X3-D88: KODAK DEMON
CONTAINMENT///////////
Entity contained in Darkroom 5: floor 3-B. Admission only for key level researchers accompanied by abstract photography professional. The darkroom contains absolutely no light source, and is bracketed by low level blacklight rooms. Under no circmstances can an external lighting system be brought into the section. Any employee found entering blacklight rooms with a light source of any kind faces immediate [REDACTED]
HISTORY//////////////
Camera brand MEFTO saw a surge in popularity in this mid 1960’s. Seen as a rival to existing brands [REDACTED], the films were lauded by professionals and amateurs worldwide for their high vibrancy, ease of production and crystal sharp imagery. CEO William Barker always placed the ethics of the company around quality & care, although [REDACTED - REDACTED - REDACTED - REDACTED - REDACTED]
Soon after the brand reached large public popularity, The Initiative tracked a serious of paranormal disappearances; said to pertain to photography subjects entirely disappearing upon the flash of the camera. Initial government study believed this to be a case of spontaneous human combustion, triggered by the use of the MEFTO flash units. However, films confiscated by Initiative agents would later still display the missing photographic subject in frame: albeit showing signs of heavy distress, displaying bodily contortions, or even being partially replaced by image of [REDACTED]
EXPERIMENTATION/////////////
It seems the ENTITY travels through a mixture of light and concept. X3-D88 requires a [REDACTED] in order to remain tied to The Edifice labs. As such, selected subjects during company portrait day will be sent to Darkroom 5 to[REDACTED]. Promising leads with this entity may be able to recreate the quality of the original MEFTO brand film, to distribute under shadow company [REDACTED].
YN-1: THE SKINLESS WITCH
CONTAINMENT///////////
Caged entity. Level Y-NEGATIVE. No female researchers are allowed in entity department; mortality risk outside of acceptable parameters. The entity must be offered one large female mammal (notably cow or pig) once weekly to remain within placid containment procedures.
HISTORY//////////////
Entity YN-1 was discovered during Initiative field research in [REDACTED]. Unveiled in a barrow, YN-1 appeared as an ancient flensed body found on site. Entirely placid around original male-dig team, YN-1 awakened dramatically when transported to field research centre; coming alive in proximity to female-presenting Dr.[REDACTED]. Security analysis of the event details that assumed parapsychic control keeps prey paralysed, while YN-1 proceeds to skin the victim.
The entity is a 6 foot humanoid specimen, who, like its name suggests, seems to have a rare condition in which its own skin tissue is constantly self-flensing. This torment is perhaps abated, or satiated, by wearing the tissue of others; that is until the decay eventually sets in and a new coat must be found.
EXPERIMENTATION/////////////
Behaviour observation: When sacrificial animal is placed in the cage, the entity is overcome with ‘a harrowing anger’. Digit strength looks to be hundreds of times more than a standard human, proven by the fact entity can flay it’s prey with no tools beyond extended digits. After completion, entity will begin hibernating in a near cocoon-like form; utilising said skin. The prey is left very much alive, until it dies from shock, blood loss or infection. The parapsychic control YN-1 seems to maintain over its victims is flagged for further research, and teams are making progress in the scanning equipment required to measure such an ability.
A53: LONELY STATIC
Audio file. Recording research desk A299MC. Audio lasts exactly 32 seconds. Trace negative. 2,334 incidents of what we believe to be the same entity. Answering the entity in any way is strictly forbidden.
Hello? Is anybody there this time? I feel like I’ve been here before, and all I need is somebody to answer. There’s canyons of static all around me. Have you ever heard of such a concept? It’s not really something many normal people would say I suppose. Sometimes I feel like those lonely whales in the depths of the sea, you know? The ones that cannot sing, to find their mate. Maybe that’s silly. I just really wish I had somebody to talk to. Maybe I’ll try again tomorrow? I like to think you can hear me, and maybe one day you’ll say something back. I should go, the static hurts if I stay too long.
The phone hangs up.
EXPERIMENTATION///////////////
Entity appears to be trapped inside inter-Edifice communication loops. Research teams have suggested possible A53 usage as a meme-virus, to disrupt military or Govt. communications during key world events. Successful application would be finding a way to replicate the events that led to the entity imprisonment in the code, then exporting A53 stacks to a separate communications system.
X-98: PALE HORSE RIDER
CONTAINMENT/////////////
DANGER. Subject level X-Negative. Absolutely NO admittance to cryogenic chamber without strict Director oversight. DO NOT DEFROST. Repeat. NO NOT DEFROST.
HISTORY/////////////////
The advancing pale horse was a persistent cultural myth associated with the oncoming of plague. From here, we can assume the rider itself has been active in our dimension for thousands of years already. A lone white horse galloping towards a city was the locus point of many empires succumbing to havoc and disease at this most insidious of populace death. The horse itself was seen as an omen, but what of an invisible rider, guiding the plague?
After the ghost-malaria epidemic of [REDACTED], research acquisition teams used new paranormal techniques to track the spectral rider. From disease to disease, the subject was studied, until eventually Initiative paladin teams managed an interception mission, trapping the entity via use of [REDACTED]
EXPERIMENTATION///////////////
Only partly within our dimensional space, the subject appears to constantly be generating unique viral & bacterial swarms in a tight radius. No living thing can approach closer than 3 meters of the horseman without succumbing to debilitating and often fatal disease. Research avenues for modern bio-weapons with the entity, however strict containment procedures hamper projects.