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Registered Phenomena Code: 103
Object Class: Alpha-Yellow
Hazard Types: Bio-Hazard
Containment Protocols: RPC-103 is to be thoroughly decontaminated on a weekly basis by CSD personnel until all of its anomalous properties have been neutralized. CSD personnel must wear biohazard protection equipment at all times during the decontamination process. On a monthly basis, RPC-103 must be inspected by research personnel to assess the state of RPC-103's sterilization. Unsupervised inspections of RPC-103 are strictly prohibited.
Any personnel exposed to the atmosphere of the chamber comprising RPC-103 must be quarantined in the Biological and Chemical Sector of Site-002 and have a sample of cerebrospinal fluid extracted for analysis. Any Site-002 personnel exhibiting symptoms correlating with biological or psychological contamination by RPC-103 will be relocated to Site-187, pending observations of its long-term effects.
Description: RPC-103 is the former containment chamber of a neutralized anomaly (previously designated as RPC-███). It is a 5m x 5m x 5m observation chamber in the Alpha Sector of Site-002's Containment Wing. In the center of this chamber is a cylindrical glass viewing tank previously occupied by RPC-███.
The atmosphere of the chamber is comprised of a gaseous compound that sublimated from RPC-███ upon its neutralization. Exposure to this compound results in victim experiencing feelings of relaxation and euphoria accompanied by vivid visual and auditory simulations, followed by [DATA EXPUNGED].
Denied: all research into RPC-103 is to be referred to Site-187.
Denied: all research into RPC-103 is to be referred to Site-187.
Denied: RPC-103 cannot be classified as neutralized until the sector is successfully sterilized.
Addendum:
The following is an excerpt from a memo posted by Site-002 Administration on 5/21/20██:
To answer a few misconceptions regarding RPC-103:
- No, the atmosphere of RPC-103 is not a harmless curiosity.
- Yes, trespassing in the chamber of RPC-103 will result in indefinite relocation to Site-187.
- Yes, our efforts to sterilize the sector are seeing progress.
- No, personnel previously involved with containment of the formerly-designated RPC-███ have not been terminated.
- No, you may no longer participate in the Anima Procedure. Stop asking.
Registered Phenomena Code: 103
Object Class: Beta-Yellow
Hazard Types: Visual Hazard, Auditory Hazard, Emotional Hazard, Bio-Hazard, Self-Replicating Hazard, Immeasurable Hazard, Transmutation Hazard
fig 103-1, adjusted for exposure.
Containment Protocols: RPC-103 is to be held at Site-187 suspended in a cryotank (3m tall, 2m diameter) comprised of a transparent aluminum compound and maintained at a temperature of 200 K. The tank is outfitted with a pair of rotating titanium blast doors designed to contain RPC-103's visual anomaly. Under no circumstances are the blast doors of the tank allowed to be opened without clearance from Site-187 Research Heads. A small outlet placed on the posterior of the tank provides an opening for probing equipment to extract organic samples from RPC-103 when necessary.
The tank is suspended at the origin of a 20x20m titanium chamber reinforced with wave-cancellation panels. The metal grate allowing access to RPC-103's containment tank is only to be activated during approved examinations of RPC-103 or its containment equipment, and otherwise must always be kept in its retracted state.
The chamber vitals are to be monitored at all times by rotating shifts of Class-B security personnel equipped for imminent telepathic and psychological hazards. If any security personnel begin experiencing feelings of euphoria, detecting suspicious auditory phenomena or having strange thoughts while assigned to RPC-103, or if they otherwise suspect that they have had any remote exposure to RPC-103's visual anomaly, Department Heads must be notified immediately.
Photography around RPC-103 is strictly prohibited. A closed-circuit security feed has been implanted inside of RPC-103's tank ONLY FOR USE when chamber vitals indicate that RPC-103 is showing signs of ███████████, in which case the feed is to be activated and the anomaly monitored immediately.
