RPC-215

The Trenches

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The original painting RPC-215 was replicated after.

Registered Phenomena Code: 215

Object Class: Alpha-Red

Hazard Types: Visual Hazard, Electromagnetic Force Hazard, Explosive Hazard, Extreme Temperature Hazard, Radiation Hazard, Toxic Hazard, Bio-Hazard, Ideological Hazard

Containment Protocols: RPC-215 is to be contained in the Site-077 Art Depository, with access allowed to level 3 personnel and higher. Two ASF personnel are to monitor the entrance to the Art depository and prevent any unauthorised access. The room storing RPC-215 must be at least 15x15m and be maintained at an internal temperature of 22° C and relative humidity of 45%. One CSD subject with extreme beliefs in pacifism will enter the archival room on a weekly basis to monitor the storage conditions and check RPC-215 for any signs of decay. If any signs are reported, a specialist with no prior political beliefs will be contracted to restore RPC-215 under the surveillance of ASF personnel.

Description: RPC-215 is a replica painting by the British painter █████ █████ that depicts a trench containing 2 dead German soldiers. RPC-215’s memetic effects appear to materialise when at least one member within a group of people with a strong ideological or political belief views RPC-215. It will result in any person within a 10m radius displaying a radical idolisation of their belief and aggression to other beliefs, which will continue even after leaving the area of effect. 20 seconds after initially viewing, RPC-215 will execute a secondary effect to everyone (including the subject who viewed RPC-215) within that radius by terminating them in a style connected to that political belief or ideology. Some of the instances include: Beheading, Immolation (in a variety of ways), electrocution, starvation, poisoning, explosions, and many unclear instances, with injuries consistent with lynching, crucifixion, execution via firing squad, falling at a great height and ritualistic sacrifice. Some of these executions can be survived or circumvented depending on how RPC-215 delivers the execution (example seen in Interview-215-1).

Discovery: RPC-215 was first discovered on 18th July 1937 at the ████████ ████ museum in Munich, Germany. Prior to the opening of the exhibit, ███ members of the local Schutzstaffel unit were afforded a pre-screening of the event with 215 inexplicably being the centrepiece of the collection.¹ Following exposure to RPC-215, ██ members of the Schutzstaffel unit began attacking each other in an effort to escape exposure to a mustard gas agent secreting from 215, which resulted in ██ overall fatalities². It was initially contained by the German Anomalous Research Division (hereby named GARD) who confiscated the painting from the museum and documented the disappearance on a local burning of degenerate arts. It was later discovered in site-077 with the reclamation of the site from GARD in 1945.

+ Excerpt Experiment Log 215

Test Number: Experiment 215-1

Subject: One CSD-class personnel (CSD-215-1), Caucasian male, age 31, imprisoned for the murder of two individuals in a home invasion, has since sworn on pacifism.

Procedure: CSD-215-1 was instructed to move into the containment room and observe RPC-215 for 3 seconds.

Results: CSD-215-1 observed RPC-215 for 10 seconds with no effect and was returned to his cell.

Notes: It seems as though previous violence alone has no effect in activating the memetic properties of the painting.

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Test Number: Experiment 215-2

Subject: One CSD personnel (CSD-215-2) African American male, age 26, imprisoned for the deaths of three police officers during a riot, member of a militant group of anarchists.

Procedure: CSD-215-2 was instructed to move into the containment room and observe RPC-215

Results: CSD-215-2 observed RPC-215 for 10 seconds and expressed heightened aggression and passion towards Anarchistic groups. When ordered to return to their cell, the Subject refused and attempted to assault ASF personnel ordered to retrieve the Subject. He was immediately incapacitated and returned without any more trouble.

Notes: The memetic effects activated but the secondary effect must only materialise when viewed in a group setting.

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Test Number: Experiment 215-3

Subject: CSD-215-1 and CSD-215-2

Procedure: CSD-215-1 and CSD-215-2 were instructed to move into the archival room and observe RPC-215.

