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Staff Journals Series C (1997) ​

Context & Analysis ​

Puzzle Origin: Episode 1, Loot Drop 1

Key Revelations:

  • Staff members experiencing psychological effects from working at the facility
  • Anomalous phenomena: delayed reflections, distorted glass, shared dreams
  • Dr. Ravel expressing ethical concerns about the experiments
  • Physical changes in subjects that aren't captured by scientific measurements
  • Staff questioning the morality and purpose of the research

Recovered Document ​

Recovered From: node05.sj-securelab.net
Status: Partial, reconstructed from local cache fragments
Clearance: Confidential, Internal Morale Archive

[1997-03-02 | Ellard, J.]

The chamber hum is lower this week. New power routing, maybe. Everyone swears the tone shifted, but we cannot agree on whether it rose or fell.
R-021 sat through six cycles without complaint. When we pulled him out, his pupils stayed wide and empty for nearly a minute.
He said it was fine. He said the quiet felt like "a sponge." Whatever that means.
I left that part out of the formal report.

[1997-04-14 | Ruan, S.]

They replaced the glass in Chamber 3. The last pane warped outward at the corners as if it softened under pressure. Maintenance blamed thermal drift.
When the reflection bends, it looks like the subjects are smiling.
But on the cameras, none of them are.
[wOrMbAbY: smiling reflections in bent glass. no thank you.]

I caught my own reflection doing it yesterday. My face, but the smile held way too long.
[X1U: i hate this file so much]

[1997-06-30 | Vale, D.]

People keep describing the same dream. Empty corridors, strange vending machines, small houses in fields. The hall lights flicker while they have these dreams, but the diagnostics say nothing is off.
We started running EM sweeps in the dorms. Nothing unusual.

I have to cover the mirrors with lab towels lately.
I cannot handle the delay. Seeing myself blink a minute too late is too much.

[1997-08-12 | Ravel, M.]

Kerr wants me to draft a statement for the ethics audit. He wants careful language. He wants the word "intent" used sparingly and safely.
But the subjects do not care about intent. We are showing them a nature they should not see and most of them do not like it.

If I say that aloud, they will call it projection or stress or misguided empathy.

Science is still too young to admit what is happening here.
[Post_Modem: "science is too young" is such an ominous sentence]

[1997-10-04 | Lorne, E.]

I cannot shake the feeling that we are hurting them more than we understand.
The subjects come back changed in ways the metrics do not catch. Their voices echo slightly, even in open air. Their shadows feel heavy almost.
One of them asked me if I could "hear the room breathing."
[PR0XYANG3L: the room breathing. sorry what.]

I told him no.
But I did. I heard something.

The official line calls this adaptation.
Privately, I think we are peeling back something they were never meant to see.
I do not know if this program protects anyone. I am starting to doubt the mission entirely.

End of recovered content. Remaining entries corrupted (CRC mismatch).

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