Description: RPC-103 is a biological anomaly which displays unique visual properties. Though its true "body" cannot be perceived by any known methods of visual observation, physical experiments have determined that the true shape of RPC-103 is a marble-sized orb comprised of a tightly condensed microbial compound of anomalous molecular origins. The orb is capable of limited levitation (floating at 96cm above any surface directly beneath it), but other than this displays no mobile properties or ability to physically interact with its surroundings in any way. and as of the incident of 1/3/20██ is now known to be capable of moving by way of [DATA EXPUNGED].
All those who observe RPC-103 behold an anomalous optical phenomenon taking the form of a female humanoid wreathed by a captivating prismic light. Most notorious about this phenomenon is that the identity of the female humanoid has been documented differently by every subject who perceives it.
Those in proximity to RPC-103 are commonly observed to enter a tranquil, euphoric state, typically accompanied by a state of pacification. There have been several incidents of fugue states upon exposure to RPC-103, with the subject becoming completely unresponsive to researcher inquiry and only awakened when RPC-103 is removed from view. Several instances of auditory anomalies have also been testified by observers, typically manifesting as soft, incomprehensible whispering or murmuring, though some claim to have heard audible vocalization in the form of singular words and phrases, as well as music.
Addendum 103-A — The Identity of the Female Humanoid:
Analysis into the identity of the female humanoid witnessed when observing RPC-103 (as well as its residual psychological effects) are done via a test known as the Anima Procedure. In the Anima Procedure, each subject is brought alone into a chamber containing a full view of RPC-103 and asked to describe as thoroughly as possible what it is they see. The preferred subjects for use in the Anima Procedure are CSD and -E personnel hosting attributes pertinent to understanding RPC-103's anomalous nature, though all Class-C and above personnel are permitted to partake in the procedure pending application.
Documented observation indicates that RPC-103 most typically takes on the likeness of a family member or loved one, only augmented to appear serene and beautiful. This is now believed to be an outward manifestation of the observer's [DATA EXPUNGED], a concept specific to every sentient being that encounters it.
Many Site-002 personnel, fascinated by the prospect of [EXPUNGED], have volunteered to participate in the Anima Procedure in order to gain existential insight about themselves. A total of ███ Authority personnel are confirmed to have undergone the Anima Procedure at some point in their employment. *Addendum: As of 1/3/20██, this is now understood to be one of the worst near-containment leaks by an Alpha-class RPC in the history of the Authority.
The Anima Procedure has been discontinued and is no longer permitted without official authorization from designated Site-187 Department Heads.
SUMMARY OF TEST RESULTS:
- There is a wide discrepancy in the documented appearance of RPC-103 between males and females: men tend to behold RPC-103 as a wife, lover or object of romantic desire, while women most commonly behold a mother, daughter, or nothing discernible at all.
- A correlation has been discovered that those who testify having the clearest vision of the female are also the most prone to RPC-103’s psychological effects.
- At no point has RPC-103's humanoid anomaly ever manifested as male. This is believed to run contrary to the concept of [EXPUNGED].
Subject 1: A healthy 35 year-old man
RESULTS:
His high school sweetheart. Seen very lucidly and described as “more beautiful than she actually was.”
Subject 3: Agent █████ (female), Site-002 Elevator Observation Technician
RESULTS:
A blurry female silhouette wreathed and obscured by a vibrant light. Subject displayed extreme anxiety while in the presence of RPC-103 and could only maintain the experiment for three minutes.
Subject 5: Dr. ███████ (male), Site-002 Lab Technician
RESULTS:
His fellow technician, Dr. ███████, whom he had secretly admired for years. (Note: a minor office scandal ensued upon release of this data.)
Subject 9: Agent ███████ (male), Site-002 Field Researcher
RESULTS:
His wife, youthful and angelic-looking, bathed in a warm light.
First of the many documented comparisons to “angels” when describing RPC-103’s appearance.
