Orochi R&D Comms Leak

Project Manticore - Incident Report 7-C

> FROM: Dr. Aris Thorne
> TO: Director H. Tanaka
> SUBJECT: Unscheduled Asset Decommissioning - Specimen 1138

Director,

We have a total loss on Specimen 1138. At 04:17 local time, it breached primary and secondary containment. The anima readings didn't just spike; they inverted, creating a localized reality sink. The lab is... gone. Not destroyed. Just... replaced. It now appears to be a section of 19th-century Romanian forest. The air smells of pine and something burning.

Before the feeds cut out, we observed the asset undergoing non-standard biological reconfiguration. It was... singing. In a language that caused the server racks to bleed. We're scrubbing the audio logs, but the data-ghosts are persistent.

The good news is, the new proprietary alloys held for 3.7 seconds longer than projected. Recommend we liquidate the asset's associated project files and reallocate the budget. I'm already drafting a proposal for Specimen 1139.

-- Data fragment recovered from a physically damaged server found in the Tokyo subway.

Orochi Technical Document

// FILE: /var/log/sygnus/subject_7c_profile.json

{
  "subject_id": "OG-SYG-7C-0815",
  "status": "ACTIVE_MONITORING",
  "location": "Sygnus-C Deep Lab, Carpathian Fens",
  
  // Initial anima receptivity was high, but has degraded post-exposure.
  "anima_receptivity_quotient": 0.43,
  
  "exposure_events": [
    {
      "type": "CONTROLLED_FILTH_AEROSOL",
      "timestamp": "2025-12-18T22:00:04Z",
      "dosage_ml": 5,
      "filth_contamination_vector": 0.89
    }
  ],

  // Subject exhibits non-standard cognitive and biological markers.
  "cognitive_drift_markers": {
    "linguistic_divergence": true,
    "unprompted_geometric_vocalizations": true,
    "REM_sleep_architecture_collapse": false
  },

  "biometric_flags": [
    "DERMAL_IRIDESCENCE",
    "REDUCED_PAIN_RESPONSE",
    "SPORADIC_TENTACULAR_ERUPTIONS"
  ],

  "disposition_protocol": "MAINTAIN_AND_OBSERVE"
}
    

Containment Log: Specimen F-7

Degradation Protocol // Asset: F-7-Delta

LOG ENTRY: 2025/12/29-08:00Z

CONTAINMENT UNIT 7 (ALPHA-WING). PRIMARY SEAL INTEGRITY: 99.8%. ENVIRONMENTAL STABILIZATION PROTOCOL (ESP-7) ACTIVE. INTERNAL ATMOSPHERICS: 30% H₂O, 60% N₂, 10% O₂. TEMP: 2.1°C. SPECIMEN F-7, acquired from Kingsmouth marsh, remains in suspended animation. Initial spectroscopic analysis indicates a non-carbon-based polymeric structure. Further analysis impeded by rapid degradation of sampling apparatus. Technician Morales reports "unsettling visual artifacts" on exterior camera feeds.

LOG ENTRY: 2025/12/29-08:37Z

ESP-7 fluctuating. PRIMARY SEAL INTEGRITY: 97.4% (degrading). Attempted remote diagnostic. System reports "unauthorized bio-mass propagation" within ventillation conduits. This is impossible. Conduits are hermetically sealed. Morales's camera feed now shows a slow, dark ooze collecting at the seams of the unit. He sounds... agitated. Voice wavering. Reports a "pulsing light" from inside the specimen. Light? Spectroscopic analysis showed no photoluminescent properties.

LOG ENTRY: 2025/12/29-08:52Z

// DATA CORRUPTED //

...Seal integrity: 88%... Morales... shouting now. Something about reaching. The ooze... it's thicker. Blacker. The smell. Like burning plastic and something else. Something wrong. My console... the text is shifting. The lines... they're not straight. The unit's internal temperature is rising. Rapidly. What is it feeding on? *STATIC*. It sees. *NO SIGNAL*.

Recovered from a partially melted data drive, Lab 7 (Alpha-Wing), Orochi Bio-Research Facility, London. Drive data severely corrupted.