.
1616: Which fits me just about perfect. You may've noticed I'm built more for
comfort than for speed.
WOMAN: (laughter)
1616: Why I'd bet it would take about five of you to make one of me.
WOMAN: (laughter continues) To make one of you?
1616: Well, if you were on the make. Can I ask? What are these made of?
WOMAN: They're just some old bracelets this boy gave me but he don't really
matter.
1616: I'm not concerned with other boys. I'm willing to bet that bracelet is at
least part steel, and if I could borrow it, I'll show you something quite
extraordinary.
WOMAN: Don't you run off with it now.
1616: Observe. The metal acts as a kind of antenna. I hold it here, I close my
eyes, and I turn. And I can feel it pull, like I was a human compass. I turn
and turn. And upon every circuit I feel the tug. Always in this direction.
WOMAN: What direction is that?
1616: Just about West, I guess.
WOMAN: (laughter) So what, you think you're a compass?
1616: I truly do not know.
WOMAN: Don't compasses point north?
1616: Not this one. It's like there's something to the west I gotta see.
WOMAN: Like the Grand Canyon? Or Hollywood?
1616: I truly do not know. But I believe a man, especially a man of my...
enormous appetites, (laughter from the woman,) ought to follow the things that
tug at him.
WOMAN: Is there something tugging at you now, Sully?
1616: "Sullivan," please. And something's tuggin' at me awful hard...(Subjects exit.)
Human Compass
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.08.11MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX[Transcribed/Filed DATE REMOVED]TO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS Sinyala FACILITY
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN FIELD, ALBUQUERQUE, NMSUB: COMPLETED & RELEASED RE-AGENT SURVEILLANCE 1616Day 15 of Re-Agent 1616 surveillance. Subject has no memory of yesterday's
excitement.Subject continues odd behavior with metal objects. Pretending to be a ""human
compass,"" he holds the metal to his eye or mouth and turns in circles, then ends
heading west/northwest, more directly west now, call it 290°.On a hunch, I used a map and traced the headings from Subject 1616's ""human
compass"" headings, with their starting points in Fort Worth and Albuquerque.
Lines converge within forty miles of Sinyala Facility.Possible subject is picking up some kind of signal? Please advise.
Failed Escape





Murkoff Prototypes





ex-pop classification

Guidelines
Murkoff Case Files
1958.09.19MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanMEMORANDUM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES, INTRODUCTION:With our pivot to the second phase of PROJECT LATHE, Experimental Population Volunteers ("Ex-Pop") are to be grouped by ARCHETYPE and AUGMENTATION for assignation and use in proper Trial environments.Some details from non-LATHE Murkoff programs redacted for internal security.Ex-Pop will be grouped into the following archetypes:GENERAL EX-POP (all staff will desist in calling them GRUNTS)
HEAVY EX-POP (all staff will desist in calling them BIG GRUNTS)
POUNCERS
SCREAMERS
IMPOSTERS
BERZERKERS
NIGHT HUNTERS
PUSHERSPlease note: Intake and re-classification is as much art as science, psychological and physical traists will overlap between archetypes. Please use your best judgement.Archetype/Augmentation details begin on following page
General Ex-Pop
Murkoff Case Files
1958.09.19MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanMEMORANDUM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: GENERAL EX-POP:ARCHETYPELost Men. The most important quality for Standard Ex-Pop is a high degree of "vanishability." The disenfranchised, the lost, the worthless. Think of Drug Addicts, Felons, Political Dissidents, Artists, Leftists, Hobos, and so on. The very nature of charity outreach will attract such specimen.AUGMENTATIONSFew to none, minimal bandages/splints/etc to maintain basic motility. General Ex-Pop may improvise weapons inside Trial.PSYCHOLOGYLesser to average intelligence, (Moron OK.) Aggression based largely in fear and generous chemical encouragement.Phase One LATHE conditioning have made General Ex-Pop extremely vulnerable to charismatic sway and operant conditioning, and they can be epected to commit ecstatically to the guidance of Prime Assets and their environments.DOCTOR'S NOTESAs a rule of thumb, if you can't classify a Volunteer as any other Archetype, file them under GENERAL EX-POP.General Ex-Pop are considered expendable, should be periodically evaluated against cost of feeding/storage/upkeep.
Heavy Ex-Pop
Murkoff Case Files
1958.09.19MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanMEMORANDOM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: HEAVY EX-POPARCHETYPEViolent children. Prior to LATHE Phase one, subjects were part of (REDACTED REDACTED) in conjunction with Los Alamos. Late adolescents subjected to hormone therapy and limb-extension surgeries for military application.AUGMENTATIONSExtremely altered physiognomy and accompanying strength.PSYCHOLOGYClassic Example of the "staked elephant," impossible to control through physical restraints but conditioned for obedience. Limits of control, however, are within a certain range of violence and perversion. Extremely childish cognitive framework.DOCTOR'S NOTESExtremely dangerous, heavy chemical and physical restraints required for transport and maintenance. Be very careful to avoid accidental contact with groin area, Heavy Ex-Pop are easily aroused and difficult to disengage.Childish cognition useful- they will believe anything. Tooth Fairy, The Constitution, Santa, etc.
Pouncers
Murkoff Case Files
1958.09.19MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanMEMORANDOM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: POUNCERSARCHETYPESadomasochist Paranoiac. Prior to LATHE Phase One, patients at Mount Massive facility were selected for their paranoid tendencies; higher resting amygdala activity indicated better chance of external scan of orbitofrontal cortex, IE, "Mind Reading" using detailed angiography.AUGMENTATIONSSubjects have attempted to create personal Faraday Cages by pushing nails, wire, and scavenged bits of metal into their skin. (Leading to Avellanos's oft-repeated "paincushion" joke.)PSYCHOLOGYWe've coined a phrase, "The Sinyala Paradox," to describe the relief the violently paranoid experience when all of their worst and most absurd fears are confirmed by experience.In some instanced, Pouncers have been "moving the goalpost" of their paranoid fantasies, inventing ever-worse future possibilities as circumstances worsen. They are, like many violent people, perfect victims. As with many ambush predators, can be discouraged with a sharp rap to the nose.DOCTOR'S NOTESIt doesn't hurt to listen to their paranoid ramblings. Their fantasies concerning worst-possible-outcome futures can provide good brainstorming fodder for future trauma vectors.
Screamers
Murkoff Case Files
1958.09.19MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanMEMORANDOM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: SCREAMERSARCHETYPEExtreme Sleep-Deprivation/banshee. A gift from our PAPERCLIP colleagues at Los Alamos, so-called "Screamers" were developed based on chance experimentation in German camps during WWII.AUGMENTATIONSConcentration camp experimentation revealed guided cancerogenerative treatment could greatly alter vocal cords. Subjects were exposed to so-called "Morphogenic Engine" therapy and encouraged to scream until physiological changes took place, especially in the false vocal folds and diaphragm. Patients can achieve extremes of pitch and volume, sufficient to temporarily stun anybody within range.Recreating these results at Los Alamos required use of amphetamines to encourage a 'walking nightmare' state that has resulted in a permanent twilight of non-REM near-sleep. Screamers are always sleeping and never sleeping, near-catatonic but extremely sensitive to sound and motion. If startled, will emit a piercing scream that causes immediate paralysis and likely permanent hearing loss.PSYCHOLOGYPatients are experiencing the hallucination, anxiety, and psychosis of extreme sleep deprivation. While at a perceived rest, Screamers are in a steady decompensation toward greater and greater suffering.Patients experience a brief catharsis with the act of screaming, and gain some brief relief from their delusions and panic/dread.DOCTOR'S NOTESEar protection required for all Sinyala staff within shouting distance of subjects.Easterman expects the Screamers to have a calming effect on Reagents, as they encourage a slower and more contemplative approach to the therapy.
Imposters
Murkoff Case Files
1958.09.19MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanMEMORANDOM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: IMPOSTERSARCHETYPETrickster. General Ex-Pop who have been given latex masks to imitate Reagents. A simple canard, but central to the psychological development of our Reagents; Trial subjects must learn than nothing and no one is to be trusted.AUGMENTATIONSBeside the masks, Tricksters are placed in environments nude. They are left to outfit themselves, acquiring clothing from corpses. They fashion small knives from whatever is at hand; often shards of glass, or pits of metal ground against stone until sharp.To focus their utility on guile alone, patients to be developed as Tricksters have no other great physical advantage.PSYCHOLOGYEssentially General Experimental Population; they see their masks as an element in a children's game. Playful and sadistic, they have the remorseless cruelty of children pulling legs off of an insect.DOCTOR'S NOTESUse extreme caution in Trial Environments where Imposters have been inserted. In rare cases, Imposters have managed to steal clothing from Sinyala staff, taking on the appearance of scientists of security.In environments with active Imposters, it's always a good idea to say "hello" to your colleague. If they return a "hello" without moving their lips, or appear to be giggling without smiling, it's advised to maintain a safe distance.
Berzerkers
Murkoff Case Files
1958.09.19MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanMEMORANDOM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: BEZERKERSARCHETYPEBlind rage. Patients repurposed from a prison experiment in weaponized syphilis; we've compensated for blindness and disorientation with physical strength and extreme aggression.AUGMENTATIONSAfter engineered strain of syphilis resulted in blindness and dementia, patients were relocated to Los Alamos for further development as zero-sight assets; steel pins have been surgically inserted into sensitive skin areas in order to increase tactile awareness.Berzerkers have been developed for close-quarters combat in anticipation of urban/jungle warfare in the developing Communist arena. Considerable resources have been put into amplifying Berserker's strength and size via hormone and limb-lengthening therapy. Pending deployment, Berserkers are being temporarily utilized at Sinyala on assurance of minimal damage.Metal plates have ben securely bolted to the patients' faces to deter self-mutilation.PSYCHOLOGYBerserkers seem to have found some sort of enlightenment at the extremes of pain; adding unexpected (at least psychological) legitimacy to Dr. Wernicke's (Los Alamos) theories of a Lateral Ascension. The central tenant of that enlightenment, however, seems to be in worship of violence against others. It could be considered a form of evangelism.Berserkers do seem to have an unreasonable animosity toward their ruined eyes; patients sometimes obsessively picked at their own eyes and then the cavities beneath until they had sufficiently damaged their frontal lobes to essentially self-lobotomize. Addition of metal plates has all-but eliminated such activity.DOCTOR'S NOTESSinyala staff in encouraged not to engage Berserkers in conversation, or to listen to closely to their self-directed diatribes. Previously health staff have been observed engaging in self-harm following prolonged exposure to Berserkers.
Pushers
Murkoff Case Files
1958.09.19MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanMEMORANDOM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: PUSHERSARCHETYPEShaman. Former Sinyala staff, driven to psychosis by chemical exposure, along with proximity to Trial populations.AUGMENTATIONSA rare example of permissiveness from Dr. Easterman. Pushers are equipped with basic aerosolized medication equipment, but are encouraged to develop their own psychoactive compounds. An exercise more in the art than the science of drug use. Their evolving amphetamine/hallucinogen mixture has managed to stay one step ahead of Reagent's acquired drug tolerance, and proven a remarkable partner in achieving truly remarkable states of psychosis.PSYCHOLOGYPushers may have slipped in to their delusional state by a perceived relationship with the so-called "Skinner Man," somewhere between that of a child with an overly-affectionate uncle, or trusted priest. Pushers exhibit the pseudobulbar effect, (paradoxical laughter,) sometimes to such an extent that breathing is effected.DOCTOR'S NOTESThe Pusher archetype is a reminder to all Murkoff staff and visitors to maintain strict security protocols and mental hygiene.The Pusher archetype is also a reminder that every accident is also an opportunity for innovation.
Night Hunters
Murkoff Case Files
1958.09.19MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanMEMORANDOM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: NIGHT HUNTERSARCHETYPE
Military volunteers whose surgical night-vision augmentation has inspired grandiose delusions, including identification as a figure from myth, or a new and nocturnally predacious species of sapiens.AUGMENTATIONS
The technology has its roots in PAPERCLIP science. Based in a second-generation "Vampir" system, it was developed as a Wunderwaffe late in World War II. Still relying on an infrared light source, (chest-mounted,) vision is additionally augmented with photocathode elements, and direct pain stimulation of the primary sensory areas of the cerebellum, along with the primary and secondary visual areas of the brain.Necessary pre-conditioning of Night Hunter patients includes a retinal isolation procedure originally developed in cooperation with Aribert Heim, in which patients' eyeballs are immobilized with pins through the sclera until the muscles atrophy, so that direct, undisturbed stimulation can be applied to the retina. As the entire head must move, (rather than the motion of the eyes, ) autopsy of Night Hunters has shown significant enlargement of the colliculi.PYSCHOLOGY
Beset by narcissism and a manic-depressive reaction, Night Hunters consider themselves perhaps literally super-human. Records show that our (since deceased) PAPERCLIP scientist in R&D may have been filling subject's heads with Teutonic fairy tales and ghost stories. He seems to have infected Night Hunters with both supernatural delusions and perhaps his Slavic accent.DOCTOR'S NOTE
The Night Hunter system should allow similar light sensitivity to the night- vision systems employed by Reagents, as the intervening decade of technology has revealed significantly advanced photocathode surfaces that more than make up for the Night Hunter's additional augmentations. In testing, however, the Night Hunter performs at a significant advantage. This may be explained by what appears to be an immune response in the visual cortex, some unexpected interaction with the hardware.
Molotovs
Murkoff Case Files
1960.03.29MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanMEMORANDOM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: MOLOTOVSARCHETYPE
Shaman to a pagan god of fire, they see military-scientific advancement in thermal weaponry and bombing as evidence of fire's deification.AUGMENTATIONS
They have been encouraged to improvise firebombs, (hence the name "Molotov," of course referencing Molotov Cocktails.) Each caries a six-gallon gasoline tank. The Molotov's face mask includes a high-pressure nozzle at the mouth for spitting flame, and discouraging the further ingestion of fuel. Doctors have given them only minimal chemical and hormonal support for their therapy. Speech is all-but-impossible, as every Molotov has a severely damaged larynx from past, dedicated imbibing of gasoline and/or denatured alcohol.PSYCHOLOGY
Entrance interviews revealed a dedicated fixation on napalm and similar incendiary technologies. Subjects have witnessed, or dreamed of, the widespread wartime use of napalm, especially in Korea and Japan. Could be personally responsible for thousands, or tens of thousands, of civilian deaths.Subsequent, post-trial study has been more difficult with the subjects' loss of speech, but they exhibit a powerfully hypocritical juxtaposition of serving and commanding fire as a god. Displays deeply masochist gratitude for pain caused by burns, and distinct distaste for human contact. Conflates the consuming action of fire with the passage of time.
Jaeger
Murkoff Case Files
1960.05.29MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanMEMORANDOM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: JAEGERARCHETYPE
Relentless hunter, inexorable death. The Jaeger is assigned a target Reagent,
and will steadily track that Reagent until dead.HISTORY
A twice-repurposed Reagent, Henrietta Grubbs was originally interred at the
Sinyala Facility as a patient of LATHE 2 therapy. After severe physical trauma
and a display of remarkable resilience, Miss Grubbs was given hormonal
treatment and osteotomy and re-introduced into the Trials as Heavy Ex-Pop.
After demonstrating a lack of susceptibility to the influence of Prime Assets,
Miss Grubbs again experienced remarkable physical trauma and, presumed dead,
was sent to Biohazard Processing, where she managed to survive for months, even
after her food source was cut off. Following the events surrounding the escape
of Amelia Collier, Miss Grubbs's survival was discovered, and she was further
improved to her current form.AUGMENTATIONS
The Jaeger is fitted with extensive external fixators, screwed into the bone.
They offer support, but more importantly restrict the bones from additional
growth, a side-effect of hormonal treatment and trauma therapy, (extensive
acromegaly still visible.) The Jaeger has a broadcast receiver installed in
her headpiece through which instruction and guidance can be offered, and
targets assigned.PSYCHOLOGY
A perfect example of the Sinyala Paradox, the Jaeger seems to be finding some
comfort in hopelessness. Her fixation on a single target shows a striking
correlation with activity in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex, similar to mPFC
activity seen in a person viewing a potential mate. The Jaeger appears to be
longing for some unattainable love.DOCTOR'S NOTE
Please correct any staff referring to the Jaeger as "Miss Lonely Heart," as it
risks contaminating the scientific objectivity in observing scientists.

Animals
Murkoff Case Files
1960. 03. 23MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS
PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanFrom: Emily Barlow
To: DR. H.J. EastermanMEMORANDUM TO SINYALA STAFFCLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: ANIMALSARCHETYPE
Guard Dogs. Repurposed Heavy Ex-pops, pushed to the edge of insanity due to prolonged exposure to psychoactive chemicals found in the Trials. Extremely hostile and prone to attack anything in their sight.AUGMENTATIONS
Prone to lash out at their fellow Ex-Pops, we’ve restrained their upper extremities with straight jackets, provided by the Mount Massive facility. As well as being equipped with “Blinkers,” typically used for horses, these visual blockers help narrow the Animal’s focus.Collars must be attached around the neck of the Animals at all times, further attached to their overhead rail system that will accompany them.PSYCHOLOGY
Animals have gone through such mental regression they might as well not be considered human, the only vocalizations that can be heard from them now are just that of feral snarls and growling. Be careful to not hold multiple of this class in the same immediate holding area, reports have been seen of multiple Animals working together in unison, much like a pack of wolves.DOCTOR’S NOTES
Sinyala security is highly encouraged to act with extreme caution when transporting Animals, if they are ever able to break free from their confines it may be advised to put this class of Ex-Pop down with lethal force.CLYDE PERRY’S NOTE
An Ex-Pop of a similar mental state was highly effective as a tool of mental interrogation, in the case of one Dorris Ritter. I suspect this Heavy Ex-Pop class will be very effective in the search for our escaped Reagent.
Dept. of Historical Refinement
Request for Transfer
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.11.06 MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX[Transcribed/Filed November 7, 1959]TO: SINYALA FACILITY, THE BOARD
FM: CLYDE PERRY IN FIELD, LUBBOCK TXSUB: COLLECTIONS RESIGNATION6 October 1959Dear Sirs,I regret to inform you that I may not be able to continue my work in the
Collections Department, following my injuries in connection with recent surveillance. The doctors here reconstructed my leg and skull sufficient to
get me back to a Murkoff facility for more effective treatment. But even in a
best-case scenario, I don't expect my mobility to return to its former level.I will report to the Sinyala Facility at the earliest possible date for re-
assignment. My commitment to the Murkoff Corporation and the good work that we
are doing remains unwavering; I only hope I can remain of use to the cause.C. Perry
Typos
Clyde Perry Letters
1959.11.20 MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLY[Filed November 21, 1959]TO: H.J. EASTERMAN
FM: CLYDE PERRYSUB: TYPOS AND ERRORS IN INTERNAL COMMUNICATION20 NOV 1959Dr. Easterman,In the course of my review of leaked Murkoff communications, it's become clear
the extent of dangerous errors in internal documents.I'd suggest you encourage your staff, (the ladies of the Transcription
Department especially,) to take a more careful editorial hand. I was lead to
believe we were engaged in SCIENCE here, with CAUTION and PRECISION being our
guiding lights. Yet our documents are rife with mispelled words, sloppily
transcribed dates, and historical inaccuracies. If the carelessness continues,
I'll be forced to take it up with The Board.Respectfully,C. Perry
Re: Typos
Easterman Letters
1959.11.20MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLY[Filed November 21, 1959]TO: CLYDE PERRY
FM: H.J. EASTERMANSUB: RE: TYPOS AND ERRORS IN INTERNAL COMMUNICATION20 NOV 1959Mr. Perry,Respectfully cease from bothering me with your perverse fixation on spelling
and accuracy. I am not some librarian or county clerk fixing dates and events
for an inane bureaucracy. I am in the business of discovery.The past is fungible, only the future is set.D.B.N.R.H.J. Easterman
A Leak, Part 1
Murkoff Minutes
1959.11.18MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND CLYDE
PERRY.Recorded/Filed: October 18, 1959, Sinyala FacilityEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 7-8]PERRY: How many?