Subject 15: An orphaned 7 year-old boy
RESULTS:
A kind-looking, golden-haired young woman in a flowing white dress seen so clearly that she might have been standing right there.
Experiment was abruptly terminated due to subject undergoing severe emotional distress, convinced that his mother had returned as an angel and was trying to talk to him.
First documented testimony of auditory hallucinations involving RPC-103.
Subject 29: A healthy 23 year-old Catholic woman
RESULTS:
A girl in the early stages of adolescence, described in vivid detail as most closely resembling what “her daughter might look like” with her soon-to-be husband.
First documented testimony of RPC-103 taking on the appearance of a child.
Subject 32: A 44 year-old man with stage 2 cancer
RESULTS:
Interviewer: Dr. ███████, Site-002 Research Personnel
Interviewee: ██████████, 44 years old, recently diagnosed with prostate cancer(Note: Subject 32 provided a written transcript of auditory hallucinations encountered during the procedure.)
<Begin Log>
Dr. ███████: Have a seat in the chair whenever you’re ready.
Subject 32 sits.
Dr. ███████: A wall panel is going to open up in front of you. You are going to see something inside of it. Describe whatever it is you see to the best of your ability. Do you understand these instructions?
32: Yes, sir.
The wall panel opens. Subject 32 gasps at the briefest glimpse of RPC-103. For 30 seconds, the subject is unresponsive.
Dr. ███████: Describe to me what you see behind the glass.
32: Oh! It’s just — it’s a woman. She’s naked. Is this real? Who is she? She’s, uh — red hair. Slim build, very slim build. She’s glowing.
Dr. ███████: Have you ever met this woman before?
32: Well, she looks familiar. What is this?
(At this point, Subject 32 hears a muffled vocal anomaly.)
Dr. ███████: Have you ever met this woman before, [REDACTED]?
32: What?
Dr. ███████: Where have you met this woman before, [REDACTED]?
32: I haven’t met this person before. I don’t think I’ve met this person before.
RPC-103: *inaudible* … suffer … *inaudible*
(Subject 32 startles)
32: What the hell?
Dr. ███████: How clearly can you see the woman?
(Subject 32 hears another vocal anomaly, but the words are drowned out by the researcher. Subject 32 goes into a state of intense concentration for 24 seconds.)
RPC-103: Suffer?
32: Ok!
Dr. ███████: [REDACTED]?
RPC-103: Suffer? *inaudible*
Dr. ███████: How well can you see the woman?
32: This is creeping me out. I’m done. Ok?
RPC-103: Voice of love.
(Subject 32 abruptly rises to his feet and makes for the door.)
32: I’m done! I’m done! Ok? Let me out now.
<End Log>
Subject 33: Dr. █████ (female), Site-002 Psycholinguistics Expert
RESULTS:
In her own words: “A vivid prismic light, somehow bright but not blinding. The rays emanating from the anomaly undulate with a rippling gentleness like a spotlight viewed underwater. It's beautiful — not in a romantic way, but an utterly captivating way. It's very therapeutic. I think I could gaze at the anomaly for hours."
First documented testimony of no female humanoid present within the phenomenon.
Subject 58: A 27 year-old homosexual female
RESULTS:
A young girl obscured by a vivid, heavenly light. No discernible facial features. Subject entered a state of visible emotional distress after 6 minutes of exposure to RPC-103. In later testimony, subject described the anomaly as reminding her of "something I had almost lost."
UPDATE 6/21/200█: Former subject refuses to acknowledge whether her newborn daughter has any resemblance to the anomaly witnessed in the presence of RPC-103.
Subject 59: A 22 year-old homosexual male self-identifying as female
RESULTS:
A girl he had a crush on in kindergarten, if she were older. Seen with hideous clarity. Subject was captivated by the appearance of RPC-103. Became unresponsive to researcher inquiry for 10 minutes. Subject later testified that the image was “speaking” to him through its eyes, conveying a terrible sadness.