Results: Upon entering the room, CSD-215-2 is seen to stare at RPC-215 for approximately 20 seconds before both subjects burst into flames. Both Subjects were immediately hospitalised and stabilised in the Medical wing of Site-077 with third degree burns. CSD-215-02 after being left alongside CSD-215-1 was able to terminate him after yelling to responding personnel multiple times that he didn’t deserve to live for oppressing and murdering innocent people. CSD-215-2 was quickly terminated by ASF personnel when he attempted to attack them.

Notes: RPC-215 secondary properties act as a magnifying force in those that have committed political violence in some form. Both subjects were found to have traces of petrol on their bodies, and glass fragments lodged into their skin. Further testing needed to determine the exact effects.

+ Interview 215-1

Foreword: This document was acquired after the Allied advance on Munich in 1945 and translated soon after. All surviving members of the Schutzstaffel unit were brought under the custody of the local Gestapo regiment and subsequently released after interrogation and transferred to Einsatzgruppen units as unfit for regular duty.

Interviewer: Oberregierungs-und Kriminalrat Hess

Interviewed: Obersturmführer Kurt

<Begin log:>

Hess: Tell me what occurred in Munich on the night of 18 July.

Kurt: Heinrich and I had just finished viewing the gallery before we were escorted into the main room housing the centerpiece of the display. We had both been joking that there was a mistake, having a British painting imported all the way over, and as a centrepiece!

Hess: Ah, the painting. Tell me, what happened when you saw the painting?

Kurt: [Sighs] I was drunk and I wasn’t paying attention to it…but as I was talking to Fritz, I noticed Heinrich was frozen…just staring at it. He seemed unable to comprehend what he was looking at…with nothing but pain on his face. Maybe that’s why it happened.

Hess: From testimonies given by other in your unit, the painting started spraying Mustard gas.

Kurt: What kind of sick individual pulls that kind of act?

Hess: And you just stood there and watched him die?

Kurt: Fuck you! Have you ever had to pry the mask off another person to survive?! You’d know NOTHING about that! Of course, I did nothing to help, he deserved it…and so did the rest of them…

Hess: Very well Mr-

Kurt: And so do you! You’ve betrayed the Kaiser’s vision and make a mockery of his empire! This suffering nation deserves to burn to start anew… and I hope you die choking on the ashes of this regime!

Hess: You’ve had a difficult day Herr █████, so I will not take that personally. Let us put this behind us and we'll finish there. That testimony is all we needed from you to ensure we can confiscate this painting. Thank you for your time and you may leave now.

<End Log>

Addendum-A: According to research notes acquired after the resolution of WW2, GARD researchers of the occult "Black Sun Division" were looking to replicate this anomalous property, inspired by a theory that the painting was created using the enraged spirits of deceased soldiers³. GARD Researchers were looking to use these properties on symbols such as the Swastika and the Iron Cross, with the lethal effects exempt to persons believing in Nazi ideologies and beliefs. A few documents on attempts to harness the power have since been acquired, as mentioned in the Document below.

16th March 1941: Progress report
Herr Arnold, i believe we have found a way to use our symbols to turn the tide of the war.

Ever since we contained that painting, we’ve devised ways to replicate its properties and we’ve had small successes in capturing the spirit and transferring its power to canisters made by the Ahnenerbe division. Today we were able to finally find a way to transfer the spirit, similar to how we believe it was first conceived by that painting. We now are looking to use enraged souls for the next step of testing to ensure similar properties.

Ensure you torture the subjects for at least an hour before execution, and use the runes as specified in the diagram below to absorb the spirits into the canisters. Then its up to the Ahnenerbe division to find a way to make the effects work on sight only and with our enemies. We’ve done our part for now.

From your loyal Understaff:
-Herr Jörg

Footnotes

1. The original painting was a well known painting in England, being prevailed 20 years before by █████ █████. How a replica of it was created and placed in this exhibit is unknown at this time.

2. All surviving members of the local Schutzstaffel were later discovered to be veterans, having fought for Germany during the first world war.

3. There is no plausibility to this theory and paired with properties that prove this to be severely contradictory, it has been written off by many Authority researchers as merely a loose rationalisation to fit in with Nazi beliefs

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