AVELLANOS: Dozens, maybe hundreds.
PERRY: Internal documents.
AVELLANOS: Yes. Memos, letters, transcriptions. Even some photographs.
PERRY: Inside the Trial Environments.
AVELLANOS: (inaudible)
PERRY: This is a fucking disaster.
AVELLANOS: It's controllable.
PERRY: What a bag of cats. Fuck me. How is this possible?
AVELLANOS: When you're operating on the bleeding edge of research there's bound
to be a little spillage.
PERRY: But this would mean we have a rat.
AVELLANOS: Most likely, yes. Or a member of staff succumbing to the pressure.
PERRY: Like the, uh, what's Easterman calling them? Pushers.
AVELLANOS: Correct.
PERRY: Shit.
A Leak, Part 2
Murkoff Minutes
1959.11.18MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND CLYDE
PERRY.EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 8-9]AVELLANOS: I'm concerned. I'm not worried. The Trials are sealed environments.
PERRY: For Reagents who will eventually be released into the world.
AVELLANOS: The Reagents are pumped so full of amnetics that any memory inside
the trial is going to be deeply subconscious.
PERRY: Still.
AVELLANOS: And nobody reads anything. Reading is boring.
PERRY: Still.
AVELLANOS: Yes, still. We have a rat.
PERRY: And even on a... a subconscious level. We can't have internal Murkoff
business getting out.
AVELLANOS: So we're proposing a new initiative. I want you on board. We're
calling it the Department of Historic Refinement.
PERRY: (inaudible)
A Leak, Part 3
Murkoff Minutes
1959.11.18MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND CLYDE
PERRY.EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 9-10]AVELLANOS: You would have three directives, in descending order of urgency.
One- discover the source of the leak, how these documents are being scattered
into the Trial Environments. Two- removal of documents from the Trial
Environments. And three- and this is the long-term priority of Historic
Refinement, the suppression of any leaked information and dissemination of
tangent information to corrupt and confuse and anti-Murkoff narratives.
PERRY: I'd need people.
AVELLANOS: You'll have what we can spare.
PERRY: I'm still on these crutches for at least another month.
AVELLANOS: Which is why we're not giving you the job of errand boy. Jesus
Christ. You'll have people.
PERRY: When do I start?
All but One
Murkoff Minutes
1959.11.26MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN CLYDE PERRY AND CORNELIUS NOAKES.EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 3-8]NOAKES: I only got here in '58
PERRY: I'm asking about September.
NOAKES: I don't got a calendar, man.
PERRY: Your best guess.
NOAKES: How about you just ask me what it is you want to ask me.
PERRY: We found leaked case files for every classification of Ex-Pop except
one. Top secret material stolen, copied, and left where Reagents could find
them. In the Trials. That's case files for every archetype except one: The
Night Hunter. So I checked the register, and in September 1958 you had checked
out all the files on the Night Hunter.
NOAKES: Shit, man. I'm .... I'm keeping my head down and doing my job. That's
it.
(extended silence)
NOAKES: I pulled those Night Hunter specs because these night vision goggles
are slapped together with duct tape and chewing gum. I'll take any help I can
get, keeping 'em running. I don't know shit about any files going missing. I'm
serious. Take that shit elsewhere.
PERRY: Okay. And far as I'm concerned you're about the only one I don't suspect
of being the leak. Thought maybe you'd noticed something suspect.
NOAKES: Suspect? I aint trusted a single thing I seen here since day fucking
one.
PERRY: Good.
(footsteps, movement)
NOAKES: Hey, man. You know what day it is?
PERRY: Sure, sure. It's Thanksgiving. 1959. Hope you're having a happy one.
NOAKES: Oh.
(door closes. Sounds of breathing, possible weeping.)
Program Geister
A Visitor
Easterman Journals
1959.08.28MURKOFF CORP
PERSONELLE SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANDate: August 28, 1959Wernicke continues to haunt the Sleep Room. He has not seen me watching from my hidden vantages. indeed, Wernicke seems completely uninterested in any Murkoff staff, focused entirely on the Reagents in the Sleep Room as they rest and recover between Trials.Barlow tells me Wernicke's been watching Reagents sleep, going so far as to participate in some patients; paralytic trauma therapy.Wernicke's work at Los Alamos is centered on dreams and superstition, subjects that could pose a dangerous source of infection for LATHE 2.Subconscious surgery requires scalpels, not chainsaws.
We Need Nightmares
Murkoff Minutes
1959.09.22MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMES LAWLER (SECURED PHONE LINE).EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 14-17]LAWLER: It's out of Los Alamos?
AVELLANOS: That's right.
LAWLER: Good, good.
AVELLANOS: We're calling it PROGRAM GEISTER.
LAWLER: "Geister." That sounds like PAPERCLIP.
AVELLANOS: It's in collaboration with Dr. Wernicke's lab.
LAWLER: Dulles is gonna like that.
AVELLANOS: Do you want to hear the precis?
LAWLER:I read the notes. It's a good direction. I don't have a lot of time here.
AVELLANOS: So I can tell the Board we have the Agency's cooperation?
LAWLER: You read the newspaper?
AVELLANOS: We got them a few days late out here.
LAWLER: Cuba is not looking good. The Castro we saw on Ed Sullivan is not the Castro pissing all over United Fruit.
AVELLANOS: I'll cash out my banana investments.
LAWLER: It's not funny. A hundred miles off our shores. Castro's making all the worst enemies. The Agency is not averse to spending money right now. All this, uh, "Latent Agency" business here is a little slow for the tone of foreign relations right now.
AVELLANOS: GEISTER is a more aggressive program.
LAWLER: Aggressive is good. We don't need agents of eventual disruption. We need actionable weapons.
AVELLANOS: Wernicke is promising nightmare material.
LAWLER: Good, good. We need nightmares.
AVELLANOS: I'll tell the Board we have your approval.
GEISTER Proposal to Board
A Bradley Avellanos Letters
1959.10.01MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYINTER-OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A. AVELLANOS AND THE BOARDDate: October 1, 1959(heading removed)Our compatriots at Los Alamos have identified extraordinary commercial potential in unexpected side effects of Project LATHE TWO, as expressed in, among others, Reagent 0877, (please reference earlier results.)[1]Specifically, the convergent extra-sensory activity among test subjects relating to the so-called "Skinner Man." The hallucinations are remarkable in their own right, but the fact that they are shared between unrelated Reagents in separate Trials is extraordinarily provocative.Dr. Wernicke has been tracing the increase of Reagent hallucinations, correlating directly to seasonal change, despite the Sinyala Facility's complete removal from outside variation in light and temperature.Dr. Wernicke is proposing Trials in convergent hallucination titled PROGRAM GEISTER, centered on a specific schedule of chemical encouragement and guided trauma. Results will be shared with Los Alamos and Mount Massive, the budget accordingly amortized. Our Agency partners have already expressed interest, and we can expect outside funding to put us in the black even before exploitation of Trial results.Full budget/proposal attached. Please advise.DBNR
(Signature)
A. Bradley Avellanos
GEISTER Approval
Murkoff Accounts
1959.10.03MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYDate: October 3, 1959(heading removed)The Board has officially authorized PROGRAM GEISTER. All test results to be shared with Los Alamos, Mount Massive, and Agency partners.All GEISTER trials will be under the authority of Los Alamos staff, primarily Dr. R. Wernicke. Additional expenses should be minimal, (primarily related to pharmaceuticals and cleanup / biohazard disposal.)[hand-written note at bottom of page] CALL ME / DANGEROUS EXPECTATIONS FROM THE BOARD.
Charisma
To Sinyala
Easterman Journals
1955.08.22"MURKOFF CORP
PERSONELLE SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANDate: August 22, 1955The way to Sinyala is a long trip on bad roads. I feel like somebody's been kicking me in the spine. I find myself missing Irene not only for her marital duties but her not-inconsiderable skills as a masseuse.I am writing supine, alone in a warehouse that could house an army. The space will do. We have electricity from generators. Drawing water from the Colorado or Havasu will be a feat of engineering but is not impossible.We'll need an architect. Avellanos will be interviewing candidates.The Collections Department, too, is already at work researching potential subjects, both for prime assets and general experimental population. The desert is lonely, but it's the sort of loneliness that inspires focus. I find the Sun a fountainhead of inspiration.I'm flushed with optimism. We are going to achieve phenomenal things here."
Orbem Solis
Easterman Journals
1955.08.25"MURKOFF CORP
PERSONELLE SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANDate: August 25, 1955Small doze of lysergic acid self-administered. Charisma. Belief. Investigating fundamentals. I've been burned by the sun. The desert is revealing to me some new truth I haven't yet unravelled. I called Irene and asked her to find the Julius Firmicus Maternus on my bookshelf, but she could not or would not. There was something in Jung. The Phallus of the Sun. Animo descnsus per orbem solis tribuitur.The sun is our only rational God, the center of all life, and yet to look directly at it would mean blindness.For a person to be truly, transformatively CHARISMATIC, they must be UNKNOWABLE and LETHALLY DANGEROUS. To look at them directly would make you blind."
Charismatic Authority
Easterman Journals
1955.08.25"MURKOFF CORP
PERSONELLE SURVEILLANCECOPYARCHIVIST'S NOTE: A second entry on the page dated August 25, 1955.PRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANI believe Avellanos understands. Lawler less so; he seems to harbor some doubts toward my work, even though he's the one who introduced me to Murkoff. We'll be pitching Lawler for continued funding on Monday.I found a bible in a soldier's locker. Comforted myself with a little Corinthians. St. Paul understood. Charismatic authority overpowers legality, tradition, and dignity. Charisma can create deep and widespread societal change.But Paul also said Charisma could only be gifted by God. I disagree. Humans are clay, with no organ wetter and so vulnerable to sculpting as the brain.What Lawler, what the Agency needs to understand, is that Charisma can be a product. Charisma can be a weapon."
The Eyes of Dr. Wernicke
Easterman Journals
1955.08.25"MURKOFF CORP PERSONELLE SURVEILLANCECOPYARCHIVIST'S NOTE: A third entry on the page dated August 25, 1955.PRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANI would love to study Dr. Wernicke. He is one of the clearest examples of charismatic aura I've ever encountered. There's an uncanny shamanism to his face; one gets the sense he believes intensely in something impossible to put into words. I had the feeling while looking at him that his eyes were changing size.I cannot tell if this magnetism is a detriment or boon to his science; the tendency of the deeply charismatic to impart belief onto others. A deeply subjective science. "
prime assets
Prime Asset Context
Murkoff Minutes
1955.12.28"MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYTRANSCRIPTION OF CONFERENCE, H.J. EASTERMAN, CLYDE PERRY.[Minutes 2-4]PERRY: So.
EASTERMAN: Mr. Perry.
PERRY: Telex from the board said you'd have context for me.
EASTERMAN: Context. Yes. General Experimental Population shouldn't be a problem. We have no shortage of lost and damaged men. But our Prime Assets.
PERRY: That's two words, "prime" and "assets?"
EASTERMAN: Yes. I need fountainheads of charisma and belief.
PERRY: So I should maybe try recruiting down at the 4H.
EASTERMAN: You're joking.
(extended silence)
EASTERMAN: Did you read any of the provided materials?
PERRY: I looked at the titles.
EASTERMAN: (inaudible)
PERRY: What's that? There something you want to say to me?
EASTERMAN: I would suggest you read Jung's "After the Catastrophe, " at the very least. These Prime Assets are the centermost pillar of LATHE. The people you'll be looking for are exceedingly rare and exceptionally dangerous. Your only advantage is that they are also quite hard to miss. "
Hitler Versus Mussolini
Murkoff Minutes
1955.12.28"MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYTRANSCRIPTION OF CONFERENCE, H.J. EASTERMAN, CLYDE PERRY.[Minutes 5-7]PERRY: Sure. I think your words were "fountainhead" and "charisma?"
EASTERMAN: Are you familiar with Adolf Hitler?
PERRY: I head off the guy, yeah.
EASTERMAN: Carl Jung saw both Hitler and Mussolini speak at a rally. Mussolini was boisterous, strong, cheerful. Everybody liked him.
PERRY: Charismatic.
EASTERMAN: No. Emphatically not. Mussolini was merely popular. A "Strong Man." There's nearly one in every room. Hitler, on the other hand, was withdrawn, uncomfortable, an unattractive little man. Until he began speaking. At which point Jung described him as a "Psychic Scarecrow." All of Hitler's ranting, his spastic gestures and shrill voice. He seemed like a man possessed.
PERRY: You want me to find you crazy people.
EASTERMAN: No, no, no. I want somebody you can put in a sane crowd and ten minutes later have a mob of lunatics. I want witch doctors.
PERRY: How many Hitlers you looking for total?
EASTERMAN: As many as you can find. As I said, they're exceedingly rare.
PERRY: Thank god."
Thought Leaders
Dien Bien Phu
Murkoff Minutes
1955.08.29"MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYTRANSCRIPTION OF CONFERENCE, H.J. EASTERMAN, A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, J LAWLER (CIA).[minutes 12-14]AVELLANOS: The short answer is "results." We'll be looking at data from Los Alamos and Mount Massive, but with a mind toward producing actionable agents.
LAWLER: "Actionable."
EASTERMAN: As in releasable.
AVELLANOS: Deployable in the field.
EASTERMAN: We'll be making the thought leaders for drastic societal change.
LAWLER: For which you need all this. You could build an air craft carrier in here.
EASTERMAN: You want to train shepherds, you have to give them a flock. On a large enough scale, with extremities of taboo applicable across cultures.
LAWLER: I don't need the term paper. Keep talking about "Actionable."
AVELLANOS: Dien Bien Phu.
LAWLER: What about it?
AVELLANOS: Our allies, who we have pledged to support, got their little French heads kicked in by the Communists at Dien Bien Phu, and Eisenhower sat on his hands. Why?
LAWLER: New Look. Massive Retaliation.
AVELLANOS: Correct. The U.S. Engaging in Indochina would mean nuclear war. Any retaliation is massive retaliation. Bombs mean more bombs and once us or the Soviets are involved ...
EASTERMAN: LATHE offers the Agency a quieter weapon. LATHE lets you deploy belief. "
Tool of Belief
Murkoff Minutes
1955.08.29"MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYTRANSCRIPTION OF CONFERENCE, H.J. EASTERMAN, A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, J LAWLER (CIA).[Minutes 15-17]AVELLANOS: The Agency's already invested, you just need to let it ride. Compared to SADM we're a bargain. With potential domestic and civilian applications.
LAWLER: I am not going to acknowledge domestic application.
AVELLANOS: The Communist threat is just as real here as abroad.
EASTERMAN: Charisma and belief. These were the lessons of World War II. Ignore that at your peril. Chiang Kai-Shek. The French in Indochina. They lost because they underestimated the power of charisma and belief.
LAWLER: They lost to Communist uprisings.
EASTERMAN: Communism's just a wedge. It's a tool of belief like any other.
LAWLER: I'm going to have trouble selling Charisma to the boys upstairs.
EASTERMAN: Because Dulles is a banker. He thinks the world is made by rich men in back-room deals.
LAWLER: Is he wrong?
AVELLANOS: Tell your bosses it's not charisma, it's marketing. It's propaganda.
LAWLER: I don't know.
AVELLANOS: You can see it.
LAWLER: Hell, I don't know.
EASTERMAN: Indochina's not nettled, not by a long shot. Uncle Ho's a charismatic man."
Vietnam
Murkoff Minutes
1959.09.09"MURKOFF CORP
PERSONELLE SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANThe path of discovery is never a straight line. Nothing humbles a man so much as a strict adherence to the scientific method. I thought charisma could be combatted with charisma. But fighting fire with fire only makes a conflagration.I look again to Christ. You kill a nation's soldier, and all you've done is kill a soldier. But if you strike against yourself, a tactical suicide correctly applied, you can destroy that whole nation.It occurs to me as I look at orders for Reagents in Vietnam. Reagents conditioned for self-destruction, culturally attuned to urban environments, aesthetically groomed to pass in a Western crowd.It looks much like we are striking at ourselves in order to kill our enemies.Sometimes the Trials imitate the world, and sometimes the world imitates the trials. "
Winter Kills
Cuban Adventure
A. Bradley Avellanos Letters
1959.09.22"MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYPRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE)Dear Jameson,I was frankly a little surprised by your letter regarding our "Cuban adventures." The products functioned as ordered, even if, admittedly, the incorrect targets were killed. This has always been as much art as science, and some degree of experimentation continues out into the field.Most importantly, none of the Reagents or their activity has been linked in any way to Murkoff or the Agency. I would not consider anything that happened in Cuba a failure, but rather a further Trial. We honed techniques, we gained valuable data, (and considering the exchange rate, at a shockingly affordable price, notwithstanding human life.)warmly,
A. Bradley Avellanos"
Snow in Cuba
A. Bradley Avellanos Letters
1959.09.22"MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYPRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN JAMESON LAWLER (CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE) AND A. BRADLEY AVELLANOSDate: December 2, 1959Bradley,Gottlieb's anger at the results of our "Cuban Adventures" continues to smolder. I believe his words were something to the affect of, "It'1l be a cold f-ing July in Havana before Murkoff sees another f-ing dime of Agency money."And yet.I have a 24-hour layover in Vegas three days from now, and have some new analysis out of Langley I think you'1l want to see.I believe snow may fall on Cuba. We should make hay while the sun's still shining.J. Lawler "
Cold Future, 1 of 2
Murkoff Minutes
1959.12.05"MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 28-30]LAWLER: It's coming. The Beard getting on stage the same time Ike takes a bow. God damn disastrous. The boys in Analysis call it an eighty percent chance of tipping off in the next five years.
AVELLANOS: (whistles) Well. Middle of nowhere well-below ground isn't the worst place to be.
LAWLER: Honestly? I think I'd rather die up there than live down here.
AVELLANOS: I guess that's the question, isn't it? How bad's it gotta get before you throw in the towel.
(paper rustling)
LAWLER: And these just show a minimal strike.
AVELLANOS: I've seen fallout maps before.
