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January 2021 Special Agent Field Reports
🕑 Added 2021-03-02 16:46:23 +0000 UTCSenior Special Agent Gedat Rakkin investigated an alleged snuff film sent to the SIU by an online entertainer. How this internet personality knew the location of the secure SIU drop box is the subject of another agent's investigation, Agent Rakkin's focus was on the tape itself: an old, barely‑functioning VHS apparently sent to the entertainer by a viewer, as part of a regular show segment featuring watching and "roasting" random, unlabeled VHS tapes. The tape's contents, accidentally shown live online for at least a minute, does not match any archived snuff film (real or fake) and its quality and composition indicate that it may be the only copy. A detailed description of the content is archived and available on a need-to-know basis. Rakkin's research into the victim indicates some disturbing possibilities: facial recognition software suggests the victim may be a Canadian man who is still alive today - unlikely, given the destruction of the body in the video. The man, whose species and fur pattern match the tape footage exactly, was questioned by Rakkin, but he appeared to have no connection or familiarity to anything seen in the video. His safety, and location, during the time code of the VHS has been verified. Investigation continues on the origin of this strange short film. The internet personality has been cleared of all related charges and his memory partially wiped regarding the topic.
Senior Special Agent Fenix Blackpaw spent the month tracking down the world's last analogue TV signal. Broadcasting on an extremely narrow frequency, many years after the full conversion of all television signals worldwide to digital, the source of this obscure Mexican television channel was finally found after an exhaustive triangulation and refinement of the signal by Agent Blackpaw. The culprit was revealed to be an elderly local man who, in his youth, maintained a "pirate" television channel through which he illegally broadcast anti-state messages in the late 1990s. He had maintained the signal out of habit and, when questioned, seemed mostly unaware of what he was doing or how he was doing it. With one mystery solved, Agent Blackpaw sought out a further mystery: the broadcast itself. The pirate channel showed seemingly live footage of a vacant field, but the local man had no idea any input was connected to his pirate signal at all. After another long search, Blackpaw found the field, some 50 miles away from the broadcast signal and tried to match the angle in the video. However, after several days of searching, the camera capturing the footage could not be located, despite an agent off‑site seeing Blackpaw on the live feed television signal. The SIU has confiscated the broadcast equipment to research this anomaly, although there is a local petition to return the station to the air for posterity's sake.
Special Agent Avia Jiutai looked into a ring of online sex workers who were linked to a rash of supernatural events. Agent Jiutai discovered that a series of mysterious hospitalizations across the world were only connected by the victim's shared, and regular, consumption of pornographic content online, all created by a specific group of actors and performers. After a deep and studied investigation (which certainly caused some suspicion from other agents) and several interviews under a pseudonym, Agent Jiutai theorized that the sex workers could be a type of emotional vampires or succubi. The agent reasoned that they were "feeding" off the emotional investment of their audience, and their sexual energy in particular, which was causing the anemic medical conditions. While the specifics of this supernatural ability is hard to prove without significant testing, the most forthright of the group did not deny Jiutai's theories, when asked, and seemed apologetic when confronted with news of the hospitalizations. As a show of community good will, the entertainment group has offered financial assistance to many of the victims. The SIU will continue to monitor the situation, and there seems no shortage of volunteers.
Special Agent Neo traveled to an Antarctic research station dedicated to atmospheric research. A set of anomalous readings caused alarm with the scientists stationed there, who were reporting phenomenon which included severe atmospheric distortion, ball lightening and rapid temperature fluctuations. While on site, Agent Neo was able to rule out several possible explanations, before a sudden catastrophe struck. While activating a radar tower, one scientist was attacked and slain, seemingly by the sky itself. The incident was described by witnesses as the air "bending down" from the upper atmosphere, and creating great heat and energy which fried the tower and the scientist. After taking cover with the remaining scientists, Agent Neo reports that the sky "came alive", rapidly shifting and undulating for several minutes before calming down. Neo wirelessly activated a more remote radar tower at a much lower energy, causing milder, but still pronounced, reactions from the air. After some experimentation, Neo reasoned that something in the local atmosphere may be alive, such as an invisible entity or a thinly dispersed cluster of organisms. Neo escorted the scientists off the continent, but his theory was called into question following reports of similar incidents near the equator. Agent Neo is now unsure if an unknown type of organism or energy phenomenon has been discovered or if, possibly, the sky itselfis a living being.
