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PoI-7768t fleeing Site-38 with [scipnum]. (Image is DoD and thus public domain)

Item Class: Euclid

Secure Containment Procedures: [scipnum] is currently uncontained, and is believed to be in the possession of PoI-7768t¹. PoI-7768t is currently the subject of a Priority D kill-capture order, and is to be considered armed and highly dangerous. Foundation personnel are advised not to approach PoI-7768t alone. [scipnum] is not to be directly manually handled by any individual.

Current recontainment efforts are centered around locating and apprehending PoI-7768t. Elements of Mobile Task Forces Iota-10 (“Damn Feds”) and Mu-13 (“Ghostbusters”) have been formed into Provisional Joint Task Force Nu-6, which has been assigned responsibility for executing the kill-capture order. No Foundation personnel that have been closely associated with the individual now known as [scipnum-1] are to be assigned to, or briefed on the activities or existence of, PJTF Nu-6. No members of PFJT Nu-6 are to be briefed on the personal history, characteristics or name of the individual now known as [scipnum]-1.

In the event of an uncontained [scipnum]-2 instance, responding Foundation personnel’s first priority shall be the reduction of civilian exposure to the anomaly. Effective techniques are theorized to include:

• Creating a ‘bait line’ of casualties towards a less populated area.
• Abducting and relocating [scipnum]-2’s ‘patient’ to a less populated area.

In the event of rapid-onset (< 20 minute) stage 4 [scipnum]-2 host decay, responding Foundation personnel’s first priority shall be evacuating the immediate area, if possible. If not possible, immediately flee the area and seek cover

Description: [scipnum] is a pair of North American Rescue brand trauma shears, bearing extensive wear marks on the grips and blades. Individuals approaching within 2 meters of [scipnum] will immediately begin to complain of a severe headache, in some cases accompanied by a mild nosebleed.

[scipnum]’s primary anomalous effect occurs when two conditions are satisfied:

• A human subject (hereafter ‘the host’) firmly takes ahold of [scipnum].
• The host perceives an individual or individuals suffering an acutely life-threatening medical emergency (hereafter referred ‘the patient(s)’) in their vicinity.

When these conditions are met, [scipnum] will serve as a thaumaturgical conduit for the manifestation of [scipnum]-1, a Type-3 Conditional Incorporeal Entity². In the majority of cases, the manifestation will not be independently sustained, and the host will immediately suffer a Type-C Loss of Bodily Autonomy Event³ at the hands of [scipnum]-1. This will produce a host/[scipnum]-1 gestalt entity, designated [scipnum]-2.

[scipnum]-2 have consistently displayed several characteristics across all instances:

• Lack of response to or recognition of stimuli related to the host’s personal history, up to and including name and/or identification number.
• A skillset combining those of a graduate of JSOMTC⁴ and a certified FT/AP⁵. [scipnum]-2 particularly displays above-average skills in the prehospital management of trauma, of both mundane and anomalous origin.
• Obsession with saving the life of its patient(s), and the lives of any other individuals suffering acutely life-threatening medical emergencies it encounters after manifesting. [scipnum]-2 has been observed to routinely resort to multiple heroic measures in attempts to stabilize and resuscitate its patient(s) [See experiment log non-survivable trauma].
• Ongoing knowledge of events that occurred during previous [scipnum]-2 instances.
• [scipnum]-2 related Type-C events end when [scipnum]-2 terminates resuscitation attempts of its patient(s), or when it can transfer care to a higher level of medical support.

Over the course of a [scipnum]-2 instance, the host’s body will suffer physical damage due to [scipnum]-1’s influence⁶. This will typically begin immediately with a severe nosebleed, then follow a characteristic progression through four stages, on a variable time scale:

1. Systemic degradation of the myelin sheath, leading to body-wide tremors and eventual loss of coordination.
2. Diffuse ocular damage resulting in elements of the eyeball “running” into each other, followed by severe subconjunctival hemorrhage
3. Escalating pulmonary edema, resulting in the production of large quantities of bloody sputum.
4. Spontaneous musculoskeletal trauma, typically in the form of grossly angulated compound fractures of the extremities.

Early stage 2 host decay. By Jmvaras - Own work CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63609632

These injuries will typically impair then destroy [scipnum]-2’s ability to render care to its patient(s). In some cases, [scipnum]-2 has displayed an anomalous ability to temporarily ‘power through’ such injuries [see experiment logs non-survivable trauma] and temporarily continue to be functional.

The conclusion of a [scipnum]-2 instance is marked by [scipnum]-1 exiting the host’s body, which then loses consciousness and all anomalous abilities. In most cases, [scipnum]-1 will then rapidly demanifest, causing minor anomalous phenomena as it does so (sudden blasts of heat, gusts of wind, and the sound of sirens are typical of a mild demanifestation). Under certain conditions however, [scipnum]-1 will undergo a ‘traumatic demanifestation’, accompanied by much more destructive phenomena. The severity of such events exists on a sliding scale, with no upper limit yet observed. Observed traumatic demanifestation phenomena have included:

• Rapid successions of 120dB thunderclaps.
• Jets of flame up to 15 feet in height.
• Blast waves and spontaneously appearing shrapnel comparable to the detonation of a 60mm high explosive mortar shell.

Traumatic demanifestations appear to be driven by the presence of stimuli and objects related to the personal history and details of the individual now known as [scipnum-1]. Such factors also appear to hasten the onset of scipnum-2 host decay. As such, all Foundation personnel should consider rapid onset (< 20 minute) stage 4 host decay to be a sign of imminent traumatic demanifestation within 3 minutes.

Footnotes

1. Formerly Staff Sergeant Daniel Cowley of Mobile Task Force Lambda-5 (“White Rabbits”), Assault Element, Platoon C.

2. Colloquially referred to as a “shifty ball of gas” by Mu-13 personnel.

3. Colloquially referred to as a “Casper the friendly hijacker” event by Mu-13 personnel.

4. Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center, a United States Army training facility at Fort Bragg N.C.

5. Foundation Tactical/Adverse Practitioner.

6. Termed ‘host decay’ by Foundation researchers.