LAWLER: These are aftermath maps, from the point of impact of each bomb. Next day. Six months, two years, five years.
AVELLANOS: Nobody thinks Nuclear War won't be bad.
LAWLER: These numbers are radiation. But these, these are temperatures.
AVELLANOS: Your kidding. Fahrenheit or Celsius?
LAWLER: That low, it doesn't matter. Depending on strikes in Europe we lose the Golf Stream, and with airborne particles ... You're smiling.
(continued)"
Cold Future, 2 of 2
Murkoff Minutes
1959.12.05"MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 31-34]AVELLANOS: It's nice to see you.
LAWLER: That's not the kind of smile you're smiling.
AVELLANOS: You came here shopping. You need to prepare agents you can put in environments that'll kill them with cold.
LAWLER: Who'll still achieve their objectives even if they know they're going to freeze to death.
AVELLANOS: Agent survivability's never been key to our operation.
LAWLER: You put a proposal together, I think you could see Gottlieb feeling considerably friendlier to Murkoff contracts. If you're capable of this.
AVELLANOS: Why wouldn't we be?
LAWLER: I mean, this kind of temperature change on this scale ...
AVELLANOS: Jameson. If there's anything your experience with Murkoff has taught you, I hope it's to trust our ability to deliver.
LAWLER: It's not cheap.
AVELLANOS: That's how you know it'11 work."
Endless Winter
Murkoff Minutes
1959.12.06"MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, MOSES SCARFIOTTI AND H.J. EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 44-51]SCARFIOTTI- It could be built. And very quickly.
(humming sound)
SCARFIOTTI- Not cheaply.
AVELLANOS- That's what I said. I think Jameson's giving us an in with the Agency. He likes what we're doing here.
(Humming sounds continue)
SCARFIOTTI- Or he sees something else he likes.
AVELLANOS- Moses.
SCARFIOTTI- You don't see it? He sniffs around you like a hungry dog.
AVELLANOS- I don't think Agency policy would be affected by ... one agent's personal peccadilloes.
(Humming sounds continue)
SCARFIOTTI- Whatever gets us the money. What the fuck are you humming about, Hendrick?
EASTERMAN- Sorry?
SCARFIOTTI- You're humming and you're rocking in your chair, it's making me crazy.
EASTERMAN- I think Winter Kills may be very fruitful. It addresses a deeply rooted and universal fear we have not yet fully explored in the Trials. It's a giant blank spot in our tableau of cultural trauma. Sudden, mass-scale annihilation. Followed by a grinding, endless winter of ever-more pain. Are you sure The Board will approve it?
AVELLANOS- If it's bringing in money, The Board will approve it.
EASTERMAN- We may need to recruit more Reagents. Mortality rates will spike.
AVELLANO- That won't be a problem.
The New Year
Hangover
Easterman Journals
1960.01.03MURKOFF CORP
PERSONELLE SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANA three-day hangover. Can a hangover be bad enough that your hair falls out?
My forehead has grown three inches; hair comes away from my scalp by the
handful. I look ghastly.I should know better than to trust any beverage at a Murkoff party. New Years
began in the company cafeteria but soon moved downstairs. Everybody wanted to
see the new Prime Asset. And from there, shaken, we went to the the pharmacy for
more intoxicating concoctions at which point everything, thank god, is a blur.
I believe we may have done things to the anesthetized Reagents for which, even
after everything else, I will be especially harshly judged by my maker.
Avellanos and Scarfiotti vanished early in the evening, probably to plot the
ruination of my work. You cannot trust Italians.Alone and eccstatically drunk at the party, I found myself in conversation with
a stuttering young man in thick-rimmed glasses who introduced himself as
Sidney. Gottlieb! How was I not notified he would be in attendance?! I made a
drunken ass of myself, I'm sure. Gottlieb was sober as a judge, but for the
LSD, which he treated like holy communion. Not the character I was expecting;
Gottlieb spoke like some sort of bohemian. Extolled to me the virtues of goat
milk yogurt and the Bhagavad Gita.But this morning. My god! I run my hand through my hair and great clumps come
free. This is a nightmare. My beautiful hair.
Thalium
Easterman Journals
1960.01.03MURKOFF CORP
PERSONELLE SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOILET EASTERMAN (SECOND ENTRY, SAME DATE)Thalium in the pocket of my work coat! I found it this evening, in the coat I passed out in after the New Years' party. A little more than a gram of Thalium somebody slipped into my pocket at the party. Now the hair loss makes sense. I have been poisoned. Is this Gottlieb's idea of a prank? Or Scarfietti's? Even Miss Barlow or one of the othe members of our service staff could have access to thalium. Enemies on all sides.I am just returned from compounding Prussian Blue to leach the poisons from my system. My beautiful hair.
Suis Generis
Easterman Journals
1960.01.06MURKOFF CORP
PERSONELLE SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOILET EASTERMANThe Board has asked us to test a compound for Gottlieb, and I do not know if they are mocking me. Avellanos told me I seemed "blue" this morning. Which cannot be a coincidence. Three days of taking Prussian Blue and three days of constipation followed by the most terrifying and surreally colored bowel movement of my life.Gottlieb has become fascinated by the cocktails of our "Pusher" Experimental Population. Their sui generis concoctions they blend from amphetamines, LSD, and whatever they can scrounge or compound from inside the Trials. The effects have been difficult to recreate in more controlled experiments, but I'm told Gottlieb is considerably clever and remarkably well-funded.
Toxic Shock
Gottlieb is Uncomfortable
Murkoff Minutes
1960.01.05MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN MOSES SCARFIOTTI AND SIDNEY GOTTLIEBEDITED FOR CLARITY, (transcriptionist note: esp. removal of vocal tics.)[Minutes 4-14]SCARFIOTTI- How is Allen?
GOTTLIEB- Allen doesn't change. If the world's making him uncomfortable, he puts the impetus of change on the world.
SCARFIOTTI- Very true, very true. You, however. You said you had a concern.
GOTTLIEB- I did. In, observing a Trial, I head something very disturbing. I heard my name, spoken by one of your, ah. . . "experimental-population."
SCARFIOTTI- It's not impossible.
GOTTLIEB- I don't know how a patient here would be familiar with me. I avoid the public eye.
SCARFIOTTI- Some very few our Ex-Pop is composed of former Murkoff staff. If they've succumbed to mental difficulties, or become a security risk. Waste not, want not.
GOTTLIEB- Very wise. It's just that, with the project I hope to propose, I need a certain level of trust and discretion.
SCARFIOTTI- You know me Sid.
GOTTLIEB- And this why we're talking. If I can say. . . Nobody can hear us here, right?
SCARFIOTTI- Just you and me.
GOTTLIEB- I get an odd feeling from this Easterman fellow. He looks at me as if I'm going to pick his pocket.
SCARFIOTTI- Well. Easterman is an impotent paranoiac with a god complex. It's not that he's uncomfortable around you, Sidney, it's that he's chronically uncomfortable.
GOTTLIEB- Still. The project I would like to propose may be somewhat uncomfortable in its own right.
SCARFIOTTI- Please, Sid. "Uncomfortable" might as well be Murkoff's trademark.
GOTTLIEB- Does "Unit 731" mean anything to you?
SCARFIOTTI- No.
GOTTLIEB- Part of PAPERCLIP. Fascinating material. There's a Japanese doctor I'd like to bring in, he has some very provocative notions. . .
Chemicals in Translation, 1 of 2
Murkoff Minutes
1960.01.10MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JUN KUSAMURA, (WITH TRANSLATOR)EDITED FOR CLARITY, (transcriptionist note: all Japanese language non-transcribed.)[Minutes 4-6]KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE)
TRANSLATOR- Mr. Kusamura is curious if you have any of the die. . . die. . .
KUSAMURA- Dihydrocodeine.
TRANSLATOR- Dihydrocodeine. He would like to know if you have any of the drug that was in possession of Hermann Göring when he was captured by the Allies.
AVELLANOS- I'm sure we could produce any type of methamphetamine Mr. Kusamura could want.
TRANSLATOR- (JAPANESE)
KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE, and LAUGHTER)
TRANSLATOR- He feels there is a spiritual element to the quality of a drug produced in the final years of Nazi Germany that could not be recreated in peace time.
AVELLANOS- Which part of that was funny?
TRANSLATOR- I don't know.
Chemicals in Translation, 2 of 2
Murkoff Minutes
1960.01.10MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JUN KUSAMURA, (WITH TRANSLATOR)EDITED FOR CLARITY, (transcriptionist note: all Japanese language non-transcribed.)[Minutes 14-17]AVELLANOS- Of course, we would expect full disclosure of all chemicals used.
TRANSLATOR- (JAPANESE)
KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE)
TRANSLATOR- He will provide a full accounting of all chemicals, but his intention is to amplify physical trauma through, ah, I'm not sure of the word. Forced dreaming, maybe? Imagined trauma? It's a difficult concept to...
KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE and LAUGHTER)
TRANSLATOR- He finds inspiration in your German. He would like to drink with your German. He said the human body can be a factory to mass-produce its own destruction.
AVELLANOS- Sure, him and Wernicke could drown puppies together. Don't translate that. Tell him I said, "”of course, at the earliest convenience.”"
TRANSLATOR- (JAPANESE)
KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE and LAUGHTER)
TRANSLATOR- I... this is difficult, I'm not sure I got the full context. He says maybe the lies of Korea will make a truth we could bring the rest of the world? I'm not certain.
KUSAMURA- (LAUGHTER)
Toxic Shock Approved
Murkoff Accounts
1960.01.16MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYDate: January 16. 1960(heading removed)The Board has officially authorized the program code-named TOXIC SHOCK. All test results to be internally reviewed and redacted before sharing with Agency partners.All TOXIC SHOCK Trials will be under the authority of Dr. H.J. Easterman, with meaningful consultation of Dr. Jun Kusamura.All In-Trial staff MUST be warned against presence in or proximity to Trial Environments during TOXIC SHOCK events, extremely dangerous gas in use.
New Friends
A. Bradley Avellanos Letters
1960.01.24MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYDate: January 24, 1960
To: Olivier Baranczyk
From: A. Bradley AvellanosMr. Baranczyk-You've seen the results of our Toxic Shock program. (I was not consulted in the name; I would have offered notes.) A Dr. Jun Kusamura, lent to us from the Agency, was a key consultant in the project and has made multiple requests for an audience with Dr. Wernicke. We've had difficulty in translation with Dr. Kusamura; either the words for "spiritual" and "psychosomatic" are interchangable in Japanese, or the doctor is confused. In either case, he's proposing that the remarkable efficacy of placebos in Toxic Shock has a provocative overlap with the work at Wernicke's dream lab.He'll be arriving in Los Alamos on Tuesday, please make the necessary introductions. And I would advise extra security, both in Kusamura's immediate area, and any objects (especially food/drink) he has had access to. Kusamura does tend to indulge his hobbies.(Signature)
A. Bradley Avellanos
Prime Time
The Opportunist
Murkoff Minutes
1959.09.25MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND DR. H.J. EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 4-8]EASTERMAN- They can't pin the Cuban fiasco on LATHE.
AVELLANOS- We can pivot.
EASTERMAN- They got what they ordered. More than they ordered. The Agency wanted targets eliminated and then get all nitpicky...
AVELLANOS- Hendrick. Slow down.
(Transcription note: possible loss in crosstalk.)
EASTERMAN- Maybe the wrong people got killed, but in sheer volume you can't argue we didn't deliver.
AVELLANOS- Doctor Easterman.
EASTERMAN- What?
AVELLANOS- We're not soley beholden to Agency funding. The Board can unlock other accounts if we offer other opportunities; especially if those opportunities involve, ah... opiates.
EASTERMAN- Opiates. Hmm. I don't believe there are any poppy fields in Cuba.
AVELLANOS- But there are casinos in Cuba. American organized crime. Our contacts in Havana are reporting that a Mafia element may have been a participant in the activities. Our Reagent was allegedly only responsible for one of the murders.
EASTERMAN- One?!
AVELLANOS- The other seven may have been done by this... opportunist.
Lupa
Murkoff Minutes
1959.09.25MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND DR. H.J. EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 9-12]EASTERMAN- What the hell does that mean, "an opportunist?"
AVELLANOS- Just that. He would have been in Cuba on casino business. We believe that he's connected to organized crime out of Louisiana.
EASTERMAN- And you believe this Gangster saw our Reagent eliminating a target and what, decided "why not get in on the action?"
AVELLANOS- There's a certain unavoidable chaos in violent situations. We're sening Clyde Perry down to investigate.
EASTERMAN- Does this Gangster have a name?
AVELLANOS- Undoubtedly. Our sources are Spanish speakers, and one of them lost a piece of his jaw in the incident. But they called him "Lupara" or "Lupa."
EASTERMAN- Lupa. That's Spanish for "magnifying glass."
AVELLANOS- Or Italian for "wolf."
Politicians
Murkoff Minutes
1960.02.02MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN DR. H.J. EASTERMAN AND STAFF,
UNIDENTIFIEDEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 3-7]EASTERMAN- I never trusted either of them. Gottlieb or Kusamura. Are we sure
they're gone?
JUNIOR STAFF (UNIDENTIFIED)- Kusamura's been at Los Alamos at least a week.
EASTERMAN- We're not training Reagents for trench warfare. What are we doing
here? (Silence.) What are we doing here? What are we doing here?
JUNIOR STAFF (UNIDENTIFIED)- Sorry?
EASTERMAN- (shouting, illegible, sounds of violence)
JUNIOR STAFF- Sorry. Stop, Stop!
EASTERMAN- We are... we are making thought leaders. We are engineering
charisma. Fuck. Any goddamn idiot can pull a trigger. We're making martyrs and
psychopomps. We are making the mold cavity of invisible world leadership and
you can't fucking do that with fucking gas.
JUNIOR STAFF- I need... I'm bleeding.
EASTERMAN- Prime Assets. Prime Assets have always been the key.
Family Archetypes
Murkoff Minutes
1960.02.05MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN DR. H.J. EASTERMAN AND A. BRADLEY AVELLANOSEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 35-38]EASTERMAN- It's science, people get hurt.
AVELLANOS- Not the observing scientists.
EASTERMAN- Cry me a fucking river. Anybody here who doesn't understand our mission is too dangerous to be here. And my point stands. The toolpost of our "lathe" is charisma. We have to focus on Prime Assets.
AVELLANOS- You know we're bringing another one into the experiment.
EASTERMAN- Yes. Something we must do with the utmost care. The Reagent population needs to be prepared. Archetypes are archtecture[sic]. In Gooseberry we have a mother. In Coyle we have a father.
AVELLANOS- So the groundwork is there.
EASTERMAN- Not quite. We need to bring them together.
AVELLANOS- Together...
EASTERMAN- In one Trial.
AVELLANOS- That is... Hideously irresponsible.
EASTERMAN- You're smiling.
AVELLANOS- It would kill more Reagents than it would train.
EASTERMAN- I've never seen you smile so brightly.
The Prod and the Toaster
Scarfiotti Letters
1960.03.06MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYCOMPANY CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MOSES SCARFIOTTI AND CORNELIUS NOAKESMr. Noakes,You've only got one job and it's too keep our Reagents' Experimental Special Operations Platform working. That means fixing them when they break. It also means upgrading them to withstand shifting conditions inside the Trials. We've repeatedly seen Sergeant Coyle disabling toasters with his electric prod.We're trying to maintain a balance of trauma and opportunity inside the Trials and we can't do that if test subjects like Coyle are able to sabotage our machinery. Figure it out. You're no longer working for the military, "good enough" is not good enough.Let me remind you that this is the sort of organization where people don't get fired.Moses
Prime Time Cleanup
Murkoff Memorandums
1960.02.27PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanMEMORANDUM TO ALL SINYALA STAFFsubject: PROJECT PRIME TIMEThe Board has approved funding for PROJECT PRIME TIME, in which multiple Prime
Assets will be SIMULTANEOUSLY released into the same Trial. All staff will
follow strict protocols for chemical and physical restraint of Prime Assets in
transport before and after each Trial. Cleanup staff has been doubled for the
duration of the program, in anticipation of increased biohazard and human offal
in environments.Expect violent paradoxical ideation in Reagents subjected to multiple
charismatic forces. Additional halothane will be made available for Reagents
needing rest, as lingering psychosis and parasomnia are anticipated.
The Docks
The Heroin Angle
Murkoff Minutes
1960.03.19MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTIONS FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 11-16]
LAWLER: Money's not going to be a problem.
AVELLANOS: Wonderful.
LAWLER: Eisenhower's greenlit us to set up counterrevolutionary training camps. And Sinyala's not technically in Florida, but... budgetarily we can fudge it.
AVELLANOS: La Coubre's paying dividends.
LAWLER: You heard nothing from me. But yeah. The Cuba situation's opened the spiggot.
AVELLANOS: I told you it would work out.
LAWLER: Speaking of. How's the Barbi kid doing?
AVELLANOS: Very effective. Early results are promising. Maybe a little heavier on Reagent loss than we'd like, but...
LAWLER: And the heroin angle?
AVELLANOS: You wouldn't believe. The control matrix in every aspect is incredible. Production, sales, addiction.
LAWLER: When it rains it pours.
AVELLANOS: We should have a drink. LAWLER: I shouldn't. What do you have in the bar?
What's Paying for This
A. Bradley Avellanos Letters
1959.11.04MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTo: Moses Scarfiotti
From: A. Bradley AvellanosMoses-If we wanted a pure exercise in discipline and obedience, we would use the Trial Environments already constructed. The new Environment absolutely must be a fully functioning heroin refinery, capable of being operated by Reagents. Remember what's paying for all of this.DBNR
(Signature)
A. Bradley Avellanos"
Integrity of Enclosure
Moses Scarfiotti Letters
1960.02.03MURKOFF CORP INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYFrom: Moses Scarfiotti
To: THE BOARDDear Sirs,With the new Trial Environment closing in on completion and activation, I want to be on the record requesting additional security. In order to make this a functional heroin refinery, we are necessarily giving Reagents and Experimental Population access to highly corrosive and combustible chemicals, which could potentially be used to threaten the integrity of the enclosure.I've expresse these concerns to lead scientist Dr. Easterman, and expect any security failures to be taken as his responsibility.M.S.
Angelina
Murkoff Minutes
1959.10.25MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTIONS FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN MOSES SCARFIOTTI AND DR. H.J. EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 44-47]SCARFIOTTI- We're already at the edge of our budget for the Docks Environment.EASTERMAN- It's a matter of paint. I want to call the boat "Angelina."SCARFIOTTI- It's not historically accurate. We have photos of Salvatore Barbi's boat.EASTERMAN- We're aiming at psychological accuracy. History is fungible, only the future is certain.SCARFIOTTI- Who's Angelina?EASTERMAN- A source of guilt, rage, and arousal. Salvatore's fourth wife and Franco's illicit lover.SCARFIOTTI- He screwed his own mother.EASTERMAN- Stepmother.SCARFIOTTI- Still.EASTERMAN- A boat is a powerful symbol, of death and escape, and of either a phallus or a womb. We have to be sure that this boat is the symbol of a womb.SCARFIOTTI- Fine. You should know, the Board's pushing back on water.EASTERMAN- The boat needs to be in water. Wombs are what.SCARFIOTTI- What?EASTERMAN- Wombs. What are they? They're wet. I want water.SCARFIOTTI- We're in the desert.(Scuffling, unintelligible speech)EASTERMAN- Some liquid, then. Any liquid, I don't care.