Following the experiment, subject reported lingering feelings of shame and resentment towards the researchers. Three months later, subject took his own life. It is a topic of controversy whether this death is directly correlated with exposure to RPC-103.
Subject 101: Dr. ████ (male), Site-002 Researcher
RESULTS:
His coworker, Dr. ████████.
Note: a memo was issued by Site-002 Administration following Anima Procedure of Subject 101:
"All personnel complicit in the incident on █/██/200█ have been permanently relocated to Site-009. Impersonation of an anomaly qualifies as procedural sabotage and will be punished as an act treason. I don't care whose birthday it is."
Subject 128: A 26 year-old woman with sociopathic tendencies
RESULTS:
A perfect mirror image of herself. First documented testimony of such a phenomenon.
Subject 198: A severely overweight 25 year-old male
RESULTS:
[DECLASSIFIED:]
No appearance data documented.
Subject immediately assumed a vacant facial expression upon the opening of RPC-103's containment field. For the entire duration of the procedure (roughly ██ minutes), subject sat impassively in the chair provided, staring blankly at RPC-103's containment, completely unresponsive to inquiry from research personnel. Subject 198 immediately attacked the pair of security personnel who entered the chamber to escort him out, and it took three men to pull Subject 198 off of the man whom he had pinned under his massive body weight and assaulted savagely. As he was being led into confinement, Subject 198 suffered a fatal stroke and died on the scene.
As no other instances of violence have been documented, it is believed that Subject 198's behavior is unrelated to exposure from RPC-103.
As of 1/3/20██, Subject 198's behavior has been re-contextualized as [DATA EXPUNGED].
Subject 377: Agent ███████ (male), Site-002 Field Researcher
RESULTS:
His deceased wife, seen very vividly.
Subject experienced extreme disorientation after 4 minutes of exposure to RPC-103. Around 6 minutes in, he rested his face in his hands and remained like this for 3 minutes and 41 seconds, until the research personnel asked him if he was experiencing RPC-103's auditory phenomenon. "Yes," Subject 377 replied. When the researcher inquired as to what he was hearing, Subject 377 abruptly rose from his seat and sprinted directly toward RPC-103's containment, striking his head on the glass and knocking him unconscious. According to his later testimony, Subject 377 had been compelled by fear to run into the glass after hearing the words, "Love the sinner," repeating incessantly in his mind.
Two weeks after the procedure, Subject 337 approached Site-002 security administration and confessed to the murder of his wife.
Subject ████: █████████
RESULTS:
A young woman roughly 20 years of age, brunette hair and blue eyes, wearing an angelic white dress. English ethnicity, with German and Scandinavian admixture. Subject displayed extreme confusion that the woman was not actually present in the chamber, indicating a powerfully lucid hallucination.
Note: the memo posted by Site-187 Research Executive ███████ following the procedure:
There is NOBODY in the facility that █████████ could have possibly come into contact with who fits the reported description. If our theory that RPC-103 [DATA EXPUNGED] is correct, the identity of the woman described in the testimony must be discovered IMMEDIATELY.
End Anima Procedure Testimony Log
Addendum 103-C — Incident of January 3, 20██:
On January 3, 20█, RPC-103 abruptly vanished from its containment chamber at Site-002.
Chamber vitals identified this anomaly immediately and executed a Category-3H Automatic Lockdown of Site-002 as per Authority procedures. At almost the exact same time, as provided by testimony of Site-002 personnel, Agent ███████ (designated as RPC-103-A) left his office cubicle and began exhibiting unusual behavior: RPC-103-A became unresponsive in a manner similar to subjects under the influence of RPC-103's visual phenomenon and attempted to exit the compound.
