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Registered Phenomena Code: 835
Object Class: Gamma-Yellow
Hazard Types: Info-Hazard, Immeasurable-Hazard, Memory-Alteration-Hazard
Containment Protocols: RPC-835 itself cannot be contained. The mental health and wellbeing of all Authority personnel is considered a major priority in preventing RPC-835's effect and self-harm attempts of personnel. Personnel are to be transferred after assignments with high-risk and/or highly-lethal RPCs to prevent the possibility of developing suicidal tendencies, particularly regarding their assignments. Mandatory psychological evaluation is required for personnel involved in their assignments. All deaths among Authority personnel caused by suicide is to be covered up from their co-workers less than 24 hours following the event.
RPC-835-A personnel are not to be reminded of their suicide, or obtain any information about their deaths. All RPC-835-A personnel are permitted to work and resume their normal roles in the Authority. Information regarding RPC-835, such as documents, are not permitted to be provided to RPC-835-A personnel, regardless of their clearance level. Knowledge regarding RPC-835-A's existence is only available to personnel with little to no history of mental illness. Psychological evaluation is mandatory before gaining any information regarding RPC-835's existence.
Due to the increasingly high suicide rates among Authority personnel, all suicide attempts, whether successful or not, are to be reported immediately to prevent or prepare for RPC-835's effects.
Unless specifically approved, direct experimentation of RPC-835-A instances is prohibited.
Description: RPC-835 is an anomalous phenomenon which randomly affects Authority personnel after they successfully committed suicide, specifically due to factors involving the Authority itself. While other non-Authority related factors can affect said personnel's decision to commit suicide, the effects of RPC-835 will only affect personnel if the Authority is one of their reasons for suicide.1
RPC-835's effect will manifest following a 24-hour period since biological death, after which the affected subject will be considered an RPC-835-A instance. RPC-835-A instances are the reanimated bodies of deceased personnel (according to the aforementioned conditions). These instances retain all memories from the subjects prior to suicide. Following the 24-hour period, RPC-835-A instances will manifest in areas where the deceased subject commonly visited prior to their suicide. These can include residences, workplaces, etc. Subjects in the immediate vicinity will not notice RPC-835-A's manifestation, instead acting as if the instance was always present. Questioning of said subjects confirms that they are unaware of its anomalous nature, but express confusion when asked about the time in which RPC-835-A arrived at the location.
Original corpses belonging to RPC-835-A instances can sometimes be missing from their original location. Otherwise, they are not known to be anomalous. Interviews with RPC-835-A instances indicate that they are unaware of the events during and immediately prior to death, including all circumstances that led them to the decision to commit suicide. They do not display suicidal tendencies, and their mental health appears to have improved significantly since suicide.
At the time of writing, RPC-835-A instances are permitted to work and interact with the rest of the Authority.
Addendum 835-1:
During ██/██/████, initial physical tests were performed on RPC-835-A instances. These tests were inconclusive in proving the existence of anomalous properties or physical abnormalities in any instance. Termination by any means failed to provoke further anomalous effects.
Addendum 835-2:
An RPC-835-A instance by the name [DATA EXPUNGED] was interviewed and questioned about the circumstances of its suicide. Subject became visibly confused, failing to remember its occurrence, then became visibly distressed and panicked, unable to answer further inquiries.
A few minutes afterwards, it started crying uncontrollably, continuing until it collapsed and was pronounced dead. Cause of death appears to be sudden loss of all brain activity.
During an experiment proposed by Dr. ████████ in an attempt to fully understand RPC-835, the leftover corpse of an RPC-835-A personnel was shown to said personnel. Upon viewing their corpse, RPC-835-A appears distressed, and entered a psychotic state for around 30 minutes, crying uncontrollably. Sudden brain death occurred afterwards.
Addendum 835-3:
An RPC-835-A instance was transferred to Site-██ for the purpose of experimentation, of which it remained unaware. Upon transfer, RPC-835-A was introduced to a digital PDF copy of this document, to no apparent effect. However, the instance remarked that reading the document triggered a sense of déjà vu.
Around twelve hours, RPC-835-A became distressed and requested for personnel assistance. Upon arrival, RPC-835-A stated that he's "remembering horrible things." Brain death occurred immediately afterwards.