Lupara
Totem
Murkoff Minutes
1960.02.07MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN MOSES SCARFIOTT, A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, AND DR. H.J. EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 13-15]SCARFIOTTI- It's madness. It's idotic.
EASTERMAN- Don't you call me an idiot.
AVELLANOS- Hendrick. Easy.
EASTERMAN- The weapon is central to Franco's ego.
SCARFIOTTI- The environment is not designed for a firearm.
AVELLANOS- Which is why we're giving him blanks.
EASTERMAN- Taking the gun away would be the same as castrating him.
SCARFIOTTI- An armed Prime Asset is not going to produce Reagents. It'll produce ... chum.
EASTERMAN- It would be like castrating him, his father, and his grandfather in one fell swoop.
Teething
Murkoff Minutes
1960.02.22MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND DR. H.J. EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 4-6]EASTERMAN- Could we just not tell him?
AVELLANOS- Scarfiotti'll find out. You outrank Moses, you don't need to be scared of him.
EASTERMAN- I'm not. I just...
AVELLANOS- You don't look well.
EASTERMAN- I'm fine. I'm fine, I'm fine. It'll grow back. My hair, I mean.
AVELLANOS- How did he get his hands on live ammunition?
EASTERMAN- I think...
(scuffling, coughing)
EASTERMAN- I think baby's teething.
AVELLANOS- What?
EASTERMAN- The forensic team pulled bits of bone and shattered teeth from the wounds. I think he's using bones and teeth as buckshot.
AVELLANOS- Are you going to take the gun away?
EASTERMAN- No. No, no, no... The Reagents who survive, the brain activity we're seeing.... Let the baby have his toy.
Considering the Totem
Easterman Journals
1960.02.03MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANLong article in the Times regarding the training of apes for the Mercury Programs. Must remember to suggest Avallanos[sic] reach out to NASA and suggest we could provide cheaper, more skilled, and more disposable pilots. Monkeys. Ridiculous.I've been considering Franco's totem. There is an undeniable pyschic[sic] pressure emmenated[sic] from the barrel of a gun. I had a junior scientist hold the empty weapon against my head until it had lost some of its power. We then repeated the procedure with the gun loaded, and then loaded and cocked. The psychic force of the weapon felt strongest when I was on my knees with the barrel against the back of my skull. The junior scientist refused to put the weapon into my mouth. Must remember to have him moved to cleanup.
Not Unpleasant
Easterman Journals
1960.02.04MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANThe smell and taste of cordite are remarkably similar. The rim of the barrel has a metallic taste, whether blood or some alloy of copper and iron I cannot say. Franco's gun is too large to fit comfortably in my mouth, but the pressure on my jaw was not unpleasant. I had to take a few minutes to make myself presentable again before returning to public view.i[sic] spent the time considering the twin barrels of the weapon. Gun bores have a brutish approximation of the eyes of a charismatic figure. They demand obedience, they promise efficiency and power, they operate via mechanical immitations[sic] of sexual procesees[sic] impossibly amplified. A culture awash in guns may be impossible to control, guns are to authority as pornography is to sex, easy and false and meaningless. Franco's weapon left an indentation on my lips, invisible in the mirror but I can still feel it even now. Difficult not to put the weapon to my head just one more time.
Escalation Therapy
Shuttle Switching System
Murkoff Accounts
1960.01.28MURKOFF CORP INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYFrom: H.J. Easterman
To: THE BOARDDear Sirs,You'll find attached the budget report for construction of the Inter-Trial Environment Shuttle Switching System. This will be the sole construction cost for a newly implemented ESCALATION THERAPY program.As Reagents adapt to the therapy, we've noticed a diminished return of trauma on our cost of abuse. I've devloped[sic] Escalation Therapy as a method of compounding the effects of dismantling their psyches, adopting a "war of attrition" approach. As you can see, the additional costs to infrastructure are minimal.I understand Moses Scarfiotti has expressed some doubts about the security of the shuttle switching system, but I see this purely as "covering his ass," as he designed and engineered the actual system, and any responsibility for security shortfalls should fall squarely on his shoulders.respectfully,
HJ Easterman
Escalation
Easterman Journals
1959.12.16MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANThe constant threats and demands for results are exhausting. How many more times must I prove myself? Variation costs outside clinical trials are not insignificant, but the Board has to understand that science is never static; we have to be evolving with the Reagents. There may be a method of short-term escalation. Chaining Trials in series, compounding totemic suggestion. Speaking to a colleague in the obeservation[sic] room today I saw corona of snakes surrounding his head every time I blinked. Who will doctor the doctor? I need to relax. Not long before Christmas. Blow off a little steam. I could use a party.
Employee 0877
Miasis
Clyde Perry Letters
1960.02.12MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTIONS FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN DR. H.J. EASTERMAN AND CLYDE PERRYEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 3-6]PERRY- This was months ago, in Los Alamos, and I didn't take notes.
EASTERMAN- You said there was miasis.
PERRY- Your... sorry?
EASTERMAN- Miasis. Maggots inthe wound. PERRY- Yeah. You could see 'em in there. Even though the old German seemed to think
they were something else. EASTERMAN- As in?
PERRY- No idea. Best as I can remember, Wernicke's prescription, as always, was
drugs and torture. 0877, somehow, thought that was a great idea and even started
treating the conversation like a negotiation.
EASTERMAN- He's participating in his own therapy.
PERRY- Or those maggots got in his brain.
EASTERMAN- Last thing I need.
PERRY- Your nose is bleeding again.
EASTERMAN- God-damn half-a-Nazi taking my ideas and (unintelligible)
Eccentricities of Hygiene
Murkoff Accounts
1960.02.04MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL Letters ONLYCOPY(heading removed)Please advise all appropriate PROJECT LATHE personnel that Former Reagent 0877
will be observing Trials the week of February 15. 0877 remains a budgetary and
security concern of Los Alamos, and appropriate personnel will be in escort.
Eccentricities of behavior and hygiene are to be expected, but should not be
taken for cause of alarm.
Rumors
The Eighth Word
Murkoff Accounts
1960.01.26MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYTRIAL REPORT
ATTN: DR. H.J. EASTERMANA female reagent, case number 1733, was observed ritualistically defacing the corpse of another reagent. The following words were carved into the back, buttocks, and left thigh of the corpse, (possibly with a shard of tin.)EVERYONE, GREED, REGRET, EVERYONE, GREED, OPORTUNITY (stet), REGRET, EVERYOReagent 1733 was attacked and mamed by experimental poulation in the process of carving the eighth word. She was drugged and detained in passage through the Evaluation Corridor for questioning.
An Apology
Murkoff Minutes
1960.01.26MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN REAGENT 1733 AND OBSERVING SCIENTIST (UNNAMED)EDITED FOR CLARITY[minutes 18-19](Transcriber's note: Reagent 1733 heavily injured around neck and jaw, transcribed with limited confidence.)
OBSERVING SCIENTIST: A pattern where opportunity replaces regret?
REAGENT 1733: It doesn't mean (garbled). It's (unclear, possibly "hobby.")
OBSERVING SCIENTIST: It took effort, and risk. You put yourself in danger to mark that corpse.
REAGENT 1733: (laughter/weeping?)
OBSERVING SCIENTIST: While anesthetized, you said, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Amelia."
REAGENT 1733: I didn't. I ... (garbled) I ... can't breathe.
OBSERVING SCIENTIST: Who is Amelia?
REAGENT 1733: Nobody. Nobody. (unclear) I told you (unclear, possibly ending in "thing.")(Reagent 1733 was pronounced dead roughly twenty minutes later. Any further words are lost.)
Project Countdown
More Precise Detonation
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.02MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[minutes 21-24]AVELLANOS: Just a prototype. We're having our engineering team work out some bugs, but it's very close to the final product.
LAWLER: Bugs?
AVELLANOS: Premature detonations.
LAWLER: What is that look supposed to mean?
AVELLANOS: They blow early, before the experiment really even gets started.
LAWLER: Alice. If there's something you want to say you can just say it. I had a nice time. I thought we had a nice time.
AVELLANOS: This is a recorded room.
(several moments of silence, possible WHISPERING. LAUGHTER.)
AVELLANOS: Our ... ah, excuse me. Our scientists think we can train the Reagents for more precise detonation. In the Trials the Fuse Box will allow them to extend time before detonation. We could minimize collateral damage.
LAWLER: Saigon.
AVELLANOS: Exactly.
LAWLER: What's to stop them from endlessly extending time in the field?
AVELLANOS: It's training wheels. Inside a context of suffering, detonation is a release, and delaying that becomes satisfaction denied. Easterman believes we can make them fetishize their own explosive release.
LAWLER: I'd like to study this further. Someplace more discreet.
(WHISPERING, LAUGHTER)
Grease a Guillotine
Murkoff Minutes
1960.03.27MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN H.J. EASTERMAN, MOSES SCARFIOTTI, AND CORNELIUS NOAKESEDITED FOR CLARITY[minutes 6-8]SCARFIOTTI- This is going to happen.
NOAKES- I never signed up to kill anybody.
SCARFIOTTI- You were in the army.
NOAKES- These people ain't my enemies.
EASTERMAN- If you've seen some of the things they've done in the Trials, you might revise your opinion.
SCARFIOTTI- Listen, the project is already approved. These things are going to be strapped to Reagent's chests. If you want to help us figure out why the Fuse Box signals keep getting crossed, you'll save a few lives.
EASTERMAN- And if you do nothing, you're condemning Reagents to deaths that otherwise could have been avoided. My wife always says -- don't let the perfect get in the way of the good. She's ...
SCARFIOTTI- Your ex-wife.
EASTERMAN- Sorry?
NOAKES- Shit, man. You asking me to grease a guillotine here.
SCARFIOTTI- If I had to face a guilllotine, I'd rather it was greased than rusty.
EASTERMAN- What did you mean, ex-wife? Did something happen to Irene?
Sleepwalker
Easterman Journals
1960.03.28MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANI divorced Irene. More than six months ago. That evil fucking Italian laughed in my face. I have no memory of it, none whatsoever. Yet there is a certificate in my file, from the state of Massachusetts with my signature on it, acknowledging the divorce. If it is an act of forgery it is a remarkable one; the line even bears the inconsistencies of my fountain pen. There are holes in my memory. Terrifying gaps. Like pulling up the floorboards and seeing your foundation hollowed by termites. Irene divorced me for grotesque negligence. I divorced Irene, willingly, somehow. She said I haven't spoke with, seen, or even corresponded with her in years. The lying bitch, I still love her like the sun. I am alone, I am losing control. I don't know the last time I have seen the sun. Or touched skin with an un-gloved hand. I want the bitch dead. If I can't trust my memories then what can I trust?
Radio Free Sinyala
Mr. Fixit
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.15"MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN MOSES SCARFIOTTI AND CORNELIUS NOAKESEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 3-5]NOAKES- Why are they concerned about a radio?
SCARFIOTTI- Every element of the Trials is carefully placed and adjusted for maximum psychological impact. We don't know who put that radio there, and observing scientists reported odd static emanating from within the recorded message.
NOAKES- Maybe you isn't noticed this whole place is falling apart. Has been since the jump.
SCARFIOTTI- Security attempted to retrieve the radio, but learned you had already removed it from the Trial environment.
NOAKES- Sure, man. Maybe. I fix a lot of shit. You said this radio was broke?
SCARFIOTTI- I suspect the radio was sabotaged. And when security came to your shop, they found the radio completely disassembled, its recording tape burnt.
NOAKES- Something comes in too busted to be of any use, I break it up for parts. Trying to make do with what I got here.
SCARFIOTTI- You're not irreplaceable, Mr. Noakes.
NOAKES- Man, I'm here being accused of something and I isn't quite sure what it is.
SCARFIOTTI- Why would you burn the tape?
NOAKES- Why does anybody do anything in this goddamn place? "
Cleanup
Biohazard
Murkoff Accounts
1960.01.25"MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPY(heading removed)The unanticipated volume of outgoing biohazard from the Trial Environments has been greatly exacerbated by PROJECT COUNTDOWN. Project managers supervising cleanup crews have requested more resources for loading and unloading Biohazard Disposal Shuttles. Please advise. "
Chum
Murkoff Minutes
1960.01.27"MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN MOSES SCARFIOTTI AND A. BRADLEY AVELLANOSEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 34-36]SCARFIOTTI- .. one more small item. The cleanup crews are requesting more money. Their piece of the budget is miniscule, we could double it and I doubt the brass would even notice.
AVELLANOS- Budget's locked, it'll have to wait a couple months.
SCARFIOTTI- Cleanup's not wrong here. It's a mess in there. T.B. and Hepatitis rates are going through the roof. We're having to send the chum buckets back two or three times.
AVELLANOS- I'm sorry, 'chum buckets?'
SCARFIOTTI- Clean-up crew's nickname for the Biohazard Disposal Shuttles. Listen, there's no shortage of burying space in the desert. We just needs hands to process and package the bodies.
AVELLANOS- Moses, what can I say? The budget's locked. Until the next cycle, cleanup's gonna have to make do with what they've got. "
CAYGO
Murkoff Accounts
1960.01.30"MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPY(heading removed)In accordance with requests from management, cleanup crews will be assisted by Reagents collecting biohazard in the course of the Trial, before it can accumulate. Reagents will be rewarded for gathering biohazard as a ""sub-project"" of their therapy.NOTE: Do not allow any Reagents to gain access to Biohazard Disposal Shuttles, for proper sanitization and facility security. Weekly testing for Tuberculosis will continue indefinitely. "
Finely Textured Beef
Murkoff Memorandums
1959.05.05MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYTo: THE BOARD
From: A. Bradley AvellanosDear Sirs-Our partnership with Liberty Meat has revealed another unanticipated savings
oppurtunity. We have purchased two dozen at-scale industrial meat grinders
capable of reducing meat, tallow, and bone to a liquid-consistency paste.
Bodies so processed present almost zero hazard of discovery or forensic
revelation, with regard to mass desert burial.As such, Slurry Burial will replace our former, much more complicated disposal
process in the Biohazard Disposal Facility. Affective immediately, we will be
shutting down Biohazard Disposal. Expect significant savings, along with fewer
reports of sickness and injury among Biohazard Disposal staff.(Note-- future commercial applications of fine-texture meat grinding should be
considered.)
Collateral Psychosis
Murkoff Memorandums
1960.01.25MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPY(heading removed)NOTICE TO PROJECT LATHE STAFFPlease exercise caution in observing Reagent transit to Trial Environments.
Project LATHE staff may accumulate trace amounts of psychoactives in their
system after light but prolonged exposure, and visual/audible preperatory
stimulus inside the Trial Shuttle may have a negative psychological and
behavioral impact. Management suggests an OBSERVATIONAL BLACKOUT PERIOD during
heaviest stage of Reagent Preconditioning, from gas release to shuttle
switching transit.Note- any staff significantly compromised by collateral psychosis can be
considered a candidate for Experimental Population.
We Live as we Dream
The Mines
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.17"MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 4-7]LAWLER: Supposed to be harder to tap. Can you hear me alright?
AVELLANOS: You should just make the trip.
LAWLER: Believe me, I want to. But I'm in Morocco. The Africa situation's getting out of hand. We're gonna have a dozen brand-new nations by the end of summer. We're offering our partners some assistance, we may need a hand from Murkoff.
AVELLANOS: Africa. What is this about, landing strips?
LAWLER: Mines. We've got surveys showing the uranium lodes have the potential to be just incredible. If we have any chance of outpacing the Soviets, this is where we do it. Tell your people to expect a call from the Staatsveiligheid.
AVELLANOS: You're gonna have to spell that for me.
"
The Escapist
Maskless
Murkof Memorandums
1960.04.12"MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPY(heading removed)There is a discrepancy between Evaluation Corridor/Exit Shuttle records and Cleanup Crew report. FOUR REAGENTS entered a PROJECT COUNTDOWN Trial in the DOCKS ENVIRONMENT on April 11, 1960 at 10:58pm. At 11:49pm, THREE REAGENTS exited the Trial and proceeded through the Evaluation Corridor. Cleanup Crew reported ZERO additional REAGENT CORPSES inside Trial Environment.Discrepancy was originally explained by PROJECT COUNTDOWN activity, and the likely explosive destruction of the fourth Reagent's corpse. However, earlier detonated Reagents left hands, feet, and large skull fragments.Cleanup Crew also reported discovery of an unconscious ""Pusher""-class Experimental Population, discovered without his gas mask. review suggested.Internal security
"
Lab Rat
Clyde Perry Letters
1960.04.12"INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYMEMORANDUMTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS
FM: CLYDE PERRYForensics of the April 11 Dock Trial discrepancy are extremely concerning.Records for three of the four Reagents involved have been erased. Only the Reagent who initiated the trial, Reagent 0741, has been identified. He has been separated for interrogation.Interrogation of Pusher-class Ex-Pop was attempted. Zero relevant information. A drug-addled beatnik, tried to explain that a snake's skeleton was made from the bones of a human hand.Most concerning: there was evidence of Reagent activity outside the boundaries of the Trial Environment. Bare footprints were observed on the far side of an Ex-Pop insertion gate. Likewise, evidence of vandalism was discovered, mechanical and electrical components removed and missing.It is my opinion a Reagent has escaped the confines of the Trial Environment. Suggest an immediate investigation and response. "
Blame
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.13"MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND H.J. EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 6-9]EASTERMAN: Jesus Christ. Damnit. Jesus.
AVELLANOS: So far this is me, you, Perry, and a few security personnel. I stopped the memo before it got any further upstream.
EASTERMAN: It's impossible. There's no way outside the Environment that doesn't lead directly into Ex-Pop transit or observation.
AVELLANOS: Calm down, Hendrick.
EASTERMAN: Jesus.
AVELLANOS: If The Board hears about this, we're in deeper shit than just our budget. You don't seriously think LATHE is the only thing happening at Sinyala. The security implications ...
EASTERMAN: They'd kill us.
AVELLANOS: Don't be melodramatic. You might die in the interrogation process but it wouldn't be an execution. I'm coming to you because these are your test subjects. Whoever this lab rat is, they're you're lab rat. You trained them. You know how they think.
EASTERMAN: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Jesus.
AVELLANOS: We can only keep this from going up the ladder so long. We need to find the rat.
EASTERMAN: Does Scarfiotti know about it?
AVELLANOS: No. You want to tell hm?
EASTERMAN: If the rat's trying to get out, Scarfiotti would know the weakest points in the perimeter.
"
The Snitch
Easterman Journals
1960.04.13"MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANHard to write for the shaking. Need to cut back on bennies. No progress on
finding our escaped lab rat. Reagent 0877 has been observing the others, he
tells me rumors of an escape have been circulating for weeks. I'm supposed to
own these people's dreams. How can they keep secrets from me? Perry is keeping
me distanced from the initial interrogation of the other Reagents present
during our lab rat's escape. Infuriating. I can't lose control. What was it?