Special Agent Kouroth encountered strange interference while remotely connecting to a routine conference call and found himself speaking to a switchboard operator: a profession not seen in the world since the early 1980s. Too baffled to investigate or question the situation, Kouroth simply told her where to transfer the call and was promptly connected to the online conference call as desired. Later, his investigation began, with Kouroth returning to roughly where he was driving when he first heard the strange operator. With some trial and error, the agent once again heard the polite, feminine voice of the operator asking where to transfer his call. Very professional, if aloof, she evaded Kouroth's questions and, seeming busy with other transfers in‑waiting, disconnected. Several other attempts to contact her with different devices and networks yielded some results, but the agent hasn't been able to reconnect with this strange operator. A thorough check of local networks and the agent's devices reveal no traces of hacking or digital viruses. Whether this was a hallucination, a hoax, or a temporal echo may never be known.
Special Agent Chaz Gates halted the mass distribution of a potentially dangerous parasitic organism. Samples of a creature, which seem to be a genetically-altered sample of extraterrestrial life, have been appearing in the SIU's surveillance networks for several months and Agent Gates was finally able to track their source to a Chinese clothing manufacturer. Woven into, or disguised as, hats, these organisms appear, from studies, to discretely feed off of brainwave activity and have been shown to alter the chemical composition of the host's brain and nervous system. Most disconcertingly, the effects of this alteration are not yet known. In a remote factory, Gates uncovered tens of thousands of these organisms ready to hit the international market. The culprits (a husband and wife team with tailoring and genetic engineering knowledge) were easily apprehended and confessed to the location of a secret genetic testing lab, which they had built their textiles factory over. Agent Gates is concerned that many hundreds of these parasites may have already been distributed, but raised greater concern about what was found in the lab: vintage hats, dating as far back as the 1900s, all featuring some traces of the creatures. It is not known how long this organism has been on Earth, or how many of them have been present across the world: or, indeed, if there are any hats we know for certain are NOT alien parasites in disguise.
A sentient, microscopic alien race has been discovered on Earth and Special Agent Erik Fischer has made official first contact. A french microbiologist reported to the local government that he found what he assumed were signs of nanomachines or an engineered virus, when, while studying bacterial strains, he found clearly artificial structures at the microscopic scale. Agent Fischer assisted in further study, under the assumption that the complex structures were not possible to be domestically engineered with current technology, but were evidence of alien interference. After an exhaustive study of more of the local samples, the "living" aliens themselves were eventually spotted: microscopic silicone beings who responded curiously to external stimuli. Contact was established with the assistance of a low powered, tightly focused laser to convey simple messages to the creatures, who would eventually begin to arrange themselves into the shapes of what can be assumed to be messages. Agent Fischer has stayed on site to establish further contact and learn the origin of these new, minuscule citizens of Earth.
Special Agent Cat Zirka helped catch a murderer who detailed their exploits in a comic book. A new addition to the writing staff at of one of the last remaining major printing houses for comics became quickly well-known for his series of comics inspired by, and depicting, contemporary crimes. While this caused outrage from many communities and the families of the deceased, the writer, and publishers, have always insisted that the stories are not close enough to the actual events to warrant any concern. However, Agent Zirka noticed that the fourth issue in his series contained notable similarities to an unsolved murder case from three years ago, which included significant information never released to the public. Curious if this was an internal leak or the result of police interviews, Zirka contacted the relevant police department who determined that not only had this information never been leaked, but certain scenes from the comic contained vital details that could only be from the perspective of someone who had been at the scene of the crime. The agent dug into the author's personal life and uncovered evidence that he was indeed the murderer, and had been detailing his own crime in comic form. The comic book author was apprehended trying to flee the national border and was arrested; investigation into his other work has begun, in order to glean indications of any other criminal activity by his hand.