Lockdown procedures were adequate in detaining RPC-103-A, and when RPC-103-A realized it was trapped, it began emitting high-pitched, distressed vocalizations and undergoing a process of [REDACTED]. As its body [DATA EXPUNGED], witnesses at the scene described a prismic light source emanating from RPC-103-A correlating with the visual phenomenon of RPC-103. MST Bravo-6 (Codename: "Knockin' on Heaven's Door") were promptly deployed on the scene and succeeded in containing RPC-103-A in a Mobile Biohazard Containment Unit (MBCU) without incident. By the time it was relocated to a Site-002 emergency containment chamber, the biomass of RPC-103-A had [DATA EXPUNGED] and re-materialized into RPC-103.
The re-materialized RPC-103 (designated as RPC-103-2) displayed the same anomalous visual properties as the original entity (designated as RPC-103-1). Physical analysis of the specimen also determined that its biological composition is identical to that of RPC-103-1. No traces of organic material belonging to RPC-103-A could be identified during sample analysis of RPC-103-2's microbial liquid compound.
Addendum 103-C.1 — RPC-103-B:
Analysis of RPC-103's previous containment chamber revealed that the microbial liquid comprising the original entity had sublimated into a gaseous form and seeped into the walls of the chamber. Though the anomalous properties of the microbes were rendered inert upon sublimation, the entire chamber underwent quarantine and reclassification as RPC-103-B, to be tested and monitored for further biological hazards.
Note: As of yet, no exposure of CSD personnel to RPC-103-B have yielded anomalous results.
Addendum 103-C.2 — Hypothetical Optical Pathogen:
Samples taken from recent (within the last 60 days) participants of the Anima Procedure showed a 0.03% to 0.001% occurrence of RPC-103's microbial compound within the cerebrospinal fluid of the subject. The properties of the microbes appear to be inert, and are documented to pass out of the body as a waste product (estimated to have a half-life of 6 days within the human body). Though this indicates that RPC-103's biohazard is relatively harmless in small dosages, a recall order has nevertheless been placed on all ███ subjects involved in the Anima Procedure, pending investigation into a potential biological containment leak.
The widespread contamination of personnel by RPC-103 was a subject of rigorous inquiry upon its discovery. All standard procedures required to prevent RPC-103's biological material from contacting personnel had been met up to that point. Though RPC-103's biohazardous properties remain unknown, the following hypothesis has been presented by Site-187 researchers:
Hypothesis: The light that RPC-103 emits from its biomass is a conduit for a particle-based telepathic pathogen RPC-103 uses to trigger a synaptic response within the brain of those who behold it. This pathogen enters through the optic nerve and settles within the hippocampus. These microbes then incubate within the host in their inert state and await [DATA EXPUNGED]. This is believed to be what happened to RPC-103-A.
Evidence: Those participating in the Anima Procedure with the longest exposure to RPC-103 also had the highest occurrence of RPC-103's microbial compound. RPC-103-A had recently been in a session with RPC-103 for over four hours.
Since the incident, RPC-103 has undergone threat reassessment and reclassification as a Beta-Class anomaly. It has been completely expunged from Site-002 databases (barring procedures dedicated to RPC-103-B) and relocated to a specialized facility at Site-187 pending extensive biological research. All personnel involved with RPC-103's previous containment protocol, as well as the ███ personnel feared to be contaminated by way of the Anima Procedure, have also been relocated to Site-187.
Addendum 103-█ — [CLASSIFIED]:
On ████████ ██, 20██, RPC-103 abruptly discharged █████████ from its biomass.
The following is an excerpt from an interview between [DECLASSIFIED:] Dr. Arlet, Site-187 Chief Psycholinguistics Expert, and █████████.
Dr. Arlet: What is the purpose of the entity known as RPC-103?
█████████: To consume, assimilate and repair.
Dr. Arlet: Repair what?
█████████: The human race.
Dr. Arlet: What about the human race needs fixing?
█████████: I don't know the answer to that.
Dr. Arlet: Why does RPC-103 want to do this?
█████████: Because she loves you.