There was...Just found a transcript from an early interview with Leland Coyle. He says,
more colorfully than this: ""I don't care about control, I want authority.""
Can you have authority over yourself without control?Maybe I don't need to worry about it. Maybe they'll torture me to death. "
Interrogations
Clyde Perry Letters
1960.04.13"INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYMEMORANDUMTO: A BRADLEY AVELLANOS
FM: CLYDE PERRYInitial interrogations of Reagents present at the time of escape have proven unfruitful. All three insist that they went into the Trial without a fourth member. Possible that the base-level suffering of Reagents in Sinyala is undercutting the effectiveness of torture as tool of interrogation."
Amelia
Easterman Journals
1960.04.14"MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYAmelia. I know the name of the rat in the walls. AMELIA.Perry with his electrodes and steel skewers couldn't break Amelia's coconspirators. And then I remembered, I own these people's dreams. I had them cleaned up, returned to their cells, and drugged for the usual Paralytic Trauma Therapy. I was alone when 0741 spoke the name Amelia. Considering his state, I could only question him on a totemic level regarding Amelia, who he has elevated her to something like a prophet. I questioned the others in a similar state, and got confirmation of our little Lab Rat's name.A manual record search is prohibitively time-consuming on my own with nothing but a first name. But who can I tell? Who can I trust? Nobody. Nobody. Nobody. Three days, Amelia, you've been in the walls. What are you doing? When do you make your break for it?"
EVERYONE, GREED, REGRET
Co-Conspirator
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.16MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND H.J. EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 14-19]AVELLANOS- I had the girls in research look for her name.
EASTERMAN- I still don't like it. They could talk ...
AVELLANOS- It's safe. I'm not an idiot. They got two hits. Three months ago, Reagent 1733 was interrogated after mutilating a corpse, and she mentions the name "Amelia."
EASTERMAN- What !? Let me see it. Let me ...
(rustling, struggle)
AVELLANOS- God damnit, Hendrick. You need to get (scuffling) ... a hold of yourself.
EASTERMAN- I just want to read it.
AVELLANOS- When's the last time you slept?
EASTERMAN- There aren't days down here. It doesn't matter. What is this shit? "Everyone. Greed. Regret." Is that a trigger phrase?
AVELLANOS- I don't know what it is, but it's not the first time it came up. There's an earlier interview, with the same Reagent. From July.
EASTERMAN- Give it to me.
AVELLANOS- This Reagent 1733, she knew Amelia.
EASTERMAN- Let me fucking read it.
CO-CONSPIRATOR INTERROGATION 1 OF 2
Murkoff Minutes
1959.07.20MURKOFF CORPCOPY (RETRIEVED FROM ARCHIVES 1960.04.15, AT REQUEST OF A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS)TRANSCRIPTION OF INTERROGATION OF REAGENT 1733 BY OBSERVING SCIENTIST (UNNAMED)EDITED FOR CLARITY[minutes 33-36]OBSERVING SCIENTIST- Easterman allows you self-expression inside the cells because we want to understand how the therapy is affecting you.
REAGENT 1733- I've been expressing myself.
OBSERVING SCIENTIST- These words, they're some sort of poem?
REAGENT 1733-Sure. Yeah. A poem.
OBSERVING SCIENTIST- What does "Regret" mean to you?
REAGENT 1733- She says regret's a good thing. You shouldn't avoid regret, because it just means you could have made another choice. If you've got regrets, you've got free will. OBSERVING SCIENTIST- She? Who says this?
REAGENT 1733- My friend.
OBSERVING SCIENTIST- She must have a name.
REAGENT 1733- We have numbers here.
(Rustling, equipment prepared. )
REAGENT 1733- No! No! Don't, please. Amelia. Her name's Amelia.
CO-CONSPIRATOR INTERROGATION 2 OF 2
Murkoff Minutes
1959.07.20MURKOFF CORPCOPY (RETRIEVED FROM ARCHIVES 1960.04.15, AT REQUEST OF A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS)TRANSCRIPTION OF INTERROGATION OF REAGENT 1733 BY OBSERVING SCIENTIST (UNNAMED)EDITED FOR CLARITY[minutes 37-40]REAGENT 1733- Please don't tell anyone I told. We're secret friends.
OBSERVING SCIENTIST- Doctor patient confidentiality is sacred. How many times do I have to tell you? What about "Greed." What does the word "Greed" mean to you?
REAGENT 1733- Weakness.
OBSERVING SCIENTIST- Talk more about that.
REAGENT 1733- If you know what someone's greedy for, you know how to beat them.
OBSERVING SCIENTIST- This sounds like your friend Amelia again.
REAGENT 1733- But she just got it from Jesus. And Gandhi.
(pause, sounds of writing) OBSERVING SCIENTIST- What about "Everyone." That word's in your poem three times. What did Amelia tell you about the word, "Everyone."
REAGENT 1733- Do you know the story of Moses?
OBSERVING SCIENTIST- Moses?
REAGENT 1733- A Hebrew Prophet. You should read your bible.
OBSERVING SCIENTIST- Moses, of course.
REAGENT 1733- He could have just saved himself. But he saved everybody.
Ask Dorris
Etcetera
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.16MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND H.J. EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 33-35]EASTERMAN: We'll question her. We'll have to be discreet. She's got ... arrangements.
AVELLANOS: Of course. Scarfiotti. Etcetera.
EASTERMAN: Christ. The epics contained in that "etcetera." But. A little chaos accelerates evolution.
AVELLANOS: I'm not questioning your methods.
EASTERMAN: I'm saying we can't outright torture Dorris.
AVELLANOS: Send Perry.
EASTERMAN: Can we trust him?
AVELLANOS: Yes.
EASTERMAN: Can we trust him not to torture her?
AVELLANOS: Hmm . . .
Dead End
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.16MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN H.J. EASTERMAN AND CLYDE PERRYEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 05-07]EASTERMAN- You can scare her, just, just don't hurt her.
PERRY- I'll talk to her. I've been asking around and there's a name that keeps coming up, especially in connection to Dorris. You know a Henrietta?
EASTERMAN- Yeah, yeah.
PERRY- Might have some connection to this Amelia. Supposedly Henrietta vanished. Nobody saw her die.
EASTERMAN- No. That's a dead end.
PERRY- You sure?
EASTERMAN- Henrietta is extremely dead. She was a sexual deviant. Comfortable shoes, sensible haircut.
PERRY- How's that now?
EASTERMAN- She entered into a romantic situation with Dorris for a little while. She doesn't matter.
PERRY- If Dorris is still talking about her, she must have really cared. Could be a wedge we could use in the interrogation.
EASTERMAN- No, no, Henrietta's nothing but dead. And I said I didn't want you to really hurt Dorris.
Henrietta Grubbs
Murkoff Memorandums
1959.03.05MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPY (RETRIEVED FROM ARCHIVES AT REQUEST OF CLYDE PERRY, 1960.04.16)PATIENT REPORT
ATTN: DR. H.J. EASTERMANTherapeutic Salvage initiative for Reagent 0985, Henrietta Grubbs, has proven a
failure. Some background:Henrietta Grubbs' participation in PROJECT LATHE diminished significantly
following instigation of romantic relations with fellow Reagent 0486. Hormone
and sleep therapy was increased accordingly, and erratic behavior lead to injuries in-Trial deemed fatal, (17 fractures, including skull, ruptured
spleen, collapsed lung, and internal bleeding.)Following period of unlikely survival, Henrietta Grubbs was determined to be a
good candidate for Therapeutic Salvage to Experimental Population. Grubbs'
reaction to hormone bath and bone extension was remarkable, and following
salvage, she was reintroduced to the Trial Environment as Heavy Ex-Pop.However, the lingering effects of PROJECT LATHE, and echoes of her relationship
with Reagent 0486, proved too heavy an impression on her psyche. She was
uncontrollable, and not susceptible to the charisma of Prime Assets. She
attacked Leland Coyle, sustained fatal injury, and was deposited in a Biohazard
Disposal Shuttle where survival is impossible. Will close file on Reagent 0985.
A Fruitful Conversation
Clyde Perry Letters
1960.04.17INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYMEMORANDUMTO: H.J. EASTERMAN
FM: CLYDE PERRYI had a fruitful conversation with Reagent 0486, Dorris Ritter. I would prefer to speak with you in person, as corresponding even by internal memo is not secure.I've had the distinctly unsettling experience of finding my own words on supposedly secret files left scattered in the Trial Environments. I've made some progress in identifying the source of the leak, but until I do, I would highly recommend we speak in person.I have Amelia's last name, a very promising lead. We need to meet, face to face, soon.
Invisible Tentacles
Easterman Journals
1960.04.17MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANThe Italian's fingerprints are everywhere. Amelia's co-conspirator even mentioned him by name. MOSES. The connection to 0486. He wants to destroy me. I thought there were cracks in the mirrors, or vines. Tendrils of fungus. He's been setting me up for months. YEARS. Some species of desert millipede, maybe. I won't look in the mirror again. I have to face the terrifying notion that Amelia has not left the facility, not because she can't, but because this is where Scarfiotti wants her. Predatory flagellates.
Amelia's Beau
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.17MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND CLYDE PERRYEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 02-05]PERRY- Easterman is not alright.
AVELLANOS- You think?
PERRY- This is not the time to be hiding. What a goat rope. Jesus Christ. But I got a name.
(papers shuffle)
PERRY- Amelia Colier, Reagent 2427. Her files are here. Hang on to those, I don't want to see them scattered in a Trial Environment.
AVELLANOS- You don't have to worry about me.
PERRY- Last fucking thing we want Reagents thinking about is the possibility of getting out.
AVELLANOS- I said you don't have to worry. Amelia Colier. Decent arrest record, auto theft, fraud.
PERRY- She's a grifter. Just like her grifter father. Looked to be a stick-up man and a pimp. But get this: she didn't check-in to a Murkoff Charity Center for herself, she came looking for her boyfriend. Damon Greene. His file's here.
AVELLANOS- Hot damn.
PERRY- I had Damn Greene brought to an interrogation room. That's where I'm heading from here.
AVELLANOS- Hot damn. That's good work. Damon seems like a sweetheart. Model citizen. What was he doing with a crooked tramp like Amelia?
PERRY- Mr. Greene had a struggle with the bottle.
AVELLANOS- Well I'm sure we've cured him of that, at least. I won't delay you.
Easterman incommunicado
Chemical Arousal
Kusamura Letters
1960.04.17MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYTo: H.J. Easterman
From: Dr. Jun Kusamura(dictated and translated)You must have seen the results of our brief repetition of the Toxic Shock
program, inspired by our consultants from Kress Chemical. While not definitive,
they displayed possibilities I find enormously provocative. I would strongly
recommend authorizing the Kress request for further materials, irregardless of
budget. I have not been so strongly arroused by scientific possibility in
years.(Signature)
Dr. Jun Kusamura
Bigger Fish to Fry
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.19MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JUN
KUSAMURA, (WITH TRANSLATOR))EDITED FOR CLARITY, (transcriptionist note: all Japanese language non-
transcribed.[Minutes 11-14]KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE)
TRANSLATOR- Mr. Kusamura is concerned over Dr. Easterman's silence.
AVELLANOS- Everything's under control. We'll return to chemical testing when
appropriate.
KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE)
TRANSLATOR- He thinks there is an urgent opportunity regarding the Kress
chemical process, which could draw more funding from Los Alamos.
AVELLANOS- No, no, we've got bigger fish to fry right now.
KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE)
TRANSLATOR- Mr. Kusamura would like to express that if enough little fish grind
their teeth, that's how the pyrana eats the bull. If Easterman is not available,
perhaps somebody with more authority could...
AVELLANOS- What the hell is that supposed to mean? Listen, listen, tell
Kusamura we have an urgent concern that's above his security clearance.
Clandestine Abuse
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.19MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND CLYDE
PERRYEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 04-07]PERRY- I think he's sleeping in there. Pissing in the potted plants.
AVELLANOS- I know.
PERRY- I'm supposed to be reporting to Easterman.
AVELLANOS- Worst possible time for his fragile, neurotic bullshit.
PERRY- He's hoarded gin and amphetamines. I don't think he's eating anything
else.
AVELLANOS- That's nothing new. That man's been poisoning himself since he got
here. His liver must look like roadkill.
PERRY- That doesn't worry you?
AVELLANOS- I don't know. Kermit Roosevelt was blind drunk for the entire
Iranian coup. Gottlieb lives with his brain in the cookie jar. Might be
clandestine activities sometimes benefit from a little substance abuse.
PERRY- How bad's he gotta get?
AVELLANOS- Before what?
PERRY- Before Easterman gets an enforced vacation.
AVELLANOS- I'm monitoring it. For now we need to tell Scarfiotti about
Amelia. He still thinks this is only a matter of malfunctioning radios...
Stanley Easterman
Useful Fictions
Murkoff Minutes
1955.10.14MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON
LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 4-5]LAWLER: ...a potential, ah, wrinkle. You're aware of Hendrick Easterman's
brother? The suicide.
AVELLANOS: Of course.
LAWLER: He cited Stanley Easterman's suicide as central to his interest in reprogramming. He believes Korean brainwashing during the war shattered his
brother's psyche, directly leading to his death.
AVELLANOS: A tragic story.
LAWLER: Only his brother was rear guard. He was in accounting for the
Quartermaster Corps, never even set foot in Korea. I guess Stanley had a
perchance for hyperbole in his letters home.
AVELLANOS: Even if it's false, it's still a sad story. Brainwashing from a
foreign menace driving his innocent, beloved brother to an early grave. The
unsolvable tragedy. A useful fiction.
LAWLER: You don't seem surprised.
(note-- possible laughter)
LAWLER: What?
Stanley Easterman
Murkoff Minutes
1955.10.14MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON
LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 6-7]AVELLANOS: Any potential Murkoff employee gets a thorough background check. Dr.
Easterman's brother had two prior suicide attempts Hendrick didn't even know
about. Still doesn't know about.
LAWLER: What?
AVELLANOS: Stanley was a mess, a total bag of cats, just like his and
Hendrick's mother. Mother Easterman hid Stanley's suicide attempts from
Hendrick, her fragile, golden boy. Though by that point the damage was done.
We found medical records that both boys experienced "accute localized alopecia"
until they left home. But it was their mother, yanking postage-stamp sized
patches of scalp out by the hair. What passed for discipline in the Easterman
household.
LAWLER: How did you find that?
AVELLANOS: Our Collections Department is very thorough. We're not hampered by
your agency's restrictions.
Documents for Easterman
Murkoff Memorandums
1960.04.17PROJECT LATHE TWO
Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet EastermanEYES ONLY: SUPERVISING STAFF
From: H.J. Easterman
subject: LEAKED DOCUMENTSIn light of recent security breaches, ALL Murkoff documentation discovered
inside Trial Environments must be carbon copied to the office of H.J.
Easterman. Any request to withhold documentation from Doctor Easterman,
especially originating from Scarfiotti, Avellanos, or Perry, must be reported
to Doctor Easterman immediately. Any failure of compliance will be met with
extreme prejudice.Dr. H.J. Easterman
Total Lies
Easterman Journals
1960.04.18MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMAN(transcriber's note, hand writing extremely erratic)Lies. That (illegible) PLANTING false stories. Of course Murkoff would engineer
fictions to manipulate my behavior. If my wife leaves me if my brother's death
means nothing and i have nothing (illegible) nothing i can do but make the world
for Murkoff. Weeds. It has to be a lie the therapy works. They made Stanley
kill himself its the only possible (illegible)(a blank space with heavily scratched lines, seemingly random)It doesn't make sense. I'm in control.(a drawing, perhaps of a dandelion.)Total lies means total control. Preda(writing ends)
Surveillance
Internal Security
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.20MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, MOSES
SCARFIOTTI AND CLYDE PERRYEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 3-5]SCARFIOTTI: You've known about this for days? Good lord.
AVELLANOS: There's some concerns about keeping this need-to-know. Mr. Perry has
been leading the internal search.
SCARFIOTTI: And?
PERRY: We're making progress.
SCARFIOTTI: Why was I kept out of the loop?
PERRY: We think somebody internal is helping Amelia.
SCARFIOTTI: Wait, and you...? He? How could you even begin to suspect me? I
built this place.
AVELLANOS: Take it easy, Moses.
PERRY: I got a lead on the guilty party.
SCARFIOTTI: Easterman's playing possum because he knows he fucked up. This is
on him. Clearly.
AVELLANOS: Easy, easy...
SCARFIOTTI: Who the hell is this Amelia character?
PERRY: She's a nobody. She got lucky.
AVELLANOS: We need to talk about increased security inside Trial environments.
Degrees of Shock
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.20MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, MOSES
SCARFIOTTI AND CLYDE PERRYEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 11-14]SCARFIOTTI: We could use cameras. We wouldn't have to justify an increase in
man power. The Board would look at it as a minor line on a budget.
AVELLANOS: We'd need people to watch the video feed.
SCARFIOTTI: Not necessarily. The cameras are basically motion sensors, trigger
an electric shock through a Reagent's E.S.O.P.
PERRY: Kill 'em?
SCARFIOTTI: If you like. It's a number on a dial.
AVELLANOS: Just enough to knock them down. Attract some attention. Best case,
we get Amelia injured and alive.
PERRY: You want to talk to her.
AVELLANOS: I want to make an example out of her.
SCARFIOTTI: Do we even know this Amelia still has a Toaster on her chest?
AVELLANOS: How would she possibly get it off? Unless we're leaving bonesaws
and spudwrenches lying around.
Program Surveillance
Murkoff Accounts
1960.04.22MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPY(heading removed)The Board has officially authorized PROGRAM SURVEILLANCE. Test results are to
remain INTERNAL / EYES ONLY.Advise all Cleanup Crews that full identification of all corpses is absolutely
vital during the course of Program Surveillance, and going forward until
further notice.
Retrieving Easterman
Shuttle Operations
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.21MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, MOSES
SCARFIOTTI AND CLYDE PERRYEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 6-10]SCARFIOTTI: All you had to do was find one woman.
PERRY: It's your rat trap she got out of, the whole reason we're in this
fuckin' mess.
SCARFIOTTI: Which both of you hid from me. I don't even know which of your eyes
works.
PERRY: Watch the shoes, shitbird.
SCARFIOTTI: Don't you touch me.
(Cross-talk, scuffling, physical altercation. )
AVELLANOS: Hey, hey, hey! Piss on each other off company time. We have to stop
the bleeding.
SCARFIOTTI: We can't interrupt+F162 the Trials without alerting the Board. And
shuttle operation is centralized, automated. And Easterman, that anal-retentive
junkie, keeps the punch cards in his office, which has been barricaded for
days.
AVELLANOS: I thought you built this place.
SCARFIOTTI: There's a chain of command.
AVELLANOS: We need to get Easterman.
