The Quicksand Singularity ArQive: Array.init:0

A0T4.1 Farzen Vibes (Abridged)

Site chief recommends dispatch to Shrouded Vael in Greybox Containment Unit.

Site Chief's Addendum:

O-108753's anomalous properties were discovered by one of our security units sweeping the wreckage. Unlike last mission, this discovery did not occur as a result of pranking his squad, much to their relief. SC-40467G was attempting to breach into the room where Objects 109001 and 109002 were later discovered and picked up O-108753 and attempted to drill through the lock. Due to the severity and location of SC-40467G's injuries, his left arm had to be amputated at the elbow.

SC-40467G was dismissed following this incident due to his numerous preceding protocol violations in addition to this most recent one.

Local disposables were used to test O-108753's properties, resulting in one fatality.

OoI #3 (preliminary desg. FRZN-RF:TDE O-109001 & O-109002)

FRZN-RF:TDE O-109001 is a purse containing a small [redacted]. Purse appears to be made of black leather, 20cm long by 10cm wide by 15cm deep, contains only one pocket, and can only contain one item—O-109002. O-109001 is nondescript, having no distinctive design features, decorations, or other flair. Strap is a thin (2cm) leather thong of roughly 106cm in length and purse pocket is open-topped without zipper, tie, snaps, or other means of securing it closed. If O-109002 is taken more than 9m from O-109001, O-109002 will disappear and reappear inside of O-109001 immediately.

FRZN-RF:TDE O-109002 is a small, black [redacted] with an egg-like body tapering into a long tail to effect removal of device. Body measures about 15cm long with a diameter of 8cm tapering in an egg-like shape. Tail extends from the tapered end of the body by a further 12cm and begins to curve roughly 5cm along its length. Materials of construction appear to be closely resemblant to silicone, but attempts to procure samples have proven unsuccessful. Besides anomalous relationship with O-109001, O-109002 has anomalous properties of its own.

O-109002

1) Subjects compatible with O-109002's design/purpose, upon making visual observation of it, will experience compulsive urge to[redacted] (This compulsive urge cannot be overcome except by application of O-109002 and attempts to restrain individuals who have come into visual contact with O-109002 are not recommended.)

2) Once [redacted] O-109002 causes a complex psychophysiological response in subjects described as a "hallucinatory, euphoric, trancelike state of interconnectedness of being". This state, provisionally referred to as O-109002-Reverie, can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, during which O-109002 cannot be removed from subject. Attempts to do so will be repulsed by strong anticognizant effects. (Even attempting to trigger O-109001's proximity translocation is ineffective during an O-109002-Reverie event.)

3) O-109002-Reverie's impact on subjects has ranged from mild increases in subject's [redacted] to whole-personality alterations with high variability and low consistency in results.

4) O-109002 appears to be indestructible.

5) O-109002 produces a pleasant vibrating effect when handled by compatible subjects.

6) O-109002 does not appear to require a power source in order to function.

7) O-109002 appears to suspend subjects enthralled in O-109002-Reverie in an anomalous state provisionally referred to as O-109002-Stasis. Subjects entering O-109002-Stasis are suspended in a state of bionormality by O-109002. Tests on disposables found O-109002-Stasis to provide a state of temporary imperviousness to the external world with exception of one condition. (see addenda)

8) If an additional party attempts to engage an individual experiencing O-109002-Reverie in [redacted] the additional party will experience either O-109002-Reverie(Melange) (see addenda) or be translocated to a location between 100 and 250km away from the individual experiencing O-109002-Reverie.

9) O-109002-Reverie(Melange) is a provisionally labelled event whereby multiple individuals can be drawn into, and experience simultaneously, the same O-109002-Reverie event. Individuals who experience an O-109002-Reverie(Melange) exhibit some manner of anomalous bonding with other participants (labelled R(M) Bonded) that is similar to a Class 5 Hive-Mind Phenomena. Below is a summary of ongoing Study FRZN-RF:TDE O-109002 R(M) PSuS 000034 Codename: Entangled Reverie.

O-109002 R(M) Bonded (Summary)

1) R(M) Bonded are able to perceive the presence of R(M) Bonded individuals in their cluster through an unknown mechanism.

2) R(M) Bonded describe the ability to feel other R(M) Bonded individuals in their cluster's pulse as well as their own.

3) R(M) Bonded possess anomalously high degrees of synchronicity and teamwork synergising as compared to standard baseline metrics.

4) R(M) Bonded seem to possess an intuitive knowledge of other R(M) Bonded in their cluster and their needs, desires, or intentions. This manifests in a variety of ways, though most strikingly in R(M) Bonded individuals being able to work together on complex tasks, procedures, or problems without engaging in standard forms of communication, or knowing where they are and what is going on from kilometres away without any standard means of knowing.

5) R(M) Bonded individuals are inseparable. Attempts to separate R(M) Bonded individuals by force elicits aggressive response from the whole R(M) Cluster.

6) R(M) Bonded individuals claim to experience vivid, lucid, full-immersion "psychic blending events" typified by simultaneous experiences of a single R(M) Bonded individual either individually, or as a cluster.

Researcher's Note:

Research in the phenomena of Reverie(Melange) and subsequent clusters of Entangled, or R(M) Bonded individuals is ongoing. Affected personnel have been quarantined for the duration of this study, as have been local disposables. A complete list of anomalous characteristics of R(M) Bonding will be submitted at the conclusion of the study.

Addenda:

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