Addendum 835-4:
Due to the beneficial phenomena of RPC-835 to the Authority human resources, RPC-835-A instances are permitted to resume their normal duty to protect humanity. However, documents and information regarding RPC-835 are to be heavily restricted for all personnel. This is for the purpose of preventing RPC-835-A instances from gaining any information about RPC-835.
Personnel will have to take a mandatory psychological evaluation for mental illnesses which can influence the possibility of personnel to commit suicide. Mental instability from personnel is becoming increasingly common, especially among high-ranking personnel. This has been observed to result in a influx of RPC-835-A personnel among staffing population.
For the purpose of promoting a positive mental wellbeing among personnel ranks, all personnel witnessing accidents involving the handling of RPC objects are to be transferred and replaced immediately. Psychological evaluations are to be recorded and monitored for all personnel.
Dr. ████████████
Addendum 835-5:
In ██/██/████, a level 4 personnel by the name of [DATA EXPUNGED] committed suicide via overdose. The sudden death of [DATA EXPUNGED] was successfully covered up. RPC-835's effects manifested, and [DATA EXPUNGED] was permitted to work among the personnel population. Prior to [DATA EXPUNGED]'s manifestation as RPC-835-A, [DATA EXPUNGED] has been transferred ██ times from various sites after witnessing several experiment accidents with RPC objects. Psychologists involved in [DATA EXPUNGED]'s mental wellbeing had noted a decline in [DATA EXPUNGED]'s psychological health during interviews.
The log below is a interview log with [DATA EXPUNGED] during a mandatory psychological evaluation.
Interviewed: [DATA EXPUNGED]
Interviewer: Dr. ███████
<Begin Log>
Dr. ███████: Hello there [DATA EXPUNGED], I would like to talk to you about our psychological evaluation.
[DATA EXPUNGED]: Another psychological evaluation? Honestly, what we're doing isn't right at all. I've seen so much things myself, terrible things that could've been easily avoided.
Dr. ███████: By that you mean what happened with that child?
[DATA EXPUNGED]: Well, that bothered me a lot, when it could've been avoided by not having the child enter that classroom.
Dr. ███████: I understand how you felt, I get where you're coming from. It's not your fault, but there's nothing we can really do at this point to help.
[DATA EXPUNGED]: They should've thought of that before they got him to enter, the whole thing could've been avoided, and now we've condemned a kid to suffer for God knows how long. I know we're having one of those damn psychological therapies about what me and a whole bunch of my colleagues witnessed recently during the experiment, but that's pretty much my last straw now.
Dr. ███████: I don't like what happened with the kid just as much as you do, but it's not your fault.
[DATA EXPUNGED]: If only they would listen, but they just had to continue the experiment. Fuck, I remember witnessing someone being turned into porcelain slowly, their fingers and limbs crumbling from that virus we infected her with. All the months of pain she went through, and they had the audacity to make us take notes about it.
Dr. ███████: Which RPC object do you mean by that?
[DATA EXPUNGED]: RPC-084. That shit kills you slowly and painfully for months, and we've infected so many test subjects with it, just for research purposes.
Dr. ███████: It's a sacrifice we have to make. It's evil, but a necessary evil to protect the rest of the world from it.
[DATA EXPUNGED]: But this isn't the way to do it. Listen, I know we got to sacrifice a few to save the rest, but the experiments we're doing, it's not ethical at all.
Dr. ███████: Elaborate please.
[DATA EXPUNGED]: It's just the way we contain those ticking time bombs, those anomalies we call RPCs. Everyone who had to participate in luring a child into RPC-010 knew nothing good will happen to the child, they disagreed on the experiment, but we have no say about it, the supervisors doesn't consider the whole idea as a bit unnecessarily evil.
Dr. ███████: So you feel regret from participating in those experiments, the whole cycle of experimentation for the purpose of protecting humanity.
[DATA EXPUNGED]: There's a lot more. All those horrible stuff revolving around those anomalies, time bombs that gives a worse fate then death, and yet we still expose people to them in order to protect humanity. Everyday is exhausting and it makes you question why you're fighting in the first place. It's getting tiring for me.
Dr. ███████: I will help you get your voice to the head managers, don't worry. They will take how you feel into consideration.
[DATA EXPUNGED]: I really hope you do, Can we continue the psychological assessment tomorrow?
Dr.███████: Yes, of course.
<End Log>