Easterman Recovered
Clyde Perry Letters
1960.04.21MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYTo: A. Bradley Avellanos
From: Clyde PerryAs planned, at approximately 9am this morning, Scarfiotti and I, accompanied by
Murkoff Security, broke down the door to H.J. Easterman's office. We discovered
Easterman nude and covered in blood and excrement, (assuming both were his
own.) Enormously dilated pupils and multiple lacerations to the face and scalp.
He was screaming words that were difficult to decypher. He appeared to be
talking about the sun, or the so-called Skinner Man, and possibly somebody
named Joel. There was something about a pillar of smoke. We had to physically
restrain Easterman, I'd be surprised if he didn't have a few broken ribs. Once
he was under control, he began to seize and foam at the mouth, which continued
until he was sedated. We've got Easterman restrained in a hospital bed
upstairs. I'm returning to the hunt for Amelia.
Degree of Urgency
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.22MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS INTERVIEW OF H.J. EASTERMANSINYALA FACILITY INFIRMARYEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 12-15]EASTERMAN: I'm not crazy. I needed time. I knew you were lying to me
AVELLANOS: I wasn't lying to you.
EASTERMAN: All of you. About my brother, my wife. That I could take, but you were lying to me about my work, about the therapy. I'm not crazy.
AVELLANOS: Nobody called you crazy, but the things you were saying...
EASTERMAN: So undo these straps.
AVELLANOS: You need to rest. You need to tell us where to find the punch cards for the shuttle system.
EASTERMAN: Free me. I'll show you where they are.
AVELLANOS: I don't think you appreciate the degree of urgency here...
EASTERMAN: I know exactly how bad things have gotten. And I know you're a political animal and you and Scarfiotti both think you can set me up to take the blame for this. Like I don't know about Scarfiotti's excracurriculars. Like I don't know about your little romance with our Agency friend.
AVELLANOS: What?
EASTERMAN: If I go, you're coming with me. Let me out of here. Unfasten these fucking straps. Alice. Let me out. Let me the fuck out of here.
Annihilation and Opportunity
Easterman Journals
1960.04.23MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANI feel cleaned, as if by fire and bleach. A cleansing on an atomic level. I
have been as much patient as doctor, and I had to be annihilated. Joel 2:30,
wonders in the sky and on the earth. Blood, fire, and columns of smoke.My families, born and found, are both gone. My life's work is in shambles. My
chosen children try to ESCAPE from me, when all I wanted was to help them.
Everyone is against me. I am nothing. I am a scorched shadow on the wall where
a man used to be. I am a column of smoke.And I am focused. Nothing has been this clear in a long time. I feel like a
sphere whose every point is its center. If I can be so thoroughly destroyed and
still live, I can do anything. Nothing matters. Anything is possible. Anything
is permitted. The Trials are just beginning.
Escape Fallout
Reagents Escaped
Murkof Memorandums
1960.04.21MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONALLETTERS ONLYCOPYEMERGENCY ALERT TO ALL PROJECT LATHE STAFFEMERGENCY ALERT! BREACH IN TRIAL ENVIRONMENTS. UNKNOWN NUMBER OF REAGENTS HAVE
ESCAPED INTO THE SINYALA FACILITY. ALL SECURITY AND STAFF ON HIGH ALERT,
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. EXTREME PREJUDICE AND LETHAL FORCE AUTHORIZED IN THE
CAPTURE OR DEATH OF ESCAPING REAGENTS.FULL FACILITY LOCKDOWN. ALL STAFF TO REMAIN ON PREMESIS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
ALL CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD HIGHLY RESTRICTED.
A Little Mess
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.22MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND CLYDE
PERRYEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 04-07]AVELLANOS: We're going to have to tell the Board. We've lost too many Reagents.
Too much security killed trying to get them back.
PERRY: They're going to shut us down?
(laughter)
PERRY: And that's funny how?
AVELLANOS: You have any idea how much money this place is bringing in? Murkoff
doesn't mind a little mess. They'11 want somebody's head on the chopping block,
but then we're back to the good work.
PERRY: Well. We find who authorized the new switching stations for Escalation
Therapy back in January, we can finger the guilty party. Makes a good story,
and has the added benefit of happening to be true.
AVELLANOS: Sure, but top priority is Amelia. We have to stop the bleeding.
PERRY: Yeah.
AVELLANOS: And Perry, you know what it means if you fix this, right? Immediate
advancement, Murkoff is not shy about rewarding its loyal soldiers.
Casualties of Escape
Murkoff Accounts
1960.04.24MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPY(heading removed)INTERNAL REPORTS ON RECENT CASUALTIESPlease find below a tally of deaths occured since the incidents beginning April
21.EXPERIMENTAL POPULATION: 23
STAFF, SECURITY: 27
STAFF, RESEARCH/SCIENTIFIC: 4
STAFF, MAINTENANCE: 8
REAGENTS: >44Please note Experimental Population losses are on par with standard operating
procedure.Security and Maintenance Staff losses have been greatly increased by recent
events, especially with regard to attempted investigations of the
decommissioned Biohazard Disposal Facility. There appears to be at least one
extremely dangerous member of Experimental Population loose on site, and any
injuries have proven extraordinarily fatal due to infection and environmental
hazard.Total Reagent losses are still a matter of suposition, as an untold number of
Reagents are currently unaccounted for.REAGENT RECOVERY/ACCOUNTING IS AT HIGHEST PRIORITY
Delayed Conferences
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.23MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON
LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 2-4]AVELLANOS: I'm going to need you to delay your trip to Sinyala.
LAWLER: I already told Gottlieb. He's expecting a report on the Kress chemical
developments.
AVELLANOS: We've put that on hold; Kusamura is back at Los Alamos. Listen,
James, please, there's nothing here right now we need you for.
LAWLER: I was, uh ... We had planned to have a conference. I've been really
looking forward to having some conferences with you.
AVELLANOS: We're going to have to be careful about that for a little bit.
LAWLER: What's going on there?
AVELLANOS: Well. Either I'll tell you about it someday or you'll read about it
in the papers.
Schizo-Piss Bufotenin
Easterman Journals
1960.04.23MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANNearly midnight. I'm still buzzing. Had to clear my head. Took a chance with a
Kress concoction and am very pleased. Very very pleased. I've used bufotenin
before, but the Kress formula is distilled from the urine of schizophrenics,
and has a potency I've never experienced. Intention in the medicine. I saw the
sky through a dozen layers of concrete, and then I saw space through the sky.
The geometries re-structured the vines. I can look in a mirror without
vomiting, there are still geometries in my eyes.Time to stop the bleeding. Time to find Amelia. If I believe I can make it so.
After the Escape
RIP Clyde Perry
Easterman Journals
1960.04.24MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL Letters ONLYCOPY(heading removed)REPORT TO BOARD ON PROJECT LATHE PERSONNELPlease be advised that Clyde Perry, Director of Historical Refinement, has died
in the line of duty. A full investigation into the cause of his death is
pending. He will continue to hold his title until such time as a publicly
acceptable cause of death has been designed and released to his surviving
family. Accounting has been notified.
Amelia Captured
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.24MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYUPDATE. TO ALL PROJECT LATHE STAFFWe remain on ELEVATED ALERT, full facility lockdown is still in place, all
staff to remain on premises. REAGENT 2427, given name AMELIA COLLIER has been
captured. Investigation and interrogation is ongoing in discovery of her
collaborators.REBIRTH PROGRAMS ARE SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY. Expect future briefing on RELAPSE
PROTOCOL.ALL STAFF MUST IMMEDIATELY REPORT ANY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, failure to do so
will result in immediate, severe discipline.
What You Get
Murkoff Memorandums
1960.04.24MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANClarity. Control. I let myself get flustered. An artist must allow himself a
few emotional moments now and then.We have Amelia. My nasty little bloodhound Perry cornered her and revealed his
dearth loyalty all in the same breath. His job was to grease the rails
for Murkoff, and now, quite literally, he is greasing the rails. RIP Mr. Perry.Amelia is on display. Weak, pitiful. After so many lies, now she's telling the
truth with her whole existence: "If this is what you do, this is what you get."
New Covenants
Speaking of Crucifixions
Murkoff Accounts
1960.04.24MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, H.J.
EASTERMAN, AND MOSES SCARFIOTTIEDITED FOR CLARITY[minutes 63-66]SCARFIOTTI: How long can she live up there?
EASTERMAN: I suppose we'll find out.
AVELLANOS: We are here for the science.
SCARFIOTTI: It's obscene.
AVELLANOS: We're here for the obscenities, too. Amelia survived for months
inside the walls. I think she'll tough it out up there for a pretty good
stretch.
SCARFIOTTI: Sleep Room Jesus.
EASTERMAN: Our own apatropaic against temptation and sloth.
SCARFIOTTI: Who are you talking to, ever?
AVELLANOS: The Board is asking about Perry.
SCARFIOTTI: Speaking of crucifixions.
EASTERMAN: I'll handle the board. Perry was so fixated on finding Amelia
because it was ultimately his own lapse that allowed her to escape. It's the
sort of irony they appreciate. It won't take much.
SCARFIOTTI: (muffled)
EASTERMAN: Something you want to say, Moses?
(fives seconds of silence.)
EASTERMAN: Our focus needs to be on our naughty little Reagents.
Enough Rope
Murkoff Accounts
1960.04.24MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, H.J. EASTERMAN, AND MOSES SCARFIOTTIEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 67-69]SCARFIOTTI: The Reagents? You're giving them too much. Trial design controls will let them cut corners, they'll get lazy.
EASTERMAN: Exactly wrong. I'm giving them rope. They'll hang each other. They'll hang themselves. Amazing what you can learn to enjoy. All my little how-highs here are still in the program.
AVELLANOS: We need to mind the Reagents that got out.
EASTERMAN: What's the latest tally?
AVELLANOS: It's a matter of hundreds.
SCARFIOTTI: God almighty.
EASTERMAN: Control yourself, Moses, it's unsightly. I prepared these.
(Papers shuffling)
Easterman: Have you read the case files for Reagent 1616?
SCARFIOTTI: What is this....
AVELLANOS: How do you pronounce, that, "Knoth?"
Our Shepard
Murkoff Accounts
1960.04.24MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, H.J.
EASTERMAN, AND MOSES SCARFIOTTIEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 70-73)EASTERMAN: Yeah, Knoth. He's not far from Sinyala, he may even have some sort
of atavistic memories of this place. Read the reports. Perry was thorough.
AVELLANOS: ...Very susceptible to activation.
EASTERMAN: And shockingly charismatic, considering. He's so far been using his
charm to assemble a kind of harem. But we could put it to better use.
AVELLANOS: The escaped Reagents.
EASTERMAN: Right. Trauma will find trauma, we encourage a sense of mission in
1616, give him a narrative, make him the shepherd for all our lost little sheep.
SCARFIOTTI: And then what? He kills them? Brings them back here?
EASTERMAN: No... You should read the brief.
SCARFIOTTI: Where else is he gonna take them?
Minotaur
The Kress Estate
Clyde Perry Letters
1957.03.16INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYTELEX, TRANSCRIPTIONTO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS / SINYALA FACILITY, AZ
FM: CLYDE PERRY / BUFFALO, NYYou'll find attached local newspaper clippings with regard to the "Buffalo Minotaur," with earliest possible sitings dating all the way back to the late 1920's. The real body count didn't start stacking up until the 40's, and its full extent won't be known until police finish excavating the Kress Estate.However, as most victims seem to be vagrants, prostitutes, or Canadians, and considering the prominence of the Kress family and roll of Kress Chemical in the local economy, authorities are eager to sweep as much of this under the rug as possible. With Murkoff's relationship with Kress Chemical, there's a real opportunity here.
Subtle Tools
A. Bradley Avellanos Letters
1960.05.13MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYPRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN S. GOTTLIEB AND A.BRADLEY AVELLANOS(heading removed)Dear Bradley,Contact me by secure line at your earliest convenience. In conference with your colleague, a Dr. Kusamura, I learned of extraordinarily provocative chemical advancements inside the Sinyala Facility. I believe they are currently outside the direct perview of PROJECT LATHE, but Kusamura seems to believe the Kress Process could provide very utile long-term conditioning.Sidney Gottlieb(signature)
Chief, Chemical Division/TSS
Kress Precursor
Murkoff Minutes
1960.05.15MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JUN KUSAMURA (WITH TRANSLATOR)EDITED FOR CLARITY, (transcriptionist note: all Japanese language non-transcribed. )[Minutes 28-36]KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE)
TRANSLATOR- Mr. Kusamura is trying to explain, The Kress Sister isolated the effect of the synthesized mescaline on different receptors for, ah... I am confused by the word...
KUSAMURA- "Sar-a-to-nin"
AVELLANOS- Saratonin.
KUSAMURA- Saratonin! (JAPANESE)
TRANSLATOR- He says it's like in cactuses that cult leaders use. Peyote. They've separated the visual phenomenon from the altered sense of self and time.
KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE)
TRANSLATOR- It allows for a non-visual psychadelic effect focused soley on the sense of self.
KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE)
TRANSLATOR- "Fractured," he says. And "Spider's web." I'm sorry, I'm not sure quite what he intends ...
KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE) "Kress Pre-cur-sor." (JAPANESE)
TRANSLATOR- He calls it "Kress Precursor." It creates long-term fissures in the personality that can be filled in by brainwashing.
AVELLANOS- What about the more immediate effects?
KUSAMURA- (JAPANESE)
TRANSLATOR- It's like Peyote. Vomiting. Physical weakness. A vague but overwhelming sense of hopelessness.
AVELLANOS- Lovely. Tell Mr. Kusamura that I don't want to have to hear about his research from voices outside Sinyala anymore. If I hear he's telling Gottlieb things before he tells me, there are going to be consequences.
Narcotics and Politics
Murkoff Minutes
1960.05.20MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN H.J. EASTERMAN AND A. BRADLEY AVELLANOSEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 5-9]AVELLANOS: We use every part of the buffalo.
EASTERMAN: Or minotaur.
AVELLANOS: (SIGHS)
EASTERMAN: I wouldn't want to risk losing any of their time dedicated lab research. They... her especially. Her facility with chemicals borders on the genius. Have you tried the bufotenin she makes?
AVELLANOS: I'm trying to cut down on mental patient urine. They won't be harmed. Kusamura seems to think they'll be able to administer the dosage of Kress Precursor more effectively in person.
EASTERMAN: I'm fully committed to the notion of inserting them in the Trials, it was the intention from the beginning. The methods we could develop on secondary political influence, the obedience structures... But it would have been madness not to delay, considering her chemical talents.
AVELLANOS: God, if we can show a confluence of narcotic exposure and political sway, we can milk the Agency for as much as we want. And it wont't cut into the twins' chemical experiments. Kusamura's been observing; he assures me they spend an hour at most in actual lab work.
EASTERMAN: How are they possibly filling the rest of the time?
AVELLANOS: Scratching itches the other can't reach.
EASTERMAN: Scratching... ?
AVELLANOS: You don't want to know."
Human Resources
Collection Setbacks
A. Bradley Avellanos Letters
1960.04.26MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYPRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND SILAS KNISELYSilas Knisely
Dept. of Human Resources
Mount Massive Asylum, COMr. Knisely--Please find attached a budget proposal for cooperation between Mount Massive and the Sinyala facility in sourcing subjects for PROJECT LATHE. We've had some setbacks in our Collections Department, coinciding with an operational restructuring.Please contact at me at your earliest convenience to discuss a joint Human Resources initiative between Mount Massive and the Sinyala Facility.Sincerely,
A. Bradley AvellanosTRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Hand written post-script -- "Silas, I'm sure you heard about Clyde Perry, RIP. The other rumors about Sinyala are all greatly exagerated. We need bodies and we need Judas Goats and we've got Agency money to spend. Call me."
Behavioral Markers
A. Bradley Avellanos Letters
1960.05.02MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYPRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND SILAS KNISELYA. Bradley Avellanos
Sinyala Facility, AZA. Bradley--I am very curious what you've been up to at Sinyala. My department was tasked with supplying support for a Dr. Wernicke's travels to Haiti following his time visiting your program, with a provocative degree of secrecy. Maybe I can arrange for a reason to visit Sinyala, if I'm not stepping on anybody's toes.Dr. Newhouse agrees that an exchange of patients could be a worthwhile endeavor. Our most violent patients are kept chemically restrained at a near- catatonic base level, but we will selectively reduce dosage in order to test for the behavioral markers you noted. Please see the attached roster of candidates, (one young lady has a bit of experience with Dr. Wernicke I believe you may find interesting.) Don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.Signed,
Silas Knisely
Mount Massive, CO
After Amelia
Here be Dragons
Easterman Journals
1960.04.28MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANStaring at the sun. Crisis is potential. I'm trying to see past the disaster, into the pattern that wants to surface.Reagent 0741 is one of the few direct collaborators with Amelia that we've managed to identify. Theo Nordaker, a pervert and masochist from the Southeast, no outside connection to Amelia. Very open to conditioning. He claims to remember nothing about Amelia's escape and shows all the signs of truth telling. But the strands of the web are there, connecting him, us all. Amelia might not even know what she's set in motion. I need to investigate Sleep Room staff.The Korean brainwashing was a lie. My brother's death, everything. Our science is built on sand. But. But. Staring at the sun. We believed in dragons for thousands of years before we found the first dinosaur bone. It was fiction, it was imaginary, but we were right. And now, here, we're on the part of the map where the dragons are.
Emergent Will
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.28MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM INTEROGGATION OF REAGENT 0741 BY H.J. EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 5-8]0741- I don't know what that is.
EASTERMAN- A collective complex of unconscious archetypes. Manifested group thought with its own emergent will.
0741- An... an egrogorge...
EASTERMAN- Egregore. Amelia's more committed followers were obsessed with the notion. I don't believe we're at the end of whatever she was planning. I think there's more, and I think you know about it.
0741- They. They don't give my medicine any more.
EASTERMAN- You don't need it. You need clarity. There is a pattern emerging. I want you to help me understand it. Why are you crying?
0741- (inaudible)
EASTERMAN- What is Amelia planning?
0741- (inaudible)
Urgent Care
Murkoff Memorandums
1960.06.01MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYTO PROJECT LATHE SECURITY & PATIENT RELATIONSDr. Easterman has ordered REAGENT 2427, given name AMELIA COLLIER to be removed from her place in the Sleep Room, and transported to medical facilities in Urgent Care. Despite precautionary measures, patient is experiencing hypoxia and dehydration. Patient survival is high priority. Patient control is highest priority, and maximum security protocols are to be maintained at all times, both in transit, and under medical care.
Construction Report
Murkoff Memorandums
1960.05.18MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYFrom: Moses Scarfiotti
To: THE BOARDDear Sirs,The facility-wide security review of the Sinyala Facility has been completed. What few vulnerabilities were exploited by research subjects following lapses in protocol by our former head of the Department of Historical Refinement have all been sealed and hardened.We left an obesrved breach open during renovation, leading to an as-of-yet unused Trial Environment called PROJECT SCAVENGER, (Reagents will be inserted into a Trial without an ESOP, forced to scavenge Rigs from bodies.) We observed which research subjects would be willing to explore an obvious off-limits area, and have noted their files as likely accomplices of Amelia Collier, and subjects for increased scrutiny.Construction of the Enclosed Mall Trial Environment is complete, please see attached specs for security costs associated with containing the Kress Twins Prime Asset. The substructure of the next Trial Environment is underway, and research teams are en route to the site of the original crimes while the weather is still warm enough for the roads to be passable. The good work continues apace.M.S.
(heading removed)
Smiling in Her Sleep
Easterman Journals
1960.06.19MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANAmelia has been smiling in her sleep. Not with satisfaction, nor any kind of guile. It's a small expression, like a penitent finding blessings in church. She looks at peace, damn her. What is she seeing behind those lids? Maybe there are more pain vectors to explore in paralytic trauma therapy. We can test the depths of catatonia.
Politics
A Vector on Political Will
Murkoff Minutes
1960.05.27MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 13-17]LAWLER: ...one thing after another. You ever get the feeling the brakes are off and the hill's only getting steeper?
AVELLANOS: How about you stay on that side of the desk?
LAWLER: You're serious.
AVELLANOS: No more 'conferences.' Not 'till things calm down. Sober Easterman turns out to be even worse than the man soaked in gin and amphetamines.
LAWLER: Sverdlovsk is gonna fuck us. And this Kennedy kid. He took West Virginia. You see that?
AVELLANOS: He's a rich man's son. Money buys votes.
LAWLER: We've got money. But Jack's got charisma. Allen's acting erractic. Losing John Foster certainly didn't help. Gottlieb's pulling at straws.
AVELLANOS: We may be able to offer some help. It's early days, but we have a vector on political will.
LAWLER: Political Will as in... domestic politics?
AVELLANOS: Don't sell me your American exceptionalism, we're all making sausage in the same factory.
LAWLER: What's the vector?
AVELLANOS: You ever heard of Kress Chemical?
A Deal with Hoover
Murkoff Minutes
1960.05.27MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 18-22]LAWLER: Kress. They're a supplier for Murkoff, right? And there was news some years ago, murders they tried to tie to the Kress Family up in Michigan or something.
AVELLANOS: Buffalo.
LAWLER: That's right. "The Buffalo Minotaur." Turned out to be some kind of mix-up, right? Some groundskeeper or something, worked for the Kress Family.
AVELLANOS: Families that rich are rarely guilty. But the scions of the Kress Family, the only children, did those murders and I don't know how many more. If they'd been found guilty, it would have destroyed Kress Chemical. Couple thousand people out of work, whole supply chain out of commission; and this a company that's a major supplier for our military. Nobody wanted Kress out of commission. We heard about it, I reached out to Clyde, and...
LAWLER: Perry?
AVELLANOS: Tolson. Always has Hoover's ear. Along with a couple other of his organs of ingress. We made a deal with Hoover, helped him cover the mess and in exchange got Otto and Arora to add to our stable.
Kress Ambitions
Murkoff Minutes
1960.05.27MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 23-24]LAWLER: Otto and Arora Kress?
AVELLANOS: Twins. You'll like them, they're, uh... Quite a sight. Geniuses in their own way. They would've gotten away with everything, even the murders, if they could have just kept a lid on their ambitions.
LAWLER: Being billionaire barons of industry wasn't enough?
AVELLANOS: Old American tradition, turning money into power and back again. Otto wanted to be Governor. Ran a shadow campaign, funded candidates; Otto and Arora essentially designed New York State politics for a decade. Could have run it long as they wanted, but Otto just had to step out into the limelight.
LAWLER: What's wrong with that?
AVELLANOS: Here. I got a picture.
LAWLER: Jesus fucking Christ. Jesus. What am I looking at? Jesus.
AVELLANOS: Right?
LAWLER: This guy. These guys. This thing... thought it was going to be a politician?
AVELLANOS: Why not?
LAWLER: Look at them. If you can do it without vomiting.
AVELLANOS: Yeah, they're unique. But...
Kennedy Magic
Murkoff Minutes
1960.05.27MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 25-28]AVELLANOS: Tell me this. Who are the most successful politicians of the 20th Century so far?
LAWLER: The Dulles Brothers.
AVELLANOS: Not power brokers. Politicians. People on stage, making obedience look like choice. Making control look like compromise.
LAWLER: Um. Roosevelt? Churchill.
AVELLANOS: No, no. Those were men created by a sytem[sic] and tradition that just kept the ball rolling.
LAWLER: You were just asking the question so you could tell me what you think.
AVELLANOS: Hitler.
LAWLER: Here we go.
AVELLANOS: Mao. And Stalin. Weird, ugly men with magical beliefs. Each one of them the last guy you'd leave alone with your twelve-year-old niece. Losers, criminals. Failures. But as politicians... Unbeatable.
LAWLER: This Kennedy kid is not Hitler. And he's not ugly.
AVELLANOS: Hell of a haircut.
LAWLER: And his politics are about as far from continental fascism as you can get and still hope to win an election.
AVELLANOS: I'm not talking about politics. I'm talking about the politician. Kennedy's a believer, a Catholic. An injured vet who can't operate without barbiturates and amphetamines. You ever mix demarol[sic] and methadone? It's incredbile[sic]. Probably talks to Jesus daily, on top of which he believes some magical Italian has God's phone number. We get a real believer, a real addict in the White House. The sky's the limit. Not even the sky.
LAWLER: It's dangerous.
AVELLANOS: Of course it is. It's why we need to a political program in Sinyala.
Political Products
Murkoff Minutes
1960.05.20MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN H.J. EASTERMAN AND MOSES SCARFIOTTIEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 9-13]SCARFIOTTI: I'll admit it's taking me a moment to see the connection.
EASTERMAN: We've had more pressing matters. Our own disagreements.
SCARFIOTTI: I thought you'd gone insane.
EASTERMAN: You don't need to apologize to me, Moses. The mall is gift enough, it's beautiful.
SCARFIOTTI: It's perfect for a Trial. An enclosed shopping mall is already a synthetic environment. A diorama of a downtown shopping experience. It gives the suburbanite a sanitized experience of city life. Shopping downtown, but without all the poverty and unfortunate ethnicity. It's the political angle that escapes me.
EASTERMAN: They're going to televise the presidential debates on CBS. it's going to change everything.
SCARFIOTTI: Sorry?
EASTERMAN: Anything you put in a store window is for sale. Television will turn politicians into products. Just like anything else. But commercial television also reverses the consumer relationship. It's like an economic mirror. Viewers don't buy the programs they watch on the television; networks rent viewer's eyeballs to their advertisers.
SCARFIOTTI: Slow down, you're getting...
EASTERMAN: It can be a perfect economic cycle, an, an upward funnel of money and power. But it needs a gyre, a constant engine of consumption. They can never leave the enclosed mall, this cathedral to consumerism, this brutalist concrete box functioning as cradle. It's beautiful, Moses, truly.
Fritz Haber
Murkoff Minutes
1960.05.25MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM SURVEILLANCE TAPE OF CONVERSATION BETWEEN OTTO KRESS, ARORA KRESS, AND JUN KUSAMURATRANSLATED, EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 209-213)(Translator's Note: Arora Kress's Japanese is rough and oddly accented, requiring some interpretation. )KUSAMURA- (They are... messengers, yes? The spiderweb form, it reminds me of the ripples in a pond. Somebody from a deeper reality poking the surface of our reality.)
ARORA KRESS- (Agreement. Fritz used to write us that chemical science leads the philosophy of leadership.)
KUSAMURA- Fritz?
ARORA KRESS- Haber.
OTTO KRESS- What's that, darling? Did this little devil know uncle Fritz?
KUSAMURA- (You talked to Fritz Haber?!)
ARORA KRESS- (We corresponded. In between the wars. I'm afraid Fritz had a hard time in the second one.) Couldn't have happened to a nicer man.
KUSAMURA- (I am Fritz Haber's number one fan. Such an artist. A builder of empires.)
OTTO KRESS- What is he getting so hot and bothered over? Arora?
ARORA KRESS- Otto! Turn me back around.
KUSAMURA- (And he wrote you letters? Do you still have any? I'm a collector. I have... I have some influence inside the Facility, if you have any of those letters, I could get you anything you want. What did he write you about?)
ARORA KRESS- (All our letters are gone. We lost everything, I'm afraid. The family business did quite well after the first war, there were new processes, new technologies. Chemical stockpiles to be re-filled. We reached out to Fritz because I had heard he was working on an alternate to methylenedioxymethamphetamine. It was just a rumor, but he proved a kind and generous correspondant.[sic] Something of a mentor, really. )
Drugs and Fear
Murkoff Minutes
1960.05.25MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM SURVEILLANCE TAPE OF CONVERSATION BETWEEN OTTO KRESS, ARORA KRESS, AND JUN KUSAMURATRANSLATED, EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 214-216](Translator's Note: Arora Kress's Japanese is rough and oddly accented, requiring some interpretation.)KUSAMURA- (The Haber-Bosch process is the single greatest creation of the century. Every meal you eat, every bomb dropped, every bullet fired. Half the population would not have been born and ninety-nine percent of the murders would not have occured[sic] without his work. Only God has surpassed him in creation and killing. What did he write you about?)
ARORA KRESS- (Once we realized we were...) kindred spirits, I'm sorry I don't know the word, (We both noticed a chemical component in the sentiments growing in Europe prior to the second war.)
KUSAMURA- (Yes! Oh, yes, absolutely. The National Socialist Movement, all fascism really, it's primarily a movement based in drugs and fear. The politics is strictly ornamental.)
ARORA KRESS- (Otto might have some small disagreements with you.)
OTTO- Yes, dear? What was that?
ARORA KRESS- (But I could not be more in agreement.)
KUSAMURA- (The drug intake among the Nazi leadership was breathtaking. Among the soldiers even more so.)
ARORA KRESS- (When we watched Hitler, this twisted, ugly little drug-addled dwarf, rise to power and conquer. We were inspired. Otto watched the newsreels of the rallies with tears in his eyes. We thought: why not us? If he can do it why not us?)
Prime Time Two
Her Handwriting
Murkoff Minutes
1960.04.29MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, H.J.EASTERMAN, AND MOSES SCARFIOTTIEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 12-15]SCARFIOTTI- It's everywhere. Jesus Christ, it's even her handwriting.
EASTERMAN- They're emulating her. The therapy makes Reagents vulnerable to charismatic influence and they built Amelia into an imaginary psychopomp.
AVELLANOS- Maybe watching her piss herself on a wall for a few weeks might help correct that.
SCARFIOTTI- How do we stop the graffiti? It's going up faster than we clean it.
EASTERMAN- The Reagents are hungering for godheads. For leadership. We need to give them more. More exposure to the Prime Assets. In the short term we can bring back Prime Time.
SCARFIOTTI- Including Franco?
EASTERMAN- Of course.
SCARFIOTTI- Jesus. The environments...
EASTERMAN- Something breaks, something goes wrong, that's our art. Crisis is just potential.
Thought Leaders
Murkoff Minutes
1960.06.03MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS, H.J.EASTERMAN, AND MOSES SCARFIOTTIEDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 92-95]SCARFIOTTI- You're talking about in the Trials. Actually inside the Trial Environments.
EASTERMAN- Of course.
SCARFIOTTI- It's absurd. It's too dangerous.
EASTERMAN- I'm bringing Kusamura back onsite. He understands. And we'll have new data from our second Prime Time experiment. We can make it work.
AVELLANOS- She taught herself Japanese. Did you know that? Just to talk to Kusamura, to have somebody to discuss chemical science with.
SCARFIOTTI- We couldn't guarantee control. The Trial Environment couldn't handle it. After what we just went through, you want to...
AVELLANOS- We can sell this to the Agency. Call it politics. We always said we could create politicians.
EASTERMAN- Thought leaders.
AVELLANOS- Same thing.
Communal Rebirth
Stare Down the Sun
Easterman Journals
1960.06.12MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANI stared down the Sun. I looked into the face of god and said, "blink." And my reward is the mirror. I can look in the mirror again. My new face, my opened eyes. Hairless, dead and reborn. You have to die and be reborn if you want to teach your children to die and be reborn.Emil Schwyzer had to put a bullet in his head before he could see the visions he reported to Jung. The sun he saw had an enormous c∗∗∗, and its gift was wind. I look in the mirror and I see a sun with a c∗∗∗. I'll burn you all from the surface of the world, I'll give you life to grow again. (The Romans who worshipped Mithras were persecuted until they were driven underground, with their studies, their rituals of initiation, their medicines and the slaying of their bulls. I wonder if old Jung would look at what I have built in Sinyala and see the archetypes thriving.)The mirror is sacred.
Mirror Image
Easterman Journals
1960.06.25MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMAN(Transcriber's note: first lines appear to be written as if under duress)I N I N I M A T T 3 N M(Transcriber's note: several scratched-out letters, color of ink changes)Fascinating. I rested for three hours until the Kress MIVIM had cleared my system. Attempting to write with reversed vision proved comically difficult. The chicken scratch above is my attempt to write "I'M ATTEMPTING" in block letters.Observing myself in the mirror under the influence of MIVIM was more rewarding Reversed, the image of my reflection was more true than my real body. I could easily reverse reality itself, where my presence in the mirror was the true self, and this side of the glass was the reflection.It will make Communal Rebirth possible. We administer Kress Formula Mirror Image Visual Morphosia to Reagents in sufficient doses to distance their minds and their physical bodies. A fellow Reagent is no more than a figure in a glass, an intangible visual phenomenon. You can't feel them even if you can touch them, just lifeless glass. You can't smell their blood or their sweat. Scarfiotti says all of the security breaches have been sealed, the Facility is safe again. Rebirth will recommence.
TRUST
Upcoming Modifications
Murkoff Memorandums
1960.07.18MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPYTO PROJECT LATHE, ENGINEERING DEPTPlease see attached schematics for Insertion Gate re-design related to upcoming therapy modifications. It's of vital importance that these gates have zero access overlap with Ex-Pop or Prime Asset Insertion Gates. The upcoming modification to Therapy may introduce new dangers, both in terms of Reagent containment and safety, and Mr. Scarfiotti will be required to personally sign off on all work before use in active Trials.
Who Do You Trust
Easterman Journals
1960.06.20MURKOFF CORP
PERSONNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANThey're still dreaming about Amelia. They're still dreaming about escape. I can hear them, like mice in the walls. Ungrateful, scheming, confused, perverse, self-destructive, willfully stupid. How can a father teach anything to children who won't trust him? They want to TRUST. They think they can trust each other. They need to trust me. I take with one hand so that I may give with the other.
Deep Burn
Drowning
Easterman Journals
1960.07.08MURKOFF CORP
PEROSNNEL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMANWho would tell the sun not to burn? They want temper my children's natural love for fire. Combustion is the driving force of the American Century. This bureaucratic pussyfooting gives me toska.I would have said once that I had a gift. I was born with certain talents, a capacity for belief in something sublime. But I don't have a gift, I am a gift. I have been given to a task. I am a slave to history. I can teach my children to love fire less. You can love a fine wine without being an alcoholic. I will not apologize to the sun.Water, symbolically, is both birth and death. I remember as a child my Sunday chore drowning glue-trapped mice. I remember discovering my own body in the privacy of a warm bath. So my children blink out a tiny piece of the sun on the surface of the earth, with liquid sex and death. The Therapy contains multitudes.
Deep Burn Authorization
Murkoff Memorandums
1960.07.13MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTERS ONLYCOPY(heading removed)The Board has officially authorized the program code-named DEEP BURN. All test results to be internally reviewed and redacted before sharing with any Agency partners, with an emphasis on efficacy.The so-called "water" being supplied to the Reagents is non-pottable, largely human and animal-sourced, and any skin contact by staff should be followed with a decontaminating shower and full course of antibiotics. Liquid transport in all extra-Trial environments MUST be in properly sealed containers to minimize odor.
Too Many Pyromaniacs
Murkoff Minutes
1960.06.29MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 8-11]AVELLANOS: You're pouting.
LAWLER: I don't pout.
AVELLANOS: Come on, I've seen you with a bad taste in your mouth. What is it?
LAWLER: The arson thing is getting to be a problem. If we wanted to set indiscriminate fires, we'd use napalm.
AVELLANOS: You do use napalm. All the time. This country makes more napalm than Cheeze Whiz.
LAWLER: But it's not what we came to Murkoff for. We needed scalpels. Dupes with precise operational guidance and zero operational context.
AVELANOS: Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
LAWLER: Look. Here. Kern County. Caracas. Tokyo. I got half a dozen more. Places your Reagents had single targets they were ordered to take out with knives or poison. And instead they set fires. Half the time after the target's dead.
AVELLANOS: Dead is dead
LAWLER: That's not a scalpel. If this gets traced back to you, this could get traced back to the Agency. We're the good guys here. We can't have this rolling back on us.
BELOVED
Reviewing and Selecting
Murkoff Minutes
1960.06.14MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN H.J. EASTERMAN AND SILAS KNISELY (HUMAN RESOURCES, MOUNT MASSIVE CO)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 56-58]
EASTERMAN- This is all of them?
KNISELY- For now. These five patients best represent the metrics your colleague, ah, Miss Avellanos, shared. Is she going to be joining us? I really thought she would.
EASTERMAN- Reviewing and selecting Prime Assets is my concern. The Therapy requires a precise balance.
KNISLEY[sic]- I was so looking forward to meeting her. Do you know much about her situation outside of work?
EASTERMAN- Mister, ah...
KNISELY- Knisely.
EASTERMAN- I'm sorry, you remind me of someone. Someone around the eyes. Mister Knisely, this patient here--
KNISELY- Ah, yes. She is something. Quite provocative.
EASTERMAN- Everything about her story is marked "as reported." The Siege of Leningrad. The business in the forest. You couldn't confirm any of these details?
KNISELY- She's rather difficult to interview.
EASTERMAN- Obviously. Perhaps it would be easier with a little Russian. Or French.
Acolytes or Investors
Murkoff Minutes
1960.06.14MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN H.J. EASTERMAN AND SILAS KNISELY (HUMAN RESOURCES, MOUNT MASSIVE CO)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 58-61]
KNISELY- She's rather difficult to interview.
EASTERMAN- Obviously. Perhaps it would be easier with a little Russian. Or French.
KNISELY- Most of what she says is the, ah... other material. These historical details are coming from her... "victim," I guess we could call him? Acolyte?
EASTERMAN- "Investor," from the sound of it.
KNISELY- I guess that's right. Whatever the case, he was, ah.... physically compromised by the time our Agency friends found him. They scooped up what they could but they never did find all the pieces. Pretty horrible.
EASTERMAN- Can you tell me more about that? All the details.
KNISELY- Just what's in the file. I'd be... I'd be more comfortable with a little more space between us.
EASTERMAN- Tell me more about her tongue.
KNISELY- Excuse me. I really. I'm not comfortable with this.
EASTERMAN- Have you heard any of it yourself?
KNISELY- Mister. Hey. I'm gonna need you to keep your hands to yourself.
(sounds of light physical scuffling)
EASTERMAN- You seem upset. Is there anything I can do to help you relax?
Her Tongue
Murkoff Minutes
1960.06.14MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN H.J. EASTERMAN AND SILAS KNISELY (HUMAN RESOURCES, MOUNT MASSIVE CO)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 61-63]
EASTERMAN- You seem upset. Is there anything I can do to help you relax?
(inaudible)
EASTERMAN- You were telling me about her tongue.
KNISELY- I... Um. Our doctors have examined her. Thoroughly. There were some irregularities. It's in the file.
EASTERMAN- The absent lingual frenulum. The gastrostege pattern of musculature along the body of the tongue.
KNISELY- Yeah. Yes. All that. Curious. But not a concrete sign of anything I'd call... miraculous.
EASTERMAN- She's a provocative specimen.
(inaudible)
KNISELY- Please. Doctor Easterman. I'm still here.
EASTERMAN- Bring her. Bring her to Sinyala.
KNISELY- There may be considerable expense. Transporting her's going to invole[sic] a whole lot of caution and security.
The Uniform & The Weapon
The Uniform Makes The Man
Murkoff Minutes
1960.11.10MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSACTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN SILAS KINSLEY, A BRADLEY AVELLANOS, MOSES SCARFIOTTI AND H.J. EASTERMANEDITTED FOR CLARITY[MINUTES 27-31]AVELLANOS: Is it necessary? We have pictures, tapes and the resources to make our own one.
SCARFIOTTI: I know a good tailor, she’s another Russian but she’s trustworthy, she could probably work off her own memory, she’s that good at her job.
EASTERMAN: No no no, it can’t be a recreation. Losev knows every inch of that uniform, every stitch, every perfection and imperfection. If we give him a recreation then he’ll know. He won’t be able to slide back into the role he played in the war.
AVELLANOS: You’re saying his position as a captain was just a role he played?
EASTERMAN: We all play a version of ourselves in front of others. Reports indicate that Losev was very much a bold and strong hearted man in front of his troops, and a violent psychopathic brute when no one was looking.
KINSELY: I hate to say it but he’s right. The reports I was given from the blacksite correlate with what he’s saying. He needs his own uniform back if we want him to play that role.
EASTERMAN: Play that role while also feeling free enough to expose his violent tendencies to the other ex-pops.
SCARFIOTTI: Where do you suggest we even start looking for the uniform, how do we know it wasn’t thrown away or repurposed?
KINSLEY: (chuckles) Well you know what commies are like, waste not.
AVELLANOS: I’ll speak to Lawler, maybe he can get us in contact with spies in Stalinga- sorry, Volograd.
Acquisition Of Cpt Losev’s Uniform
Avellanos Letters
1960.11.17MURKOFF CORP
INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LETTER ONLYCOPYPRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ALLEN W DUELLS A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS(heading removed)Dear Ms AvellanosPlease find attached to this letter the package you requested. A fully decorated uniform belonging to one Cpt Leonid Losev.I must make you aware of the risk taken to acquire this uniform. When the proposal came across my desk I was ready to deny it until I saw it was from Lawler. Understand that you are extremely lucky I owe him a favour, and that he put in a good word for you and the work your team is doing in Arizona.One of my best men in the USSR was almost captured trying to get this uniform from the war museum it was kept in. He’s a vital asset to our national security, and to risk his cover for something so pathetic as a communist uniform, baffles me.From here on out, I don’t want to see any more of these requests for such unimportant items. This was a one off. If you want uniforms from the nation of our enemy, then I suggest you learn some Russian, buy a plane ticket and see how long you last in restricted areas.APPROVED:Allen W Duells(Signature & Seal)Director Of Central Intelligence Agency (DCI)
The Weapon Makes The Solider
Murkoff Minutes
1960.11.10MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSACTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A BRADLEY AVELLANOS, MOSES SCARFIOTTI AND H.J. EASTERMANEDITTED FOR CLARITY[MINUTES 40-44]SCARFIOTTI: See you later, Kinsley.(sound of a door closing)EASTERMAN: You’ll want to take a look at these.
SCARFIOTTI: What is it?
AVELLANOS: A proposal for Losev’s weapon, and a rough sketch.
SCARFIOTTI: Well this seems dramatic. Does the flag also need to be from Russia?
EASTERMAN: No, we can make that in house. The flag is more for Leonid than the reagents. A reminder of his purpose, of what he’s fighting for.
SCARFIOTTI: Surely it will have an effect on the reagents, we thought out each prime asset's weapons in conjunction with its symbolisation on the reagents.
EASTERMAN: Correct. Gooseberry’s acting as the strike from the back of the fathers hand as encouraged by the mother, Coyle’s representing the state's power to enforce law by threat of violence, Franco’s as a distant attack on the body that feels sexual in nature despite no actual contact. All representatives of powers we teach them to fear or loathe.
AVELLANOS: And the Kress twins?
EASTERMAN: Well we may have just been having a little fun with that one. Leonid’s will act as the vessel for the power our enemies in Russia have, an unconscious reminder to always despite that flag and the symbol it carries.
SCARFIOTTI: I’ll see what I can do. I may need to speak to our mutual friend down in the sleep room and get his opinion.
AVELLANOS: He’s been quiet ever since the breach.
SCARFIOTTI: I might be able to motivate him.
The Architect Of Death, The Engineer Of Life
Murkoff Minutes
1960.11.11MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSACTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN CORNEALIUS NAOKES AND MOSES SCARFIOTTIEDITTED FOR CLARITY[MINUTES 3-11]NOAKES: Find someone else. You already have me building traps and shit, man.
SCARFIOTTI: You speak like you have a choice.
NOAKES: I do. I have a choice to help these poor fuckers through them trials by any means necessary, and I do it.
SCARFIOTTI: At least just tell me if it’s possible. The weight distribution, the spike, the sickle.
NOAKES: Yeah, it’s possible, if I wanted to I could easily draw up plans, shit, I could easily build it myself if I wanted. The flag seems like overkill, though.
SCARFIOTTI: At least we agree on something.
NOAKES: Yeah well we don’t agree on who’s gonna help plan and build it. I ain’t contributing anymore to peoples deaths.
SCARFIOTTI: More than you already do?
NOAKES: Don’t come here with that shit. I didnt build those crazy fuckers weapons.
SCARFIOTTI: But you do keep them running.
(Silence)
SCARFIOTTI: You’re making a bad choice if you refuse.
NOAKES: And why’s that?
SCARFIOTTI: Because if you don’t do it, you’ll be missing out on a phone call with your wife.
NOAKES: W-what?
The Hospital
THE CRUX
Murkoff Minutes
1961.09.10MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN MOSES SCARFIOTTI AND H.J.
EASTERMANEDITED FOR CLARITY[minutes 17-20]SCARFIOTTI: It's an electrician's nightmare. I mean we’re talking, lifts, incinerators, hospital monitors, the whole nine yards. We’ll be lucky to run our strongest generators to get half of the place running.
EASTERMAN: Then reroute the power, we can shut down unused environments to push more into this one. I can’t stress enough the importance of this endeavor.
SCARFIOTTI: Don’t… lecture me on how to do my job Hendrick, I’m fully aware of the implications of failure.
EASTERMAN: Don’t crush the creative vision and I won't bite. Cut corners, I could care less. Syphion power from ongoing trials. We gave them night vision for a reason right?
(Silence)
EASTERMAN: The Hospital is not just an environment Moses, it’s an ideological frame; a constructed threshold between the gutter and the divine. They will crawl, stumble, bleed yet each step carries them closer to a synthetic heaven of our design. Their passage to each level will not be presented as escape, but as elevation. Transcendence through torment.
SCARFIOTTI: But how will this teach them to obey? Operating on someone is usually supposed to keep them on the ground, not kill them.
EASTERMAN: That's the crux. We bring in undesirables. Enemy heads of state, scapegoat politicians, whoever they send us to silence will fit into our “operation”. We choose who lives and dies. In the most extreme fashion of course to maximize trauma potential.
SCARFIOTTI: And as for Hall, how does she fit into all of this beside her nursing background. I don't think she would be in the market of fixing people up.
EASTERMAN: This is her chapel. The operation, her ritual. This will be her own clinic where she will believe the operation is hers. A divine gift from the gods she so chooses to worship. If things end up going wrong for her, which they will, she’ll fight tooth and nail to keep things on track.
SCARFIOTTI: Clean up crews will be standing by.
A MEMORANDIUM TO ENGINEERING STAFF
Murkoff Memorandums
1961.09.12OFFICIAL STATEMENTMOSES SCARFFIOTI{EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY}Attention Staff,Power allocation to existing trial environments will be reduced. All surplus energy is to be rerouted to the new environment until additional generator clusters are installed. Any staff member found diverting current for unauthorized use, or otherwise interfering with Murkoff’s energy directives, will be dealt with in accordance with corporate standards.All available engineering personnel are hereby summoned to Warehouse 19. Preparations for the environment’s structural framework demand immediate attention. Trucks carrying materials, industrial components, and containment assemblies will be arriving on staggered schedules. Large Equipment Officers must be on site to ensure rapid unloading and secure handling. Attendance is not optional.Multiple gas lines from auxiliary facilities are in the process of being rerouted. These will be used to fuel a fully functionally medical incinerator so expect irregularities in local supply pressure until the new conduits are fully stabilized. Adjust accordingly.- M. Scarfiotti
Lead Engineer PROJECT LATHE 2
MURKOFF CORPORATION
FLESH TEMPLE
Easterman Journals
1961.09.30MURKOFF CORP
PERSONAL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMAN
(PART 1)Everything is set. The board approved our idea for the Hospital and Moses is already on top of things in the construction aspects. He personally took me over to see the bones and muscles of the environment and I have to say I am impressed with his work. Despite our differences, Stanford really laid a golden egg with him. He has his best men working around the clock to get it done as soon as possible. His best guess, late November. Geister and Winter Kills will run as normal so this will act as an early Christmas gift as well as a birthday gift for Hall. Caring disguised as cruelty.Though it is still bare, it grows in my imagination with each passing day. Its design is not mere architecture, it is liturgy. A flesh temple. Reagents will not initially recognize what it is for, but I do: an altar to ascendance. At its genesis, a basement, an underworld of heat and rot. Move upwards, the more sterile it becomes. Filth gives way to order, order to cleanliness, cleanliness to sanctity. The operating theater crowns it all: gleaming white, immaculate. The end of the journey. The gates to Heaven. Any enemy of the state will burst when confronted with that, we will make sure of that.
SELL THE LADDER
Easterman Journals
1961.10.01MURKOFF CORP
PERSONAL SURVEILLANCECOPYPRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRY OF DR. HENDRICK JOLIET EASTERMAN
(PART 2)Hall is a remarkable asset, diseased in all the proper ways. Her religious passion for harvesting intact organs is not merely tolerated but celebrated. She will be the catalyst to our biggest endeavor yet: Biological Trade. Organs, bones, and marrow will flow directly from our chambers to the halls of wealthy hospitals, feeding the appetites of their privileged patrons. Of course, we will be able to step in and determine who gets what, and that will be our edge. We determine who lives and who dies. Hall will teach them, we will control them, with conditioning on both sides of course and the world will be none the wiser.I confess, I am filled with great excitement. What was once a theoretical construct now becomes tangible. The structure, a place where theology and commerce mate, where pursuit of transcendence coincides perfectly with profit. Flesh in, capital out.The reagents mutilate their way toward our heaven. And we sell the ladder rung by rung.
VICTIM INTAKE
Murkoff Minutes
1960.10.14MURKOFF CORPCOPYTRANSCRIPTION FROM TAPE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS AND JAMESON LAWLER (CIA)EDITED FOR CLARITY[Minutes 15-17]AVELLANOS: Development of the new environment requires a larger intake. Our work cannot continue without a consistent stream of victims. Organ viability, as you know, is time-sensitive.
LAWLER: And you’re telling me the numbers you have now won’t sustain this new… place.
AVELLANOS: Precisely. Current pools are insufficient. If this is to function as intended, we need more assets. And we need them soon.
LAWLER: You’re asking to widen the net?
AVELLANOS: I’m not asking. I’m informing. Murkoff and the Agency share goals here. The hospital won’t just alter the shape of trials, the very landscape of medicine will change. Imagine: hospitals across the globe stocked with organs, marrow, and bone directly sourced from our program. No shortages, no waiting lists, for those we deem fit. A new era.
LAWLER: (Pause) I take it you’ll want authority to decide who goes into the system.
AVELLANOS: We can use whoever we deem fit. Prisoners of war. Dissidents. Enemy politicians. Anyone that falls outside the bounds of utility to your agency or ours. Their disappearance will not be questioned.
LAWLER: You’re walking a dangerous line here. Too risky. Too many people can't go missing just like that.
AVELLANOS: (Laughter) We have never walked any other kind. You’ll find the line far easier to cross when your enemies are strapped to our gurneys, their insides sold to the highest bidder, their husks feeding the myth of ascendance. The hospital makes it all clean. Official. Holy even.
LAWLER: I’ll see what strings I can pull for now. But if anyone asks questions
AVELLANOS: Then Murkoff will provide answers. Or better yet, silence.[End Transcript]
The VIXEN
THE VIXEN
Retrieved Documents
05.08.1961Something’s In Salem(NEWSPAPER HEADLINE FROM THE SALEM ORACLE)
DATED APRIL 30th 1961LOCAL MISSING MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOUND DEAD On the morning of April 28th authorities responded to a distressed phone call made by a Salem local after discovering a body floating in Willamette River. Police and paramedics arrived on scene and retrieved the body shortly after, transferring it to Salem Memorial for further examination. A familial verification was made and it was confirmed to be the missing Salem Medical Board Director Dr. Dick Feldman, a man who was well known in the society for his contributions to Salem Memorial and other various community organizations. Reports claim the man was covered with large deep cuts, delicately sewn together. During examination, multiple organs have been found half missing to completely missing. This includes portions of his liver as well as one of his kidneys, with what appears to be attempts to harvest a lung. Autopsy reports indicate the cause of death was not due to missing organs, but cardiac arrest. This correlates with accounts that have come out, before and since the disappearance of Dr. Feldman, about a “woman with emerald city eyes’ working with local prostitutes to lure in and mutilate unsuspecting men and women. In one instance, a woman recalls seeing a disheveled man stumbling about stating someone took his insides only to show the woman similar deep lacerations. But when the woman returned from contacting authorities, the man had disappeared, never to be seen again. When questioned, multiple prostitutes claimed no recollection of any involvement. Investigators have already started looking into this case and are hot on the trail. Chief of Police Floyd Clower confirms this in his statement: “...(Feldman) was a good man, a community man, a God-fearing man. So best be sure we will not stop until this fox hunt is over.” Make sure to keep your eyes peeled Salem. Stay safe, stay indoors, call authorities if you see anything suspicious or you could be this “Vixen’s” next target.
Easterman's Approval
Murkoff Minutes
05.10.1961(CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN S. KNISLEY, AND DR. H. J EASETERMAN)
(Approx. 20 min)K: Thank you for seeing me on such short notice doctor. Normally I would schedule ahead of time but something like this, I’d like to keep our fingers on the pulse.
(Shuffling of papers)
K: Take a look at this, printed just 2 days ago, the ink had barely dried by the time I got my hands on this, but as soon as I did I rushed right over here. Informants have been feeding me information as it comes in.
(Pause. A glass faintly and is placed down.)
E: (sluggishly) Christ, Silas… It’s barely noon. I don’t have time nor the energy for this right now.
K: (pressing) Read the details, sir. They’re calling her “Vixen” . Victims pulled from brothels, drifters mostly, low men… stripped of their organs. You speak about charisma; you have to have some strong influence to convince people to collect specimens for you.
E: Whores and butchers (snorts) Hardly worth Murkoff’s time.
K: Listen, this isn’t crude mutilation. They’re telling me the extractions are clean, almost clinical. Very precise. If they are able to keep walking after missing parts of them, we may have something much bigger than a leader on our hands.
E: You sound more like a salesman than a recruiter. (Pause) …The girls working for her? Loyal?
K: By all accounts, yes. Authorities have made some cracks in the ladies who people claim to have known her. A lot of them are scared, more paid silence than anything, but we have more than enough to get them to spill.
E: A fox and her den of rabbits. You realize what you’re proposing, Silas. If she resists integration, we’ll waste resources putting her down.
K: Then let me bring her in clean. Give me the leash, I’ll drag her right to your doorstep.[End Transcript]
VIXEN COLLECTION
Silas Letters
5.16.1961Collection Report via S. Knisley:
I arrived in Salem at 2100 hours under standard field disguise, posing as a traveling buyer seeking “company.” My contact, a known affiliate of the Vixen, arranged a meeting for a price, which I paid to maintain cover. She led me to a cramped lodging house deep in the lower district.Inside, I was offered several drinks that quickly dulled my senses. While my contact was distracted, I ingested one unit of C-226D3, the lucidity stabilizer, to counteract the effects. My vision cleared, though my pulse remained high. I was then escorted through a side alley and narrow stairwell, told only that “she” was expecting me.The room was dim, its walls painted with Egyptian-style glyphs and cartouches, candles set atop bird-headed statues circling the bed. A surgical table sat along the far wall, cluttered with tools. The air hung thick with incense and a faint metallic scent. Everything felt staged, deliberate, ceremonial.The subject entered through a beaded curtain, calm and precise. Her emerald eyes never wavered as she approached, voice low and rhythmic. Clad in some kind of spiritual lingerie, she pressed me back onto the bed with a controlled confidence that felt more ritual than seduction. As she moved closer, I saw the markings on the walls: blood, not paint. My heartbeat quickened as she pulled out a gleaming syringe-like weapon filled with what I could assume a very heavy sedative.When I caught sight of the scalpel on her belt, instinct took over. I seized it and slashed upward, cutting her across the right eye. She screamed and fell back. I managed to strike her twice more, subdue her, and administer a heavy sedative. When my contact burst in, I threatened her off and secured the room.At 2120 hours, I initiated the extraction protocol. Murkoff Collection arrived shortly after to retrieve the subject and all evidence. The wound was serious but non-fatal. She remains a viable candidate for PRIME ASSET conditioning and will be transferred to Sinyala immediately.
TEMP NAME
Easterman’s Journal
5.20.1961(Entry from the Private Journal of Dr. Hendrick J. Easterman) Knisley’s report crossed my desk this morning, ink smudged and sentences clipped. Even through his professionalism, the bitch seems to have shaken him. The account reads more like a confession than a field log. At first, I was ready to dismiss it. An organ harvester dressed up as a mystic sounded like theater. Yet the more I reread his words, the harder it was to set them down. The Egyptian symbols, the deliberate geometry — these weren’t gestures of a deranged mind, but signs of a pattern, a method. And patterned madness can be used. What stays with me is his description of her composure: calm, controlled, commanding. She disguised ritual as seduction, every movement deliberate. If she wanted him dead, he would be. Her precision suggests discipline — a rarity. A subject who organizes her own insanity. Knisley acted wisely; the damaged eye will complicate conditioning, but it will also remind her who holds power. I’ve requested immediate transfer to the Lathe Wing. There’s something beneath her violence — something even she may not understand. If we can isolate that drive, the belief that orders her cruelty, we might discover something greater than fear that obeys commands. Perhaps faith that obeys…